List of Maronites

This list of Maronites (Syriacs) includes prominent Maronite figures who are notable in their areas of expertise.
== Arts, culture, and entertainment ==
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*Amin al-Rihani, poet
*Gibran Khalil Gibran, artist and writer
*Youssef Howayek, sculptor
*Tony Kanaan, race car driver
*Najwa Karam, singer
*Mario Kassar, Hollywood producer, behind such movies as Rambo, Terminator II and Stargate
*Wael Kfoury, singer
*Callie Khouri, screenwriter
*Elissa Khoury, singer
*Marwan Khoury, singer
*Nadine Labaki, actress and director
*Joe Lahoud, baseball player
*Michelle Nader, American TV producer
*Kathy Najimy, actress
*Octavia E. Nasr, CNN editor
*Elie Saab, fashion designer
*Baba Saad German rapper of Lebanese descent
*Wadih Saadeh, poet and writer
*Nicole Saba, singer
*Michael Sallah, Pulitzer Prize reporter
*Elie Samaha, filmmaker
*Rony Seikaly, former Miami Heat basketball player
*Tony Shalhoub, three-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe-winning American television and film actor
*Danny Thomas, actor and founder of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
*Gabriel Yared, oscar winning musician for the soundtrack of The English Patient
*Mario Zagallo (Zakhour), former Brazilian national football team, player and coach
*François Ziadeh, TV director and producer
*Nawal Al Zoghbi
== Business ==
*Fadi Chidiac, businessman
*Carlos Ghosn, French-Brazilian industrialist, CEO of Nissan and Renault.
*Nicolas Hayek, founder and owner of the Swatch Swiss Watches, and designer of the Smart-Mercedes Benz car.
*George Saba Kairouz,entrepreneur.Australian Lebanese Businessmen.
* Khouri Brothers (Anthony, George and Gerry), Bufori Motor Car Company and Australian Syriac Businessmen.
*Maalouf Brothers, owners of Cesar's Palace hotel casino in Las Vegas, and Sacremento Kings basketball team.
*George J. Maloof, Jr., entrepreneur.
*Tarek Saab, former contestant on The Apprentice and CEO of Lionheart Apparel.
*Carlos Slim, a Mexican tycoon with Syriac heritage, CEO of Teléfonos de México (Telmex) and many other companies in Mexico, and recently considered as the second richest man in the world by Forbes.
== Government and politics ==
===U.S.===
*John Abizaid, former Commander in Chief of the US Central Command.
*Spencer Abraham, former United States Senator and Secretary of Energy
*Eddie Francis, mayor of Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
*Ray LaHood, U.S. Secretary of Transportation
*George Mitchell, 17th United States Senate Majority Leader.
*Ralph Nader, American attorney and political activist in the areas of consumer rights, humanitarianism, environmentalism and democratic government. Presidential candidate.
*Donna Shalala, former US Secretary of Health
*James Zogby, pollster
*John Zogby, president and founder Arab American Institute
===Lebanon===
*Michel Aoun, former Lebanese military commander, politician, former Prime Minister. Founder of the Free Patriotic Movement.
*Pierre-Georges Arlabosse, President of the French Mandate of Lebanon (4–9 April 1941)
*Camille Chamoun, President of the Lebanese Republic (23 September 1952 – 22 September 1958)
*Camille Chamoun, former Lebanese President, founder of the Ahrar Party, one of the fathers of the Lebanese Independence.
*Fuad Chehab, President of the Lebanese Republic (23 September 1958 – 22 September 1964)
*Émile Eddé, President of the French Mandate of Lebanon (20 January 1936 – 4 April 1941)
*Émile Eddé, President of the French Mandate of Lebanon (11 November 1943 – 22 November 1943)
*Bashir Gemayel, Lebanese military commander, politician, and president-elect. Founder of the Lebanese Forces.
*Pierre Gemayel, politician, founder of Al-Kataeb party in Lebanon.
* Anne-Farah Hill First Chair of the Maronite community services board and treasurer of the Maronite Catholic Society recpient of The International Rotary club
*Salim Joubran, a judge in the Israeli high court of justice.
*Youssef Beik Karam, Lebanese Nationalist Leader
*Bechara El Khoury, President of the Lebanese Republic (22 November 1943 – 18 September 1952)
*Habib Pacha es-Saad, President of the French Mandate of Lebanon (30 January 1934 – 20 January 1936)
*Suleiman Frangieh, President of the Lebanese Republic (23 September 1970 – 22 September 1976)
*Amine Gemayel, President of the Lebanese Republic (23 September 1982 – 22 September 1988)
*Bachir Gemayel, President of the Lebanese Republic (23 August 1982 – 14 September 1982)
*Charles Helou: , President of the Lebanese Republic (23 September 1964 – 22 September 1970)
*Elias Hrawi, President of the Lebanese Republic (24 November 1989 – 24 November 1998)
*Alfred Naccache, acting President of the French Mandate of Lebanon (9 April 1941 – 18 March 1943)
*Émile Lahoud, President of the Lebanese Republic (24 November 1998 – 23 November 2007)
*René Moawad, President of the Lebanese Republic (5 November 1989 – 22 November 1989)
*Etienne Saqr ("Abu Arz"), Lebanese military commander and politician, leader of Guardians of the Cedars
*Elias Sarkis, President of the Lebanese Republic (23 September 1976 – 22 September 1982)
*Bashir Shihab II, emir who ruled Lebanon in the first half of the 19th century
*Michel Suleiman, Lebanese President as of May, 2008.
*Michel Suleiman, President of the Lebanese Republic (25 May 2008 – present)
== Religion == 
*Nimattullah Kassab Al-Hardini, Lebanese monk and priest, Catholic Saint.
*Peter Ambarach, pioneer of printing in oriental languages and Bible linguist under Pope Clement XI.
*Giuseppe Luigi Assemani, Vatican orientalist.
*Giuseppe Simone Assemani, titular archbishop of Tyre, librarian of the Vatican and an authority on oriental manuscripts.
*Simone Assemani, professor of Oriental languages in Padua.
*Stefano Evodio Assemani, titular Archbishop of Apamaea in Syria and Vatican orientalist.
*Charbel, Lebanese monk and priest, Catholic Saint.
*Abraham Ecchellensis, theologian famous for his translations of biblical texts into Arabic and Syriac.
* Jacob of Ghazir, Lebanese friar, founder of the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of the Cross of Lebanon, Catholic Saint.
*Jean Hesronita, counselor to the French king Louis XIII and one of the translators involved in the 1645 Parisian polyglot Bible.
*Theodore Khoury, prominent Catholic theologian.
*Marina, Lebanese female monk and "desert father", Catholic Saint.
*John Maron, first Maronite Patriarch in history, Catholic Saint.
*Maroun, Aramean monk, founder of the Maronite religious movement, Catholic Saint.
*Abdel Moati Massabki, Syrian martyr beatified by Pope Pius XI.
*Francis Massabki, Syrian martyr beatified by Pope Pius XI.
*Raphael Massabki, Syrian martyr beatified by Pope Pius XI.
*Faustus Naironus, Syriac Maronite monk of the seventeenth century, edited the Arabic New Testament in Garshunic characters.
*Mitch Pacwa, S.J., Maronite priest and television personality on EWTN.
*Rafqa, Lebanese nun, Catholic Saint.
*Isaac Sciadrensis, scholar of Aramaic and author of valuable grammar resources for orientalists.
*Victor Scialac, theologian and linguist, is thought to have given his name to Shylock, the main character in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
*Gabriel Sionita, theologian famous for his role in the publication of the 1645 Parisian polyglot of the Bible.
== Science == 
*Elie D. Al-Chaer, neuroscientist, pain researcher, lawyer, attorney and counselor; director: Center for Pain Research
*Michael E. DeBakey, world renowned surgeon, innovator, medical educator, and international medical statesman
*Bassel F. Eid, mathematician
*Charbel D. Moussallem,M.D., Orthopedic surgeon.
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