List of Famous people born in Lebanon
Dalida Khalil
Dalida Antoine Khalil is a Lebanese actress. Her acting career started in 2007 when she participated in a Lebanese series called Fifty-Fifty. Since then, she has performed in more than twenty series. She received the Murex d'Or Award for Best Rising Actress in 2012.
Hilda Khalife
Hilda Khalife is best known in the Arab world as a TV presenter. Despite her modeling career, Khalife's fame started in 2004 when she began hosting the first season of the pan-Arab televised talent show Star Academy Arab World on LBC, the Arabic adaptation of the French television show Star Academy produced by Netherlands company Endemol. She continued hosting the subsequent seasons of the show.
Rola Saad
Rola Youssef Saad is a Lebanese pop singer and model who emerged in the mid-2000s and is most commonly known for her collaboration with Lebanese singer Sabah.
Charbel Nahas
Charbel Nahas is a Lebanese politician, economist and engineer. He is a former Lebanese Labour minister in Najib Mikati's second government. He was one of eleven Change and Reform ministers, which is headed by General Michel Aoun, the largest share that it has ever had in government. Nahas is widely considered to be a Lebanese progressive whose priority has been to improve living conditions for the country's disenfranchised poor. He submitted his resignation to Michel Aoun on 21 February 2012, and was officially resigned on 22 February 2012, arguing that all of his colleagues in government were preventing any effective improvement in workers' rights. Nahas is currently the General Secretary of Citizens in a State, a new political party that was established in 2016 and that has as its goal to create "a civil, democratic, fair and capable state".
Baba Saad
Saad El-Haddad, better known by his stage names Baba Saad or just Saad, is a German rapper of Lebanese heritage.
Maritta Hallani
Maritta Hallani is a Lebanese singer composer, songwriter
Rasha Al Taqi
Racha Taki is a lebanese actress. She is from an artistic family where her mother is the Syrian actress Sabah Al Jazairi and her aunt is the comedian Samia Al Jazairi.
Elias Bou Saab
Elias Nicolas Bou Saab is a former Lebanese Minister of National Defense and Advisor to the President of Lebanon Michel Aoun on International Cooperation, former Minister of Education and Higher Education in the Government of Lebanon, former President of the municipality of Dhour El Choueir municipality in the Maten region of Mount Lebanon, the founder and Executive Vice President of the American University in Dubai, and is a shareholder in AlMada.org news site, Fame FM and Sawt El Mada radio station. He was also a member of the founding board of directors of television station OTV.
Oussama Rahbani
Oussama Al Rahbani is a Lebanese musician and composer. He is the son of the Lebanese composer, musician and poet Mansour Rahbani.
Joumana Haddad
Joumana Haddad is a Lebanese author, public speaker, journalist and women's rights activist. She has been selected as one of the world’s 100 most powerful Arab women for four years in a row by Arabian Business Magazine, for her cultural and social activism. She is founder of Jasad, a quarterly Arabic-language magazine specialized in the arts and literature of the body (2009–2011). Haddad launched a new TV show in November 2018 on Alhurra highlighting the topics of free expression and critical thinking.