List of Famous people born in Lebanon
Elie Samaha
Elie Samaha is a film producer in Los Angeles, with production credits beginning with The Immortals in 1995. He has produced over 83 works, primarily films along with some video games. He produced The Boondock Saints (1999), Battlefield Earth (2000), Driven (2001), 3,000 Miles to Graceland (2001), Heist (2001), The Pledge (2001), Spartan (2004), among many others.
Arsinée Khanjian
Arsinée Khanjian is an Armenian-Canadian actress and producer.
Nayla Tueni
Nayla Tueni Maktabi is a Lebanese journalist and politician. She was a member of the Lebanese Parliament for almost ten years (2009-2018), representing the district of Achrafieh. Tueni is the CEO of one of Lebanon's most famous newspaper, An-Nahar.
Bahia Hariri
Bahia Bahaeddine Hariri is a Lebanese politician and sister of late former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
Michel Moawad
Michel Moawad is a resigned Member of the Lebanese Parliament. He has resigned in protest following the August 4, 2020, Beirut Explosion. In May 2018, he was elected for the first time to the Lebanese Parliament representing the Zgharta District in the North-3 electoral sector. Moawad was an active member of the parliamentary budget committee and played a pivotal role in fighting corruption and exposed the illegal partisan employment in the public sector. He is the son of the former Lebanese President René Moawad, assassinated on the 22 of November 1989.
Brigitte Yaghi
Brigitte Yaghi is a Lebanese pop singer. She finished in fifth place in SuperStar, the Arabic version of American Idol or Pop Idol.
Dory Chamoun
Dory Chamoun is a Lebanese politician who leads the National Liberal Party (NLP), and is also a prominent member of the Qornet Shehwan Gathering, a coalition of politicians, academics, and businessmen who oppose the pro-Syrian March 8 Alliance and Syrian influence in Lebanon. He is the eldest son of late Lebanese president Camille Chamoun and brother of Dany Chamoun.
Hassan Diab
Hassan Diab is a Lebanese-born Canadian sociology professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. In 2008, France requested his extradition for his alleged involvement in the 1980 Paris synagogue bombing. After a lengthy extradition hearing, on June 6, 2011, the Canadian extradition judge described the evidence as "convoluted, very confusing, with conclusions that are suspect" and stated that "the prospects of conviction in the context of a fair trial seem unlikely". However, the judge said that his interpretation of Canada’s extradition law left him no choice but to commit Diab to extradition.
Rony Seikaly
Ronald Fred Seikaly is a Lebanese-born American former NBA basketball player. Seikaly was one of the first internationally born players to make an impact on American basketball. Considered one of the top college players from the Syracuse basketball program, Seikaly's stellar offense and defense placed him among the school's all-time leaders in rebounds, points and blocks, while earning several nationally recognized awards and honors. His number 4 jersey was retired by Syracuse and raised to the rafters of the Carrier Dome.