List of Famous people born in Lebanon

Mohammed Marwan Ba'aseery, known as Iwan is a Lebanese singer of Lebanese and Syrian origin He started his musical career as a songwriter by composing music for other artists. In 2003, Iwan started his own solo singer, enjoying widespread success in the Middle East and introduced Iwan to the Arabic public as a talented singer. He has released three albums: the debut Alby Sahran (2004) and Erga' Leya (2007) and Ya 100 Nawart (2017)

Karol Etienne Sakr is a Lebanese singer who is most known for her English songs back in the 1980s. She is the daughter of the Lebanese Maronite exiled politician Etienne Sakr, a former member of the Lebanese Forces and leader of the far-right Guardians of the Cedars.

Ahmad Khodr Al-Tarabulsi is a former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Born in Lebanon, he was granted Kuwaiti citizenship to play for the Kuwait national team.

Joelle Behlok or Joëlle Behlock is a Lebanese fashion designer, television presenter, actress, and winner of the Miss Lebanon beauty contest in 1997. She finished in the Top 10 in Miss World 1997.

Selim Ahmed Hoss is a veteran Lebanese politician who served as the Prime Minister of Lebanon and a longtime Member of Parliament representing his hometown, Beirut. He is known as a technocrat.

Elsa Zgheib is a Lebanese actress, born on February 1, 1981 in Amsheet, Lebanon.

Dr. Osama Maarouf Saad, is a Lebanese politician, MP, and the leader of the Popular Nasserist Organization (PNO) movement, fouded by his father Maarouf Saad, a leftist politician and mayor of Sidon whose violent assassination helped spark the 1975 Lebanese Civil War. Osama’s family is a prominent Sunni Muslim family in Sidon, he aligns himself with the Shiite Hezbollah and the Iran-led “axis of resistance”. He was subject to Hezbollah's online threats in 2021 after his PNO condemned the assassination of the anti-Hezbollah Lokman Slim.

Samar Nassar is a swimmer from Jordan. She was born in Lebanon, and competed for Palestine at the 2000 Summer Olympics, and for Jordan at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She was the first woman to represent Palestine at the Olympics.

Fadi El Khatib, nicknamed the Lebanese Tiger, is a Lebanese professional basketball player for Champville SC in the Lebanese Basketball League. He is regarded as one of the best in Asia and by many pundits of the new era named as the greatest one. He was also a main member of the Lebanon national basketball team that participated in the 2002 FIBA World Championship in Indianapolis in the United States, the 2006 FIBA World Championship in Japan, and in the 2010 FIBA World Championship held in Turkey.

Randa Habib is a French journalist of Lebanese origin, who as director of the Amman, Jordan, bureau of Agence France-Presse (AFP), one of the three global news agencies, since 1987, has spent 25 years covering war, politics and economic development in the Middle East. She has reported extensively in Iraq and other areas of conflict and interviewed royalty and leaders throughout the region. Habib has been named director for the Middle East and North Africa for the AFP Foundation as of 1 April 2012.