List of Famous people born in North Governorate, Lebanon

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, mathematical statistician, and former option trader and risk analyst, whose work concerns problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty. His 2007 book The Black Swan has been described by The Sunday Times as one of the twelve most influential books since World War II.

Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy was an Egyptian actor of Lebanese-Palestinian origin.

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.

Nassif Youssef Hitti is a Lebanese diplomat, academic, professor and the former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants.

Vénus Khoury-Ghata is a renowned Turkish-Lebanese poet and writer. She won the Miss Beirut beauty pagent in 1959. Ghara holds French citizenship.

Salim "Abdallah" Saadeh is an economist and a Lebanese politician. He serves for the third term as a representative for the Greek Orthodox Christians from Koura District in the Lebanese parliament, respectively in 1992, 2000 and 2018 general elections. He is a prominent member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party in Lebanon.

Alfonso Jordan, also spelled Alfons Jordan or Alphonse Jourdain (1103–1148), was the Count of Tripoli (1105–09), Count of Rouergue (1109–48) and Count of Toulouse, Margrave of Provence and Duke of Narbonne (1112–48).

Jabbour Douaihy was a Lebanese writer. He was born in Zgharta in 1949, a member of the city's prominent El Douaihy family. He obtained a PhD in comparative literature from the New Sorbonne University and was a professor of French literature at the Lebanese University in Beirut. His novel June Rain was nominated for the 2008 Arabic Booker Prize and has been translated in several languages. An earlier work Autumn Equinox was translated into English by Nay Hannawi and won the Arkansas Arabic Translation Award. His last novel was Chased Away. Douaihy also published short story collections and children's books.

Jean Obeid was a Lebanese journalist and politician, who served in different cabinet posts, the last of which was foreign minister of Lebanon from 2003 to 2004.

Raymond II was count of Tripoli from 1137 to 1152. He succeeded his father, Pons, Count of Tripoli, who was killed during a campaign that a commander from Damascus launched against Tripoli. Raymond accused the local Christians of betraying his father and invaded their villages in the Mount Lebanon area. He also had many of them tortured and executed. Raymond was captured during an invasion by Imad ad-Din Zengi, atabeg of Mosul, who gained the two important castles of Montferrand and Rafaniya in exchange for his release in the summer of 1137.