List of Famous people born in South Governorate, Lebanon

Antipater of Sidon was an ancient Greek poet in the second half of the 2nd century BC. His poems preserved in the Greek Anthology include evocations of art and literature and some epitaphs. But there appears to be confusion in the Anthology between Antipater of Sidon and Antipater of Thessalonica, who lived in the following century.

Boethus of Sidon was a Peripatetic philosopher from Sidon, who lived towards the end of the 1st century BC. None of his work has been preserved and the complete collection of quotings and paraphrases appeared first in 2020.

Adrianus of Tyre, also written as Hadrian and Hadrianos, was a sophist of ancient Athens who flourished under the emperors Marcus Aurelius and Commodus.

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.

Layla ʽUssayran was a Lebanese novelist.

Marinus of Tyre was a Greek or Hellenized Phoenician geographer, cartographer and mathematician, who founded mathematical geography and provided the underpinnings of Claudius Ptolemy's influential Geography.

Abdul-Monem Rifai was a Jordanian diplomat and political figure of Palestinian descent, who served two non-consecutive terms as the Prime Minister of Jordan in 1969 and 1970.

Damianos Kattar is a Lebanese economist and academic who served as the Minister of Finance and Economy in 2005 as well as the Minister of Environment and Administrative Reform in 2020.