List of Famous people named Elias

Elias Zerhouni is an Algerian-born American scientist, radiologist and biomedical engineer.

Elias Murr is a Lebanese politician who held different cabinet positions. He is known to be one of the most influential politicians in the Middle East and largest media conglomerate in the region.

Elias Farkouh was a Jordanian short story writer and novelist. He was born in Amman in 1948 and was educated in Amman and East Jerusalem. He graduated from the Arab University of Beirut where he read philosophy and psychology. He worked as a journalist in the early part of his career. After working at the publishing house Al-Manarat, he set up his own house Dar Azminah in 1991 and ran it until his death.

Elias of Jerusalem was a bishop and Patriarch of Jerusalem from 494 until he was deposed by Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I in 516 for supporting the decrees of the Council of Chalcedon. Elias was an Arab, by birth, who had been educated in a monastery in Egypt. At the Synod of Sidon (512) he successfully defended, together with Flavian II of Antioch, the dyophysite Christological doctrine proclaimed by the Council of Chalcedon.

Elias Abu Shabaki was a Lebanese writer, poet, editor, translator and literary critic, he was one of the founders of the literary League of Ten and is considered as one of the leading figures of the Arabic Nahda Movement.

Elias Hrawi was president of Lebanon, whose term of office ran from 1989 to 1998.