Famous People

Candy Lightner - founder of Mothers Against Drunk Driving and former president of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
James Zogby - founder of Arab-American Institute
John Zogby - American political pollster
Ralph Nader - consumer rights activist abd US presidential candidate
Rose Nader - school teacher and activist

Carlos Slim Helu
Edmond Safra - founder of Republic Bank of New York and Banco Safra in Brazil, born in Aley, Lebanon
Jacques Nasser - ex-CEO of Ford Motors, born in Lebanon
Mario Kassar - co-founder of Carolco Pictures
Nicolas Hayek - the 'father of Swatch' and CEO of Smart
Paul Orfalea - founder of Kinko's
Sam Hammam - owner of Cardiff City F.C.

Amy Yasbeck - Lebanese-American film and television actress, widow of actor John Ritter
Arsinée Khanjian - actress (Lebanese-born, Armenian ethnicity)
Casey Kasem - television personality of Druze Lebanese descent
Danny Thomas - nightclub comedian and television actor
Dom Joly - comedian, presenter and journalist
Georgina Rizk - Miss Universe 1971
James Stacy - actor (Laramie)
Jamie Farr - actor of M*A*S*H fame
Joseph Barbera and William Hanna - Hanna-Barbera
Kathy Najimy - actress
Keanu Reeves - actor
Khrystyne Haje - actress
Lili Estefan - Cuban American television hostess
Mario Kassar - film producer
Salma Hayek - actress (Lebanese father and Mexican mother)
Tom Shadyac - director
Tony Shalhoub - television and film actor
Wentworth Miller- television actor

Amal Hijazi - pop-singer and dancer
Assi Rahbani - composer
Elissa - pop singer
Emilio Estefan - Lebanese parents
Fairouz, born Nouhad Haddad - singer
Frank Zappa
Gabriel Yared, international composer
Guy Béart - singer
Haifa Wehbe - singer
Herbert Khaury - (Tiny Tim), singer, ukulele player (Lebanese father)
John Dolmayan - System of a Down drummer (Lebanese-born, Armenian ethnicity)
Karl Wolf - born in Lebanon
K-Maro - Canadian rapper of Lebanese origin
Mansour Rahbani - composer
Marcel Khalife - singer, orchestral composer, oud player
Massari - Lebanese pop and hip-hop singer who grew up in Canada.
Matthieu Chedid - Lebanese-French rock/blues songwriter and singer
Mika - (Mica Penniman), singer
Myriam Fares - singer
Najwa Karam - singer
Nancy Ajram - singer
Nawal Al Zoghbi - singer
Pascale Machaalani - singer
Paul Anka - singer
Sabah - born Janet Feghali from Wadi Al Shahrour, singer and actress
Sammy Hagar - former lead vocalist for the rock band Van Halen
Sarbel - Greek singer, born in London to a Lebanese mother
Serj Tankian - System of a Down vocalist,guitarist ,political activist (Lebanese-born, Armenian ethnicity)
Setrak Setrakian - composer and pianist (Armenian ethnicity)
Shakira - Colombian singer/songwriter (Lebanese father from Zahle, Colombian mother of Catalan descent)
Soraya - American-Colombian-Lebanese singer/songwriter (Lebanese mother)
Tony Hajjar - drummer
Wadih Safi - musician and singer
Yfrah Neaman - violinist
Ziad Rahbani - composer

Elias J. Corey - Chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1990)
Michael Ellis DeBakey - pioneering cardiovascular surgeon and researcher
Peter Medawar - Nobel Prize Physiology /Medicine 1960 for immune system (British father, Lebanese mother)
Sir Michael Atiyah - (Lebanese British father) - mathematician, Fields Medal (1966), Abel Prize (2004)

Ahmad Reda - linguist
Amin Maalouf - writer, Prix Goncourt (1993)
Andree Chedid - poet
Ann-Marie MacDonald - writer (Lebanese mother)
David Malouf - Australian author (Lebanese father, English-Sephardic Jewish mother of Portuguese descent)
Edward Atiyah - writer
Elias Khoury - novelist
Gebran Tueni - former editor and publisher of An-Nahar newspaper
Ghassan Tueni - editor in chief of An-Nahar newspaper, legislator
Gibran Khalil Gibran - poet and writer, "The Prophet"
May Chidiac - journalist
Muhammad Jaber - writer and historian
Neal Conan - radio journalist (Lebanese-born)
Philip Khuri Hitti
Rabih Alameddine - painter, novelist
Samir Kassir - journalist of An-Nahar newspaper and writer
Wadih Saadeh - journalist, poet and writer
William Peter Blatty - writer, "The Exorcist"