- Khalil Gibran
Khalil Gibran (also known as Kahlil Gibran; born Gibran Khalil Gibran, Arabic: جبران خليل جبران, Syriac: ܓ̰ܒܪܢ ܚܠܝܠ ܓ̰ܒܪܢ) (January 6, 1883 - April 10, 1931) was a Lebanese American artist, poet and writer. He was born in Lebanon and spent much of his productive life in the United States. - Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader (born February 27, 1934) is an American attorney and political activist, who has promoted a wide range of issues, including consumer rights, feminism, humanitarianism, environmentalism and democratic government. Nader has been a staunch critic of American foreign policy in recent decades, which he views as corporatist, imperialist, and contrary to the fundamental values of democracy and human rights. - Darrell Issa
Darrell E. Issa (pronounced "Eye"-suh) (born November 1 1953) is an American politician and former CEO of a consumer electronics company. A Republican, since 2001 he has been a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the 49th District of California. His district consists of portions of southern Riverside County and northern San Diego County. - James Zogby
James ("Jim") J. Zogby(Arabic,جيمس زغبي), PhD, is the founder and president of the Washington, D.C.-based Arab American Institute, which conducts policy research and engages in political advocacy for the Arab American community. In 2001, Zogby was elected to the Executive Committee of the United States Democratic National Committee (DNC). Zogby is also a senior analyst with the polling firm Zogby International, founded and managed by his brother John Zogby, … - Tony Shalhoub
Tony Shalhoub, (born October 9, 1953) is a three-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe-winning American television and film actor. He is currently the star and executive producer of the USA Network television show "Monk" in which he plays an obsessive-compulsive detective who is often called on by the San Francisco Police Department to solve crimes no one else can. Before he played Adrian Monk, he was also well known for his role as the Italian cabdriver, … - Brigitte Gabriel
Brigitte Gabriel (born 1965) is a Lebanese American journalist, author and activist. She is the founder of the American Congress For Truth. - Spencer Abraham
Edward Spencer Abraham (born June 12, 1952 in East Lansing, Michigan) is an American politician, of Lebanese descent. He had served as the 10th United States Secretary of Energy, serving under President George W. Bush. After leaving office, Abraham opened The Abraham Group, a Washington DC based international strategic consulting firm. In 2006, Spencer Abraham was named director of Areva Inc., the US subsidiary of the French nuclear energy company - Danny Thomas
Danny Thomas (January 6 1914 - February 6 1991) was an American nightclub comedian and television and film actor, best known for starring in the television sitcom "Make Room for Daddy", later retitled "The Danny Thomas Show" to capitalize on Thomas's popularity. Danny Thomas was born Amos Alphonsus Muzyad Yaqoob in Deerfield, Michigan, to Charles and Margaret Jacobs. He was of Lebanese descent, of Maronite Catholic belief. - John Abizaid
John Philip Abizaid (born April 1, 1951) is a retired General in the United States Army and former Commander of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM), overseeing American military operations in a 27-country region, from the Horn of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, to South and Central Asia, covering much of the Middle East. CENTCOM oversees 250,000 US troops. Abizaid succeeded General Tommy Franks as Commander, USCENTCOM, on July 7, 2003, … - Nick Rahall
Nicholas Joe "Nick Joe" Rahall II (born May 20, 1949), American politician of Lebanese descent, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing West Virginia's 3rd Congressional District since 1977(map). He is the Dean of the West Virginia Delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives. The district includes much of the southern portion of the state, including Huntington, Bluefield and Beckley. - Helen Thomas
Helen Thomas (born August 4, 1920) is an American news service reporter, a Hearst Newspapers columnist , and member of the White House Press Corps . She served for fifty-seven years as a correspondent and, later, White House bureau chief for United Press International (UPI). Thomas has covered every president since John F. Kennedy . - Rony Seikaly
Ronald F. Seikaly is a retired Lebanese-American basketball player. Born in Beirut, Lebanon on 10 May 1965 (but also a United States citizen by birth), Rony Seikaly attended an American high school in Athens, Greece. In 1984, he began attending Syracuse University in Upstate New York. He played basketball for the Orange (then known as the Orangemen). After his senior year, he was a 2nd Team All-American and named to the Wooden Award All-American Team. - John Zogby
John Zogby (born 1948) is a noted American political pollster and first senior fellow at The Catholic University of America's Life Cycle Institute. He is known for both his phone polling and interactive, Internet-based polling. - Anthony Shadid
Anthony Shadid was born in Oklahoma of Lebanese descent. He is a staff writer for "The Washington Post" where he is an Islamic affairs correspondent based in the Middle East. Before the Post, Shadid worked as Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press based in Cairo and as news editor of the AP bureau in Los Angeles. He spent two years covering diplomacy and the State Department for the Boston Globe before joining the Post's foreign desk. - Ray Lahood
Raymond H. "Ray" LaHood (born December 6 1945), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1995, representing downstate (map). He has gained national notoriety, especially among C-SPAN viewers, as the presiding officer of more debates than any other member. Most notably, he presided over the impeachment vote against President Bill Clinton. - Casey Kasem
Casey Kasem (born Kemal Amin Kasem on April 27 1932, in Detroit, Michigan, USA, of Palestinian/Lebanese heritage) is an American radio personality and voice actor. He currently hosts four weekly syndicated radio programs based on the popular American Top 40 franchise, which he founded in 1970. "American Top 20 with Casey Kasem", "American Top 10 with Casey Kasem", "Casey Kasem's American Top 40: The 70s", … - Jamie Farr
Jamie Farr (born Jameel Joseph Farah on July 1, 1934) is an American television and film actor and popular game show panelist. He is perhaps best known for playing the role of cross-dressing Corporal (later Sergeant) Maxwell Klinger in the 1970s and 1980s U.S. television sitcom, "M*A*S*H". - Wassef Ali Hassoun
Wassef Ali Hassoun (born January 1, 1980) is a United States Marine Corps Corporal who was charged with desertion for leaving his unit and apparently engaging with others in a hoax to make it appear that he had been captured by terrorists on June 19, 2004 while serving in Iraq. Originally listed as having deserted, the Lebanese-American Marine was then thought to have been taken hostage by Iraqis who were thought to have befriended him. - Kathy Najimy
Kathy Ann Najimy (born February 6, 1957) is an American actress, best known as Olive Massery on the television series "Veronica's Closet", Sister Mary Patrick in "Sister Act" and the voice of Peggy Hill on the animated television series "King of the Hill". - Charles Boustany
Charles William Boustany Jr. (born February 21, 1956) represents Louisiana's historically Democratic 7th Congressional District (map) as a Republican since 2004. Boustany (pronounced boo-STAN-ie) won an open race in 2004, when Christopher "Chris" John, the incumbent Democrat, did not seek re-election in order to run for the U.S. Senate. Boustany, two Democrats and another Republican, David Thibodaux (1953–2007), a member of the Lafayette Parish School Board, … - James Abourezk
James Abourezk served as the U.S. Congressman and Senator from South Dakota from 1973-1979. His memoir, Advise & Dissent: Memoirs of South Dakota and the U.S. Senate, was published in 1989. Abourezk founded the Arab- American Anti-Discrimination Committee, and he is a signer of the Call from World Cant Wait-Drive Out the Bush Regime which is holding protests in over 150 cities on October 5, 2006. - Marlo Thomas
Marlo Thomas (born Margaret Julia Thomas on November 21, 1937 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American actress, who first achieved fame on the TV series "That Girl" in the 1960s. She is the daughter of the late Lebanese-American comedian Danny Thomas and sister of Tony Thomas, a TV and film producer, and Terre Thomas, a former actress. Her mother, Rose Marie Mantell, was the adopted daughter of Italian Americans and died in 2000. - Donna Shalala
Donna E. Shalala became professor of political science and president of the University of Miami on June 1, 2001. President Shalala has more than 25 years of experience as an accomplished scholar, teacher, and administrator. Prior to joining the University, she served as secretary of Health and Human Services during the Clinton administration for eight years-the longest term in U.S. history. - Doug Flutie
Douglas Richard "Doug" Flutie (born October 23, 1962) is an American former professional gridiron football player in the National Football League (American football) and Canadian Football League (Canadian football). Within the United States, he is perhaps best known for his career at Boston College and for the Boston College v. Miami game on November 23, 1984, in which his "Hail Mary" pass won the game for BC 47-45. - John E. Sununu
John Edward Sununu (born September 10, 1964) is a Republican United States Senator from New Hampshire. - Reem Acra
Reem Acra is an internationally known American fashion designer. She studied in Paris, as well as New York and began her career. She is known for her exquisite bridal designs. Her designs are sold in famous clothing boutiques such as Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. She has been on several popular magazines including "In Style", "Town & Country", "Vogue", "Women's Wear Daily", and "W". - Paul Orfalea
Paul Orfalea, nicknamed "Kinko" because of his curly red hair, born in Beirut, Lebanon, founded the copy-chain Kinko's. He is currently a philanthropist and a visiting professor in the Global and International Studies Department of the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business. He was commemorated with a plaque by the community of Isla Vista, … - Joseph Abboud
Joseph Abboud (born circa 1950 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an award-winning American menswear fashion designer and author. - Philip Habib
Philip Charles Habib (February 25, 1920-May 25, 1992) was an American career diplomat known for work in Vietnam, South Korea and the Middle East. The "New York Times" in observing his passing described him as "the outstanding professional diplomat of his generation in the United States". Habib was born in Brooklyn and raised there in section of the borough known as Bensonhurst, by Lebanese Maronite Christian parents. - Najeeb Halaby
Najeeb Halaby (September 19 1915 - July 2 2003) was a U.S. businessman, government official, and the father of Queen Noor of Jordan. - Tiny Tim
Herbert Buckingham Khaury, better known by the stage name Tiny Tim, was an American singer, ukulele player, and musical archivist. He was most famous for his rendition of “Tiptoe Through The Tulips” sung in his distinctive high falsetto / vibrato voice. He was generally thought of as a novelty act, though his records display a wide knowledge of American songs. - Dick Dale
Dick Dale (born Richard Anthony Monsour on May 4, 1937, in Quincy, Massachusetts) is "The King of the Surf Guitar": a pioneer of surf rock and one of the most influential guitarists of the early 1960s. He experimented with reverberation and made use of custom made Fender amplifiers, including the first ever 100 watt amp. - William Peter Blatty
William Peter Blatty (born January 7, 1928) is an American writer. He wrote the novel "The Exorcist" (1971) and the subsequent screenplay version for which he won an Academy Award - Amy Yasbeck
Amy Yasbeck (born September 12, 1962) is an American film and television actress. - Mario Kassar
Mario Kassar (born Beirut, Lebanon, 10 October 1951) is a movie-industry executive whose projects are frequently in association with Andrew Vajna. Working for Columbia Pictures and TriStar Pictures he was executive producer of several movies starting with "Escape to Victory" in 1981. In 1984, together with Vajna, he founded Carolco Pictures where he was executive producer of a large number of movies starting with "Rambo: First Blood Part II", … - Bobby Rahal
Robert "Bobby" Woodward Rahal (born January 10, 1953 in Medina, Ohio) is an American auto racing team owner and former driver, spending most of his driving career in the CART open-wheel series, winning three championships there. He has won the Indianapolis 500 as both a driver and an owner. As a driver, Rahal raced in Formula 1 and CART, including owning the team he drove for during most of his career. That team is now known as Rahal Letterman Racing. - John H. Sununu
John Henry Sununu, PhD (born July 2, 1939 in Havana, Cuba) is a former Governor of New Hampshire (1983-89) and former White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush. - John Baldacci
Governor John Baldacci has offered the citizens of Maine a truly unique opportunity to determine the future of Sears Island, and thereby resolve a public controversy that has caused uncertainty and conflict about this island, an important asset of upper Penobscot Bay, for more than 30 years. - G. E. Smith
George Edward "G.E." Smith (b. January 27, 1952 in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania) is an American guitarist. He was the lead guitarist in the band Hall and Oates and the musical director of "Saturday Night Live". Smith was lead guitarist of Bob Dylan's touring band from June 7, 1988 to October 19, 1990. Smith also served as musical director of the Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Celebration Concert at Madison Square Garden on October 16, 1992. - Michael Nouri
Michael Nouri (born December 9, 1945) is an American television and film actor. He is known for his role as Nick Hurley, the boyfriend of Alex Owens (Jennifer Beals) in the 1983 movie blockbuster "Flashdance". Recently, he had a recurring role in "The O.C." as Dr. Neil Roberts, the father of Summer Roberts (Rachel Bilson). Nouri was born in Washington, D.C. to Gloria (Montgomery) and Edward Nouri, of Lebanese descent.
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