- Walid Jumblatt
Walid Jumblatt is the current leader of the Progressive Socialist Party "PSP" of Lebanon and the most prominent leader of the Druze community. He is currently one of the most outspoken anti-Syrian politicians in Lebanon and is allied with the March 14 Alliance, which includes the Future Movement, the Lebanese Forces and the Qornet Chehwan Gathering.
- Nabih Berri
Nabih Berri (born January 28, 1938) is the speaker of the Lebanese Parliament of Lebanon. He heads the mostly Shi'a Amal Party. He was born in Sierra Leone to Lebanese parents. He went to school in Tebnine and Ain Ebel in southern Lebanon and later studied at the Makassed and the Ecole de la Sagesse in Beirut. He obtained a Law degree in 1963 from the Lebanese University, where he had served as the student body president.
- Camille Chamoun
Camille Nimr Chamoun (b. April 3, 1900 - d. August 7, 1987) was President of Lebanon from 1952 to 1958, and one of the country's main Christian leaders during most of the Lebanese Civil War (1975 - 1990).
- Elie Hobeika
Elie Hobeika (Arabic:إيلي حبيقة) was a Phalangist and Lebanese Forces militia commander during the Lebanese Civil War trained and supplied by Israel. He turned later to a pro-Syrian politician and government minister in the post-war period. He is best known for his alleged role in the Sabra and Shatila massacre in 1982 and for allegations that the atrocities were committed in collusion with Israeli authorities. He was killed by a bomb in Beirut on January 24, …
- Rashid Karami
Rashid Abdul Hamid Karami was a Lebanese statesman. He was one of the most important political figures in Lebanon for more than 30 years, including during much of Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), and he served as Prime Minister eight times.
- Kamal Jumblatt
Kamal Jumblatt ; (December 6, 1917 – March 16, 1977) was an important Lebanese politician. He was the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War until his assassination in 1977. He is the father of the present Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt.
- Elias Hrawi
Elias Hrawi was a former President of Lebanon, whose term of office ran from 1989 to 1998. He was a native of the Beqaa valley. He was elected on 24 November 1989, two days after the assassination of René Moawad, who had held office for just seventeen days. When his term was due to expire in 1995, the National Assembly amended the constitution to allow him to remain in office for another three years. Hrawi was born in Hawch Al-Umara, near Zahle, …
- Elias Sarkis
Elias Sarkis was President of Lebanon from 1976 to 1982. Born in Shabbaniah, Sarkis graduated with a Law degree from Saint Joseph University in 1948. After joining the judicial corps in 1953, he became a judge with the Accounting Department. During the regime of President Fuad Chehab, he was appointed Judicial Manager at the presidential palace in Baabda, and in 1962 he became General Manager for Presidential Matters.
- Dany Chamoun
Dany Chamoun (August 26, 1934 – October 21,1990) was a prominent Lebanese politician. A Maronite Christian and the younger son of former President Camille Chamoun, Dany Chamoun was also a politician in his own right, and was known for his opposition to the occupation of Lebanese territory by foreign forces, whether Syrian or Israeli.
- Suleiman Frangieh
Suleiman Kabalan Frangieh, last name also spelled "Frangié," "Franjieh," or "Franjiyeh,", was President of Lebanon from 1970 to 1976. His presidency saw the beginning of the Lebanese Civil War, which raged from 1975 to 1990, as well as the start of the Syrian military presence in Lebanon, which continued until 2005.
- Ziad Rahbani
Ziad Rahbani (born 1956) is a Lebanese composer and a writer (for radio shows and theatre). The son of the famous Lebanese singer Fairouz and composer Assi Rahbani, he succeeded in conveying the cosmopolitan and pluralistic culture of his native city Beirut(1). He composed many songs for Fairouz and other singers.
- Tony Frangieh
Antoine Frangieh was a Lebanese politician and militia leader during the early years of the Lebanese Civil War.
- Mai Ghoussoub
Mai Ghoussoub (2 November 1952 - 17 February 2007) was a Lebanese writer, artist, publisher and human rights activist. She was the co-founder of the Saqi bookshop and publishing house. Ghoussoub was born in Beiruit, where her father, Antoine Ghoussoub, a Maronite Christian Arab, was a professional footballer. She studied at the French lycée in Beirut, then maths at the American University of Beirut and French literature at the Lebanese University, …
- Hassan Khaled
≠Grand Mufti Sheikh Hassan Khaled was the leader of Lebanon's Sunni Muslim community. Mufti Hasan Khaled His Eminence was born in Beirut-Lebanon in 1921, received his primary school at Al makkased Islamic schools in Beirut, continued study of intermediate and secondary education at the Institute of Azhar Lebanon in Beirut, and pursued his university education at Al-Azhar University, from the Faculty of Theology in Cairo, and obtained the certificate high (BA) in 1946.
- Hussein El-Husseini
Sayyed Hussein el-Husseini is a prominent Lebanese politician from Beqaa, who brought the end of the Lebanese civil war in 1990, followed by the disarmament of sectarian militias.
- Aziz Abdo
Aziz Abdo is a Lebanese singer of Arab Music. Born in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War, he moved to Sweden as a young boy and at age 16 became active in modeling. After earning the 2001 Mr. Lebanon contest, Abdo started recording songs and eventually became popular in the Lebanese music scene.
- George Farah
George "Bulletproof" Victor Farah (b.1971 in Beirut, Lebanon)is an IFBB professional bodybuilder
- René Moawad
René Moawad was President of Lebanon for 17 days in 1989, from the 5th to the 22nd of November, when he was assassinated. A Maronite Christian noted for his moderate views, Moawad had given some citizens hope that the long civil war in Lebanon could be ended. Chawki Choveri, Lebanon's UN representative, said that "This is the major catastrophe of the years of catastrophies we have had so far.
- Etienne Saqr
Etienne Saqr. Saqr and his militia participated heavily in the Lebanese Civil War in 1970s and 1980s, and remained militantly active until he was expelled from the country for collaborating with the South Lebanon Army, an Israeli proxy in southern Lebanon during the latter's military occupation until the year 2000. Saqr was born in Ain Ebel in 1937; his father, Caesar Saqr, was a school principal. He was educated in French schools in Tripoli and Beirut, …
- Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah is a leading Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim scholar. He was born in the town of An-Najaf al-Ashraf, Iraq, and studied first in a traditional school, and then in a modern school established by the journalist Jamiat Muntada Al-Nasher. Fadlallah published a minor periodical, and went to Lebanon in 1952. In the following decades, he gave many lectures and engaged in intense scholarship.
- Nasri Shamseddine
Nasri Shamseddine (also spelled Nasri Chamseddine) (1927 - 1983) was a Lebanese singer and actor. His recordings remain very popular in the Arab world. He performed in several films and was associated for many years with the Lebanese singer Fairuz. Shamseddine was born Nasreddine Moustapha Shamesedine in the village of Joune, in the southern part of the Chouf mountains.
- Najah Wakim
Najah Wakim is the president and one of the founders of the Lebanese leftist group "The People's Movement". He is a Christian Orthodox lawyer who believes in the Nasserist ideology and is attached to the Arab cause. He managed to defeat Nasim Majdalani in 1970's Lebanese parliamentary elections for the Orthodox seat, and he was supported by Gamal Abdel Nasser. He was imprisoned for criticizing the president of Lebanon back then, Suleiman Frangieh, …
- Habib Tanious Shartouni
Habib Tanious Shartouni was convicted and held responsible for the assassination of the Lebanese elected president Bashir Gemayel. Habib Tanious Shartouni, a Christian Maronite, born on 24 April 1958 in Aley Mount Lebanon. He was influenced by the ideas of the Syrian Socialist National Party (SSNP) in the early 1970s through a close friend called Henry Hani.
- Abe F. March
Abe F. March (born 1939) is the author of "To Beirut and Back - An American in the Middle East" (ISBN 1-4241-3853-1). In his book he recounts the years shortly before and including the beginning of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990). Abe March was born in the US state of Pennsylvania. After military service with the US Air Force in France, and then in Germany (1957-61) where he met and married his German wife, he began a business career at IBM.
- Monte Melkonian
Monte Melkonian (in Armenian: in TAO Մոնթէ Մելքոնեան, in RAO Մոնթե Մելքոնյան November 25, 1957 – June 12, 1993) was a famed Armenian military commander in the Nagorno-Karabakh war. He is largely credited for major military victories against Azerbaijan from the late autumn of 1992 to his death in June 1993. Melkonian had no prior service record in any country's army before being placed in command of an estimated 4,000 men in the war.
- Riyad Al-Turk
Riyad al-Turk is a Syrian opposition leader, former political prisoner, and prominent supporter of democracy. He has been secretary general of the radical Syrian Communist Party (Political Bureau) since its foundation in 1973 and is considered the "grandfather" of the Syrian opposition movement. In the latest years he has moved from a democratic communist towards a liberal democrat.
- David Foster
David Foster is a British news anchor. He has had many years of experience as a journalist, covering stories in more than 50 countries. In the last year he has been in Finland, India, Mauritania, Western Sahara and most recently Afghanistan preparing reports for Al Jazeera International launch. He came to Al Jazeera International from Sky News, the UK-based satellite news channel, where for almost ten years he was a studio news presenter and business correspondent.
- George Dickerson
George Dickerson (born 1933) is an American actor and poet. Dickerson graduated from Yale University in 1955, studying with Robert Penn Warren. He then worked at Time magazine, publishing several short stories and beginning an uncompleted novel. In the early 1970s, he worked briefly on Capitol Hill and then took up a post working for the United Nations in Lebanon, where he experienced the Lebanese Civil War in 1975 and 1976.
- Georges Adwan
Georges Adwan is a lawyer and a Lebanese politician. He currently holds the position of vice-president of the executive committee of the Lebanese Forces party. He has been an MP in the Lebanese Parliament as a representative of Chouf district since the 2005 legislative elections. Adwan was one of the leaders of the Al-Tanzim militia during the Lebanese civil war.
- Khalid El-Masri
Khalid El-Masri (born June 29, 1963) is a German citizen who was, in the course of the CIA's extraordinary rendition programme, detained, flown to Afghanistan, and interrogated and allegedly tortured by the CIA for several months as a part of the War on terror, and then released without charge.
- Gabrielle Bou Rached
Gabrielle Bou Rached, born 13 December 1986, is a model and former Miss Lebanon. Her modeling career included two video clips for famous Arab singers. In addition two commercials, and many fashion shows. Her winning was based on the Final Interview. She spoke about her father, "Sameeh", who died in the Lebanese Civil War. During the Miss Lebanon pageant she cried about her father, and her point difference at the end was 0.1 from her first runner up.
- Tracy Chamoun
Tracy Chamoun (born 1962) is a Lebanese-Australian author and political activist. She is one of two surviving children of Dany Chamoun (1934-1990), the former leader of the National Liberal Party and commander of the Tigers militia, which played a significant role in the Lebanese Civil War of 1975 to 1990, and the granddaughter of former President Camille Chamoun. Her mother was Patti Morgan Chamoun, an Australian fashion model and actress.
- Stephen J. Solarz
Stephen Joshua Solarz is a former United States Congressional Representative from New York. Solarz was both an outspoken critic of President Ronald Reagan's deployment of Marines to Lebanon in 1982 and a co-sponsor of the 1991 Gulf War Authorization Act during the Presidency of George H. W. Bush. Born in New York City, September 12, 1940, Solarz attended public schools in New York City and later received a B.A. from Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass.
- Nuha Al-Radi
Nuha al-Radi (January 27, 1941, Baghdad - 2004) was an Iraqi diarist, ceramist and painter. She was born into a distinguished Iraqi family which included Mahmoud Shawkat, the last Prime Minister of the Ottoman Empire. In 1919, her father Mohammed Selim al-Radi was one of the first Iraqis to be educated in the USA when he studied agriculture in Texas.
- Terry A. Anderson
Terry A. Anderson (b. October 27 1947, Lorain, Ohio) is the best known, and longest held, hostage of a group of American hostages believed to be captured by Shiite Hezbollah militants in an attempt to drive U.S. military forces from Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War. Anderson was raised in Batavia, New York. A professional journalist, he was in the U.S. Marines during the Vietnam War, where he was a combat correspondent (1969-70).
- Mohamad Chatah
Mohamad Bahaa Chatah is a Lebanese economist and diplomat. He currently serves as a senior adviser to Prime Minister Fouad Siniora. Born in Tripoli to Ihsan Chatah and Azze Karami, Ambassador Mohamad Chatah spent his childhood years studying at Tripoli Boys' School and later moved to Beirut to pursue an economics degree at the American University of Beirut. His studies were cut short with the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War in 1975, …
- Sarkis Soghanalian
Sarkis Soghanalian (in Armenian: Սարգիս Սողանալյան; born in Syria in 1929 or 1930, now in current-day Turkey) is a former Lebanese international private arms dealer of Armenian descent who gained fame for being the "Cold War's largest arms merchant" and the lead seller of firearms and weaponry to the former government of Iraq under Saddam Hussein during the 1980s. Soghanalian, then a permanent resident living in the United States in Miami, Florida, …
- Oussama Kassir
Oussama Abdallah Kassir (born January 12, 1966) is a Lebanese-born Swedish militant Islamist. Kassir was born in Beirut in Lebanon and came to Sweden in 1984. He was granted citizenship in 1989. He participated in the Lebanese Civil War during the 1970s/1980s and was hurt in battle. His last address in Sweden is an apartment in Bandhagen in southern Stockholm. He has been convicted in Sweden for possessing illegal firearms, assault on a policeman and drugs crime.
- Ali Eid
Ali Eid is a Lebanese politician who was appointed to the then newly established Alawite seat in the Lebanese Parliament in 1991, which was created following the Taif Agreement. He is the leader of the Arab Democratic Party in Lebanon. Though he and his party was pro-Syrian during the Lebanese Civil War, he and other Lebanese Alawites have since become more neutral.
- Rakad Salem
Rakad Mahmoud Salameh Salem (kunya, Abu Mahmoud) is an Iraqi-Palestinian politician and longtime Secretary-General of the Arab Liberation Front (ALF), an Iraqi-controlled Ba'thist faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). He was also editor-in-chief of the movement's monthly magazine, "Sawt al-Jamahir" (Arabic, "Voice of the masses"). He lives in Bir Zeit in the West Bank, …