List of Maronites
This list of Maronites includes prominent Maronite figures who are notable in their areas of expertise.
Arts, culture, and entertainment
Actors and Hollywood
- Norman Issa, Israeli actor, director in cinema, theatre, and television
- Mario Kassar, Lebanese-American Hollywood producer, behind such movies as Rambo, Terminator II and Stargate
- Nadine Labaki, actress and director
- Kathy Najimy, actress
- Elie Samaha, filmmaker
- Tom Shadyac, Hollywood producer and director
- Tony Shalhoub, three-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe-winning American television and film actor
- Danny Thomas, actor and founder of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Musicians
- Najwa Karam, singer
- Elissa Khoury, singer
- Marwan Khoury, singer
- Mika, singer
- Baba Saad, German rapper of Lebanese descent
- Nicole Saba, singer
- Gabriel Yared, Oscar-winning musician for the soundtrack of The English Patient
- Nawal Al Zoghbi, singer and actress
- Tiny Tim, American musician
Writers
- Amin al-Rihani, Lebanese-American poet
- Gibran Khalil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer
- Callie Khouri, American screenwriter
- Michael Sallah, American Pulitzer Prize reporter
Other
- Joseph Abboud, American fashion designer
- Youssef Howayek, sculptor
- Joseph Philippe Karam, architect
- Octavia Nasr, Lebanese-American CNN editor
- Elie Saab, International fashion designer
Business
- Gilbert Chagoury, Nigerian businessman and philanthropist
- Carlos Ghosn, Lebanese-French-Brazilian industrialist, CEO of Nissan and Renault
- Marie Henein, Canadian lawyer
- George J. Maloof, Jr., American entrepreneur
- Carlos Slim, Lebanese-Mexican, CEO of Teléfonos de México and many other companies in Mexico, and from 2010 to 2013, he was considered as the richest man in the world by Forbes.
Government and politics
Argentina
- Juan Luis Manzur, Argentinian Minister of Health and Environment
Australia
- Alexander Alam, political leader, member of the Australian Labor Party
- Marie Bashir, Governor of New South Wales, Australia
- Steve Bracks, former Premier of Victoria, Australia
- George Joseph, former Lord Mayor of Adelaide
- Bob Katter, Australian politician
Brazil
- Paulo Maluf, former governor of São Paulo state
- Michel Temer, former president of Brazil
Canada
- Patricia Arab, member of the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia, Canada
- Mark Assad, Canadian politician
- Michael Basha, former member of the Senate of Canada
- Pierre de Bané, Canadian Senator
- Lena Diab, Attorney General, Minister of Justice and Minister of Immigration for the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada
- Fonse Faour, former leader of the Newfoundland and Labrador New Democratic Party and judge in the trial division of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador
- Eddie Francis, mayor of Windsor, Ontario
- Joe Ghiz, premier of Prince Edward Island, Canada
- Robert Ghiz, premier of Prince Edward Island, Canada
- Mac Harb, Canadian politician
- Lorraine Michael, Canadian politician
- Maria Mourani, member of Canadian Parliament
- Frank Zakem, mayor of Charlottetown
- Paul Zed, Lebanese-Canadian politician
Ecuador
- Abdalá Bucaram, former President of Ecuador
- Alberto Dahik, former Vice President of Ecuador
- Jamil Mahuad, former President of Ecuador
- Jaime Nebot, Ecuadorian politician
- Julio Teodoro Salem, former President of Ecuador
Guatemala
- Jorge Serrano Elías, former president of Guatemala
Israel
- Salim Joubran, judge in the Supreme Court of Israel
Jamaica
- Edward Seaga, former Prime Minister of Jamaica
- Ziadie family, prominent Jamaican merchant family
Lebanon
- Pierre-Georges Arlabosse, President of the French Mandate of Lebanon
- Camille Chamoun, President of the Lebanese Republic, founder of the Ahrar Party, one of the fathers of the Lebanese Independence
- Fuad Chehab, President of the Lebanese Republic
- Émile Eddé, President of the French Mandate of Lebanon and President of the French Mandate of Lebanon
- Bashir Gemayel, Lebanese military commander, politician, and president-elect. Founder of the Lebanese Forces
- Pierre Gemayel, politician, founder of Al-Kataeb party in Lebanon
- Youssef Bey Karam, Lebanese Nationalist Leader
- Bechara El Khoury, President of the Lebanese Republic
- Amine Gemayel, President of the Lebanese Republic
- Bachir Gemayel, President of the Lebanese Republic
- Charles Helou, President of the Lebanese Republic
- Elias Hrawi, President of the Lebanese Republic
- Alfred Naccache, acting President of the French Mandate of Lebanon
- Émile Lahoud, President of the Lebanese Republic
- René Moawad, President of the Lebanese Republic
- Etienne Saqr, Lebanese military commander and politician, leader of Guardians of the Cedars
- Elias Sarkis, President of the Lebanese Republic
- Bashir Shihab II, emir who ruled Lebanon in the first half of the 19th century
- Youssef Salim Karam, former MP and leader from Zgharta
- Salim Bey Karam, MP and former minister from Zgharta
Sierra Leone
- Edward J. Akar, former Sierra Leone Minister of Finance
- Joe Blell, former Sierra Leone Minister of Defence
- John Saad, former Sierra Leone Minister of Housing and Infrastructural Development
United States
- John Abizaid, former Commander in Chief of the US Central Command
- Spencer Abraham, former United States Senator and Secretary of Energy
- Ray LaHood, U.S. Secretary of Transportation
- George Mitchell, 17th United States Senate Majority Leader
- Donna Shalala, former US Secretary of Health
- Francis G. Slay, mayor of St. Louis, Missouri
- George Joulwan, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe from 1993 to 1997
Uruguay
- Alberto Abdala, politician, painter and former Vice-President of Uruguay
Religion
- Nimattullah Kassab Al-Hardini, Lebanese monk and priest, Catholic saint.
- Peter Ambarach, pioneer of printing in oriental languages and Bible linguist under Pope Clement XI.
- Giuseppe Luigi Assemani, Vatican orientalist.
- Giuseppe Simone Assemani, titular archbishop of Tyre, librarian of the Vatican and an authority on oriental manuscripts.
- Simone Assemani, professor of Oriental languages in Padua.
- Stefano Evodio Assemani, titular Archbishop of Apamaea in Syria and Vatican orientalist.
- Tobia Aun, archbishop, played role in 1860 Lebanon conflict.
- Domnina of Syria, disciple of Saint Maron, Catholic Saint.
- Abraham Ecchellensis, theologian famous for his translations of biblical texts into Arabic and Syriac.
- Theodore Khoury, prominent Catholic theologian.
- Marina, Lebanese female monk and "desert father", Catholic saint.
- John Maron, first Maronite Patriarch in history, Catholic saint.
- Maroun, Syriac Christian monk, founder of the Maronite religious movement, Catholic saint.
- Mitch Pacwa, S.J., American Maronite priest and television personality on EWTN.
- Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès, saint, canonized by Pope John Paul II.
- Victor Scialac, theologian and linguist, is thought to have given his name to Shylock, the main character in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
- Gabriel Sionita, theologian famous for his role in the publication of the 1645 Parisian polyglot of the Bible.
Science
- Charles Elachi, Lebanese-American Director of NASA Jet Propulsion Labs
- Christa McAuliffe, secondary school teacher and first American civilian selected to be an astronaut; perished in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Great-niece of historian Philip Khuri Hitti.
- Peter Medawar, British 1960 Nobel Prize winner in Medicine.
Sports
- George Daniel, American Commissioner of the National Lacrosse League
- George Diba, Israeli footballer
- Matt Freije, Lebanese former NBA player drafted by the Miami Heat; also played for the New Orleans Pelicans and the Atlanta Hawks from 2004-06
- Tony Kanaan, Brazilian race car driver
- Joe Lahoud, Lebanese-American baseball player
- Miguel Layún, Lebanese-Mexican footballer
- Eduard Meron, Israeli Olympic weightlifter
- Rony Seikaly, Lebanese-American basketball player at Syracuse University, 1st round draft pick of the NBA's Miami Heat in 1988
- Mario Zagallo, Brazilian national football team, player and coach