List of Lebanese people in the United Kingdom

This is a list of notable British people with Lebanese ancestry or Lebanese people who have dual Lebanese and British nationality who live or lived in the United Kingdom.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Actors

• Omar Baroud - actor of Curaçao-Lebanese heritage
• Nadim Naaman - actor, singer, playwright, composer
• Taz Skylar - actor and writer
• Samia Smith - actress ^[1]
• Sean Yazbeck - winner of the fifth season (2006) of Donald Trump's reality show, The Apprentice ^[2]

Athletes

• Sandy Abi-Elias - footballer
• Jed Chouman - footballer ^[3]
• Cyrus Christie - footballer
• Hady Ghandour - footballer ^[4]
• Tarek Haffar - rugby union player
• Majed Osman - footballer ^[5]

Businessmen

• Assaad Razzouk - CEO of Gurīn, clean-energy entrepreneur, author, podcaster, commentator, married to British-Lebanese journalist Roula Khalaf
• Marlon Abela - columnist, businessman, restaurateur, and the founder and chairman of the Marlon Abela Restaurant Corporation (MARC), a privately owned international hospitality company based in Mayfair, London.
• Samir Assaf - CEO of HSBC investment ^[6]
• Johnny Boufarhat - businessman
• Samir Brikho - Businessman
• Ely Calil - Businessman ^[7]
• Camille F Chamoun - Businessman, Life Coach and Founding member of the Lebanese community of Kingston-Upon-Hull.
• Lawrence Haddad, economist, Lebanese parents
• Sam Hammam - owner of Cardiff City F.C. ^[8]

Entertainment

• Alex Garland - writer, filmmaker, director and grandson of Peter Medawar ^[9]
• Big Zuu - rapper, songwriter, presenter, and grime artist of half Lebanese and half Sierra Leonean descent
• Dom Joly - comedian, columnist and broadcaster ^[10]
• Esther Manito, comedian

Musicians

• Al Bowlly - Dance Band singer ^[11]
• Mika - musician and songwriter ^[12]
• Sarbel - Lebanese-British-Cypriot singer ^[13]

Scientists

• Michael Atiyah - British-Lebanese mathematician ^[14]
• Peter Medawar - British scientist of Lebanese origin, 1960 Nobel Prize winner for work on graft rejection and the discovery of acquired immune tolerance
• Caleb Saleeby - British-Lebanese physician, writer, and journalist known for his support of eugenics. During World War I, he was an adviser to the Minister of Food and advocated the establishment of a Ministry of Health.

Writers

• Roula Khalaf - editor of the Financial Times and married to Assaad Razzouk
• Nasri Atallah - author, publisher, media analyst
• Nader El-Bizri - philosopher, architectural theorist
• Sabine Getty - socialite and contributor to Tatler
• Saleem Haddad - author
• Albert Hourani - historian
• George Hourani - philosopher and historian
• Michael Karam - journalist, author, wine writer
• Naeem Murr - novelist and short story writer ^[15]
• Anbara Salam - author

Other

• Amal Clooney (née Alamuddin) - lawyer
• Oliver Cooper - Conservative politician
• Gabriel Coury - recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
• Anissa Helou - chef, teacher, and author
• Marwan Kaabour - graphic designer, artist and editor
• Lina Khatib - academic
• Philip Khoury - Australian plant-based pastry chef at Harrods
• Nadine Merabi - fashion designer

See also

• Lebanese people in the United Kingdom
• List of Lebanese people
• Lists of Lebanese diaspora

References

1. Corrie's Samia Ghadie AND HER BIG NIGHT BEAUTY SECRETS Archived 2010-09-20 at the Wayback Machine
2. Ohrstrom, Lysandra (21 June 2006). "Trump's latest apprentice has 'Lebaneseness' on his side". The Daily Star. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
3. "Jed Chouman". Global Sports Archive. Retrieved 18 March 2021.
4. "Hady Ghandour". Global Sports Archive. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
5. "Majed Osman". Global Sports Archive. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
6. "Incoming HSBC chief Stuart Gulliver names Samir Assaf as head of investment banking". 11 February 2010.
7. Ely Calil: International Man of Mystery Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine from the Lagos Times 13 December 2010.
8. Caiger, Andrew; Simon Gardiner (2000). Professional sport in the European Union: Regulation and re-regulation. Cambridge University Press. p. 95. ISBN   90-6704-126-2.
9. Cowell, Alan (11 March 1999). "Novelist's Muse Lures Him to the Soul's Darkness". The New York Times.
10. Dom Joly's Beirut from The Telegraph 15 September 2010
11. "The al Bowlly Circle at the Memory Lane magazine".
12. Life in technicolor from The Guardian 14 June 2009
13. Sarbel Archived 2011-12-25 at the Wayback Machine from MTV
14. Atiyah, Joe (2007), The Atiyah Family , retrieved 2008-08-14
15. Letter From Virginia: On Naeem Murr, novelist and short story writer from The Daily Star 15 January 2005