List of Lebanese people in the United Kingdom explained

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.

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
• Cyrus Christie - footballer
• Hady Ghandour - footballer
• Tarek Haffar - rugby union player
• Majed Osman - footballer

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 ^[3]
• Samir Brikho - Businessman
• Ely Calil - Businessman^[4]
• 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.^[5]

Entertainment

• Alex Garland - writer, filmmaker, director and grandson of Peter Medawar^[6]
• Big Zuu - rapper, songwriter, presenter, and grime artist of half Lebanese and half Sierra Leonean descent
• Dom Joly - comedian, columnist and broadcaster^[7]
• Esther Manito, comedian

Musicians

• Al Bowlly - Dance Band singer ^[8]
• Mika - musician and songwriter^[9]
• Sarbel - Lebanese-British-Cypriot singer^[10]

Scientists

• Michael Atiyah - British-Lebanese mathematician
• 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^[11]
• 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
• 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

Notes and References

1. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20050522/ai_n14637232/ Corrie's Samia Ghadie AND HER BIG NIGHT BEAUTY SECRETS
2. News: Trump's latest apprentice has 'Lebaneseness' on his side. Lysandra. Ohrstrom. The Daily Star. 21 June 2006. 17 January 2019.
3. Web site: Incoming HSBC chief Stuart Gulliver names Samir Assaf as head of investment banking. 11 February 2010 .
4. http://www.lagostimes.com/2010/12/13/ely-calil-international-man-of-mystery/ Ely Calil: International Man of Mystery
5. Book: Caiger , Andrew . Professional sport in the European Union: Regulation and re-regulation. Simon Gardiner . 95. 2000. Cambridge University Press. 90-6704-126-2.
6. News: Novelist's Muse Lures Him to the Soul's Darkness. The New York Times. 11 March 1999. Cowell. Alan.
7. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/middleeast/lebanon/8004226/Dom-Jolys-Beirut.html Dom Joly's Beirut
8. Web site: The al Bowlly Circle at the Memory Lane magazine.
9. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/jun/14/mika-pop-music Life in technicolor
10. http://www.mtv.co.uk/artists/sarbel Sarbel
11. http://www.thedailystar.net/2005/01/15/d501152102104.htm Letter From Virginia: On Naeem Murr, novelist and short story writer