the Lebanese Naval Forces, author, historian Émile Lahoud – former army commander Jamil Al Sayyed – former Lebanese General Security Director Wafiq Jizzini – former Lebanese General Security Director Abbas Ibrahim – Lebanese General Security Director Jean Njeim – former army commander Ibrahim Tannous – former army commander Joseph Aoun – army commander Religion A series of Catholic popes from the Levant (also known as Syrian popes or popes of Eastern Origin) include: Pope Anicetus, Pope Constantine, Pope Gregory III, Pope Sergius I and Pope Sisinnius. Religious personalities Maronite patriarchs Estephan El Douaihy – former Maronite Patriarch (1670–1704) Elias Peter Hoayek – former Maronite Patriarch (1898–1931) Anthony Peter Khoraish – former Maronite Patriarch (1975–1986) Bechara Boutros al-Rahi – Maronite Patriarch (2011–) Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir – former Maronite Patriarch (1986–2011) Muslim scholars Abū ʿAmr ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAmr al-ʾAwzāʿī (Arabic: أبو عمرو عبدُ الرحمٰن بن عمرو الأوزاعي) (707–774) Musa al-Sadr – Shiite religious leader Muhammad Jamaluddin al-Makki al-Amili – Shi'a scholar (1334–1385) Nur-al-Din al-Karaki al-ʿĀmilī (1465-1534) – Shiite scholar who was a member of the Safavid court Al-Hurr al-Aamili – muhaddith and a prominent Twelver Shi'a scholar (1624–1693) Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī – Shi'a Islamic scholar (1547–1621) Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah – Shiite cleric (1935–2010) Hassan Khaled – Sunni cleric, Mufti of the Lebanese Republic (1966–1989) Others Aram I Keshishian – Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church, See of the Great House of Cilicia (in Antelias, Lebanon) Salim Ghazal – Melkite Greek Catholic bishop (1931–2011) Saints Charbel Makhlouf Nimatullah Kassab Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès Raphael Hawawini Politicians Presidents of Lebanon NONE - current president (2022-??) Michel Aoun – former president (2016–2022) Camille Chamoun – former president (1952–1958) Fuad Chehab – former president (1958–1964) Émile Eddé – former president (1936–1941) Suleiman Frangieh – former president (1970–1976) Amine Gemayel – former president (1982–1988) Bachir Gemayel – former president-elect (1982-murdered) Charles Helou – former president (1964–1970) Elias Hrawi – former president (1989–1998) Bechara El Khoury – former president (1943–1952) Émile Jamil Lahoud – former president (1998–2007) René Moawad – former president (1989-murdered) Elias Sarkis – former president (1976–1982) Michel Sleiman – former president (2008–2014) Petro Trad – former president (1943) Speakers of Parliament Nabih Berri – Camper on his seats since 1992 (30 years) Kamel Asaad – former Speaker of Parliament Sabri Hamadé – former Speaker of Parliament Hussein el-Husseini – former Speaker of Parliament Adel Osseiran – former Speaker of Parliament Prime Ministers of Lebanon