Eddin – commonly known as Chouchou or Shoushou, actor, comedian Jalal Khoury – playwright, theatre director, comedian and artistic editor Visual artists Etel Adnan – painter, poet Faouzi Al-Kach – artist Joseph Assaf – sculptor Chaouki Chamoun – painter Douglas Abdell – sculptor Moustafa Farroukh – painter Chawky Frenn – painter and art professor César Gemayel – painter Youssef Howayek – sculptor and painter Wajih Nahlé – painter and calligrapher Walid Raad – artist Pierre Sadek – caricaturist Akram Zaatari – filmmaker, photographer, artist and curator Writers and poets Salima Abi Rashed (1887–1919) first Lebanese woman lawyer, journalist Maroun Abboud (1886–1962) – poet and writer Elia Abu Madi (1890–1957) – poet Said Akl (1912–2014) – poet, writer, and thinker Jeanne Arcache (1902–1961) – Francophone poet and novelist Zeina Hashem Beck – poet Nader El-Bizri (living) – philosopher and architect Butrus al-Bustani (1819–1883) – writer and scholar Andrée Chedid (1920–2011) – Egyptian-French poet and novelist of Lebanese descent Michel Chiha (1891–1954) – writer, journalist, banker Alexandra Chreiteh (born 1987) – writer Charles Corm (1894–1963) – writer and businessman Fawaz Gerges (born 1958) – academic and author Mai Ghoussoub (1952–2007) – writer, publisher, human rights activist Zaynab Fawwaz (1860–1914) – poet, historian, women's right activist Hedy Habra – Lebanese-American poet, novelist, literary critic and professor Joumana Haddad (born 1970) – writer and feminist Ounsi el-Hajj (1937–2014) – poet Salma Hage (born 1942) – writer and cook Labiba Hashim (1882–1952) – pioneer woman writer and journalist Jad Hatem (born 1952) – philosopher and poet Gibran Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) – artist, author and poet Anbara Salam Khalidi (1897–1986) – writer, translater, woman emancipation activist Elias Khoury (born 1948) – novelist and playwright Vénus Khoury-Ghata (born 1937) – writer Emily Fares Ibrahim (born 1914) – writer, feminist Amin Maalouf (born 1949) – novelist Mago (agricultural writer) – Carthaginian writer, author of an agricultural manual in Punic Esther Moyal (1874–1947) – writer and women's rights activist May Murr (1929–2008) – academic, writer and activist Jacqueline Massabki (died 2015) – writer and lawyer Khalil Mutran (1872–1949) – poet and journalist Mikha'il Na'ima (1889–1988) – religious author and poet Emily Nasrallah (1931–2018) – novelist, activist Amin al-Rihani (1876–1940) – writer and politician Widad Sakakini (1913–1991) – writer and feminist Georges Schéhadé – (1905–1989) – Francophone playwright and poet Laurice Schehadé (1908–2009) – Noverlist and poet Hanan al-Shaykh – writer Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq (1806–1887) – scholar, writer and journalist