List of Druze
The list of Druze includes prominent Druze figures who are notable in their areas of expertise.
Literature
- Naim Araidi – Israeli writer and poet in Hebrew and Arabic.
- Reda Mansour – Israeli Hebrew poet and writer and former ambassador in Ecuador
- Rami Zeedan- Israeli Druze political scientist, historian, and author.
- Salman Masalha – Israeli poet, essayist and researcher
- Samih al-Qasim – Palestinian-Israeli poet.
- Sami Makarem – Lebanese-American writer and painter
Media
- Mona Abou Hamza – Lebanese TV presenter
- Raghida Dergham – Lebanese American journalist.
- Casey Kasem – American TV & radio presenter, of Lebanese descent.
- Nahida Nakad – Lebanese French senior correspondent and TV executive
- Faisal al-Qassem – Syrian television talkshow host
- Asmahan (Amaal al-Atrash) – Syrian Lebanese Egyptian female singer, and actress.
- Farid al-Atrash – Syrian Lebanese Egyptian male singer, composer, and actor.
- Ramy Ayach – Lebanese singer
- Fahd Ballan – Syrian male singer.
Politics
Canada
- Ziad Aboultaif – Canadian MP for Edmonton Manning.
Israel
- Labib Hussein Abu Rokan – Israeli MP and religious judge.
- Abdullah Abu Ma'aruf – Israeli MP and physician.
- Hamad Amar – Israeli MP.
- Assad Assad – Israeli MP, army colonel, and diplomat
- Zeidan Atashi – Israeli MP and diplomat
- Amal Nasser el-Din – Israeli MP and author
- Salah-Hassan Hanifes – Israeli MP
- Ayoob Kara – Israeli MP, deputy speaker, and deputy minister
- Jabr Moade – Israeli MP and deputy minister
- Gadeer Mreeh – Israeli MP and former television anchor
- Mohamed Nafa – Israeli MP
- Said Nafa – Israeli MP and lawyer
- Shachiv Shnaan – Israeli member of parliament
- Salah Tarif – Israeli minister, MP, and army captain
- Majalli Wahabi – Israeli MP, IDF lieutenant-colonel, and acting president
Lebanon
- Akram Chehayeb – Lebanese Minister and MP
- Ghazi Aridi – Lebanese minister and MP
- Majid Arslan – Lebanese Defense Minister for over 40 years
- Shakib Arslan – Lebanese politician, writer, poet and historian
- Talal Arslan – Lebanese minister and MP
- Fakhr-al-Din II – Ruler (emir) of Lebanon from 1590 to 1633; united Lebanon and parts of Syria and Palestine under his rule
- Kamal Jumblatt – Lebanese MP, minister, writer, author, and poet
- Walid Jumblatt – Lebanese minister and leader of the Progressive Socialist Party
- Marwan Hamadeh – Lebanese minister and MP
- Marwan Kheireddin – Lebanese minister
- Faisal Al Sayegh – Lebanese MP
- Wiam Wahhab – Lebanese Politician
- Hadi Aboul-Hosn – Lebanese MP
Syria
- Sultan Pasha al-Atrash – Syrian Leader & Commander of the Syrian Revolt.
- Mansur al-Atrash – Syrian politician, Interim head of state.
- Shibli al-Aysami – former Syrian Vice president and Gen Sec of the Ba'th Arab Socialist Party
- Issam Zahreddine – Major General of the Syrian Republican Guard who has played a major role in the Syrian Civil War, leading Syrian Government forces on several fronts.
Jordan
- Ayman Safadi – Deputy Prime Minister and Jordan's Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Venezuela
- Tarek El Aissami – Venezuelan interior and justice minister.
Religion
- Suliman Bashear – Palestinian-Israeli scholar of Islam
- Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah – central religious figure of the faith and sixth Imam-Caliph of the Fatimid Caliphate
- Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad – founding religious leader
- Amin Tarif (1898–1993) – Israeli religious leader
- Mowafak Tarif – Israeli religious leader
- Abu Mohammad Jawad Walieddine (1916–2012) – Head of Authority of Senior Sheikhs
Security
- Imad Fares – Israeli Brigadier General
- Salim Hatoum – Syrian Major. Led overthrow of the government of Amin al-Hafez in 1966. while historian Patrick Seale describes them "poor."
- Yousef Mishleb – Israeli general
- Nada Nadim Prouty – Syrian security agent
- Ghassan Alian – Commander of Golani brigade in IDF
Sports
- Zidan Amar – Israeli footballer.
- Ahad Azam – Israeli footballer
- Wiyam Amashe – Israeli footballer
- Amir Nasar A Din – Israeli footballer
- Sari Falah – Israeli footballer
- Amir Halaby – Israeli footballer.
- Mahran Lala – Israeli footballer
- Nazar Mahmud – Israeli figure skater
- Raja Rafe – Syrian footballer
- Kenny Hasan Sayef – American-Israeli footballer.
Visual arts
- Farid Mansour (artist) – Lebanese Painter, and Sculptor
- Nabil Kanso – Lebanese-American painter
- Michael Netzer (Nassar) – American-Israeli graphical artist
Others
- Azzam Azzam – Israeli textile worker, former Israeli prisoner in Egypt
- Angelina Fares – Israeli beauty pageant.
- Samir Kuntar – Lebanese militant.
- Majdi Halabi – disappeared and discovered Israeli soldier
- Amal Clooney – Lebanese-British lawyer, married to George Clooney
- Khaled Camil Abou Chakra – Lebanese Architect, LEED Green Associate / Researcher in Construction & Architectural Sciences
- Nadia Aboulhosn – Lebanese-American plus-size model and blogger
- Emin Arslan – Born in current-day Lebanon (Ottoman Syria), diplomat, writer and editor
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