The Most Famous
EXTREMISTS from Lebanon
This page contains a list of the greatest Lebanese Extremists. The pantheon dataset contains 283 Extremists, 2 of which were born in Lebanon. This makes Lebanon the birth place of the 29th most number of Extremists behind Norway, and Mexico.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Lebanese Extremists of all time. This list of famous Lebanese Extremists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Ziad Jarrah (1975 - 2001)
With an HPI of 60.18, Ziad Jarrah is the most famous Lebanese Extremist. His biography has been translated into 24 different languages on wikipedia.
Ziad Samir Jarrah (Arabic: زياد سمير جراح; 11 May 1975 – 11 September 2001), also known as Ziad al-Jarrah, was a Lebanese terrorist who was a member of al-Qaeda, a pan-Islamist militant organization. During the 11 September attacks in 2001, he was one of 19 al-Qaeda members who hijacked four American commercial flights in an attempt to crash them into national landmarks in the country. Jarrah's group hijacked United Airlines Flight 93, departing Newark, New Jersey, for San Francisco, but they failed to reach their target when the plane crashed. Jarrah grew up in a secular and wealthy family living in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990). In 1996, he moved to Germany to study aerospace engineering at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. In Hamburg, he became part of a clandestine cell system known as the Hamburg cell with fellow hijackers Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi, among many others. In 1999, member Ramzi bin al-Shibh took the cell to Afghanistan to meet al-Qaeda's leader, Osama bin Laden, where they were instructed to receive flight training. In 2000, Jarrah enrolled in a flight school in Florida. In September 2001, Jarrah, Ahmed al-Haznawi, Ahmed al-Nami, and Saeed al-Ghamdi boarded Flight 93 at Newark International Airport. Mid-flight, they took control of the cockpit, injuring or killing the pilots, and Jarrah began flying it towards Washington, D.C. His group likely planned to crash into either the U.S. Capitol Building or the White House. The passengers then tried storming the cockpit to take back the plane, which caused it to crash in a field near Stonycreek Township, Pennsylvania, killing everyone onboard who was still alive.
2. Fuad Shukr (1961 - 2024)
With an HPI of 58.28, Fuad Shukr is the 2nd most famous Lebanese Extremist. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages.
Fuad Shukr (Arabic: فؤاد شكر; 15 April 1961 – 30 July 2024; sometimes spelled Fouad Shukar and also known by his aliases Al-Hajj Mohsen or Mohsen Shukr) was a Lebanese militant leader who was a senior member of Hezbollah. A member of Hezbollah's founding generation, Shukr was a senior military leader in the organization from the early 1980s. For over four decades, he was one of the group's leading military figures and was a military advisor to its leader Hassan Nasrallah. Shukr was, according to Israeli intelligence, a key figure in the transfer of Iranian guidance systems for Hezbollah's long-range missiles. He was believed to have played a role in the 1983 Beirut barracks bombings, that killed 241 U.S. and 58 French military personnel, six civilians and two attackers. The U.S. Department of State designated Shukr as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist in 2013. On 30 July 2024, Shukr was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut for his alleged responsibility for the Majdal Shams attack three days earlier, which killed 12 children.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Lebanese extremists born between 1961 and 1975. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Lebanese extremists include Ziad Jarrah, and Fuad Shukr. As of April 2024, 1 new Lebanese extremists have been added to Pantheon including Fuad Shukr.
