This is a list of political families in Lebanon and their prominent members. This list does not include historical monarchies that ruled the region of the Levant but can include its modern-ruling decedents.

Abou Fadel family The Abou Fadel family is a prominent Greek Orthodox family originating in the village of Ain Aanoub. They are the descendance of Sheikh Jabbour Abou Fadel, governor of the Gharb al-Aqsa province of Mount Lebanon from 1771 to 1778, himself a descendant of Prince Abd al-Masih al-Qandil, affiliated with the Yemeni princes of the Qahtani family of Ghassan.Abu Fadel family Al Nahar

Notable members: Youssef Abou Fadel – member of the first administrative council of the Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate; brother of Habib Habib Abou Fadel – judge and Kaymakam Mounir Abou Fadel – Deputy Speaker of the Parliament; son of Habib Marwan Abou Fadel – Co-founder of the Lebanese Democratic Party, son of Mounir

Aoun family

The Aoun family is a Maronite family that was recently established as political via Michel Aoun's daughters. Aoun's second child, Claudine Aoun, married politician and former brigadier general, Chamel Roukoz. The third, Chantal, is married to Gebran Bassil, whom she met at an FPM conference in Paris in 1996. He served as a minister in different cabinets, and succeeded Aoun as president of the Free Patriotic Movement in 2015. Michel's nephew, Alain Aoun, is a Member of Parliament, elected in 2009, 2018 and 2022.

Notable members: Joseph Aoun – political personality Alain Aoun – member of parliament; son of Joseph Michel Aoun – President, (2016-2022) Chamel Roukoz – politician and former brigadier general; former son-in-law of Michel Gebran Bassil – leader of the Free Patriotic Movement; son-in-law of Michel

Arslan family The Arslan family is a hereditary Druze leadership dynasty descends from the Lakhmids. The family name of Arslan was given to the descendants of the dynasty. The Arslan family was sent to the coast of the Lebanon by the Muslim Khalifa in 634 and they were responsible of guarding the coast and protecting it. They ruled Beirut for 476 years (from 634 until 1110).

Notable members: Toufic Arslan – Greater Lebanon politician; father of Majid Emir Majid Arslan II – Lebanese independence hero and Druze leader; son of Toufic Emir Faysal Arslan – son of Emir Majid and head of the House of Arslan from 1983 until 1989; son of Majid Emir Talal Arslan – son of Emir Majid, Druze leader and current head of the House of Arslan; son of Majid Emir Shakib Arslan – influential Arab politician, writer, poet and historian; brother of Adil Prince Adil Arslan – Ottoman politician; brother of Shakib

El Assaad family El-Assaad or Al As'ad is a feudal political clan originally from Najd and a main branch of the anza tribe.Fouad Ajami, The Vanished Imam: Musa al-Sadr and the Shi'a of Lebanon (Itahac: Cornell University Press, 1986) p. 69 Unrelated to Syrian or Palestinian Al-Assads, El-Assaad dynasty that ruled most of South Lebanon for three centuries and whose lineage defended fellow denizens of history'sJabal Amel (Mount Amel) principality – today southern Lebanon – for 36 generations, Balqa in Jordan, Nablus in Palestine, and Homs in Syria governed by Ottoman rule between generations throughout the Arab caliphate. El-Assaads are considered now "Bakaweit" (title of nobility plural of "Bek" granted to a few wealthy families in Lebanon), and are considered princes or heirs to the family's dynasty to some.

Notable members: Nasif Al Nassar - ruler of Jabal Amel from the Al-Saghir Dynasty. Ali Al Saghir - a powerful leader of Jabal Amel. Khalil Bek El Assaad - appointed Ottoman Governor of Nablus, Al Balqa, Marjayoun, Tyre and Homs. Shbib Pasha El Assaad - minister of the Ottoman Empire, army leader. Ali Nasrat El Assaad - advisor of the Court and a Superior in the Ministry of Foreign affairs in the Ottoman Empire. Kamil Bey (Esad) El-Assaad - representative of the Ottoman Empire in Beyrut. Ahmed El Assaad - 3rd Legislative Speaker of Lebanon. Kamel Bek El Assaad- 5th Legislative Speaker of Lebanon, Minister of Education, Minister of Water and Electricity, founder of Democratic Socialist Party (Lebanon). Ahmad Kamel El Assaad - Lebanese Option Party founder, political candidate. Moustafa Nassar Bek El Assaad - Supreme Court President. Nael El Assaad - envoy for HM King Abdullah of Jordan and former husband of late Saudi magnate Adnan Khashoggi's sister Soheir. Said El Assaad - former Lebanese Ambassador of Switzerland, France and Belgium and a former Member of Parliament. Bahija Al Solh El Assaad - wife of Said El Assaad, daughter of Prime Minister Riad Al Solh, aunt of Waleed Bin Talal. Nasrat El Assaad - ambassador of Lebanon to numerous countries. Haidar El Assaad - historian and among the first official delegates to visit the new People's Republic of China in the 1960s following Ministerial civil service – later serving as a director at the FAO of the United Nations and consultant to TRW and the World Bank.

Bazzi family The Bazzi family is a Lebanese Shia Muslim family that has been the largest family in Bent Jbeil, South Lebanon, for centuries. The Bazzi clan is spread across the Middle East from Lebanon to Iraq, Iran, and Yemen, and to Europe as far as Northern Italy, without confirmed connections among all regions. Its political presence has been established since the French mandate of Greater Lebanon with MP Ali Bazzi (Abu Hani). The family includes many notable politicians, academicians, military officers, journalists, political analysts, and writers.

Notable politicians include: Ali Bazzi (Abu Hani) – MP and one of the independence activists jailed by the French along with Bechara El Khoury and other founders of the independent Lebanon. Ali Ahmad Bazzi – MP and member of the Amal movement Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah – prominent twelver Shia cleric with strong ties to Hezbollah Wassim Bazzi – political analyst Afif Bazzi – president of the Municipality of Bint Jbeil

Chamoun family The Chamoun family is a Maronite family from the village of Deir El Qamar in the Chouf region of Lebanon.

Notable members: Camille Chamoun – President, 1952–58 Dany Chamoun – Militia leader and political party leader; son of Camille Tracy Chamoun – Author and human rights activist; daughter of Dany Dory Chamoun – former party leader; son of Camille Camille Dory Chamoun – incumber party leader; son of Dory

Daoud family The Daoud family is a Druze political family from Rashaya. Politically, the family is represented by the Lebanese Arab Struggle Movement which Faisal Daoud headed between 1986 and 2014.فيصل الداوود. Annahar Salim Daoud – Former MP Faisal Daoud – Former party leader and MP; son of Salim Tarek Daoud – Current party leader and parliamentary candidate; son of Faisal

Daouk family The Daouk family is a prominent Sunni Beirut family that stemmed in Ras Beirut, Lebanon during the 15th century; after fleeing Marrakesh, Morocco, the family escaped Morocco in the late 12th century from Marrakesh to the Levant during the Reconquista inquisition. The immigration came as a consequence of the heavy influx of refugees from the Iberian Peninsula. This was due to the heavy influx of Arab refugees coming from the Iberian Peninsula to the Maghreb and the Levant following the fall of Al-Andalus to the Catholic Monarchs.

Notable members: Omar Beik Daouk Ahmad Daouk Walid Daouk

Eddé family The Eddé family is Maronite family from the town of Jbeil also known as Byblos.

Notable members: Émile Eddé – President during the French Mandate Raymond Eddé – political party leader; son of Émile Carlos Eddé – opposition politician; nephew of Raymond Michel Eddé – lawyer and politician Salim Eddé – Businessman and philanthropist; son of Michel

Eid family The Eid family is an Alawite political family that leads an Alawite community concentrated in the Jabal Mohsen neighborhood in Tripoli. The family founded the Arab Democratic Party which was founded in the early 70s by Ali Eid.ADP chief Ali Eid dies at age of 75 in Syria Rifaat Eid has relations with the Syrian regime and fought during the Bab al-Tabbaneh–Jabal Mohsen conflict against Sunni armed militias who opposed the Syrian regime.

Notable members: Ali Eid – former General Secretary of the Arab Democratic Party; father of Rifaat Rifaat Eid – General Secretary of the Arab Democratic Party; son of Ali

Fakhoury family The Fakhoury family is a prominent Greek Catholic family, It is one of the original aristocratic families of Saida, Fakhoury family can trace their roots to the Lebanese city of Rachaya Al Foukhar but they separated and some of them relocated to Saida where they bought a great amount of lands and got involved in the political decision of the South, while others spread in Keserwan and Matn area.

The Fakhoury family used to be one of the most important families of the South since 1785. After the turn of the 19th century they began to establish significant positions of power within the Ottoman empire where they were granted the title of بيكBeik. As a long line of land owners and tax collectors, the Fakhouries were able to leverage their finances and capital using their connections to American, British, French, German and Russian consuls over the decade to establish extensive economic and political connections.

Notable members: Nasser Fakhoury - General (Assassinated in South Africa 23-08-2016 Maurice Beik Fakhoury - Political figure Kamal Beik Fakhoury - Political figure Wadih Beik Fakhoury - Businessman Shawki Fakhoury - Former Minister

Frangieh family Notable members: Suleiman Ghnatios Frangieh – Ehden governor Kabalan Suleiman Frangieh – legislator; son of Suleiman Hamid Beik Frangieh – politician; son of Kabalan Samir Frangieh – politician and leftist intellectual; son of Hamid Suleiman Frangieh – President (1970–76); brother of Hamid Tony Frangieh – Cabinet Minister, Civil War militia leader; son of Suleiman Suleiman Frangieh, Jr. – legislator and minister; son of Tony Tony Frangieh, Jr. – legislator; son of Suleiman II Robert Frangieh – Militia leader; son of Suleiman

Gemayel family

The Gemayel family is a Maronite political family in the region of Metn and West Beirut which is headquartered in the town of Bikfaya. The family is mentioned in bureaucratic records as among the inhabitants of Bikfaya as early as the 16th century. Between that time until the 18th century they were the sheikhs of the village. In 1642 Sheikh Abu Aoun was the joint governor of the subdistrict of Bsharri alongside the Druze chief Zayn al-Din of the Sawwaf family. Pierre Gemayel was the founder of the Lebanese Kataeb party (Phalange) as a paramilitary youth organization inspired by Spanish Falange and Italian Fascist parties and currently has 4 seats in parliament.Lee Griffith, The war on terrorism and the terror of God (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1 June 2004), p. 3, Mark Ensalaco, Middle Eastern terrorism: from Black September to September 11 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 30 November 2007), p. 85,

Notable members: Pierre Gemayel – Kataeb Party founder Bachir Gemayel – President-elect, 1982; son of Pierre Nadim Gemayel – Political activist; son of Bachir Amine Gemayel – President, 1982–88; son of Pierre Pierre Amine Gemayel – legislator; son of Amine Sami Gemayel – Political activist; legislator; son of Amine Fouad Abou Nader – politician, grandson of Pierre I Geneviève Gemayel – political figure, pilot and artist; wife of Pierre I Maurice Gemayel – served several times as minister and MP for the Metn; in-law of Pierre I

Hariri family The Hariri family is a Sunni family from the town of Saida (Sidon) in the South of Lebanon.

Notable members:

Nazik Hariri – widow of Rafic Hariri Rafic Hariri – 30th Prime Minister Saad Hariri – 33rd Prime Minister; son of Rafic Hariri Bahaa Hariri – Businessman; son of Rafiq