Anthony Atala – Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine Charbel Farhat – Director, Army High Performance Computing Research Center, Stanford University, and Member of National Academy of Engineering Charles Elachi – Director of NASA Jet Propulsion Labs Christa McAuliffe – secondary school teacher and first American civilian selected to be an astronaut; perished in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster; great niece of historian Philip Khuri Hitti[1] Elias Corey – 1990 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry[29] Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah – Lebanese-American technology innovator[30][31] Michael Debakey – doctor and heart surgeon, medical innovator