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Michel Aoun

Military · Politician · Sanction-linked entity

Michel Aoun is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Michel Aoun · Michel Aun · Mishel Avn · Mişel Aun · Mişel Avn · 16 more...				[sources]
Other name	Général Aoun · Michael Aoun · Michel Aun · Michel Naim Aoun · Michel Naim Avn · 26 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	Aoun · アウン派 · 米歇爾·奧恩				[sources]
Birth date	1933-09-30 · 1935-02-18				[sources]
Place of birth	Haret Hreik				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Lebanon				[sources]
Country	Lebanon				[sources]
Citizenship	Lebanon				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Michel				[sources]
Last name	Aoun				[sources]
Website	twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q363392				[sources]
Position	Commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces (1984-1989) · Member of the Parliament of Lebanon (2005-2016) · Parliament (member, 2009-2017) · President of Lebanon (1988-1990) · President of Lebanon (2016-2022) · 1 more...				[sources]
Religion	Maronite Church				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-11-03	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

13th President of Lebanon from 2016 to 2022

— Wikidata non-official source, 2024-10-06

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Claudine Aoun Roukoz Close Associate	child	-	-
Nadia El-Chami Aoun Close Associate	spouse	1968	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the Parliament of Lebanon	2005-04-20	2016-10-31

Relatives
Person	Relationship	Start date	End date
Chamel Roukoz Politician	father-in-law · relative	-	-

Data sources

Every Politician57,893

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons275,230

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories358,709

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions550,091

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata333,115

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Graph-based entity tagging80,934

Automatically generated graph-based topic annotations

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-29b613b8-bc6e-41d3-8e64-71209d3f1a3b · unprot-5e62f983a59ff38fd5b5904e5eabdb133c3022d5

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