René Descartes | René Char | René Magritte | François-René de Chateaubriand | René Goscinny | Leon René | René Jacobs | Rene Daalder | Rene Russo | René Lévesque | Rene Requiestas | René Kollo | René Clausen | René Clair | Rene Portland | René Clemencic | Rene Auberjonois | René Higuita | Rene Goulet | René Girard | François-René de La Tour du Pin, Chambly de La Charce | Wajdi Mouawad | Sherie Rene Scott | René Sergent | René Rémond | René Lussier | René Laennec | René II, Duke of Lorraine | Rene d'Harnoncourt | René de La Tour du Pin |
Many literary and public figures of Lebanon and the Levant were educated in its schools, such as the poet, May Ziade, the journalist and owner of An-Nahar newspaper, the father of the late Gibran Tueni and former Lebanese ambassador Ghassan Tueni, the politicians Kamal Jumblatt and Maurice Gemayel, and former Lebanese presidents Suleiman Franjieh, René Mouawad, Elias Sarkis.