Libyan Americans () are

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citizens of

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n descent or Libyan citizens who also have United States (US) citizenship. Most Libyan Americans speak

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and English. According to the 2020 Census there were 13,681 Americans who claimed Libyan ancestry. Some Libyan American associations are the Libyan American Organization, Libyan American Friendship Association (LAFA), Libyan American Association in Southern California and Libyan American Association of Georgia. The Libyan American Organization have as goal the Libya defense, promote political awareness among its members and integrate to all community in the association. In addition, the organization wants to improve education, health care and infrastructure of Libya. The association hopes to have the community support in order to "rebuilding our beloved country". Libyan American Friendship Association (LAFA) have as goal promote friendship between the Libyan and U.S., making dialogue the two peoples by holding international meetings and symposia, for the creation of programs and projects that help both peoples to establish ties. The organization celebrates coordinate visits between institutions of "economic, social, scientific and national / civil joint".

Notable people

* Saddeka Arebi (d. 2007), social anthropologist, author *

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(b. 1954), film director, producer, screenwriter * Sadeg Faris, engineer, entrepreneur * Fadwa El Gallal, journalist *

Mohamed Hrezi Mohamed Fuad "Mo" Hrezi (born 28 October 1991) is a Libyan-American marathon runner. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the marathon and finished in 77th place with a time of 2:21:17. He was the flag bearer for Libya at the Parade of N ...

(b. 1991), marathon runner *

Khaled Mattawa Khaled Mattawa (; born 1964) is a Libyan poet, and a renowned Arab-American writer, he is also a leading literary translator, focusing on translating Arabic poetry into English. He works as an Assistant professor of creative writing at the Unive ...

(b. 1964), poet * Esam Omeish (b. 1967), surgeon * Noor Tagouri (b. 1993), journalist, activist, motivational speaker *

Khalifa Haftar Khalifa Haftar (; born 7 November 1943) is a Libyan-American politician, military officer, and the commander of the Tobruk-based Libyan National Army (LNA). In 2015, he was appointed commander of the armed forces loyal to the 2014 Libyan parliam ...

(b. 1943), general, commander of the Libyan National Army

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The American-Libyan Council

Libyan American Organization
{{Demographics of the United States North African diaspora in the United States * American

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