- Daughter of Najeeb Halaby, former president of Pan American World Airways; of Syrian-American descent.
- Given the name Noor (meaning "light" in Arabic) by the King upon their marriage.
- Graduate of Princeton University with a degree in architecture.
- Has two sons: Prince Hamzah (b. 29 March 1980), and Prince Hashim (b. 10 June 1981), and two daughters: Princess Iman (b. 24 April 1983), and Princess Raiyah (b. 9 February 1986).
- Speaks Arabic, English and French.
- Her cousin is actress Shereen Seif El-Nasr.
- One of the first women to graduate from Princeton University in New Jersey when it had gone co-ed, has numerous honorary doctorates from different colleges and universities for her years of charity and humanitarian work on behalf of many causes. Upon her marriage to King Hussein in 1978, he paid a 3 million dollar dowry to Lisa's father.
- Younger brother, Christian Halaby, is a composer and guitarist, and younger sister, Alexa Halaby, was a University of Pennsylvania squash champion who was a bridesmaid at the 1986 wedding of Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
- Author: Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life.
- Currently residing in London, England and Washington D.C. -her birthplace and Amman, Jordan. (June 2006)
- Through her father's maternal family she is a descendant of Pocahontas and her husband John Rolfe.
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