• Source: List of Syrians

This is a list of Syrian people. Entries on this list are demonstrably notable by having a linked current article or reliable sources as footnotes against the name to verify they are notable and identify themselves as Syrian, naturalized as Syrian, or were registered at birth as Syrian.




Leaders and politicians (bop)






= Ancient

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Elagabalus – Roman emperor
Severus Alexander – Roman emperor, the son of Julia Mamaea
Philip the Arab – Roman emperor
Julia Domna – Roman empress and mother of Geta and Caracalla.
Eutropia – Roman empress, mother of Emperor Maxentius and Empresses Fausta and Flavia, the grandmother of Emperors Constantine II, Constans and Constantius II, and the great-grandmother of Emperor Julian and Constantius Gallus.
Leo III the Syrian – Byzantine emperor and the founder of the Syrian dynasty.
Constantine V – Byzantine emperor, father of Leo IV the Khazar and grandfather of Constantine VI.
Leo V the Armenian – Byzantine emperor of Armenian and Syrian origins.
Cassiodorus – Roman statesman and renowned scholar.
Avidius Cassius – Roman general and usurper.
Leontius (usurper)
Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus – council and military commander, second spouse of Lucilla, and father of Pompeianus.
Peter Barsymes
Marinus (praetorian prefect)
Eutolmius Tatianus
Florentius
Mansur ibn Sarjun – Byzantine fiscal official
Sarjun ibn Mansur – official in the Umayyad Caliphate
Minervina – wife of Constantine the Great, mother of Crispus.
Mamertina – concubine of Emperor Licinius and mother of Licinius II
Sextus Varius Marcellus – was the spouse of Julia Soaemias, he was also praefectus of the military treasury and governor of Numedia.
Firmus – Usurper during the reign of Aurelian




= Modern and contemporary

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Ibrahim Hananu – leader of the revolution (northern area) against French Mandate (1921–1929)
Shukri al-Quwatli – former President
Hashim al-Atassi – former President
Nazim al-Kudsi – former President
Rushdi al-Kikhya – statesman and political leader
Fares al-Khoury – statesman and former prime minister
Hafez al-Assad – former President
Abdul Halim Khaddam – former President and former Vice President
Subhi Barakat – former President
Lu'ay al-Atassi – former President
Nureddin al-Atassi – former President
Haqqi al-Azm – former prime minister
Khalid al-Azm – former prime minister
Maarouf al-Dawalibi – former prime minister
Sultan al-Atrash – General of the Great Syrian Revolution
Yusuf al-Azmah – former Minister of Defense
Rashad Barmada – former Minister of Defense
Bashir Azmeh – former prime minister
Mikhail Ilyan – former Minister of Foreign Affairs
Husni al-Za'im – former president
Amin al-Hafiz – former president
Ahmed Kuftaro – former Grand Mufti of Syria, 1964–2004
Carlos Menem – former President of Argentina
Levon Ter-Petrosyan - first president of Armenia
Mitch Daniels – 49th Governor of Indiana
Victor Atiyeh – 32nd Governor of Oregon
Robert Cahaly – political consultant and founder of the Trafalgar Group
Muhammad Mustafa Mero – former prime minister
Muhammad Naji al-Otari – prime minister
Mahmoud Zuabi – former prime minister
Farouq al-Sharaa – diplomat, former foreign minister from 1984 to 2006, and vice-president since 2006
Tareck El Aissami – Venezuelan Syrian politician serving as Minister of Industries and National Production since 14 June 2018
Khalil Eideh – Australian politician




Scholars and scientists






= Modern and contemporary

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Dennis W. Sciama – English physician, considered one of the fathers of modern cosmology
Frank Harary – mathematician, considered one of the fathers of modern graph theory

Jerrier A. Haddad – co-developer and designer of the IBM 701 series which was IBM’s first commercial scientific computer and its first mass-produced mainframe computer
Hunein Maassab – professor of epidemiology; known for developing the Live attenuated influenza vaccine
Shadia Habbal – astronomer and physicist; played a key role in establishing the NASA Parker Solar Probe
Huda Akil – world renowned neuroscientist; known for discovering the role of endorphins in the human brain
Fawwaz T. Ulaby – professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan; he designed the world's first radar to fly in space
Kefah Mokbel, FRCS – lead breast surgeon at the London Breast Institute of The Princess Grace Hospital; professor of Breast Cancer Surgery (The Brunel Institute of Cancer Genetics and Pharmacogenomics) Brunel University London
Oussama Khatib – roboticist and professor of Computer Science at Stanford University; received the IEEE RAS for Distinguished Service Award (2013)
Jorge Sahade – astronomer, first Latin American President of the International Astronomical Union
Mario Hamuy – Professor of Astronomy at the University of Chile
Dina Katabi – director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Wireless Center
A. R. Frank Wazzan – Professor, and Dean Emeritus, of the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, UCLA
Rolando Chuaqui – mathematician, spearheaded the creation and expansion of mathematics departments across multiple Chilean universities
Charles Issawi – economist and historian of the Middle East at Columbia University and Princeton University
Jorge Bucay – gestalt psychotherapist, psychodramatist, and writer
Martín Abadi – computer scientist; inventor of Baby Modula-3, and co-developer of Burrows–Abadi–Needham logic
Raphael of Brooklyn – first Orthodox bishop to be consecrated in North America
Malatius Jaghnoon – epigrapher and founder of the archaeological society in Homs
Afif Bahnassi – art historian and curator
Constantine Zureiq – historian and activist
Aref Dalila – economist, political activist and former political prisoner
Hanna Abboud – Author, critic, translator, and mythographer




Writers, poets and authors


Hanna Abboud – author, critic, translator, and mythographer
Hanna Diyab
Ziad Abdullah – novelist and screenwriter
Nasib Arida
Mary Ajami
Sadiq Jalal al-Azm – author, philosopher, sociologist and human rights advocate
Ali Ahmad Said Esber – popularly known as Adonis, a Syrian poet, essayist and translator
Aziz Azmeh – author and philosopher
Abdulkarim Baderkhan (born 1986) – poet, translator, critic
Morad Daoud – novelist, sculptor
Hisham al-Ghazzi (born 1923) – lawyer
Abd al-Masih Haddad
Qustaki al-Himsi
Adib Ishaq
Riad Ismat – writer, director
Amal Kassir – spoken word poet
Khaled Khalifa – novelist
Mohammed Maghout – poet and writer
Francis Marrash
Abu Khalil Qabbani – playwright, "father of Syrian theatre"
Nizar Qabbani – poet
Widad Sakakini (1913–1991) – writer and feminist
Fathallah Saqqal – lawyer, writer, government minister
Mona Simpson (born 1957) – Syrian American novelist and essayist
Zakariyya Tamer – writer
Muhammad al-Tunji – linguist, and author; received Indian Prize from UNESCO in 1970
Dima Wannous – author and journalist
Saadallah Wannous – playwright
Khairy Alzahaby – writer, novelist, scenarist, historian, thinker
Riad Sattouf – cartoonist, comic artist, film director
Zachary A. Behlok – Author and Philosopher




Businesspeople


Steve Jobs – co-founder of Apple and Pixar
Joseph Safra – formerly the richest banker in the world
Mansour Ojjeh – billionaire entrepreneur, son of Akram Ojjeh
Adnan Khashoggi - Billionaire businessman and arms dealer; his mother, Samiha, was of Syrian origin
Roger Tamraz – billionaire banker and venture capitalist
Joseph Nakash – American billionaire businessman
Wafic Said – billionaire businessman, he established the Saïd Foundation and the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford
Stanley Chera – billionaire real estate developer
Jose Mugrabi – billionaire art dealer
David Nahmad – billionaire and former art dealer
Ezra Nahmad – billionaire art collector and dealer
Edmond Safra – billionaire banker
Moise Safra – billionaire banker
Ayman Asfari – billionaire businessman; former CEO of Petrofac.

Jeff Sutton – billionaire New York real estate developer and the founder of Wharton Properties
Mustafa Suleyman – CEO of Microsoft AI; co-founder of Deepmind and Inflection AI
Michel Chalhoub – billionaire businessman; founder of the Chalhoub Group
Ghassan Aboud – billionaire entrepreneur
Mohed Altrad – French-Syrian billionaire
Jaquesse Saadé – French billionaire of paternal Syrian ancestry; founder of CMA CGM, the world’s third largest container shipping company.
Ronald Mourad – chairman of The Portland Trust and Bridges Ventures

Elie Horn – Brazilian billionaire and founder of Cyrela Brazil Realty, Brazil's largest homebuilder and real estate company by revenue and market value
Isaac Saba Raffoul – Mexican billionaire businessman
Fuad Char – Colombian businessman, retailer, and politician, his family owns as many as 91 businesses with assets worth $2 billion
Joseph Cayre – American billionaire
Gilbert Bigio – Haiti's only billionaire and founder of GB Group
Joseph Matalon – the richest billionaire in Jamaica, his father immigrated from Damascus.
Ronaldo Mouchawar – entrepreneur, founder of Souq.com
Joseph Sitt – real estate investor, founder of Thor Equities
Feras Antoon – co-owner and CEO of Aylo, the world's largest pornography company
Dov Charney – Canadian entrepreneur and founder of American Apparel in addition to Los Angeles Apparel
Ghaith Pharaon – founder of Attock Group and Attock Cement
Marcus Lemonis — businessman and philanthropist; chairman and CEO of Camping World, and Good Sam Enterprises
Sam Yagan – Internet entrepreneur
Jack Hidary – American technologist
Fouad al-Zayat – billionaire businessman and gambler
Al Waleed bin Talal – Saudi royal and billionaire businessman, whose maternal grandmother, Fayza Al-Jabiri, was from Aleppo
Moutaz Al-Khayyat – Syrian-Qatari businessman, co-founder of Power International Holding and Baladna, along with his brother Ramez Al-Khayyat
Simon Halabi – former billionaire property developer
Mazen Al-Tarazi – Syrian-Canadian businessman
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh – founder of an eponymous organization, Talal is dubbed as the godfather of Arab accounting; his mother was from Damascus
Shafiq Ades – businessman who was the wealthiest Jew in Iraq
Ayah Bdeir – Canadian entrepreneur; founder of LittleBits
Sadad Al Husseini – former Executive Vice President for Exploration and Producing at Saudi Aramco
Reed Jobs – venture capitalist
Assad John Haloute – founder of Chefette, the largest fast food restaurant chain based in Barbados
Ijad Madisch – founder and CEO of ResearchGate
George Haswani – businessman who owns the HESCO natural gas production company
Adnan Kivan – multi-millionaire and owner of Kyiv Post
Omar Hamoui – founder of AdMob
Mohammed Mohiedin Anis




Actors/actresses


Teri Hatcher – actress and singer, she has Syrian ancestry from her mother's side.
Murray Abraham – actor and winner of the Academy Award
Wentworth Miller – actor and screenwriter, he has Syrian ancestry from his mother's side.
Vic Tayback – actor
Elisa Sednaoui – actress, model, and entrepreneur
Yasser Azmeh – comedian and director
Abbas al-Noury – actor
Samer al-Masry – actor
Bassam Kousa – actor
Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour – actor
Muna Wassef – actress
Lilia al-Atrash – actress
Bouthayna Shaya – actress
Marwan Farhat – actor
Raghda Khateb – actress
Ayman Al-Salek – actor
Adel Abo Hassoon – actor
Jumana Murad – actress
Anjy Al-Yousif – actress
Yahya Al-Kafri – actor
Hisham Kafarneh – actor




Archaeologists


Khaled al-Asaad – former director of antiquities in Palmyra, brutally beheaded by Daesh
Raoul Gregory Vitale – born in Latakia




Architects


Nazih Kawakibi – architect, professor of architecture, and historian of Damascus
Khaled Malas – architect and art historian
Moshe Safdie – designer of Marina Bay Sands and Jewel Changi Airport
Apollodorus of Damascus – Roman architect, 2nd century




Artists


Youssef Abdelke – artist
Darin Ahmad – artist, poet, writer
Ali Farzat – cartoonist
Jamal Joratil –painter
Marwan Kassab-Bachi – painter
Louay Kayali – cartoonist
Fateh Moudarres – painter




Athletes


Flamma – gladiator
Kelly Slater – American professional surfer
Jamal Murray – NBA basketball player
Brandon Saad – American professional ice hockey player
Joseph Atiyeh – wrestler and silver medalist at the 1984 Olympic Games
Zid Abou Hamed – athlete
Mustafa Hamsho – boxer
Ahed Joughili – weightlifter
Michael Madanly – basketball player
Naser Al Shami – boxer
Feras Saied – bodybuilder
Yasser Seirawan – chess grandmaster and four-time US-champion
Ghada Shouaa – heptathlete and gold medalist at the 1996 Olympic Games
Yaser Shigan – boxer
Sami Zayn – wrestler




= Footballers

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Omar Al Somah
Firas Al Khatib
Jehad Al Hussain
Mahmoud Al-Mawas
Wael Ayan
Aatef Jenyat
Sanharib Malki
Ilyas Merkes
Louay Chanko
George Mourad
Christer Youssef
Abdul Fattah Al Agha
Basel Abdoulfattakh
Dani Kiki
Gaby Jallo
Imad Chhadeh
Ninos Gouriye
Ibrahim Alma
Zyad Chaabo
Oliver Kass Kawo




Criminals


Monzer al-Kassar – international arms dealer




Film directors


Moustapha Akkad
Omar Amiralay
Talal Derki
Mohammad Malas
Ossama Mohammed
Abdellatif Abdelhamid




Musicians


Bob Marley – born to a family of Syrian Jewish origin
Paula Abdul
Asmahan – original name: Princess Amal Al Atrash, singer, sister of Farid Al Atrash
Farid al-Atrash – composer, singer and oud player
Fahd Ballan – traditional singer
Kinan Azmeh – musician
Sabah Fakhri – traditional singer
Malek Jandali – composer and pianist
Assala Nasri – singer, actress
George Wassouf – singer, actor
Bachar Zarkan – musician, singer, actor
Lena Chamamyan – singer
Rasha Risk – singer
Mayada El Hennawy – singer
XXXTentacion – rapper, singer, songwriter
Nejmi Succari – violinist




Former political prisoners and prisoners of conscience


Ali al-Abdallah – writer and human rights activist
Michel Kilo – writer, political prisoner
Haytham Manna – writer, spent three decades as a human rights activist
Haitham al-Maleh – human rights activist and former judge
Riad al-Turk – prominent Syrian opposition leader, former political prisoner for about 20 years in Syria




Miscellaneous


Michel Aflaq – political theorist
Vatche Arslanian – International Red Cross
Tawfiq Bay – traveler, military leader, and politician
Muzna Dureid – activist
Aref Dalila – economist, Damascus Spring figure
Hala Gorani – reporter
Sireen Hamsho – renewable energy specialist
Abdul-Nabi Isstaif – critic, a scholar of comparative literature and Orientalism
Sami Zayn – professional wrestler
Ahmad Joudeh – ballet dancer
Jack Marshall – poet and author
Osama Al-Samman – civil society activist




See also


List of people by nationality
List of Arab Americans
List of Syrian artists




References

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