Syria

This page lists 1,381 biographies of syrias, covering lives from 1750 BC to 2012. Featuring Bashar al-Assad, Harut Sassounian and Ignatius IV of Antioch. Each profile gives life dates, nationality, education, positions held and a sourced, attributed account of the person's life.

People of this nationality

Ghamar Mahmoud

b. 1980

novelist

Amira Abul Husn

b. 1959

poet

Faris al-Khoury

1877 – 1962

diplomat

Abu Firas al-Suri

1950 – 2016

military personnel

Hatem Ghaeb

b. 1971

association football player

Saadallah Wannous

1941 – 1997

journalist

Samar Al Dayyoub

b. 1970

writer

Husayn Ali Jum'ah

b. 1949

writer

Moses Bar-Kepha

813 – 903

theologian

Nadine Kaadan

b. 1985

illustrator

Salam Safaf

b. 1979

politician

Shibli al-Aysami

1925 – 2011

politician

Mayada El Hennawy

b. 1959

singer

Abdul Fattah Al

b. 1986

association football player

Ahmad Kalasi

b. 1990

association football player

Basil Al-Khatib

b. 1962

film director

Adunis

b. 1930

poet

Mohamad Al Hasan

b. 1988

association football player

Hareth Al Naif

b. 1993

association football player

Hassan Hamada

b. 1968

military personnel

Khaled Khoja

b. 1965

physician

Kinan Azmeh

b. 1976

composer

Amer Maaraoui

b. 1959

athletics competitor

Mohamad Afa Al Rifai

b. 1988

association football player

Zouheir Al-Balah

b. 1967

amateur wrestler

Mohamad Mahfoud

b. 1957

sport shooter

Grégoire Ghabroyan

1934 – 2021

Catholic priest

Muhammad Ali al-Halabi

1937 – 2016

diplomat

Samer al-Masry

b. 1969

actor

Mohammad Nasser Afash

b. 1966

association football player

Muhammad al-Yaqoubi

b. 1963

Islamic jurist

Haitham Hakki

b. 1948

film director

Muḥammad Rawwās Qalʻahʹjī

1934 – 2014

writer

Mahmoud Ahmad Marei

b. 1957

politician

Mohammed al-Jililati

b. 1945

politician

Seid Gebarî

1956 – 2020

singer

Ghiath Matar

1986 – 2011

tailor

Flaviano Al-Kabalan

b. 1979

Catholic priest

Ib Benoh

b. 1947

visual artist

Ali Saeed Badwan

1959 – 2025

writer

Hadi Al Abdullah

b. 1987

journalist

Hassan Khalil

politician

Muhammad Umran

1922 – 1972

politician

Antoinette Najib

1930 – 2022

actor

Fares Helou

b. 1961

film actor

Abdulbaset Sieda

b. 1956

politician

Aktham Naisse

1951 – 2022

human rights defender

Abdel Hamid al-Sarraj

1925 – 2013

politician

Jamal al-Atassi

1922 – 2000

journalist

Firas Al Ali

b. 1985

association football player

Raghda

b. 1957

actor

Izzat Traboulsi

1913 – 2000

economist

Mohammad Abadi

b. 1990

association football player

Ayman Asfari

b. 1958

entrepreneur

Fadwa Al-Bouza

b. 1990

athletics competitor

Mohammad Ghossoun

b. 1989

boxer

Suheil al-Hassan

b. 1970

army officer

Ninos Aho

1945 – 2013

poet

Abdul Jabbar al-Oqaidi

b. 1901

military personnel

Abdelrazaq Al Hussain

b. 1986

association football player

Wassim Al-Qattan

b. 1976

businessperson

Hayfa Baytar

b. 1960

novelist

Hanan Qassab Hassan

b. 1952

writer

Ḥāmid ibn ʻAlī ʻImādī

1692 – 1758

writer

Bassma Kodmani

1958 – 2023

political scientist

Amre Hamcho

b. 1995

equestrian

Richard Medhurst

b. 1992

writer

Taghi-o-din Rased

b. 1521

mathematician

Mazen Dukhan

b. 1969

civil servant

Jacques Georges Habib Hafouri

1916 – 2011

Catholic priest

Mohammad Yousaf Abu al-Farah Tartusi

1016 – 1055

Mansur al-Atrash

1925 – 2006

politician

Hamza al-Mustafa

b. 1985

Muhammad Mustafa Mero

1941 – 2020

politician

Bashar al-Zoubi

military officer

Maram Susli

b. 1987

propagandist

Hozan Osman

b. 2005

association football player

Senharib Malki

b. 1984

association football player

Tal al-Mallohi

b. 1991

blogger

Asaad al-Shaibani

b. 1987

politician

Mouaffaq Nyrabia

b. 1949

engineer

Antoine Audo

b. 1946

Catholic priest

Fateh Moudarres

1922 – 1999

painter

Ali al-Abdallah

b. 1950

human rights defender

Feras Esmaeel

1983 – 2026

association football player

Abdullah Mahmoud al-Khalidi

military officer

Mohammad Farouk Tayfour

b. 2000

politician

Ammar Rihawi

b. 1975

association football player

Radwan Karout

b. 1950

amateur wrestler

Thuraia Sobh

b. 1986

weightlifter

Riyāḍ Najīb Al-Rayyis

1937 – 2020

journalist

Hala Mohammad al-Nasser

b. 1964

civil engineer

Abdul Karim Joumaa

b. 1954

athlete

Omar al-Muqdad

b. 1972

journalist

Moaz Khatib

b. 1960

engineer

Kricor-Okosdinos (Rizkallah) Coussа

b. 1953

Catholic priest

Abdulrahman Akkad

b. 1998

blogger

Sabri al-Asali

1903 – 1976

politician

Jumma Abboud

b. 1999

association football player

Farid al-Atrash

1917 – 1974

singer-songwriter