Syria

Zyad Chaabo

b. 1979

association football player

Faisal Miqdad

b. 1954

politician

Maha Al-Saleh

1945 – 2008

actor

Ali Ghalioum

b. 1987

association football player

Hamza Ali Al-Khateeb

1997 – 2011

student

Iman Al-Ghouri

1968 – 2025

actor

Wahid al-Balous

1965 – 2015

Sultan al-Atrash

1891 – 1982

politician

Yahya Hawwa

b. 1976

artist

Ignatius Peter VIII Abdalahad

1930 – 2018

Catholic priest

Salwa Al Neimi

b. 1950

writer

Yasser Sibai

b. 1972

association football player

Adel Karasholi

b. 1936

translator

Wafa Kaftaru

b. 1961

Khalil Sweileh

b. 1959

journalist

Marwan Hadid

1934 – 1976

Ahmed Jibril

1938 – 2021

politician

Mohammad Abdul Rahman

b. 1985

military officer

Fathallah Saqqal

1898 – 1970

lawyer

Adnan Alkateb

b. 1958

journalist

Wafiq Nasser

intelligence agent

Khayr al-Din al-Zirikli

1893 – 1976

journalist

Nawaf Ghazaleh

1927 – 2005

poet

Fawwaz Haddad

b. 1947

writer

Seba Alraai

b. 1982

sport cyclist

Ghiath Jeraatli

b. 1950

architect

Elia Nabil Shana

b. 1958

association football player

Omar Hemidi

b. 1986

association football player

Mohammed Saeed Bekheitan

1945 – 2022

politician

Osama Al-Samman

1986 – 2021

activist

Athanasius V Matar

Catholic priest

Bassam Tohme

b. 1969

petroleum engineer

Sami Khiyami

b. 1948

diplomat

Demir Yanev

b. 1972

film director

Rabea Jumaa

b. 1992

association football player

Sulaf Fawakherji

b. 1977

actor

Sulafa Memar

b. 1976

actor

Hassan Ibrahim Samoun

b. 1956

writer

Aziz al-Azmeh

b. 1947

historian

Abdulrazzak Al-Mohammad

b. 1995

association football player

Omar al-Akel

b. 1980

association football player

Abdul Halim Khaddam

1932 – 2020

politician

Oussama Khatib

b. 1950

computer scientist

Muhsina al-Mahithawi

economist

Mazlum Abdi

b. 1967

military leader

René R. Khawam

1917 – 2004

linguist

Demetrius I Qadi

1861 – 1925

Catholic priest

Saddam al-Jamal

b. 1978

Fahd Saleh

b. 1985

association football player

Mahmoud Amnah

b. 1983

association football player

Aref Al Agha

b. 1976

association football player

Munīr ʿAjlānī

1912 – 2004

politician

Mikhayl Assaf

1887 – 1970

Catholic priest

Kefah Ali Deeb

b. 1982

interpreter

Arkan Mubayed

b. 1983

association football player

Hind Kabawat

b. 1974

peacebuilder

Bavê Teyar

1961 – 2025

actor

Abd al-Karim al-Nahlawi

b. 1926

politician

Musaab al-Ali

b. 1985

physician

Mohammed Khair Abou Hassoun

b. 1960

voice actor

Said Achtar

b. 1957

judoka

Hatem Ali

1962 – 2020

film director

Yassin Samia

b. 1998

association football player

Ata al-Ayyubi

1877 – 1951

diplomat

Abdul Qader Barmada

1911 – 2000

politician

Mustafa al-Mousa

pharmacist

Mohja Kahf

b. 1967

poet

Rouzaina Lazkani

b. 1990

television actor

Mahmoud Karkar

b. 1974

association football player

Madhhar al-Wais

b. 1980

qadi

Majd Eddin Ghazal

b. 1987

athletics competitor

Shakir al-Fahham

1921 – 2008

politician

Nasouh Al Nakdali

b. 1993

association football player

Oula A. Alrifai

b. 1986

activist

Joseph (Al-Zehlaoui)

b. 1950

metropolitan

Marwan Sayedeh

b. 1983

association football player

Imad Moustapha

b. 1962

diplomat

Ismail Benkadour (Hoha)

1911 – 1982

Catholic priest

Hilal al-Assad

1967 – 2014

Issam Bagdi

b. 1955

politician

Haydar al-Kuzbari

1920 – 1996

military personnel