Syria
People of this nationality
Samir Altaqi
b. 1951
academic
Adnan Sabouni
1971 – 2015
association football player
Ahmad Melli
1949 – 2026
actor
Azad Al-Barazi
b. 1988
swimmer
Muzoon Almellehan
b. 1999
human rights defender
Etienne Soukkarie
1868 – 1921
patriarchal vicar
Jamal Suliman
b. 1959
film director
Kenan Yaghi
b. 1976
minister
Mahmoud Maowas
b. 1992
association football player
Maria Saadeh
b. 1974
politician
Georges Kahhalé Zouhaïraty
b. 1938
titular bishop
Marwan Madarati
b. 1959
association football player
Hadiya Khalaf Abbas
1958 – 2021
politician
Ahmed Suidani
1932 – 1994
military personnel
Rustum Ghazaleh
1953 – 2015
military personnel
Mary Tucker Thorp
1899 – 1974
teacher
Husni al-Barazi
1895 – 1975
politician
Aḥmad Kaftārū
1915 – 2004
theologian
Khaled Kassab
b. 1992
association football player
Ibrahim Alma
b. 1991
association football player
Muhammad Jihad al-Laham
b. 1954
lawyer
Hind Nawfal
1860 – 1920
journalist
Ansud
Hala Al-Abdallah Yacoub
b. 1956
film director
Ahmad Al-Osta
b. 1968
amateur wrestler
Thuraya Al-Hafez
1912 – 2000
politician
Yasser al-Azma
b. 1942
screenwriter
Mohammed Estanbeli
b. 1982
association football player
Michel Aflaq
1910 – 1989
politician
Mohamad Bash
b. 1982
singer
Ziad al-Hariri
1930 – 2015
politician
Rashad Barmada
1913 – 1988
politician
Hassan al-Ghabbash
b. 1971
physician
بسام كوسا
b. 1954
actor
Nabil Nahri
b. 1958
athlete
Akram al-Hawrani
1912 – 1996
politician
Zakria Alhusain
b. 1991
basketball player
Pope Damian of Alexandria
569 – 605
Eastern Orthodox priest
Khaled Al Zaher
b. 1972
association football player
Bader Jamous
b. 1968
politician
Rafiq Subaie
1930 – 2017
actor
Muhammad Samer al-Khalil
b. 1977
civil servant
Ziad Eddine Ayyoubi
1946 – 2023
politician
Ali Habib Mahmud
1939 – 2020
military personnel
Basile Khoury
1900 – 1985
archbishop
Jamil al-Elshi
1883 – 1951
politician
Jacob of Edessa
633 – 708
cleric
Yaser Tabbara
politician
Abd al-Karim al-Jundi
1932 – 1969
politician
Ghazal Ghazal
b. 1962
Jean Teyrouz
b. 1941
Catholic priest
Anas Balhous
b. 1986
association football player
Ahmad Y. al-Hassan
1925 – 2012
historian
Abdullah Al Shami
b. 1994
association football player
Mano Khalil
b. 1970
film director
Nabil Kochaji
b. 1975
medical researcher
Abu Humam al-Shami
b. 1977
military leader
Orwa Nyrabia
b. 1977
film director
Marie Seurat
b. 1949
writer
Ghada El-Shamaa
b. 1961
actor
Ali Hamdan
b. 1995
actor
Abdullah al-Ahmar
b. 1936
politician
Laith Al-Balous
b. 1996
Motaz Salhani
b. 1986
association football player
Abdo Husameddin
b. 1954
politician
Ronaldo Mouchawar
b. 1966
businessperson
Nassif Zeytoun
b. 1988
singer
Mohammad al-Atrash
b. 1934
economist
Rafik Schami
b. 1946
writer
Rāmī al-ʻāshiq
writer
George Wassouf
b. 1961
singer
Dima Moussa
b. 1978
politician
Omar Souleyman
b. 1966
singer
Yara Bader
b. 1901
human rights defender
Man Asaad
b. 1993
weightlifter
Nicolas Antiba
b. 1945
archbishop
Krikor Ayvazian
1912 – 1997
Catholic priest
Murhaf Abu Qasra
b. 1984
politician
Jihad Makdissi
b. 1974
diplomat
Talal al-Barazi
b. 1963
businessperson
Théophile Georges Kassab
1945 – 2013
Catholic priest
Najat Abdul Samad
b. 1967
writer
Rami Abdurrahman
b. 1971
activist
Zaid Jabri
b. 1975
contemporary artist
Sepuh Sargsyan
b. 1946
clergyman
Nasser al-Shami
b. 1982
boxer
Mohammed Abdul Sattar
1958 – 2026
politician
Lina Chawaf
journalist
Muhammad Surur
1938 – 2016
writer
Addu-duri
b. 1750 BC
Yasser Shahen
b. 1989
association football player
Hisham Al-Masri
b. 1973
swimmer
Nerses Zabarian or Zabbara
b. 1969
Catholic priest
Bashar Jaafari
b. 1956
diplomat
Hamzeh Al Aitoni
b. 1986
association football player
Yahya Mahayni
actor
Rami Elias
b. 1953
canon
Tamer Haj Mohamad
b. 1988
association football player
Wael Sharaf
b. 1982
television actor
Safwan al-Qudsi
1940 – 2022
politician