List of Famous people born in Aleppo Governorate, Syria
Nazim al-Kudsi
Nazim al-Qudsi, was a Syrian politician who served as President of Syria from December 14, 1961 to March 8, 1963.
Francis Marrash
Francis bin Fathallah bin Nasrallah Marrash, also known as Francis al-Marrash or Francis Marrash al-Halabi, was a Syrian scholar, publicist, writer and poet of the Nahda or the Arab Renaissance, and a physician. Most of his works revolve around science, history and religion, analysed under an epistemological light. He traveled throughout Western Asia and France in his youth, and after some medical training and a year of practice in his native Aleppo, during which he wrote several works, he enrolled in a medical school in Paris; yet, declining health and growing blindness forced him to return to Aleppo, where he produced more literary works until his early death.
Muhammad Ali al-Sabuni
Muhammad 'Ali al-Sabuni was a prominent Syrian Hanafi scholar. He is probably best known for his Qur'anic exegesis entitled Safwat al-Tafasir.
Maryana Marrash
Maryana bint Fathallah bin Nasrallah Marrash, also known as Maryana al-Marrash or Maryana Marrash al-Halabiyah, was a Syrian writer and poet of the Nahda or the Arab Renaissance. She revived the tradition of literary salons in the Arab world and was the first Syrian woman to publish a collection of poetry. She may have been the first woman to write in the Arabic-language daily newspapers.
Muhammad Zia al-Din al-Sabuni
Abdallah Marrash
Abdallah bin Fathallah bin Nasrallah Marrash was a Syrian writer involved in various Arabic-language newspaper ventures in London and Paris.
Abdullah Yurki Hallaq
Pakize Tarzi
Pakize İzzet Tarzi (1910–2004) was a Syrian-Turkish physician. She is renowned for being the first female gynecologist in the Republic of Turkey.