List of Famous people born in Damascus Governorate, Syria

Lubanah Mshaweh is the minister of culture of Syria. She holds a PhD in linguistics from Paris 8 University.

Muhammad Ali Bey al-Abid or, as he spelled his own name in French, Mehmed Ali Abed, was appointed the president of the mandatory Syrian Republic as a nominee of the nationalist Syrian parliament in Damascus after the country received partial recognition of sovereignty from France. France agreed to recognize Syria as a nation under intense nationalist pressure but did not withdraw its troops completely until 1946.

John of Damascus was a Christian monk, priest, and apologist. Born and raised in Damascus c. 675 or 676; the precise date and place of his death is not at his monastery, Mar Saba, near Jerusalem on 4 December 749, as tradition also confirms, with his cell being a venerated and magnificently maintained place of pilgrimage ever since.

Zakaria Tamer, also called Zakariya Tamir, is a Syrian short story writer.

Ahmed Kuftaro or Ahmad Kaftaru was the Grand Mufti of Syria, the highest officially appointed Sunni Muslim representative of the Fatwa-Administration in the Syrian Ministry of Auqaf in Syria. Kaftaro was a Sunni Muslim of the Naqshbandi Sufi order.

Munira al-Qubaysi is the founder of Al-qubaysiat, a female only movement that originated in Syria. She is considered the 24th most influential Muslim in the world, and the most influential Muslim woman, according to the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre in 2011.

Dina Katabi is the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and the director of the MIT Wireless Center.

Mohammed Jihad Ahmed Jibril was the son of Ahmed Jibril, founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (PFLP-GC). He was assassinated in Beirut on 20 May 2002.

Ismāʿīl b. ʿAlī b. Maḥmūd b. Muḥammad b. ʿUmar b. Shāhanshāh b. Ayyūb b. Shādī b. Marwān, better known as Abū al-Fidāʾ, was a Mamluk era Kurdish geographer, historian, Ayyubid prince and local governor of Hama.