List of Famous people born in Damascus Governorate, Syria

Karess Bashar is a Syrian film and TV actress. She has played many roles on Syrian soap operas. Her only feature film is Usama Muhammad's The Box of Life.

Hüseyin Burhanettin Daybelge was a Turkish politician and diplomat, who was a prominent figure among the young intellectuals during the early periods of Republic of Turkey and served as the representative of Muğla province during the 11th term of Turkish National Assembly. He was a regular contributor to Kadro, a left-wing journal dedicated to "discussions on ideology and economic-development strategy." Burhan Asaf Belge is the father of prominent Turkish intellectual Murat Belge and the first husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, who he met in Hungary while serving as Ambassador of Turkey to Budapest. Gabor was 18 years old when they married and they did not have any children together. He was also a brother-in-law of Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu.

Mohammed Rateb Al-Nabulsi is a Syrian writer ,Professor, Muslim scholar, Co-founder & manager. He was a professor at Damascus University. He was living in Syria but after the Syrian Revolution started in 2011 he went to Jordan.

Abbas al-Noury is a prominent Syrian television actor, writer, and director known for his role in the Syrian series Bab al-Hara, and for being the leading Syrian actor of "Al Ijtiah" TV series about the atrocities in Jenin camp in Palestine, this series was the first Arabic TV production to win the Emmy’s new telenovela category for the best international drama series in 2008.

Samer al-Masry, also spelled Samer al-Masri, is a Syrian actor. He is best known for his lead role in the Syrian drama Bab al-Hara. one of the most popular handsome arabian actors in show business standing at a height of 5'10 177 cm weighing 200 Ibs

Yasser al-Azmeh is a Syrian prominent writer and actor of television and theater. He is a member of the highly notable Al-Azmeh Damascene family. Al-Azmeh is known for the popular comedy series Maraya which was filmed from 1982-2013.

Amal Arafa is a Syrian actress, singer, and writer. She is the daughter of the well known Syrian composer Suheil Arafa. Amal studied acting in Damascus and learned from her father how to sing. She was married to the actor Abdulmonem Amairy for 14 years, but got divorced in October 2015. They have two daughters, Salma and Mariam.

Shams al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr ibn Ayyūb al-Zurʿī l-Dimashqī l-Ḥanbalī , commonly known as Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya or Ibn al-Qayyim for short, or reverentially as Imam Ibn al-Qayyim in Sunni tradition, was an important medieval Islamic jurisconsult, theologian, and spiritual writer. Belonging to the Hanbali school of orthodox Sunni jurisprudence, of which he is regarded as "one of the most important thinkers," Ibn al-Qayyim is today best remembered as the foremost disciple and student of the controversial fourteenth-century Sunni theologian Ibn Taymiyyah, with whom he was imprisoned in 1326 for dissenting against established tradition during Ibn Taymiyyah's famous incarceration in the Citadel of Damascus.

Sabah Jazairi is a Syrian actress. She has appeared in numerous television series, including “Al Ababid”, “Aa'id ila Haifa” and “Bab Al Hara”.

Ala-al-Din abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Abi-Hazm al-Qarshi al-Dimashqi, known as Ibn al-Nafis, was an Arab polymath whose areas of work included medicine, surgery, physiology, anatomy, biology, Islamic studies, jurisprudence, and philosophy. He is known for being the first to describe the pulmonary circulation of the blood. The work of Ibn al-Nafis regarding the right sided (pulmonary) circulation pre-dates the later work (1628) of William Harvey's De motu cordis. Both theories attempt to explain circulation. 2nd century Greek physician Galen's theory about the physiology of the circulatory system remained unchallenged until the works of Ibn al-Nafis, for which he has been described as "the father of circulatory physiology".