List of Famous people born in Damascus Governorate, Syria

Mamoon al-Farkh was a Syrian television, theatre and voice actor who worked on several Dubbing animation TV series and Radio voice-over and Radio drama. He died from a heart attack on 21 May 2020.

Bassam Tibi, is a German political scientist and Professor of International Relations. He was born in 1944 in Damascus, Syria to an aristocratic family, and moved to Germany in 1962 where he later became a citizen in 1976. He is known for his analysis of international relations and the introduction of Islam to the study of international conflict and of civilization. Tibi is known for introducing the controversial concept of European Leitkultur as well as the concept of Euroislam to discussions about integration of Muslim immigrants to countries in Europe. He is also the founder of Islamology as a social-scientific study of Islam and conflict in post-bipolar politics. Tibi has done research in Asian and African countries. He publishes in English, German and Arabic.

Badia Masabni, was an entertainer, singer, Night club owner, actress, and businesswoman born to a Lebanese father and a Syrian mother. She was best known for opening a series of influential clubs in Cairo from the 1920s onward.

Bashar Jaafari, also Ja'afari, is the former Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.

Yusuf al-Azma was the Syrian minister of war in the governments of prime ministers Rida al-Rikabi and Hashim al-Atassi, and the Arab Army's chief of general staff under King Faisal. He served as minister of war from January 1920 until his death while commanding Syrian forces against a French invasion during the Battle of Maysalun.

Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik was an Umayyad prince and one of the most prominent Arab generals of the early decades of the 8th century, leading several campaigns against the Byzantine Empire and the Khazar Khaganate. He achieved great fame especially for leading the second and last Arab siege of the Byzantine capital Constantinople.

Jay Abdo is a Syrian actor. He has been acting since 1988, and most recently starred in Queen of the Desert and A Hologram for the King.

Imad Mohammad Deeb Khamis is a Syrian politician who was Prime Minister of Syria from 2016 to 2020 under President Bashar al-Assad. Previously, he was Minister of Electricity from 2011 to 2016.

Shuaib Al Arnaout (2016-1928) was a well known Albanian scholar of Hadith in the Islamic World. He was famous for his works on Hadith Methodology, Manuscript Investigation and Research and Hadith Criticism.

Lilia al-Atrash is Syrian television actress. She started her career with the famous actor and writer Yasser al-Azma in the sitcom Maraya.