List of Famous people born in Latakia Governorate, Syria

Sulaf Fawakherji

First Name Sulaf
Born on July 27, 1977 (age 47)

Sulaf Fawakherji is a Syrian film, TV actress and director. She has played many roles on Syrian soap operas. Fawakherji studied art and sculpture at Adham Ismail Fine Arts Institute before starring on stage in plays including Al-Sawt and Hekayat al-Shetaa. She was one of the torchbearer during the leg of the 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay.

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Bassem Yakhour

First Name Bassem
Born on August 16, 1971 (age 53)

Bassem Yakhour is a Syrian actor, writer and director.

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Zeina Yazigi

First Name Zeina
Born on April 2, 1970 (age 54)

Zeina Yazigi is a Syrian journalist, news agency reporter and television news anchor.

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Suheil al-Hassan

First Name Suheil
Born on June 10, 1970 (age 54)

Suheil Salman al-Hassan, nicknamed The Tiger, is a Brigadier General in the Syrian Army, currently serving as commander of its elite Tiger Forces. He graduated from the Syrian Arab Air Force academy in 1991, and served in many units of the Syrian Arab Air Forces and Air Defence Command, completing several training courses. After serving in the Syrian Arab Air Force and Syrian Arab Air Defence units, he joined the Air Force Intelligence service, where he was responsible for the training of the elements of the Special Operations Section. During the Syrian Civil War, Suheil al-Hassan has served and commanded his troops during several major engagements, including Operation Canopus Star and the battle for the Shaer gas field. He is part of the new generation of field Syrian army commanders who emerged during the civil war. French newspaper Le Monde has claimed he could be a rival to Assad as leader of Syria.

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Michel Kilo

First Name Michel
Last Name Kilo
Born on January 7, 1940
Died on April 19, 2021 (aged 81)

Michel Kilo is a Syrian Christian writer and human rights activist, who has been called "one of Syria's leading opposition thinkers."

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Adunis

Born on January 1, 1930 (age 94)

Ali Ahmad Said Esber, also known by the pen name Adonis or Adunis, is a Syrian poet, essayist and translator. He led a modernist revolution in the second half of the 20th century, "exerting a seismic influence" on Arabic poetry comparable to T.S. Eliot's in the anglophone world.

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Mardik Mardikian

First Name Mardik
Born on March 14, 1992 (age 32)

Mardig Kevork Mardigian is a Syrian professional footballer who plays as a centre forward for Syrian club Hutteen.

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Ali Abdullah Ayyoub

First Name Ali
Last Name Ayyoub
Born on April 28, 1952 (age 72)

General Ali Abdullah Ayyoub is a Syrian politician, senior Syrian Arab Army officer and current Minister of Defense. He was appointed by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on 1 January 2018.

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Samar Yazbek

First Name Samar
Born on August 18, 1970 (age 54)

Samar Yazbek is a Syrian writer and journalist. She was born in Jableh, Syria, near Latakia, in 1970, and studied Arabic literature at Latakia university. She has written in a wide variety of genres - novels, short stories, film scripts, television dramas, film and TV criticism, literary narratives.

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John X of Antioch

هاني يازجي
First Name John
Last Name Antioch
Born on January 1, 1955 (age 69)

Patriarch John X is primate of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All The East.

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