List of Famous people born in Syria

Jehad Al Hussain is a Syrian footballer who plays as a midfielder, which competes in the Saudi Professional League, wearing the number 10 jersey.

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

Rouwaida Attieh is a Syrian vocalist. Rouwaida was the first runner-up on the first season of Super Star, the pan-Arab import of "Pop Idol". Along with Lebanese contestant Melhem Zein, she was a favourite to win the contest, which was won by Jordanian contestant Diana Karazon.

Abū Ḥafs Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn al-Muẓaffar Ibn al-Wardī, known as Ibn al-Wardi, was an Arab historian AH 691 (1291/1292)- AH 749 (1348/1349), the author of Kharīdat al-ʿAjā'ib wa farīdat al-gha'rāib, a geographical treatise with sections on natural history. He also wrote Tarikh Ibn al-Wardi.

Shams ad-Din Turanshah ibn Ayyub al-Malik al-Mu'azzam Shams ad-Dawla Fakhr ad-Din known simply as Turanshah was the Ayyubid emir (prince) of Yemen (1174–1176), Damascus (1176–1179), Baalbek (1178–1179) and finally Alexandria where he died in 1180. He is noted for strengthening the position of his younger brother, Sultan Saladin, in Egypt and playing the leading role in the Ayyubid conquests of both Nubia and Yemen.

Souhel Najjar is a Syrian-American neurologist whose story with Susannah Cahalan turned into an American drama film. He was the first physician in New York University history to identify the mechanism of interaction between the immune system and the central nervous system. He is considered an expert in the field of encephalopathy, specifically the treatment of encephalitis.

Fares Al-Helou, also spelled Fares Helou, is a Syrian actor. Since his graduation from the Syrian Higher Institute for Dramatic Arts in 1984, he has appeared in numerous plays, TV and cinema productions, both in Syria and in France.

Krikor Bedros XX Gabroyan, I.P.C.B. is the Catholicos-Patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenian Catholic Church after his election on 24 July 2015 and the necessary concession of the ecclesiastical full communion by Pope Francis one day later. He was officially enthroned on 9 August 2015.

Naji Jaber, was a Syrian actor who was foremost identified with the character Abu Antar (أبوعنتر).

Ali Mamlouk is a special security adviser to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and is one of his trusted men. Mamlouk is also head of the National Security Bureau of the Ba'ath Party.