List of Famous people born in Syria

Abdullah al-Shami is a Syrian football player who is currently playing for Al-Fahaheel in the Kuwait Premier League.

Sirin Hamsho, also transliterated Serene Hamsho, born in Hama, Syria 1986, is a Syrian engineer and inventor specializing in renewable energy. She failed to receive an international patent for a wind turbine system design after the rejection of its submition in 2019 by the US patent, and was recognized by the BBC's 100 Women and featured in the finale of the programme's international edit-a-thon in 2016. Hamsho is also a TV presenter and media personality. She hosted her own show on Iqraa TV in 2010, and gained a public attention in 2015 with her short film "Immigration". and most recently "The First message".

Naser Khader is a Syrian-Danish politician who is member of the Parliament of Denmark for the Conservative People's Party. He was first elected to Parliament representing the Danish Social Liberal Party in 2001. In 2007 he left this party to found New Alliance, whom he represented from 2007 until 5 January 2009. A leading proponent of peaceful co-existence of democracy and Islam, he established a new movement, Moderate Muslims, when the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy began.

Francis bin Fathallah bin Nasrallah Marrash, also known as Francis al-Marrash or Francis Marrash al-Halabi, was a Syrian scholar, publicist, writer and poet of the Nahda or the Arab Renaissance, and a physician. Most of his works revolve around science, history and religion, analysed under an epistemological light. He traveled throughout Western Asia and France in his youth, and after some medical training and a year of practice in his native Aleppo, during which he wrote several works, he enrolled in a medical school in Paris; yet, declining health and growing blindness forced him to return to Aleppo, where he produced more literary works until his early death.

Aḥmad ibn Abd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl, better known as Muhammad at-Taqi is the ninth Ismāʿīlī Imam. As the Imam, he was the supreme spiritual leader of the Ismāʿīlī community from his appointment until his death. The Nizari and Mustaali trace their Imamate lines from him and his descendants who founded the Fatimid Empire. He was succeeded by his son, Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad / Raḍī ʿAbd Allāh.

Aḥmad al-Wafī alias ʿAbdallāh ibn Maymūn Al-Qaddāḥ is the eighth Isma'ili Imam. He was the son and successor of the seventh Imam, Muhammad ibn Isma'il. He was called al-Wafi "true to his word".

Shakir Muhammad Kamel Al-Faham is a Syrian researcher and writer who served as a government minister in the 1960s and 1970s. He was Minister of Higher Education from 1970 to 1976.