List of Famous people born in Syria

Ignatius Antony II Hayyek was the Patriarch of Antioch and all the East of the Syrians of the Syriac Catholic Church from 1968 to 1998.

Firas al-Sawwah is a Syrian writer

Jacques Georges Habib Hafouri was a Syrian Bishop of the Syriac Catholic Church. He was the oldest Syrian Catholic bishop.

Ahmed Al-Qadri was a Syrian agricultural engineer and politician. He held the position of Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform from February 2013 until August 2020 within the Council of Ministers, or cabinet, of Prime Ministers Wael Nader al-Halqi and Imad Khamis.

Salah al-Din al-Bitar was a Syrian politician who co-founded the Arab Ba'ath Party with Michel Aflaq in the early 1940s. As students in Paris in the early 1930s, the two formulated a doctrine that combined aspects of nationalism and socialism. Bitar later served as prime minister in several early Ba'athist governments in Syria but became alienated from the party as it grew more radical. In 1966 he fled the country, lived mostly in Europe and remained politically active until he was assassinated in 1980.

Paul Coussa was a Syrian born Iraqi prelate of the Armenian Catholic Church.

Makda Guroji Murah was a Syrian actress. In 1994, Murah joined the Artists Syndicate and began acting in Aleppo theaters, including the National Theater, the Hour and Funny Theater, and the Aleppo Workers' Union.