List of Famous people born in Syria

Georges Kwaïter was an Archeparch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Sidon.

Georges Kahhalé Zouhaïraty, BA is a prelate of the Melkite Catholic Church and served as Apostolic Exarch for the Melkite Greek Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Venezuela, from 1995 until his retirement c. 2019.

Omar Hasanin is a Syrian road bicycle racer. He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Men's road race, but failed to finish.

Sami Droubi was a Syrian politician, career diplomat, writer, translator, university professor and philosopher. He worked as a Syrian diplomat throughout the 1960s, serving, succession, as the Syrian ambassador to Brazil, Morocco, Yugoslavia, and Egypt and the Arab League, Spain and the Holy See. He briefly served as Education Minister in 1963. He also translated numerous literary works into Arabic.

Fahd Jassem al-Freij was the former Minister of Defense of Syria, took office on 18 July 2012 and left office on 1 January 2018.

Muhammed Ghassan Aboud is a Dubai based Syrian entrepreneur, philanthropist and a founding member of the Syrian Business Council. He is mainly known as the founder of Ghassan Aboud Group, the UAE headquartered conglomerate. In 2018, Ghassan Aboud was named in the list of Top 50 Most Influential Expats in the UAE by Forbes Middle East. in 2019, purchased the Byron @ Byron Resort from Gerry Harvey for approximately $42M AUD.