List of Famous people born in Tartus Governorate, Syria

Ghassan Massoud is a Syrian actor and filmmaker. He is known in the West for playing the role of Muslim ruler Saladin in Ridley Scott's 2005 film Kingdom of Heaven.

Abdul Halim Khaddam was a Syrian politician who was Vice President of Syria and "High Commissioner" to Lebanon from 1984 to 2005. He was long known as a loyalist of Hafez Assad, and held the strongest Sunni position within the Syrian government until he resigned from his position and left the country in 2005 in protest against certain policies of Hafez's son and successor, Bashar Assad.

Assef Shawkat was the deputy Minister of Defense of Syria from September 2011 until his death in July 2012.

Muhammad Suleiman was a Syrian Army General and Special Presidential Advisor for Arms Procurement and Strategic Weapons to Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad.

Ali Habib Mahmud was a Syrian military officer who served as Syria's minister of defense from June 2009 to August 2011. As one of Syria's most celebrated generals, he was part of President Bashar al-Assad's inner circle.

Wafa Sultan is a Syrian-American medical doctor, writer, and critic of Islam.