People from Damascus

Christian monk, priest, hymnographer and apologist (675/6-749)

Arab polymath and physician (1213–1288)

2nd century Syrian Roman architect and engineer

free culture and democracy activist, Syrian political prisoner

Syrian philosopher, sociologist and Arab nationalist (1910–1989)

Damascius (; ; 462 – after 538), known as "the last of the Athenian Neoplatonists", was the last scholarch of the neoplatonic Athenian school. He was one of the neoplatonic philosophers who left Athens after laws confirmed by emperor Justinian I forced the closure of the Athenian school in c. 529 AD. After he left Athens, he may have sought refuge in the court of the Persian King Chrosroes, before being allowed back into the Byzantine Empire. His surviving works consist of three commentaries on the works of Plato, and a metaphysical text entitled Difficulties and Solutions of First Princ

Patriarch of Jerusalem from 634 to 638

Princess Consort (1919-1926), later Queen Consort of King Amanullah Khan of Afghanistan (1926-1929)

1st President of Syrian Republic (1891–1967)

American Syrian-born psychiatrist

Syrian politician leader

one of the Seventy Disciples of Jesus

Ottoman Syrian polymath (1526-1585)

13th century Muslim scholar and author

Christian bishop and saint

Arab historian (1073-1160)

Arab physician and historian

Emir of Damascus

Ottoman noble (1930–2021)

Minister of Defense (1947-2012)

Bishop and hymnographer

King of Aram Damascus

damascene historian

Syrian diplomat

Arab mathematician

Prime Minister of Turkey (1903–1981)

Syrian national hero (1884–1920)

Muslim Imam

Syrian historian (1876–1953)

theologian

wife of Saladin

Syrian lifeguard and human rights activist (born 1995)

leader of the Great Syrian Revolt against the French Mandate of Syria

Medieval Arab astronomer

Syrian-Lebanese Dancer

Syrian philosopher (1934-2016)

Syrian writer and political dissident

Umayyad prince, general and governor of Egypt (c.677-c.750)

fashion model

Syrian-born Romanian intensive care physician

Syrian Islamic Scholar (1256–1341 CE)

Syrian-American neuroscientist (born 1945)

Syrian politician (1883–1951)

9th-century Syrian Christian physician

Syrian politician (1893-1967)

Syrian comedian and director

Greek Religious Leader (1869–1958)

Syrian filmmaker and playwright

Syrian human rights activist

Iranian writer and diplomat (1924-2006)

Melkite Patriarch of Antioch

Syrian actress (1969–2018)

Israeli politician, diplomat and minister (1902–1978)

politician (1880–1960)

Islamic scholar

Hanbali Islamic Muhaddith scholar from the 14 CE Levant, student of Ibn Taymiyyah, Al-Mizzi, Al-Dhahabi and Ibn al-Qayyim

Muslim historian

Syrian doctor and politician (1910-1992)

7th-century Umayyad commander and qadi of Damascus

Algerian Islamic scholar