People from Homs

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (born Sextus Varius Avitus Bassianus, 204 – 13 March 222), better known by his posthumous nicknames Elagabalus ( ) and Heliogabalus ( ), was Roman emperor from 218 to 222, while he was still a teenager. His short reign was notorious for religious controversy and alleged sexual debauchery. A close relative to the Severan dynasty, he came from a prominent Syrian Arab family in Emesa (Homs), Syria, where he served as the head priest of the sun god Elagabal from a young age. After the death of his cousin, the emperor Caracalla, Elagabalus was raised to the Principate at 1

bishop of Rome from c. 157 to 168

Roman Emperor (208-235)

Roman emperor from 209 to 211

ancient Roman empress

Aemilius Papinianus (; ; 142 CE–212 CE), simply rendered as Papinian () in English, was a celebrated Roman jurist, magister libellorum, attorney general (advocatus fisci) and, after the death of Gaius Fulvius Plautianus in 205 CE, praetorian prefect.

3rd/4th century Greco-Roman writer

Greek hymnographer

grandmother of Roman emperors Elagabalus and Severus Alexander

4th President of the Syrian Arab Republic (1929–1992)

Syrian/Egyptian Neoplatonist philosopher (c.213–273)

Syrian statesman, thrice president (1875–1960)

2nd President of the Syrian Arab Republic (1926–2003)

Syrian political scientist, opposition figure

Dutch Jesuit (1938-2014)

Adviser to Bashar al-Assad

2nd century Syrian Greek novelist

Roman client king of Armenia (died 180)

Syrian poet and writer (1887–1946)

Syrian politician and activist (1915–1964)

Syrian-American astronomer and physicist specialized in Space physics

Arab poet

Roman Client Priest King of the Emesan kingdom (ruled AD 54-73)

Award-winning composer & pianist

journalist in Syria

Syrian musician

Kindite commander in the Muslim army against the Sasanian Persians at the Battle of al-Qadisiyya in 636

Syrian Christian physician and martyr

Last Ayyubid emir of Homs

Syrian politician (1922–2000)

Syrian film producer

Syrian film director (1954–2024)

footballer

1st century BC Emesene phylarch

Syrian politician (1908—1965)

Syrian actor

Syrian activist (1930–2024)

king-priest of Emesa, vassal of the Roman Empire

Syrian blogger from Homs

Muslim military commander (died 657)

Syrian politician (1870–1920)

Syrian citizen journalist and activist

3rd-century Greek rhetorician

Syrian diplomat

Syrian Kurdish film director

Syrian writer

1st century Roman Client Priest King of Emesa

Ottoman scholar and poet

Queen of Emesa, daughter of Mithridates III, spouse of Sampsiceramus II

Syrian politician

1st century daughter of Sampsiceramus II of Emesa

priest King of Emesa