Category
page 1Politicians from Damascus
Bashar al-Assad
President of Syrian Arab Republic from 2000 to 2024
Walid Muallem
Syrian politician, foreign minister (1941-2020)

Salah ad-Din al-Bitar
Syrian politician (1912-1980)
Naziq al-Abid
Syrian activist for women's rights under the Ottoman and French regimes
Moaz Khatib
Syrian politician
Adel Safar
64th Prime Minister of the Syrian Arab Republic
Khalid Bakdash
former leader of the Syrian Communist Party (SCP) (1912-1999)
Jamil Mardam Bey
Syrian politician (1893–1960)
Naser Khader
Syrian-Danish politician
Muhammad Ali Bey al-Abid
first president of the mandatory Syrian Republic (1867–1939)
Khalid al-Azm
Syrian politician (1903–1965)
Rida al-Rikabi
Jordanian politician (1864-1942)
Ghassan Hitto
Syrian businessman and politician

Sabri al-Asali
Syrian politician (1903–1976)

Rana Ahmad
Syrian activist
Said al-Ghazzi
Syrian politician (1893-1967)
Khaled Khoja
Syrian politician
Omar Amiralay
Syrian documentary film director and prominent civil society activist (1944–2011)
Hind Kabawat
Syrian-Canadian politician
Israel Hasson
Israeli politician

Hassan al-Nouri
Syrian politician
Qubad Talabani
Kurdish politician
Hisham Ikhtiyar
Syrian politician (1941-2012)
Suheir Atassi
Syrian politician
Khalid al-Qasri
Umayyad politician

Lutfi al-Haffar
former Syrian prime minister (1891–1968)
Hadi al-Bahra
Syrian politician
Nasuhi al-Bukhari
Syrian politician (1881–1961)
Haqqi al-Azm
Syrian politician
Riad Ismat
Syrian diplomat (1947–2020)
Constantin Zureiq
Syrian historian (1909–2000)
Izzat al-Nuss
Syrian politician
Hafez Makhlouf
former Syrian intelligence officer and cousin of Bashar Assad
Mahmoud al-Ayyubi
Syrian politician (1932–2013)
Qadri Jamil
Syrian politician
Albert Antébi
Jewish public activist/communitary leader born in Syria
Anas al-Abdah
Syrian politician
Adnan al-Malki
Syrian politician and army officer
Muhammad Ali al-Halabi
Syrian politician
Mahmoud al-Abrash
Syrian politician
Omran al-Zoubi
Syrian politician (1959–2018)
Mohammed Abu al-Khair Shukri
Syrian lawyer
Zaki Khatib
Syrian politician (1887–1961)
Salim Kallas
Syrian actor and politician
Reşit Paşa
Turkish statesperson (1868–1924)
Rima al-Qadiri
Syrian politician
Emad Sabouni
Syrian politician
Lubanah Mshaweh
Syrian politician

Jawad Abu Hatab
Syrian politician
Ahmed Majdalani
Palestinian politician and university teacher
Yitzhak Galanti
Israeli politician
Avraham Abaas
politician