This is a list of Syrian people. Entries on this list are demonstrably notable by having a linked current article or reliable sources as footnotes against the name to verify they are notable and identify themselves as Syrian, naturalized as Syrian, or were registered at birth as Syrian.
Ancient
- Elagabalus – Roman emperor
- Severus Alexander – Roman emperor, the son of Julia Mamaea
- Philip the Arab – Roman emperor
- Julia Domna – Roman empress and mother of Geta and Caracalla.
- Eutropia – Roman empress, mother of Emperor Maxentius and Empresses Fausta and Flavia, the grandmother of Emperors Constantine II, Constans and Constantius II, and the great-grandmother of Emperor Julian and Constantius Gallus.
- Leo III the Syrian – Byzantine emperor and the founder of the Syrian dynasty.[1]
- Constantine V – Byzantine emperor, father of Leo IV the Khazar and grandfather of Constantine VI.[2]
- Leo V the Armenian – Byzantine emperor of Armenian and Syrian origins.
- Cassiodorus – Roman statesman and renowned scholar.[3]
- Avidius Cassius – Roman general and usurper.[4]
- Leontius (usurper)
- Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus – council and military commander, second spouse of Lucilla, and father of Pompeianus.[5][6][7]
- Peter Barsymes
- Marinus (praetorian prefect)
- Eutolmius Tatianus
- Florentius
- Mansur ibn Sarjun – Byzantine fiscal official
- Sarjun ibn Mansur – official in the Umayyad Caliphate
- Minervina – wife of Constantine the Great, mother of Crispus.
- Mamertina – concubine of Emperor Licinius and mother of Licinius II[8][9][10]
- Sextus Varius Marcellus – was the spouse of Julia Soaemias, he was also praefectus of the military treasury and governor of Numedia.
- Firmus – Usurper during the reign of Aurelian
Modern and contemporary
- Dennis W. Sciama – English physician, considered one of the fathers of modern cosmology
- Frank Harary – mathematician, considered one of the fathers of modern graph theory
- Jerrier A. Haddad – co-developer and designer of the IBM 701 series which was IBM’s first commercial scientific computer and its first mass-produced mainframe computer
- Hunein Maassab – professor of epidemiology; known for developing the Live attenuated influenza vaccine
- Shadia Habbal – astronomer and physicist; played a key role in establishing the NASA Parker Solar Probe
- Huda Akil – world renowned neuroscientist; known for discovering the role of endorphins in the human brain
- Fawwaz T. Ulaby – professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan; he designed the world's first radar to fly in space
- Kefah Mokbel, FRCS – lead breast surgeon at the London Breast Institute of The Princess Grace Hospital; professor of Breast Cancer Surgery (The Brunel Institute of Cancer Genetics and Pharmacogenomics) Brunel University London
- Oussama Khatib – roboticist and professor of Computer Science at Stanford University; received the IEEE RAS for Distinguished Service Award (2013)
- Jorge Sahade – astronomer, first Latin American President of the International Astronomical Union
- Mario Hamuy – Professor of Astronomy at the University of Chile
- Dina Katabi – director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Wireless Center
- A. R. Frank Wazzan – Professor, and Dean Emeritus, of the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, UCLA
- Rolando Chuaqui – mathematician, spearheaded the creation and expansion of mathematics departments across multiple Chilean universities
- Charles Issawi – economist and historian of the Middle East at Columbia University and Princeton University
- Jorge Bucay – gestalt psychotherapist, psychodramatist, and writer
- Martín Abadi – computer scientist; inventor of Baby Modula-3, and co-developer of Burrows–Abadi–Needham logic
- Raphael of Brooklyn – first Orthodox bishop to be consecrated in North America
- Malatius Jaghnoon – epigrapher and founder of the archaeological society in Homs
- Afif Bahnassi – art historian and curator
- Constantine Zureiq – historian and activist
- Aref Dalila – economist, political activist and former political prisoner
- Hanna Abboud – Author, critic, translator, and mythographer
- Hanna Abboud – author, critic, translator, and mythographer
- Hanna Diyab
- Ziad Abdullah – novelist and screenwriter
- Nasib Arida
- Mary Ajami
- Sadiq Jalal al-Azm – author, philosopher, sociologist and human rights advocate
- Ali Ahmad Said Esber – popularly known as Adonis, a Syrian poet, essayist and translator
- Aziz Azmeh – author and philosopher
- Abdulkarim Baderkhan (born 1986) – poet, translator, critic
- Morad Daoud – novelist, sculptor
- Hisham al-Ghazzi (born 1923) – lawyer
- Abd al-Masih Haddad
- Qustaki al-Himsi
- Adib Ishaq
- Riad Ismat – writer, director
- Amal Kassir – spoken word poet
- Khaled Khalifa – novelist
- Mohammed Maghout – poet and writer
- Francis Marrash
- Abu Khalil Qabbani – playwright, "father of Syrian theatre"
- Nizar Qabbani – poet
- Widad Sakakini (1913–1991) – writer and feminist
- Fathallah Saqqal – lawyer, writer, government minister
- Mona Simpson (born 1957) – Syrian American novelist and essayist
- Zakariyya Tamer – writer
- Muhammad al-Tunji – linguist, and author; received Indian Prize from UNESCO in 1970
- Dima Wannous – author and journalist
- Saadallah Wannous – playwright
- Khairy Alzahaby – writer, novelist, scenarist, historian, thinker
- Riad Sattouf – cartoonist, comic artist, film director
- Zachary A. Behlok – Author and Philosopher
- Steve Jobs – co-founder of Apple and Pixar
- Joseph Safra – formerly the richest banker in the world
- Mansour Ojjeh – billionaire entrepreneur, son of Akram Ojjeh
- Adnan Khashoggi - Billionaire businessman and arms dealer; his mother, Samiha, was of Syrian origin
- Roger Tamraz – billionaire banker and venture capitalist
- Joseph Nakash – American billionaire businessman
- Wafic Said – billionaire businessman, he established the Saïd Foundation and the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford
- Stanley Chera – billionaire real estate developer
- Jose Mugrabi – billionaire art dealer
- David Nahmad – billionaire and former art dealer
- Ezra Nahmad – billionaire art collector and dealer
- Edmond Safra – billionaire banker
- Moise Safra – billionaire banker
- Ayman Asfari – billionaire businessman; former CEO of Petrofac.
- Jeff Sutton – billionaire New York real estate developer and the founder of Wharton Properties
- Mustafa Suleyman – CEO of Microsoft AI; co-founder of Deepmind and Inflection AI
- Michel Chalhoub – billionaire businessman; founder of the Chalhoub Group
- Ghassan Aboud – billionaire entrepreneur
- Mohed Altrad – French-Syrian billionaire
- Jaquesse Saadé – French billionaire of paternal Syrian ancestry; founder of CMA CGM, the world’s third largest container shipping company.
- Ronald Mourad – chairman of The Portland Trust and Bridges Ventures
- Elie Horn – Brazilian billionaire and founder of Cyrela Brazil Realty, Brazil's largest homebuilder and real estate company by revenue and market value
- Isaac Saba Raffoul – Mexican billionaire businessman
- Fuad Char – Colombian businessman, retailer, and politician, his family owns as many as 91 businesses with assets worth $2 billion
- Joseph Cayre – American billionaire
- Gilbert Bigio – Haiti's only billionaire and founder of GB Group
- Joseph Matalon – the richest billionaire in Jamaica, his father immigrated from Damascus.[11]
- Ronaldo Mouchawar – entrepreneur, founder of Souq.com
- Joseph Sitt – real estate investor, founder of Thor Equities
- Feras Antoon – co-owner and CEO of Aylo, the world's largest pornography company
- Dov Charney – Canadian entrepreneur and founder of American Apparel in addition to Los Angeles Apparel
- Ghaith Pharaon – founder of Attock Group and Attock Cement
- Marcus Lemonis — businessman and philanthropist; chairman and CEO of Camping World, and Good Sam Enterprises
- Sam Yagan – Internet entrepreneur
- Jack Hidary – American technologist
- Fouad al-Zayat – billionaire businessman and gambler
- Al Waleed bin Talal – Saudi royal and billionaire businessman, whose maternal grandmother, Fayza Al-Jabiri, was from Aleppo
- Moutaz Al-Khayyat – Syrian-Qatari businessman, co-founder of Power International Holding and Baladna, along with his brother Ramez Al-Khayyat
- Simon Halabi – former billionaire property developer
- Mazen Al-Tarazi – Syrian-Canadian businessman
- Talal Abu-Ghazaleh – founder of an eponymous organization, Talal is dubbed as the godfather of Arab accounting; his mother was from Damascus
- Shafiq Ades – businessman who was the wealthiest Jew in Iraq
- Ayah Bdeir – Canadian entrepreneur; founder of LittleBits
- Sadad Al Husseini – former Executive Vice President for Exploration and Producing at Saudi Aramco
- Reed Jobs – venture capitalist
- Assad John Haloute – founder of Chefette, the largest fast food restaurant chain based in Barbados
- Ijad Madisch – founder and CEO of ResearchGate
- George Haswani – businessman who owns the HESCO natural gas production company
- Adnan Kivan – multi-millionaire and owner of Kyiv Post
- Omar Hamoui – founder of AdMob
- Mohammed Mohiedin Anis
