From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Leaders and politicians (bop)
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.
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Constantine V – Byzantine emperor, father of
Leo IV the Khazar and grandfather of
Constantine VI .
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Leo V the Armenian – Byzantine emperor of Armenian and Syrian origins.
Cassiodorus – Roman statesman and renowned scholar.
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Avidius Cassius – Roman general and usurper.
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Leontius (usurper)
Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus – council and military commander, second spouse of
Lucilla , and father of
Pompeianus.
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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
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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
Hanna Abboud – Author, critic, translator, and mythographer
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
Writers, poets and authors
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.
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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
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