Lista de Personas Famosas nacidas en Gobernación de Damasco

Apolodoro de Damasco fue un arquitecto de la Antigua Roma de origen sirio, conocido con el sobrenombre del Damasceno.

Omar Midani is a Syrian footballer. He currently plays as a centre back for Al-Ittihad, which competes in the Egyptian Premier League, the top division in Egypt.

Suheir al-Atassi is the leading female secular activist in the Syrian opposition, and co-vice-president of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces between November 2012 and December 2013. She has been called the "Lady of the Revolution" and is widely respected in secular and intellectual circles within the Syrian opposition structure. She had previously run the media wing of the banned Jamal Atassi Forum, which was named after her father, a founding member of the Ba'ath Party who later left and founded the Democratic Arab Socialist Union.

Muhammad Kurd Ali was a notable Syrian scholar, historian and literary critic in the Arabic language. He was the founder and director of the Academy of the Arabic Language in Damascus (1918) till his death.

Ayman Hakeem is a Syrian football coach who last managed the Syria national football team.

Ahmed Majdalani is a Palestinian politician, university professor and researcher. A former Palestinian government minister, he currently serves as Secretary-General of the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front (PPSF) and is a senior member of the PLO Executive Committee which is considered the highest political level in Palestine

Nizar Hamed Mahrous, known as Abu Hamed, is a Syrian football manager and former player who is the manager of the Syria national team.

Riad Seif is a Syrian political dissident and prominent businessman who founded and led the Forum for National Dialogue. Seif was elected to the Parliament of Syria in 1994 as an independent and again in 1998. For several years he owned an Adidas franchise in Damascus.

Damascio fue el último escolarca de la Academia de Atenas. Fue uno de los filósofos paganos perseguidos por Justiniano I a comienzos del siglo VI, y se vio obligado a exiliarse en la corte persa hasta que se le permitió volver al imperio. Actualmente se conservan algunas obras suyas, que son tres comentarios de obras de Platón y un texto metafísico: Dificultades y soluciones de los principios primeros.