Lista de Personas Famosas nacidas en Gobernación de Damasco

Rami Makhlouf is a Syrian businessman and the maternal cousin of president Bashar al-Assad. He is considered Syria's wealthiest man and one of the most powerful men in Syria; according to Syrian analysts he is part of al-Assad's inner circle and no foreign company can do business in Syria without his consent and partnership. Makhlouf owns Syriatel, the largest mobile phone network in Syria, along with other retail, banking and real estate companies.

Sulafa Refaat Memar. She is a well known Syrian actress, she begun her career in 1994, she stuided at Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus, Syria. she acted in TV and cinema. she won Best Arab actress award in Algerian Film Festival for her role in ‘Tahta Al Sakef’.

Basel al-Ásad fue el hijo mayor del presidente sirio Hafez al-Ásad y hermano de Bashar al-Ásad. Fue ingeniero y comandante de la Guardia Republicana. De joven, Basel fue preparado para ocupar el cargo de presidente luego de su padre. Organizó campañas anticorrupción dentro del gobierno y frecuentemente aparecía uniformado en las recepciones oficiales.

Salim Kallas was a Syrian actor and politician.

Dündar Alí Osman, fue el jefe de la Casa de Osman o Dinastía Osmanlí que gobernó el Imperio Otomano desde el siglo XV hasta su desaparición en 1922.

Ali Al-Tantawi is a Syrian jurist, writer, and judge, and he is considered one of the leading figures in Islamic preaching and Arab literature in the twentieth century. He was a writer who wrote in many Arab newspapers for many years, the most important of which was what he wrote in the Egyptian magazine Al-Risala by its owner Ahmed Hassan Al-Zayyat, and he continued to write about it for twenty years from 1933 until it became concealed in 1953. He worked from his youth in primary and secondary education in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon until a year 1940. He left education and entered the judiciary. He was recipient of the King Faisal Prize in 1990 for his services for Islam.

Omar Maher Kharbin es un futbolista sirio que juega como delantero en el Al-Wahda F. C. de la Liga Árabe del Golfo.

Maxim Hani Khalil is a Syrian actor; he is currently known as one of the most famous actors in Syria and Arab world.

Majid al-Shibl, original name Muhammad al-Shibil, was a prominent Saudi announcer who introduced several programs and variety.

Andrés de Creta o Andrés de Jerusalén, fue un Padre de la Iglesia, Arzobispo de Gortina (Creta) y un destacado predicador y autor de himnos sacros. Santo de las Iglesias católica y ortodoxa.