Lista de Personas Famosas nacidas en Gobernación de Damasco

Mohammad Riad Hussain Ismat 'Riad' Ismat ‎; fue un escritor, diplomático, profesor, crítico literario, y director de teatro sirio. Sirvió como Ministro de Cultura de Siria desde el 3 de octubre de 2010 al 23 de junio de 2012.

Abd al-Rahman Shahbandar was a prominent Syrian nationalist during the French Mandate of Syria and a leading opponent of compromise with French authority. His devotion to Arab nationalism dated to the days of the Committee of Union and Progress and its "Turkification" policies. He supported the Arab Revolt during World War I and briefly headed the foreign ministry under Emir Faisal.

Qubad Talabani is an Iraqi Kurdish politician who has been the Deputy Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Region since 2014. Formerly serving as the representative of Kurdistan to the United States, Qubad is the second son of former Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.

Rana Kabbani is a British Syrian cultural historian, writer and broadcaster who lives in London. Most famous for her works Imperial Fictions: Europe's Myths of the Orient (1994) and Letter to Christendom (1989), she has also edited and translated works in Arabic and English. She has written for Spare Rib, the International Herald Tribune, The New Statesman, The Guardian, British Vogue, The Independent, Al Quds al Arabi, and Islamica. She has made and contributed to many television and radio programmes for the BBC, on subjects such as literature, music, minority rights, Islamic culture, food, feminism, women’s rights, painting, and British politics. She has spoken out against islamophobia, defining its historic roots in colonialism.

Michel Aflaq fue uno de los principales teóricos del socialismo y nacionalismo árabe y fundador del Partido Baaz Árabe Socialista. De nacionalidad siria, nació en Damasco bajo la dominación del Imperio otomano en 1910 y falleció en París el 23 de junio de 1989.

Jamil Mardam Bey, was a Syrian politician. He was born in Damascus to a prominent aristocratic Sunni Ottoman Muslim family. He is a descendant of the Ottoman general, statesman and Grand Vizier Lala Mustafa Pasha. He studied at the school of Political Science in Paris and was a founder of Al-Fatat, the leading opposition party in Ottoman Syria.

Ighraa, also is known as Igraa, is a Syrian actress and belly dancer who reached her fame mostly in Syrian cinema of the 1970s.

Nihad Qali fue un actor, comediante, dramaturgo y escritor sirio que apareció con los inicios de la televisión Siria, trabajando además en cine y teatro. Poseedor de varias películas, obras teatrales y series junto con Duraid Lahham quien fuera su pareja artística por varios años interpretando el papel de “Hosni Al Bordan”. Como escritor fue autor de varias exitosas series televisivas de la época, las que se destacan: "Sah Al Noum" - "Hammam El Hana" - "Maqlub Ghawwar" – “Mugamarat Carlo - Las aventuras de Carlo” y varias obras teatrales. A causa de una hemiplejía debió alejarse de los escenarios ya que físicamente le era imposible seguir actuando pero esto no le impidió seguir escribiendo hasta el final de sus días.

Omran Ahed al-Zoubi was the Minister of Information in the Government of Syria from June 2012 until July 2016. He died from a heart attack on 6 July 2018.

Abd al-Aziz ibn Marwan fue un miembro de la dinastía omeya y gobernador de Egipto en los años 686 al 704 o 705. La cronología de este período es incierta.