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List of people from Damascus

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The following is a list of notable people from Damascus, Syria.

Contents

Ancient

  • Abd ar-Rahman I - founder of Omayyad dynasty in Cordoba
  • Ananias - one of the Seventy Disciples
  • Apollodorus of Damascus - Syrian architect
  • Damascius - Byzantine philosopher
  • Israel ben Moses Najara - poet, Kaballist and rabbi
  • John of Damascus - Christian monk
  • Nicolaus of Damascus - historian and philosopher
  • Shams al-Din al-Ansari al-Dimashqi - Medieval Arab geographer
  • Sophronius - Patriarch of Jerusalem

    • Modern

  • Avraham Abaas - Israeli politician, member of the Knesset
  • Michel Aflaq - political thinker and co-founder of the Baath Party
  • Khalid al-Azm - former prime minister of Syria
  • Salah al-Din al-Bitar - political thinker and co-founder of the Baath Party
  • Shukri al-Quwatli - former Syrian president and co-founder of the United Arab Republic
  • Ghada al-Samman - novelist
  • Ikram Antaki - Mexican writer
  • Eli Cohen - Israeli spy
  • Hanin Elias - member of punk rock band Atari Teenage Riot
  • Sam Hamad - Quebec politician
  • Izzat Husrieh - journalist and founder of the Syrian labor union
  • Abu Khalil Qabbani - Syrian playwright, considered the founder of Syrian theater
  • Nizar Qabbani - poet
  • Eliyahu Sasson - Israeli politician and minister
  • Rafik Schami - Syrian-German author
  • Yasser Seirawan - chess player
  • Zakaria Tamer - writer
  • Soraya Tarzi - Queen of Afghanistan
  • Samuel Vital - Kabalist
  • Muna Wassef - actress and United Nations Goodwill ambassador
  • Constantin Zureiq - academic intellectual and Arab nationalist

    • Families

  • Alzahabi
  • Al-Azm

    • References

    List of people from Damascus Wikipedia
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