List of people from Damascus

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

Ancient

• Ananias - one of the Seventy Disciples ^[1]
• Apollodorus of Damascus - Syrian architect
• Ibn al-Nafis - polymath whose areas of work included medicine, surgery, physiology, anatomy, biology, Islamic studies, jurisprudence, and philosophy. He is mostly famous for being the first to describe the pulmonary circulation of the blood. ^[2]
• Ibn al-Shatir was an astronomer, mathematician and engineer
• Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya - polymath
• Damascius - Byzantine philosopher ^[3]
• Israel ben Moses Najara - poet, Kaballist and rabbi ^[4]
• John of Damascus - Christian monk ^[5]
• Nicolaus of Damascus - historian and philosopher ^{[6] [7]}
• Shams al-Din al-Ansari al-Dimashqi - Medieval Arab geographer
• Sophronius - Patriarch of Jerusalem ^[8]

Modern

• Lutfi al-Haffar Former Prime Minister of Syria
• 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 ^[9]
• 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 ^[9]
• Ghada al-Samman - novelist
• Ikram Antaki - Mexican writer
• Ivonne Attas – Venezuelan telenovela soap opera actress and politician
• Hanin Elias - member of punk rock band Atari Teenage Riot
• Sam Hamad - Quebec politician
• Izzat Husrieh - journalist and founder of the Syrian labor union ^[9]
• Mohamed Haytham Khayat - Syrian physician and lexicographer
• Khaled Malas - Syrian Architect
• Abu Khalil Qabbani - Syrian playwright, considered the founder of Syrian theater
• Nizar Qabbani - poet ^[10]
• Fatima Saad - voice actress
• Eliyahu Sasson - Israeli politician and minister
• Rafik Schami - Syrian-German author
• Yasser Seirawan - chess player ^[11]
• Zakaria Tamer - writer ^[12]
• Soraya Tarzi - Queen of Afghanistan
• Samuel Vital - Kabalist
• Muna Wassef - actress and United Nations Goodwill ambassador ^[13]
• Ziad Zukkari – painter, artist
• Constantin Zureiq - academic intellectual and Arab nationalist ^[14]

Families

• Al-Asali
• Al-Azm
• Al-Azma
• Al-Dimashki
• Al-Ghazzi
• Mardam-Bey
• Qabbani

See also

• List of rulers of Damascus
• Al-Dimashqi

References

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3. Damascius (C. 462–C. 538). Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Copyright © 2001-2006 by Macmillan Reference USA, an imprint of the Gale Group. Retrieved 2009-12-01.
4. "Israel ben Moses Najara". The Jewish Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2009-12-01.
5. M. Walsh, ed. Butler's Lives of the Saints(HarperCollins Publishers: New York, 1991), pp. 403.
6. Ross Burns, Damascus: A History - Page 59
7. K. Müller &c Fragmenta historicorum graecorum vol. 3 p.344.
8. Donald E. Wagner. Dying in the Land of Promise: Palestine and Palestinian Christianity from Pentecost to 2000
9. Moubayed, Sami. Steel and Silk: Men and Women Who Shaped Syria, 1900-2005. Seattle, WA: Cune Press, 2005. Print.
10. "Nizar Qabbani". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2009-11-28.
11. "Yasser Seirawan". UEP Chess. Archived from the original on 2012-05-04. Retrieved 2009-12-01.
12. "Zakaria Tamer". The Arab Writers Union. Retrieved 2009-12-02.
13. "Muna Wassef". Al-Aous Publishers. Retrieved 2009-12-01.
14. "Constantin Zureiq". The Arab Orient Center for Strategic and Civilization Studies - London. Retrieved 2009-12-01.