Syrian Politician
1. Mustafa Tlass (1932)
Syrian Politician
Syrian politician and senior military officer who most notably was Syria's Minister of Defense from 1972 to 2004.
2. Qubad Talabani (1977)
Syrian Politician
Politician who has risen to fame as the deputy Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government, a post he was elected to in 2014. He previously served as the Kurdistan Regional...
3. Habib Shartouni (1958)
Syrian Politician
Habib Tanious Shartouni is known to be the assassin of the Lebanese president-elect Bachir Gemayel.
4. Sabri al-Asali (Unknow)
Syrian Politician
Sabri al-Asali was a Syrian politician and a three-time prime minister of Syria. He also served as vice-president of the United Arab Republic in 1958.
5. Salah Jadid (Unknow)
Syrian Politician
Salah Jadid was a Syrian general and political figure in the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Syria and the country's de facto leader from 1966 until 1970.
6. Salah al-Din al-Bitar (Unknow)
Syrian Politician
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar was a Syrian politician who co-founded the Arab Ba'ath Party with Michel Aflaq in the early 1940s. As students in Paris in the early 1930s the...
7. Nasim al-Safarjalani (Unknow)
Syrian Politician
Nasim Al Safarjalani comes from a prominent Arab Syrian family from Damascus Syria.
8. Abdullah al-Ahmar (1936)
Syrian Politician
Abdullah Al-Ahmar Arabic: عبدالله الأحمر is a Syrian politician and prominent member of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. He is the Assistant Secretary-General of the Ba'ath Party's National Command. Born...
9. Muhammad Mustafa Mero (Unknow)
Syrian Politician
Muhammad Mustafa Mero is a former Prime Minister of Syria who was in office from 7 March 2000 to 10 September 2003.
10. Anisa Makhlouf (Unknow)
Syrian Politician
11. Siwar Al Assad (1975)
Syrian Politician
12. Farouk al-Sharaa (1938)
Syrian Politician
uk al-Sharaa is a Syrian politician and diplomat. He is one of the most prominent officials in the Syrian government and served as foreign minister of Syria from 1984 until...
13. Ahmad Izzat al-Abid (Unknow)
Syrian Politician
Ahmad Izzat al-Abid was a Syrian politician. Abid was born in Damascus but he was educated in Beirut Lebanon. He spoke Arabic French and Turkish. He moved to Istanbul...
14. Riad Seif (1946)
Syrian Politician
Riad Seif is a Syrian political dissident and prominent businessman who founded and lead the Forum for National Dialogue. Seif was elected to the Parliament of Syria in 1994 as...
15. Bushra Massouh (Unknow)
Syrian Politician
Bushra Fuad Massouh is a Syrian politician and member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party.
16. Abdul Rahman Khleifawi (Unknow)
Syrian Politician
Abdul Rahman Khleifawi was a Syrian military officer and politician.
17. Sati' al-Husri (1882)
Syrian Politician
Sāṭi` al-Ḥuṣrī was an Ottoman and Syrian writer educationalist and an influential Arab nationalist thinker in the 20th century.
18. Ghazi Kanaan (Unknow)
Syrian Politician
Ghazi Kanaan also known as Abu Yo'roub was Syria's Interior Minister from 2004 to 2005 and long-time head of Syria's security apparatus in Lebanon. His violent death during an...
19. Abd al-Qadir Qaddura (Unknow)
Syrian Politician
Abd al-Qadir Qaddura is a Syrian politician. He was formerly a leading member of the Syria-based wing of the Baath Party in the era of President Hafiz al-Asad. Qaddura served...
20. Nur al-Din Kahala (Unknow)
Syrian Politician
Nur al-Din Kahala was a Syrian politician during the United Arab Republic period. Prior to the UAR period Kahala served as a minor government bureaucrat and received engineering training in...
21. Suheir Atassi (1971)
Syrian Politician
Suheir al-Atassi is the leading female secular activist in the Syrian opposition and since November 2012 co-vice-president of the opposition government. She has been called the Lady of the Revolution...
22. Abd al-Rahman Shahbandar (1880)
Syrian Politician
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...
23. Safwan al-Qudsi (Unknow)
Syrian Politician
Safwan al-Qudsi is the Secretary General of the Syrian Arab Socialist Union Party a member of the central leadership of the National Progressive Front which controls the Syrian legislature and...
24. Omran al-Zoubi (1959)
Syrian Politician
Omran Ahed Al Zoubi is the Minister of Information in the Government of Syria since June 2012.
25. Hisham Ikhtiyar (Unknow)
Syrian Politician
Major General Hisham Ikhtiyar was a Syrian military official and a national security adviser to president Bashar al-Assad.
26. Adib Shishakli (Unknow)
Syrian Politician
Adib Bin Hassan Al-Shishakli was a Syrian military leader and President of Syria. Adib Shishakli was 1/8th Kurdish Arab Syrian born in the Hama region in 1909. Shishakli served with...
27. Bouthaina Shaaban (Unknow)
Syrian Politician
Bouthaina Shaaban is a Syrian politician and is currently the political and media adviser to the President of Syria. Shaaban served as the first Minister of Expatriates for the...
28. George Soumi (Unknow)
Syrian Politician
George Malki Soumi is the Minister of Irrigation of Syria. He is an expert in irrigation and land reclamation.
29. Wael Nader al-Halqi (1964)
Syrian Politician
Nader Al-Halqi is the Prime Minister of Syria. He was appointed to the position on 9 August 2012 after serving as Minister of Health.
30. Qadri Jamil (1952)
Syrian Politician
Qadri Jamil is a Syrian politician media editor and economist. He is one of the top leaders of the People's Will Party and the Popular Front for Change and Liberation...
31. Fuad Issa al-Jouni (Unknow)
Syrian Politician
uad Issa al-Jouni is a former Minister of Industry for Syria. He was previously a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Aleppo. He holds a Ph. D. in...
32. Ali Aslan (Unknow)
Syrian Politician
Ali Aslan is a former chief of staff of the Syrian Army a member of the Central Committee of the Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party...
33. Mahmoud al-Ayyubi (Unknow)
Syrian Politician
Mahmoud al-Ayyubi is a Syrian politician who served as Prime Minister of Syria from 21 December 1972 to 7 August 1976 under the presidency of Hafez Al-Asad.
34. Emad Abdul-Ghani Sabouni (1964)
Syrian Politician
Emad Abdul-Ghani Sabouni is the current Minister of Communications and Technology of Syria.
35. Issam Bagdi (Unknow)
Syrian Politician
Issam Yacoub Bagdi is a Syrian politician and a member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party.
36. Jihad Makdissi (1974)
Syrian Politician
Jihad Makdissi was the Foreign Ministry spokesman of the Syrian government from 1998 to 2012. He is a member of Syria's Christian minority and one of the few members of...
37. Hasan Turkmani (Unknow)
Syrian Politician
Hasan Ali Turkmani was a prominent Syrian military officer and Baath Party member who served as minister of defense from 2004 to 2009. He and five other top Syrian government...
38. Fuad Shemali (Unknow)
Syrian Politician
uad Shemali alternatively Fouad El Chemali was a major figure in Black September which was active in the early 1970s and was the mastermind of some of its early operations...
39. Hilal Hilal (1966)
Syrian Politician
Hilal Hilal Amin is a Syrian politician who is the current Assistant Regional Secretary of the Syrian Regional Branch and was the Party Secretary of the Branch Command of Aleppo...
40. Mansur al-Atrash (1925)
Syrian Politician
Mansur al-Atrash was a Syrian politician and journalist. Together with fellow university students Atrash became a founding member of the Ba'ath Party and its Syrian regional branch in 1947. During...
41. Bahij al-Khatib (1895)
Syrian Politician
Bahij al-Khatib was a French-appointed Syrian Head of State from July 10 1939 to September 16 1941. He was staunchly loyal to the continued French administration of Syria and...
42. Badawi al-Jabal (Unknow)
Syrian Politician
Badawi al-Jabal is the pen name of Muhammad Sulayman al-Ahmad a Syrian poet of high reputation in the Arab world.
43. George Sabra (1947)
Syrian Politician
George Sabra was elected president of the Syrian National Council the main opposition group in Syria in November 2012 and later was acting president of the Syrian National Coalition from...
44. Mohammad Habash (1962)
Syrian Politician
Mohammad Al-Habash or Mohamed Habash is a Syrian Islamic scholar writer and politician. He is the principal figure of the Islamic revivalist movement in Syria.