Businesspeople •
Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI and co-founder of
DeepMind, which
Google bought for an estimated £400 million in 2014. He is also the co-founder of
Inflection AI. •
Ayman Asfari, billionaire businessman, former CEO of
Petrofac. •
Wafic Said, billionaire businessman, he established the
Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford in 1996. •
Simon Halabi, property developer. In 2007, he was listed as the 14th richest person in Britain. •
Helly Nahmad, art dealer, he descends from a billionaire family that originated in Aleppo. •
Ronald Mourad, Chairman of
The Portland Trust and
Bridges Ventures; his parents were originally from Aleppo. •
Kasim Kutay, CEO of
Novo Holdings A/S.
Actors and entertainment •
Wentworth Miller, actor, known for his role as
Michael Scofield in the Fox series
Prison Break •
James Dreyfus, actor, most notable for roles on television sitcoms
The Thin Blue Line as Constable Kevin Goody •
Patrick Baladi (born 1971), actor and musician, known for his role in the British show ‘
The Office’ •
Souad Faress (born 1948), actress, best known for her roles in
Game of Thrones (season 6) and BBC's Radio 4 program
The Archers. •
Laith Nakli, actor
Artists and designers •
Moussa Ayoub (c.1873–1955), Syrian-born British painter and portraiture artist. •
Khairat Al-Saleh (born 1940), painter,
ceramicist, glassmaker and printmaker •
Yasmin Hayat (born 1990), painter of miniatures •
Nabil Nayal: fashion designer who won the Fashion Trust Grant from the British Fashion Council and the Royal Society of Arts Award
Academia •
Kefah Mokbel, renowned breast cancer surgeon and researcher •
Kamal Abu-Deeb (born 1942), Chair of Arabic at the
University of London •
Dennis W. Sciama (1926–1999), British
physicist of Syrian-descent who, through his own work and that of his students, played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War. •
Ella Al-Shamahi (born 1983/1984), paleonanthropologist, biologist, and comic
Writers and journalists •
Danny Abdul Dayem, citizen-
journalist who reported from
Homs, Syria between 2011 and 2012. •
Mai Badr (born 1968), editor-in-chief of
Hia Magazine and deputy editor-in-chief of
Sayidaty and
Al Jamila. •
Zaina Erhaim, journalist and feminist •
Nadine Kaadan (born 1985), children's illustrator and writer •
Rana Kabbani, writer, broadcaster and cultural historian •
Mustapha Karkouti: journalist and media consultant •
Waad Al-Kateab, journalist and documentary filmmaker •
Abdallah Marrash (1839–1900), Syrian writer involved in various Arabic-language newspaper ventures in
London and
Paris. •
Nadim Nassar, writer, director of the
Awareness Foundation and the only British-Syrian priest in the Church of England •
Saba Sams, writer •
Yasmine Seale, writer and translator
Other •
Asma al-Assad (born 1975), the former
First Lady of
Syria. •
Kefah Mokbel, breast surgeon and founder of the UK charity Breast Cancer Hope. In November 2010, he was named in the Times magazine's list of Britain's Top Doctors •
Philip Stamma, 18th-century chess master and pioneer of modern chess. •
Sami Khiyami,
Syrian diplomat, former Syrian
ambassador to
London. •
Shaha Riza (born c.1953), a
Libyan former
World Bank employee. •
Dima Aktaa, Syria-born athlete whose family moved to the UK == See also ==