The Most Famous
BUSINESSPEOPLE from Syria
This page contains a list of the greatest Syrian Businesspeople. The pantheon dataset contains 847 Businesspeople, NaN of which were born in Syria. This makes Syria the birth place of the 0th most number of Businesspeople.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Syrian Businesspeople of all time. This list of famous Syrian Businesspeople is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Ghassan Hitto (b. 1963)
With an HPI of 46.31, Ghassan Hitto is the most famous Syrian Businessperson. His biography has been translated into 14 different languages on wikipedia.
Ghassan Hitto (Arabic: غسان هيتو; born 1963) is a Syrian businessman, NGO executive and politician. In 2013, he was the first head of the interim government established by the Syrian opposition's National Coalition. Born in Damascus into a Kurdish family, he left Syria to the U.S. in 1980, became a naturalized American citizen and worked as an information technology executive and lived in Texas until the Syrian civil war. In late 2012, he relocated to Turkey. He was elected prime minister on 18 March 2013 by a narrow margin over former Ba'athist agricultural minister Assad Mustafa. Hitto resigned on 8 July 2013.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Syrian businesspeople born between 1963 and 1963. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Syrian businesspeople include Ghassan Hitto. As of April 2024, 1 new Syrian businesspeople have been added to Pantheon including Ghassan Hitto.
