List of Alawites
This list of Alawites includes prominent Alawite figures, mostly Syrians, who are notable in their areas of expertise.
Arts, culture, and entertainment
- Adunis, poet
- Badawi al-Jabal, poet
- Jamal Suliman, film producer
- Hasan al-Khayer, poet
- Suzan Najm Aldeen, actress
- Taim Hasan, actor
- Ali Deek, singer
- Fadwa Soliman, actress
- Wafa Sultan, Syrian-American writer
- Dina Haroun, actress.
- Rana Jammoul, actress.
- Louise Abdelkarim, actress.
- Farrah Yousef, singer.
- Rola Ibrahim, anchorwoman
- Rola Haider, anchorwoman
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Economy
- Rami Makhlouf, Syrian businessman
Government and politics
- Hafez al-Assad
- Bashar al-Assad
- Salah Jadid
- Zaki al-Arsuzi
- Ali Sulayman al-Assad
- Rifaat al-Assad
- Jamil al-Assad
- Bushra al-Assad
- Mohammed Nasif Kheirbek
- Ghazi Kanaan
- Ali Eid, former leader of the Arab Democratic Party of Lebanon
- Rifaat Eid, current leader of the ADP
- Ahmad Hassan
- Muhammad Khayr Bey
- Muhsen Bilal
- Ali Hammoud
- Monzer Makhous
Military and security
- Saleh al-Ali
- Ali Aslan
- Maher al-Assad
- Bassel al-Assad
- Assef Shawkat
- Hafez Makhlouf
- Dhu al-Himma Shalish
- Ali Haydar
- Atef Najib
- Abdel-Fatah Qudsiyeh
- Ali Abdullah Ayyoub
- Muhammad al-Khuli
- Jamil Hassan (military officer)
- Mohammed Dib Zaitoun
- Ali Duba
- Shafiq Fayadh
- Adnan Badr Hassan
- Ali Habib Mahmud
- Mihrac Ural, Turkish guerrilla fighter, leader of the Syrian Resistance
Religion
- Ibn Nusayr - Founder of the Alawites
- Al-Khaṣībī, a 10th-century scholar of the Alawites
- Salman al-Murshid, Founder of an offshoot of the Alawites called the Al-Murshidiyah