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Syrian Americans (Arabic: أمريكيون سوريون) are Americans of Syrian descent or background. The first significant wave of Syrian immigrants to arrive in the United States began in the 1880s. [10] Many of the earliest Syrian Americans settled in New York City, Boston, and Detroit. Immigration from Syria to the United States suffered ...
Anan Ameri. Michael Ammar. Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki. Tige Andrews. Paul Anka. Martha Ansara. Clifford Antone. Antone's Famous Po' Boys. Nageeb Arbeely.
Lisa Halaby, Syrian, (a.k.a. Queen Noor), Queen-consort of Jordan and wife of King Hussein of Jordan. Darrell Issa, half-Lebanese, U.S. Congressman (R- California) (2001–) Joe Jamail, Lebanese, Renown American trial lawyer and billionaire, also known as the "King of Torts".
Jerry Seinfeld – comedian and actor (Syrian mother) Teri Hatcher – actress and singer, she has Syrian ancestry from her mother's side. Murray Abraham – actor and winner of the Academy Award. Wentworth Miller – actor and screenwriter, he has Syrian ancestry from his mother's side. Jonathan Roumie – American actor.
California. There were 22,671 living in California according to the 2000 United States census. The 2022 estimates put this number at 24,748. The state's largest Assyrian American population lives in San Diego County (9,165), followed by Los Angeles County (3,642), Santa Clara County (2,919), and Orange County (1,816).
Syrians (Arabic: سوريون) are the majority inhabitants of Syria, indigenous to the Levant, who have Arabic, especially its Levantine dialect, as a mother tongue.The cultural and linguistic heritage of the Syrian people is a blend of both indigenous elements and the foreign cultures that have come to rule the land and its people over the course of thousands of years.
Bardaisan – philosopher [71] Paul Bedjan [72] Bukhtishu – were a family of Assyrian Nestorian Christian [73][74] physicians from the 7th, 8th, and 9th centuries, spanning six generations and 250 years. Louis Cheikhô – Assyrian Orientalist. Hind Rassam Culhane – lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies and behavioural scientist.
Notable Syrian Americans in New York City. Jonathan Roumie, an actor. Jerry Seinfeld, a comedian. Sierra and Bianca Casady, musicians. Abraham M. Malouf, founder of the Syrian American Club of New York, an organization to encourage the naturalization of aliens of Syria. Frank Harary, mathematician, widely recognized as the father of modern ...