politician and a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party also former Governor of Oaxaca Sargon Dadesho – activist, author and leader of Assyrian National Congress Eugene Dooman Emmanuel Kamber – Assyrian Universal Alliance Secretary General Religious figures Addagoppe of Harran Babai the Great, 551–628 Bar Daisan Bar-Hebraeus Bar Sauma Basile Georges Casmoussa David Benjamin Keldani Diodorus of Tarsus Dinkha IV, 1935–2015 Elias Mellus Emil Shimoun Nona Emmanuel III Delly Ephrem the Syrian George Garmo Heliodorus – 4th Century Assyrian martyr Henana of Adiabene Ignatius Isaac Azar Isaac of Nineveh Isa Kelemechi Jacob of Nisibis Josephus Adjutus – 17th century theologian Louis Cheikho Nestorius Paulos Faraj Rahho Pkidha, 104–114 – first Bishop of Adiabene Ragheed Aziz Ganni Raphael I Bidawid Sargis Bkheera, 633 AD Shimun XXI Eshai Shimun XIX Benyamin, 1903–1918 Shlemon Warduni Tatian, 120–180 Theodore of Mopsuestia Toma bar Yacoub Youhannan Semaan Issayi Yousip Khnanisho, 1893–1977 Yusuf Akbulut Writers and poets Ancient Listed here are authors associated with Syriac Christianity regardless of whether they wrote in the Syriac language. Aphrahat Bar Daysan Iamblichus of Chalcis John bar Penkaye John of Ephesus Lucian of Samosata, 125–after 180 – Assyrian rhetorician, writer and satirist who wrote in the Greek language Moses Bar-Kepha Philoxenus of Mabbog Stephen Bar Sudhaile Tatian Modern Maria Theresa Asmar Yosip Bet Yosip Sargon Boulus Nina Burleigh William D. S. Daniel Fuat Deniz Thea Halo Samuel John Hazo Ivan Kakovitch Paulus Khofri George Lamsa Rosie Malek-Yonan Gabriel J. Kenoun Sabrina Kenoun Robert Kenoun Ramman Kenoun Terrence Malick Dunya Mikhail Alphonse Mingana Murathan Mungan Leilah Nadir Heather Raffo Mikhael K. Pius Yuhanon Qashisho Jacob of Serugh Ishaya Shamasha Dawid Bet-Zia See also Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac people References External links * Lists of people by ethnicity Hannibal Alkhas Dali Hadad