Syrians in the United Kingdom explained
Group: | Syrians in the United Kingdom |
Population: | Born in Syria 9,258 (2011 census) 48,000 (2019 estimate) 42,875 (England and Wales only, 2021 census)[1]
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Popplace: | London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool |
Langs: | British English, Arabic (variants of Syrian Arabic), Domari, Turkish, Neo Aramaic, Kurdish, Adyghe, Afshar, Turoyo, Armenian |
Related: | Other British Arabs, Syrian diaspora |
Syrians in the United Kingdom or Syrian Britons are people whose heritage is originated from Syria who were born in or who reside in the United Kingdom.
Demography
The 2011 UK census recorded 8,526 people who stated that they were born in Syria and reside in England; 322 in Wales, 379 in Scotland and 31 in Northern Ireland. The Office for National Statistics estimated that the population stood at 48,000 in 2019.[2] This increase is due largely to the Syrian refugee crisis.
In the six-year period between 2018 and 2023, 8,581 Syrian nationals entered the United Kingdom by crossing the English Channel using small boats – the fifth most common nationality of all small boat arrivals.[3] [4]
Notable people
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.[5]
- 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
Artists and designers
- Moussa Ayoub (c.1873–1955), Syrian-born British painter and portraiture artist.[6]
- Khairat Al-Saleh (born 1940), painter, ceramicist, glassmaker and printmaker
- Nabil Nayal: fashion designer who won the Fashion Trust Grant from the British Fashion Council and the Royal Society of Arts Award
Academia
Writers and journalists
Other
See also
External links
Associations
Notes and References
- Web site: Country of birth (extended) . Office for National Statistics . 28 March 2023.
- Web site: ONS estimates for 2019.
- Web site: Official Statistics: Irregular migration to the UK, year ending December 2022 . gov.uk . Home Office . 23 February 2023.
- Web site: Statistics relating to the Illegal Migration Act: data tables to December 2023 . gov.uk . Home Office . 2 January 2024.
- Web site: Mustafa Suleyman . 2024-08-04 . Mustafa Suleyman . en-GB.
- Web site: Ayoub, Moussa Benezit Dictionary of Artists. www.oxfordartonline.com. 2011. en. 10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00009249. 978-0-19-977378-7. 2020-03-16.
- Web site: PhysicsWorld Archive » Volume 13 » Obituary: Dennis Sciama 1926–1999. Physicsworldarchive.iop.org. 2012-02-28.
- Web site: PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY VOL. 145, NO. 3, SEPTEMBER 2001. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120221225518/http://www.amphilsoc.org/sites/default/files/311.pdf. 21 February 2012. 2012-02-28. dmy-all.
- Bar . Shmuel . Bashar's Syria: The Regime and its Strategic Worldview . Comparative Strategy . 2006 . 25 . 5 . 353–445 . 0149-5933 . 26 November 2013 . 10.1080/01495930601105412 . 154739379 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131126160614/http://herzliyaconference.org/_Uploads/2590Bashars.pdf#page=2 . live.
- News: President Assad's wife banned from travelling to Europe... but not Britain . The Mirror . 23 March 2012 . 17 July 2015.