| Ahmad al-Khatib أحمد الخطيب | |
| Birth Date: | 1933 |
| Birth Place: | Daraa, Syria |
| Death Place: | Damascus, Syria |
| Office: | Acting President of Syria |
| Term Start: | 18 November 1970 |
| Term End: | 12 March 1971 |
| Predecessor: | Nureddin al-Atassi |
| Successor: | Hafez al-Assad |
| Office1: | Speaker of the People's Assembly of Syria |
| Term Start1: | 22 February 1971 |
| Term End1: | 26 December 1971 |
| Predecessor1: | Mansur al-Atrash (was parliament chairman in 1966) |
| Successor1: | Fahmi al-Yusufi |
| Office2: | Member of the Regional Command of the Syrian Regional Branch |
| Term Start2: | 13 November 1970 |
| Term End2: | 15 April 1975 |
| Party: | Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party |
Ahmad Hasan al-Khatib (Arabic: أحمد حسن الخطيب; 1933–1982) was a Syrian politician. He was a ceremonial head of state of Syria, appointed by Hafez al-Assad to replace the ousted president Nureddin al-Atassi. Ahmad al-Khatib was a civilian member of the ruling Ba'ath party and served as the country's acting president for only four months. Assad subsequently became president in 1971. He then became the speaker of the Syrian parliament.[1]
He died in Damascus, Syria in 1982. He had many siblings, one of them was Najwa al-Khatib, the wife of Abdulmajid Mansour, a very important doctor in the Syrian army who died in 2007.