Amani Ballour (born 1987) is a Syrian-born pediatrician and an advocate of women's and children's rights.

[1] Her story is portrayed by the Oscar-nominated documentary The Cave, which tells of the struggles of running an underground hospital during the Syrian civil war.

With thirteen other doctors, Ballour decided to continue operating underground, beneath the unfinished building.

[6] At times, they were able to use smuggled medical stocks paid by international and local NGOs, and equipments taken from other destroyed hospitals.

[4] Ballour is no trauma surgeon, but with the influx of casualties amid the Syrian Civil War, doctors in The Cave have to treat the wounded even though their affliction was not their specialty.

[3] She was forced to flee Syria and spent some time living in a refugee camp in Turkey.