The following is a list of notable Assyrian

Assyrian people

The Assyrian people are a distinct ethnic group whose origins lie in ancient Mesopotamia...

 people (also sometimes known as Chaldo-Assyrians or Syriacs

Syriacs

Syriac may refer to:* Syriac alphabet* Syriac language* Syriac Christians* Syriac Christianity, the churches using Syriac as their liturgical language* Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac people, adherents of Syriac Christianity-See also:...

), it includes persons who are from (or whose ancesty is from) the Mesopotamian Syriac-Aramaic

Syriac language

Syriac is a dialect of Middle Aramaic that was once spoken across much of the Fertile Crescent. Having first appeared as a script in the 1st century AD after being spoken as an unwritten language for five centuries, Classical Syriac became a major literary language throughout the Middle East from...

 speaking Assyrian

Assyrian

-In antiquity:*ancient Assyria**the Old Assyrian period **the Middle Assyrian period **the Neo-Assyrian period *Either of two provinces of the Persian Empire:**Achaemenid Assyria...

 Christian

Christian

A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...

 populations originating in Iraq

Iraq

Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

, Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

, north eastern Syria

Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....

 and south eastern Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

.

Activists

• Rosie Malek-Yonan
  Rosie Malek-Yonan
  Rosie Malek-Yonan is an Assyrian actress, author, director, public figure and human rights activist.-Early life:Born in Tehran, Iran, Rosie Malek-Yonan is a descendant of one of the oldest and most prominent Assyrian families, tracing her Assyrian roots back nearly 11 centuries...
  
  
• Jumana Hanna
  Jumana Hanna
  Jumana Michael/Mikhail Hanna is an Iraqi woman of Assyrian Christian background who was imprisoned at loose dog's during the rule of Saddam Hussein. In July 2003, she attested to the Coalition Provisional Authority that she had been tortured during her time in the prison, due to her religious...
  
  , involved in anti Baath war propaganda - torture victim
• Nuri Kino
  Nuri Kino
  Nuri Kino is an Assyrian-Swedish freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker.-Biography:...
  
  

Actors, directors and Comedians

• F. Murray Abraham
  F. Murray Abraham
  Fahrid Murray Abraham is an American actor. He became known during the 1980s after winning the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Antonio Salieri in Amadeus. He has appeared in many roles, both leading and supporting, in films such as All the President's Men and Scarface...
  
  
• Terrence Malick
  Terrence Malick
  Terrence Frederick Malick is a U.S. film director, screenwriter, and producer. In a career spanning almost four decades, Malick has directed five feature films....
  
  
• Tony Yalda
• Yasmine Hanani
  Yasmine Hanani
  Yasmine Hanani is an American actress.Hanani was born in Baltimore and grew up in Southfield, Michigan and later in Orange County, Southern California. Hanani has worked on documentaries "Voices of Iraq,". "My Country, My Country" and "The Blood of My Brother"...
  
  
• Rosie Malek-Yonan
  Rosie Malek-Yonan
  Rosie Malek-Yonan is an Assyrian actress, author, director, public figure and human rights activist.-Early life:Born in Tehran, Iran, Rosie Malek-Yonan is a descendant of one of the oldest and most prominent Assyrian families, tracing her Assyrian roots back nearly 11 centuries...
  
  
• Vincent Oshana
  Vincent Oshana
  Vincent Oshana is an ethnic Assyrian American actor and comedian best known for his various roles on Showtime channel's television series The Underground.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Naguib el-Rihani
  Naguib el-Rihani
  Naguib el-Rihani was an Egyptian actor. Born in Bab El Shereya, Cairo, Egypt to an Iraqi ethnic Assyrian father by the name of "Elias El Rihani" who was a member of the Chaldean Catholic Church and worked as a horse expert and trader who eventually settled in Cairo where he met and eventually...
  
  
• Heather Raffo
  Heather Raffo
  Heather Raffo is an Lucille Lortel Award-winning Iraqi American playwright and actress, best known for her leading role in the one-woman play 9 Parts of Desire.-Early life:...
  
  
• Tony Shalhoub
  Tony Shalhoub
  Anthony Marcus "Tony" Shalhoub is an American actor of Lebanese descent. His television work includes the roles of Antonio Scarpacci on Wings and sleuth Adrian Monk on the TV series Monk. He has won three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe for his work in Monk...
  
  
• Tamara Dhia
  Tamara Dhia
  Tamara Dhia is an Iraqi American actress and film producer.- Career :Tamara was raised in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, her parents left for the United States in the 1980s....
  
  
• Andre Khabbazi
  Andre Khabbazi
  Andre Khabbazi was born to Assyrian Iranian-American parents in 1975 in Sacramento, CA. Based in Los Angeles, California, he started his artistic career as an actor in several TV series and soap operas and later on starred in a 2001 movie titled Circuit along with Jonathan Wade-Drahos and Kiersten...
  
  
• Fares Fares
  Fares Fares
  Fares Fares in Beirut, Lebanon, is a Swedish film actor with Assyrian/Syriac origin. He is the brother of film director Josef Fares, and has several times played major parts in his movies, including Jalla! Jalla! and Kopps. He has also starred in Bang Bang Orangutang and Kill Your Darlings...
  
  
• Joey Nibras

Architects and Designers

• Raad Ghantous
  Raad Ghantous
  Raad Ghantous is an interior designer notably known for helping improve the appearance of the Cultural Center in San Clemente....
  
  
• Hana Sadiq
  Hana Sadiq
  Hana Sadiq is an Iraqi fashion designer who has held fashion shows in Amman; Jordan, Naples, Italy, Beirut; Lebanon and Dubai; UAE.Sadiq has a degree in French Literature from the University of Baghdad. Now a fashion designer, she specializes in the integration of Arabic art with the best of...
  
   - Fashion Designer and Writer
• May Joseph Ramou
  May Joseph Ramou
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Artists and Calligraphers

• Paulus Khofri
  Paulus Khofri
  Paulus Khofri was an Assyrian composer, lyricist and painter. He was born August 7, 1923 in Baghdad, Iraq and died in Tehran, Iran in May 2000 at the age of 77.-Biography:...
  
   - Painter, Lyricist and Composer
• Eser Afacan
  Eser Afacan
  Eser Afacan is a Turkish artist painter and sculptor of ethnic Assyrian. His father, also an artist, is Assyrian, while his mother is of Greek origin....
  
  
• Farouk Kaspaules
  Farouk Kaspaules
  Farouk Kaspaules is an Iraqi-born Canadian artist of Assyrian and Arab origin.Born in Baghdad, Kaspaules left Iraq in the mid-1970s for political reasons. After a brief stay in the United States, he chose Canada as his country of exile...
  
  - Artist
• Issa Benyamin
  Issa Benyamin
  -Biography:Assyrian calligrapher, Issa Benyamin was born to Assyrian parents, Mirza Benyamin Kaldani and Esther in 1924 in Tabriz, Iran and shortly thereafter, settled in Urmia, once a heavily Assyrian populated region in northwestern Iran that was the site of the Assyrian Genocide of...
  
   - Calligrapher
• Hannibal Alkhas Painter

In the Middle East

FOOTBALL (SOCCER)

• Ammo Baba
  Ammo Baba
  Emmanuel Baba Dawud better known as Ammo Baba , was a former Iraqi and ethnic Assyrian international football player and coach of the Iraq national football team...
  
   - Iraqi Assyrian footballer & Manager of Iraq - Iraq International. Voted best Iraqi Athlete of All Time
• Youra Eshaya
  Youra Eshaya
  Youra Eshaya Pera is a former Iraqi and ethnic Assyrian and football player who was the first Iraqi player ever to play in Europe.-Early life:...
  
   - Iraqi Assyrian footballer - First Iraqi to play professionally in the west, for Bristol Rovers,England - Iraq International
• Basil Gorgis Hanna - Iraqi Assyrian footballer - World Cup Player 1986
• Thamer Yousif
  Thamer Yousif
  Elias Thamir Yousif was an Iraqi and ethnic Assyrian football player. A long time Al Zawra member, Thamir led the Iraq Super League in goals in three different occasions and was 2nd in the league in two different occasions. His domestic club career lasted from 1969 to 1987. He led his team, Al...
  
   - Iraqi Assyrian Footballer - Iraq International
• Saad Benyamin
  Saad Benyamin
  Saad Benyamin was a former Iraqi international football player. An ethnic Assyrian, Benyamin played for Al-Zawraa, Al-Rasheed, Al-Shorta, and Club Africain. In 1988, Saad was called up to play for the Iraqi U-19 in the Asian Youth Championship in Doha, Qatar, where the team won the tournament and...
  
   - Iraqi Assyrian Footballer - Iraq International
• Aram Karam
  Aram Karam
  Aram Karam , an ethnic Assyrian and Christian, was one of the first great Iraqi footballers, who earned a reputation for scoring goals from apparently impossible long-range situations....
  
   - Iraqi Assyrian Footballer - Iraq International
• Ayoub Odisho
  Ayoub Odisho
  Ayoub Odisho Barjam is an ethnic Assyrian Christian former Iraq national coach, who is currently coach of Arbil FC.Ayoub was a tough tackling full-back, who played for Al-Talaba during a playing career that spanned 14 years. The right-sided defender joined the Students club in 1976, making his...
  
   - Iraqi Assyrian Footballer and Club Manager (in Lebanon)
• Douglas Aziz - Douglas Aziz Shamasha Eshaya
• Baba Shallou - Iraqi Assyrian Footballer
• Gilbert Sammy - Iraqi Assyrian footballer - Iraq International
• Albert Khoshaba - Iraqi Assyrian footballer - Iraq International
• Shadrak Yousef - Iraqi Assyrian footballer - Iraq International
• Georgis Ishmael - Iraqi Assyrian footballer - Iraq International
• Gilbert Awekam - Iraqi Assyrian footballer - Iraq International
• Hormis Goriel - Iraqi Assyrian footballer - Iraq International
• Youel Gorgis - Iraqi Assyrian footballer - Iraq International
• Isaac Y. Isaac - Iraqi Assyrian footballerhttp://www.torontowingedbull.com/stars/isaac.htm
• Ammo Sammson - Iraqi Assyrian footballerhttp://www.torontowingedbull.com/stars/ammo_s.htm
• Wilson Rasho - Iraqi Assyrian footballer http://www.torontowingedbull.com/stars/wilson_r.htm
• Gibson Younan - Iraqi Assyrian footballerhttp://www.torontowingedbull.com/stars/gibson.htm
• Khoshaba Lawo Kanon - Iraqi Assyrian footballer - Iraq International http://www.torontowingedbull.com/stars/khoshaba.htm
• Akram Ammanoel - Iraqi Assyrian footballer - Iraq International http://www.torontowingedbull.com/active/akram.htm
• Arkan Shamoun - Iraqi Assyrian footballer - Iraq International
• Muhaimen Malakh - Iraqi Assyrian footballer - Iraq International http://www.torontowingedbull.com/active/muhaimen.htm
• Esho Youkhanna - Iraqi Assyrian footballer - Iraq Internationalhttp://www.torontowingedbull.com/active/esho.htm

FUTSAL

• Admon Hanna Esho - Member of Iraqi National Futsal
  Futsal
  Futsal is a variant of association football that is played on a smaller pitch and mainly played indoors. Its name is a portmanteau of the Portuguese futebol de salão and the Spanish fútbol de salón , which can be translated as "hall football" or "indoor football"...
  
   team

BASKETBALL

• Benny Koochoie - Iranian Assyrian Basketball International

BOXING

• Mustafa Hamsho
  Mustafa Hamsho
  Mustafa Hamsho , born in 10 October 1953 in Latakia, Syria, was a Assyrian/Syriac boxer who never won a world title, but fought some big names in his career. Though he was not a winner in all of those fights, he did some things to make every one of his fights interesting and controversial in some...
  
  , Syrian Assyrian/Syriac Boxer, Middleweight
• George Issabeg
  George Issabeg
  George Issabeg is a former Iranian boxer of Assyrian ethnicity that represented Iran at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics. In 1948, Issabeg competed in the Welterweight level and lost in the first round against the Italian Alessandro D'Ottavio, who went on to win the silver medal...
  
  , Iranian Assyrian Boxer - Represented Iran in 1948
  1948 Summer Olympics
  The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was held in London, England, United Kingdom. After a 12-year hiatus because of World War II, these were the first Summer Olympics since the 1936 Games in Berlin...
  
   and 1952 Summer Olympics
  1952 Summer Olympics
  The 1952 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Helsinki, Finland in 1952. Helsinki had been earlier given the 1940 Summer Olympics, which were cancelled due to World War II...
  
  
• Anwar Oshana
  Anwar Oshana
  Anwar Oshana was an ethnic Assyrian boxer in the Super Middleweight division between 1994 and 2005. He fought 28 times, winning 23 and losing 5....
  
   - Syrian Assyrian Boxer, Super Middleweight in USA. Illinois State Champion
• Shoura Osipov- Iranian Assyrian Boxer 1948 Summer Olympics
  1948 Summer Olympics
  The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was held in London, England, United Kingdom. After a 12-year hiatus because of World War II, these were the first Summer Olympics since the 1936 Games in Berlin...
  
   representing Iran
• Mike Agassi - Iranian Assyrian Boxer - Represented Iran in Olympics
• Ramon Babei - Assyrian Iranian Asian Games
  Asian Games
  The Asian Games, officially known as Asiad, is a multi-sport event held every four years among athletes from all over Asia. The Games were regulated by the Asian Games Federation from the first Games in New Delhi, India, until the 1978 Games. Since the 1982 Games they have been organised by the...
  
   boxing champion
• William Yonani - Assyrian Iranian boxer - National champion of Iran
• Ehs Abhari - Assyrian Iranian boxer - National champion of Iran
• William Adamzadeh - Assyrian Iranian boxer - National champion of Iran
• Andre Gorges - Assyrian Canadian Light -Welterweight boxer
• Zaya Younan
  Zaya Younan
  -Career:Born in Tehran, Iran of ethnic Assyrian heritage. Zaya Younan is an American citizen. Younan worked in senior executive positions with Fortune 500 companies, including General Motors, Johnson Controls and TRW before he became the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Younan Properties,...
  
   - National Amateur Champion in Iraq, Iran and Canada

ATHLETICS (TRACK AND FIELD)

• George Malek-Yonan
  George Malek-Yonan
  George Malek-Yonan is an Assyrian international attorney, politician and champion athlete. Rosie Malek-Yonan, his daughter, is an actress, author, and human-rights activist.-Biography:...
  
   - Iranian Assyrian Track & Field Athlete. Iran's Champion of Champions, Gold medalist in Pentathlon and Track & Field

TENNIS

• William Daniel - Iraqi Assyrian Tennis Champion
• Andrew Simon
  Andrew Simon
  Andrew Michael Simon an American clarinetist, is principal clarinet of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.He made his debut in the Carnegie Hall Recital Hall in 1989, after winning the Artists International Young Musicians Auditions Clarinet Award....
  
   - Iraqi Assyrian Tennis Champion

Diaspora

AMERICAN FOOTBALL

• Alex Agase
  Alex Agase
  -External links:...
  
   - Assyrian American - Top level American Football (Gridiron) player
• Lou Agase
  Lou Agase
  Lou Agase was a Gridiron football player and coach of Assyrian ancestry.Agase played Tight End and Offensive tackle for the Illinois Fighting Illini football team 1944-1947. He was a member of the Illini team that won the 1947 Rose Bowl...
  
   - Assyrian American - Top level American Football (Gridiron) player

TENNIS

• Andre Agassi
  Andre Agassi
  Andre Kirk Agassi is a retired American professional tennis player and former world no. 1. Generally considered by critics and fellow players to be one of the greatest tennis players of all time, Agassi has been called the best service returner in the history of the game...
  
   - Assyrian/Armenian American Tennis Player - USA Based
• Michael Shabaz
  Michael Shabaz
  Michael Shabaz is an American tennis player who won the 2005 Wimbledon boys' doubles championship with Jesse Levine, and currently a NCAA tennis player for the University of Virginia Cavaliers.-Early life:...
  
   - Assyrian American Tennis player

FOOTBALL (SOCCER)

• Steven Beitashour
  Steven Beitashour
  Steven Beitashour is an Iranian American soccer player who currently plays for the San Jose Earthquakes in Major League Soccer.-College and Amateur:...
  
   - currently plays for San Jose Earthquakes
  San Jose Earthquakes
  The San Jose Earthquakes professional soccer team is located in the San Jose, California, United States suburb of Santa Clara, and participates in Major League Soccer , the top level soccer league in the United States and Canada....
  
   in Major League Soccer
  Major League Soccer
  Major League Soccer is a professional soccer league based in the United States and sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation . The league is composed of 19 teams — 16 in the U.S. and 3 in Canada...
  
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• Assyriska - Assyrian League Football Team in Sweden (Have reached Swedish Cup Final)
• Kennedy Bakircioglu
  Kennedy Bakircioglü
  Kennedy Bakircioglü is a Swedish footballer who plays for Racing de Santander in Spain, as a right midfielder.-Early life:...
  
   - Assyrian Swedish International Footballer - Sweden Based - Swedish International player
• Louay Chanko
  Louay Chanko
  Louay Chanko is a Swedish-born Assyrian/Syriac footballer who plays in midfield for AaB in the Danish Superliga. Chanko's contract expires 2012. He is a central midfielder who is noted for his set piece delivery.- International career :...
  
   - Assyrian Syrian Footballer - Denmark Based - Syrian International player
• George Mourad
  George Mourad
  George Mourad is a Assyrian/Syriac Swedish footballer. He currently plays for Mes Kerman of Iran Pro League as a striker.-Club career:After playing for Västra Frölunda IF, he joined IFK Göteborg in 2004 and scored seven goals in his debut season in Allsvenskan. In 2005, he had a disappointing...
  
   - Assyrian Syrian Footballer - Iran Based - Syrian International player
• Ilyas Merkes
  Ilyas Merkes
  Ilyas Merkes is an Assyrian/Syriac-Swedish footballer from Syria, who plays currently for Kaveh Tehran F.C. in Iran. He also plays for the Syrian national team.-External links:* * * * * *...
  
   - Assyrian Syrian Footballer - Syrian International player
• Sanharib Malki
  Sanharib Malki
  Sanharib Malki Sabah , is a Syrian footballer, but identifying himself as an Assyrian. He who plays as a striker for Roda JC in the Dutch Eredivisie and the Syrian national team.For K.S.V...
  
   - Assyrian Syrian Footballer - Dutch Based (Roda JC) - Syrian International player
• Alexander Alkhazov - Assyrian Russian Footballer, plays for FC Krylia Sovetov Samara
• Christian Demirtas
  Christian Demirtas
  Christian Demirtaş is a German footballer of Assyrian/Syriac descent from Turkey .- External links :* at kicker.de * at transfermarkt.de * at worldfootball.net...
  
   - Assyrian German Footballer - German Based
• Daniel Unal
  Daniel Unal
  Daniel Unal is a Swiss footballer of Assyrian/Syriac origin who plays as a midfielder for FC Locarno.He started his career at AC Bellinzona in 2006 where he made seventeen appearances in his first and only season at the club. He was loaned to the U21-Team of A.S...
  
   - Assyrian Turkish Footballer - playing for FC Basle in Switzerland
• Leena Khamis
  Leena Khamis
  Leena Khamis is an Australian football player who currently plays for Fortuna Hjørring in the Danish Elitedivisionen.-Biography:She represented Australia at the 2004 FIFA World Under 19 Women's Championship in Thailand...
  
   - Assyrian Australian Female Footballer - Australian Women's Football International
• Ninos Gouriye
  Ninos Gouriye
  Ninos Gouriye is a Dutch footballer of Syrian descent and Assyrian ethnicity. He currently plays for the Dutch Eredivisie side FC Twente.- Personal life :...
  
   - Assyrian Dutch Footballer
• Daniyel Cimen
  Daniyel Cimen
  Daniyel Cimen is a German footballer of Assyrian/Syriac ethnicity who plays for Eintracht Frankfurt II. He was playing for Eintracht Frankfurt, but had some problems earning a spot in the regular squad. Eintracht Frankfurt loaned him to the then 2. Bundesliga side Eintracht Braunschweig...
  
   - Assyrian German Footballer
• Abgar Barsom
  Abgar Barsom
  Abgar Barsom is a Swedish football-player of Syriac origin, currently playing for Syrianska FC.He made his first spell at Djurgårdens IF from 2000 to 2002, after having joined DIF from BK Forward. He was later sold to SC Heerenveen in the Netherlands, but his time at the Abe Lenstra Stadion was no...
  
   - Assyrian Swedish Footballer
• Elias Merkes - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Plays for Assyriska
• Stefan Batan
  Stefan Batan
  Stefan Batan is a Swedish football player of ethnic Assyrian/Syriac origin who currently is playing for Assyriska FF- Career :...
  
   - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Plays for Assyriska
• Andreas Haddad - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Plays for Assyriska
• Eddie Moussa
  Eddie Moussa
  Eddie Moussa was a Swedish football player. He carried both Swedish citizenship and Lebanese citizenship and was of Assyrian descent.-Career:...
  
   - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Plays for Assyriska
• Gabriel Özkan
  Gabriel Özkan
  Gabriel Özkan is a Swedish football player of Assyrian/Syriac descent who plays for AIK Fotboll. Gabriel joined AIK in the summer of 2006 from Brommapojkarna, after coming through their youth academy and eventually becoming a first-team player, although still being a teenager.-Biography:On...
  
   - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Plays for AIK Fotboll
  AIK Fotboll
  AIK, , an abbreviation for Allmänna Idrottsklubben, , when needed internationally AIK Stockholm, is a Swedish football club based at Råsunda stadium in Solna, a municipality in Stockholm County bordering to Stockholm City Centre...
  
  
• Sharbel Touma
  Sharbel Touma
  Sharbel Touma is a Lebanese-born Swedish footballer of Aramean descent who plays for Syrianska FC in the Allsvenskan.-Early life:...
  
   - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Plays for Syrianska FC
  Syrianska FC
  Syrianska Football Club, known as Syrianska FC and Suryoye , is a Swedish professional football club from Södertälje, a city south of Stockholm, Sweden. The club was formed in 1977, by Syriac immigrants as Suryoyo Sportklubb...
  
  
• Suleyman Sleyman
  Suleyman Sleyman
  Suleyman Sleyman is a Swedish football defender of Assyrian/Syriac origin who currently is playing for Syrianska FC. With a degree in economics from the Stockholm School of Economics, he works part-time as an auditor for Ernst & Young....
  
   - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Plays for Syrianska FC
  Syrianska FC
  Syrianska Football Club, known as Syrianska FC and Suryoye , is a Swedish professional football club from Södertälje, a city south of Stockholm, Sweden. The club was formed in 1977, by Syriac immigrants as Suryoyo Sportklubb...
  
  
• David Durmaz
  David Durmaz
  David Durmaz is a Swedish footballer of Assyrian/Syriac origin, who plays for Syrianska FC. Durmaz also has Turkish citizenship. Durmaz played for various Swedish clubs before departing from his club Malmö FF to Turkish club Denizlispor in summer 2009...
  
   - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Plays for Syrianska FC
  Syrianska FC
  Syrianska Football Club, known as Syrianska FC and Suryoye , is a Swedish professional football club from Södertälje, a city south of Stockholm, Sweden. The club was formed in 1977, by Syriac immigrants as Suryoyo Sportklubb...
  
  
• Imad Chhadeh
  Imad Chhadeh
  Imad Chhadeh is an ethnic Assyrian footballer from Syria footballer currently under contract for Swedish side Assyriska.-External links:*** http://svenskfotboll.se/allsvenskan/person/?playerid=3161...
  
   - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Plays for Assyriska
• Gabriel Ucar
  Gabriel Ucar
  Gabriel Ucar is a Swedish footballer who plays as a defender for Ängelholms FF.He spent time on trial at Irish side Derry City in 2008.Ucar has also represented the Sweden under-21 side, earning a total of 9 caps.-References:...
  
   - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Played for Assyriska
• Andreas Yacoub-Haddad - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Played for Assyriska
• George Makdessi
  George Makdessi
  George Makdessi is an ethnic Assyrian footballer. He is based in Sweden and plays for Assyriska, as a midfielder.He is the cousin of Syrian International player Louay Chanko.-External links:...
  
   - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Plays for Assyriska
• Erido Poli
  Erido Poli
  Erido Poli is anAssyrian footballer. He is based in Sweden and plays for Assyriska.-References:...
  
   - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Plays for Assyriska
• Nahir Besara
  Nahir Besara
  Nahir Besara is an ethnic Assyrian Swedish Footballer, he currently plays for Assyriska Föreningen, as a midfielder.-External links:...
  
   - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Plays for Assyriska
• Mikael Ishak
  Mikael Ishak
  Mikael Ishak is an ethnic Assyrian professional footballer. He currently plays for Assyriska in Sweden.-External links:...
  
   - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Plays for Assyriska
• David Yarar
  David Yarar
  David Yarar is an ethnic Assyrian professional footballer. He currently plays for Assyriska in Sweden.-References:...
  
   - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Plays for Assyriska
• Gabriel Awrohum
  Gabriel Awrohum
  Gabriel Awrohum is an ethnic Assyrian professional footballer. He currently plays for Assyriska in Sweden.In 2009, he was knocked unconscious, by some Syrianskas Football Club supporters.-References:...
  
   - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Plays for Assyriska
• Narsai Shaba
  Narsai Shaba
  Narsai Shaba is an ethnic Assyrian professional footballer. He currently plays for Assyriska in Sweden.-References:...
  
   - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Plays for Assyriska
• Naramsin Awrohum
  Naramsin Awrohum
  Naramsin Awrohum is a Turkish born ethnic Assyrian professional footballer. He currently plays for Assyriska in Sweden.-References:...
  
   - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Plays for Assyriska
• Elias Malke-Gharo
  Elias Malke-Gharo
  Elias Malke-Gharo is a Lebanese born ethnic Assyrian professional footballer. He currently plays for Assyriska in Sweden.-References:...
  
   - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Plays for Assyriska
• Sargon Simonsson
  Sargon Simonsson
  Sargon Simonsson is an ethnic Assyrian and Swedish professional footballer. He played for Assyriska in Sweden, from 2001 to 2008. He plays for Syrianska.-External links:...
  
   - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Plays for Assyriska
• Michel Noyan
  Michel Noyan
  Michel Noyan is a Turkish born ethnic Assyrian professional footballer. He currently plays for Assyriska Föreningen in Sweden, as a defender.-External links:...
  
   - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Plays for Assyriska
• Dani Hamzo
  Dani Hamzo
  Dani Hamzo is a Lebanese footballer who has played as a forward for a number of clubs in Sweden.He has played in the Allsvenskan for both Östers IF and Assyriska Föreningen. He played for Öster in their opening game of the 2003 Allsvenskan season, a defeat against defending champions Djurgårdens...
  
   - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Plays for Assyriska
• Melek Bisso - Assyrian Swedish Football coach for Assyriska
• Nobara Odisho - Part of Medical Unit for Assyriska
• Jasar Takak
  Jasar Takak
  Jasar Takak is a Dutch footballer who currently plays in midfield. He is currently unattached.- Early career :Born in 's-Hertogenbosch by Assyrian/Syriac parents from Turkey, Takak started his career with local side RKVV Sint-Michielsgestel...
  
   - Dutch based Assyrian footballer, formerly of Vitesse Arnhem
  Vitesse Arnhem
  Stichting Betaald Voetbal Vitesse is a Dutch football club from Arnhem, which was founded on 14 May 1892. Vitesse has had considerable success in the Eredivisie, and featured in the UEFA Cup competition, but has never been considered a close competitor of the top three clubs of Netherlands...
  
  
• Waad Hermiz - Assyrian USA based Soccer player, played for San Diego Shockers
• Sami Boudakh - Assyrian USA based Soccer player http://www.torontowingedbull.com/active/boudakh.htm
• Justin Meram
  Justin Meram
  Justin Meram is an ethnic Assyrian American soccer player currently playing for the Columbus Crew in Major League Soccer.-College and Amateur:...
  
   - Assyrian USA based Soccer player
• Mikhail Piraev - Assyrian Soviet football player during the 40's and the 50's. Played for the USSR national team, Dinamo Tbilisi, Spartak Moscow and VVS Moscow.

BASKETBALL

• Oraha Georges Daniel - Assyrian Basketballer played in Zambia
  Zambia
  Zambia , officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west....
  
  n league, Swimming silver medalist in Iraq
• Nahren Nina Baresso Assyrian Swedish
  Swedish
  Swedish may refer to:*Swedish cuisine*Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe *Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland...
  
   International Womens Basketball Player

BOXING

• Ashour Esho - Assyrian American Boxer - USA Based
• Isho Shiba
  Isho Shiba
  Isho Shiba is an Assyrian-Canadian boxer.He is Assyrian, and was born in Baghdad, Iraq. He currently resides in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He trains at McGrorys Boxing club in Hamilton ON. He is a six time Canadian Champion. Shiba was a 2006 Rookie of the Year and 2006 Athlete of the Year...
  
   - Assyrian Canadian Boxer - Canadian Champion
• Zaya Younan
  Zaya Younan
  -Career:Born in Tehran, Iran of ethnic Assyrian heritage. Zaya Younan is an American citizen. Younan worked in senior executive positions with Fortune 500 companies, including General Motors, Johnson Controls and TRW before he became the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Younan Properties,...
  
   - Assyrian Canadian Boxing Promoter
• John Joseph - Assyrian American Boxer
• Anwar Oshana
  Anwar Oshana
  Anwar Oshana was an ethnic Assyrian boxer in the Super Middleweight division between 1994 and 2005. He fought 28 times, winning 23 and losing 5....
  
   - Assyrian American Super Middleweight Boxer. Illinois State Champion
• Emil Hussen - Super Flyweight Division
• Sammy Merza
  Sammy Merza
  Sammy Merza is a Assyrian American Boxer from Chicago, Illinois.He started boxing at the age of 10 and competed his first professional fight at the age of 22. He currently holding a record of 14-1-11 KO's.-References:...
  
   - USA based Middleweight
• Ninos Abraham - USA based Middleweight
• Andre Gorges - Canada based Light Welterweight boxer
• Joseph Ashur Lazarus - USA based Bantamweight, boxed in 1924 Olympics
• Eddie Younan
• Tom Younan

MARTIAL ARTS

• Mikhail Sado
  Mikhail Sado
  Mikhail Yukhanovich Sado , was an Assyrian Russian linguist, scholar, Professor of Semitic languages, orientalist, politician, former paratrooper, and wrestling champion.Mikhail Sado was born on June 9, 1934 in Leningrad...
  
   - Assyrian Russian Wrestling
  Wrestling
  Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...
  
   Champion
• Tiras Odisho
  Tiras Odisho
  Tiras Odisho is an ethnic Assyrian former Martial Arts practitioner and expert who has served as the Director General of the National Olympic Committee of Iraq. He currently resides in Sweden....
  
   - Assyrian Iraqi Karate
  Karate
  is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Islands in what is now Okinawa, Japan. It was developed from indigenous fighting methods called and Chinese kenpō. Karate is a striking art using punching, kicking, knee and elbow strikes, and open-handed techniques such as knife-hands. Grappling, locks,...
  
   Champion, currently Director General of National Olympic Committee of Iraq
  National Olympic Committee of Iraq
  The National Olympic Committee of Iraq is the National Olympic Committee for Iraq. It was established in 1948 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee that same year. It was officially dissolved in May 2003 by L...
  
  

POKER

• Daniel Alaei
  Daniel Alaei
  Siblings=Devon VafaiDaniel Christopher Alaei is a professional poker player from Santa Fe Springs, California. He is of Assyrian Iranian descent....
  
  

Directors

• Terrence Malick
  Terrence Malick
  Terrence Frederick Malick is a U.S. film director, screenwriter, and producer. In a career spanning almost four decades, Malick has directed five feature films....
  
  
• Henri Charr
  Henri Charr
  Henri Charr also credited as Henri Charbakshi and H. Charr is an Assyrian filmmaker born in Iran and living in Southern California. He has had a long career in the film industry working as a director, editor, producer and writer....
  
  
• Nuri Kino
  Nuri Kino
  Nuri Kino is an Assyrian-Swedish freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker.-Biography:...
  
  
• Rosie Malek-Yonan
  Rosie Malek-Yonan
  Rosie Malek-Yonan is an Assyrian actress, author, director, public figure and human rights activist.-Early life:Born in Tehran, Iran, Rosie Malek-Yonan is a descendant of one of the oldest and most prominent Assyrian families, tracing her Assyrian roots back nearly 11 centuries...
  
  
• Alfred Rasho
  Alfred Rasho
  -About:Alfred Rasho is an award winning documentary filmmaker of Assyrian descent. He is the president of Roxie Media Corporation, an award-winning audio-visual communications company that produces film, video and multimedia, based in Chicago, Ill....
  
  , Emmy awarded documentary filmmaker 1992, 1995
• Lina Yakubova
  Lina Yakubova
  Lina Yakubova was a documentary film producer and writer. She was born to an Assyrian father, Albert Yakubov and Armenian mother, Karina Khachaturyan in the Assyrian Village of Dmitrovo , Armenia...
  
  

Educators and explorers

• Donny George Youkhanna
  Donny George Youkhanna
  Donny George Youkhanna , was an Iraqi Assyrian archaeologist, anthropologist, author, curator, and scholar, and a visiting professor at Stony Brook University in New York, internationally known as "the man who saved the Iraqi National Museum."-Biography:Youkhanna was born in Habbaniyah, Iraq in...
  
  
• Emmanuel Kamber
• Hormuzd Rassam
  Hormuzd Rassam
  Hormuzd Rassam , was a native Assyrian Assyriologist, British diplomat and traveller who made a number of important discoveries, including the clay tablets that contained the Epic of Gilgamesh, the world's oldest literature...
  
   - The middle east's first Archaeologist and Assyriologist
• Louis Cheikhô
  Louis Cheikhô
  Louis Cheikhô, or Sheikho, , born Rizqallâh Cheikhô was an ethnic Assyrian Orientalist and Theologian. He is considered as a major contributor and pioneer of the rediscovery of the Eastern Rite Christian heritage.-Biography:...
  
   - Assyrian Orientalist
  Oriental studies
  Oriental studies is the academic field of study that embraces Near Eastern and Far Eastern societies and cultures, languages, peoples, history and archaeology; in recent years the subject has often been turned into the newer terms of Asian studies and Middle Eastern studies...
  
  
• Ashur Yousif
  Ashur Yousif
  Ashur Yusef Efendi was a professor and an Assyrian nationalist leader prior to World War I and the Assyrian Genocide. Ashur was raised in Tur Abdin and like many in the area, was part of the Syriac Orthodox Church...
  
  
• Dr. Eden Naby
  Eden Naby
  Eden Naby is an Assyrian cultural historian of Central Asia and the Middle East. She was born in the once important Assyrian village of Golpashan, located outside Urmia in Iran. Eden Naby has conducted research, taught and published on minority issues in countries from Turkey to Tajikistan...
  
  
• Prof. Mikhail Sado
  Mikhail Sado
  Mikhail Yukhanovich Sado , was an Assyrian Russian linguist, scholar, Professor of Semitic languages, orientalist, politician, former paratrooper, and wrestling champion.Mikhail Sado was born on June 9, 1934 in Leningrad...
  
   - Russian linguist, scholar, Professor of Semitic languages, orientalist, politician, former paratrooper, and wrestling champion
• Kanan Makiya
  Kanan Makiya
  Kanan Makiya is an Iraqi academic, who gained British nationality in 1982. He is the Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University...
  
  , academic, professor
• Gambar Givargidze
• Hind Rassam Culhane
  Hind Rassam Culhane
  Professor Hind Rassam Culhane was born to an Iraqi father, a lawyer and a Lebanese mother, Sophie Bekhaazi who was a teacher....
  
   - Lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies and Behavioural Scientist
• Thomas L. Saaty - Iraqi born Assyrian American Mathematician
• Toma bar Yacoub - 9th Century Theological historian
• Hunayn ibn Ishaq
  Hunayn ibn Ishaq
  Hunayn ibn Ishaq was a famous and influential Assyrian Nestorian Christian scholar, physician, and scientist, known for his work in translating Greek scientific and medical works into Arabic and Syriac during the heyday of the Islamic Abbasid Caliphate.Ḥunayn ibn Isḥaq was the most productive...
  
  - Scholar, physician, scientist, and translator
• Masawaiyh
  Masawaiyh
  Yuhanna ibn Masawaih, also written Ibn Masawaih, Masawaiyh, and in Latin Mesue, Masuya, Mesue Major, Msuya, and Mesue the Elder was an Assyrian physician from the Academy of Gundishapur...
  
  - Physician
• Gabriel of Sinjar- Physician
• Sargius of Res’Aina- Scholar, translator, and physician
• Josef the Catholicos- Physician
• Bar Daysan- Philosopher
• Rabbula of Edessa- Writer
• Aba I- Philosopher, astronomer
• Philoxenos- Theologian
• Daniel of Salah- Theologian
• Babai the Great
  Babai the Great
  Babai the Great was an early church father of the Church of the East. He set several of the foundational pillars of the Church, revived the monastic movement, and formulated its Christology in a systematic way. He served as an unofficial head of the Nestorian Church from 611 to 628 AD, leaving a...
  
  - Philosopher, theologian
• Severus Sebokht- Scholar, philosopher, and astronomer
• Yohannan Bar Penkaye- Writer, historian
• Timotheus I- Scholar
• Anton of Tikrit- Philosopher
• Job of Edessa- Philosopher
• Iwannis of Dara- Philosopher, theologian
• Mushe Bar Kipho- Scholar, Bishop
• Abu – l’ Hasan Bahlul- Writer
• Emmanuel Bar Shhare - Philosopher
• Isho Bar Ali- Writer
• Dionysis Bar Salibi- Scholar, bishop, and physician
• Patriarch Michael the Great- Scholar, theologian
• Gregorios Abu ‘l Faraj- Scholar, philosopher, and writer
• Yohannon Bar Zobi- Philosopher, writer, and scholar
• Israel of Alqosh- Poet
• Joseph II of Diyarbekir- Author, translator
• Shemun Basileios- Writer, theologian
• Toma Audo- Bishop, writer
• Ignatius Afrem Barsauwm I- Scholar, writer, and historian
• Mor Philoxenos Yuhanon Dolabani- Scholar, poet, editor, and translator
• Gabriel Paulus- Professor of Assyrian language
• Asmar Al - Koury- Writer, historian
• Babai (Nestorian Patriarch)
  Babai (Nestorian Patriarch)
  Babai, also Babaeus, was Patriarch of the Church of the East , from 497 – 503. Under his leadership, the Persian Church became increasingly aligned with the Nestorian movement, declared heretical in the Roman Empire....
  
  - Bishop

Entrepreneurs

• Bob Miner
  Bob Miner
  Robert Nimrod "Bob" Miner was a co-founder of Oracle Corporation and architect of Oracle's relational database management system....
  
  , co-founder of Oracle Corporation
  Oracle Corporation
  Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...
  
  
• Zaya Younan
  Zaya Younan
  -Career:Born in Tehran, Iran of ethnic Assyrian heritage. Zaya Younan is an American citizen. Younan worked in senior executive positions with Fortune 500 companies, including General Motors, Johnson Controls and TRW before he became the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Younan Properties,...
  
  , Founder and CEO of Younan Properties, Inc.
• Milton Malek-Yonan
  Milton Malek-Yonan
  Milton Malek-Yonan was an Assyrian entrepreneur and inventor.-Biography:Milton Malek-Yonan was born to Assyrian parents in Urmia, Iran in 1904. He was a descendant of one of the oldest and most prominent Assyrian families, the Malek Family or Tribe that came from Assyrian village of Geogtapah,...
  
  , Inventor of Converted Rice
• Sue Ismiel
  Sue Ismiel
  Sue Ismiel is an Australian businesswoman and entrepreneur of Assyrian descent. She is the founder of Nad's, a multi-million dollar hair removal and beauty company based in Sydney...
  
  , Founder of Nad's, a multi-million dollar wax and beauty company in Australia
  Australia
  Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
  
   with distributions worldwide.
• Victor Nacif
  Victor Nacif
  Victor Nacif is the Vice President of Design at Nissan Design Europe.He is a Mexican of Lebanese and Iraqi Assyrian descent, after migrating to the United States as a child, he quickly became fluent in English...
  
  
• Jeff Moorad
  Jeff Moorad
  Jeff Moorad is a former sports agent and is currently lead owner of the San Diego Padres and part-owner of the Arizona Diamondbacks baseball team.He is an Assyrian American...
  
  , lead owner of the San Diego Padres
  San Diego Padres
  The San Diego Padres are a Major League Baseball team based in San Diego, California. They play in the National League Western Division. Founded in 1969, the Padres have won the National League Pennant twice, in 1984 and 1998, losing in the World Series both times...
  
   and part-owner (12%) of the Arizona Diamondbacks
  Arizona Diamondbacks
  The Arizona Diamondbacks are a professional baseball team based in Phoenix. They play in the West Division of Major League Baseball's National League. From 1998 to the present, they have played in Chase Field...
  
   baseball team.
• Tony Rezko
  Tony Rezko
  Antoin "Tony" Rezko is a Assyrian -American businessman, political fundraiser, restaurateur, and real estate developer in Chicago, Illinois, convicted on several counts of fraud and bribery in 2008. Rezko has been involved in fundraising for local Illinois Democratic and Republican politicians...
  
  , political fundraiser, restaurateur, and real estate developer.
• Steven Solomon, founder and CEO of Invention Pipeline Incorporated, inventor.

Leaders

• Shamoun Hanna Haydo
  Shamoun Hanna Haydo
  Shamoun Hanna Haydo, sometimes spelled Chamoun was a Syriac warrior and leader during the early 20th century. He was famous for his heroic stand against the Turkish government...
  
  
• Agha Petros
  Agha Petros
  Petros Elia of Baz , better known as Agha Petros, was an Assyrian military leader during World War I.- Early years :...
  
  , World War I Assyrian General in Iraq, helped assryians in Iran, Born in the village of Baz
• Malik Khoshaba
  Malik Khoshaba
  Malik Khoshaba was an Assyrian leader of the ancient Bit-Tyari tribe who played a significant role during the Assyrian war of independence during World War I...
  
   - Assyrian Military Leader World War I
• Georges Sada
  Georges Sada
  General Georges Hormiz Sada is an Iraqi of Assyrian descent, an author and retired general officer of the Iraqi Air Force....
  
   - Former Commander of the Iraqi Air Force, and Author
• Nabonidus
  Nabonidus
  Nabonidus was the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, reigning from 556-539 BCE.-Historiography on Nabonidus:...
  
   (Nabo Naid)- Assyrian born King of Babylon
• Belshazzar
  Belshazzar
  Belshazzar, or Balthazar , was a 6th century BC prince of Babylon, the son of Nabonidus and the last king of Babylon according to the Book of Daniel . Like his father, it is believed by many scholars that he was an Assyrian. In Daniel Belshazzar, or Balthazar , was a 6th century BC prince of...
  
   - Regent of Babylon, son of Nabonidus
• Izates I
  Izates I
  Izates I was king of Adiabene in the late 1st century BCE and father of Helena of Adiabene and Monobaz I. As the custom of that time dictated, Helana and Monobaz were married....
  
   (c. 15 AD) - First King of Adiabene
• Izates bar Monobaz
  Izates bar Monobaz
  Izates II or Izates bar Monobaz was a proselyte to Judaism who became King of the Parthian client kingdom of Adiabene. He was the son of Queen Helena of Adiabene and Monobaz I. During his youth he was sent by his father to the court of King Abinergaos I of Characene in Charax Spasinu...
  
   - King of Adiabene

Media

• Paul Caldani
  Paul Caldani
  Paul Caldani , is a musician, radio personality, Assyrian scholar, and author of non-fictional Iranian folk tales. He was born on May 25, 1949, in Sanandaj, Iran....
  
  - Radio Iran 670 Am KIRN Los Angeles, California
  Los Angeles, California
  Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
  
  
• Obelit Yadgar
  Obelit Yadgar
  Obelit Yadgar , aka Obie Yadgar, is an Assyrian-American radio personality from Glendale, Wisconsin.Yadgar was born in Baghdad, Iraq. Raised in Tehran, he moved to the United States in 1957...
  
   - Glendale, Wisconsin

Models

• Ramona Amiri
  Ramona Amiri
  Ramona Rina Amiri is an Iranian Canadian woman of Assyrian and Persian heritage who won the Miss World Canada contest in 2005....
  
  , Miss Canada 2005
• Claudia Hanna
  Claudia Hanna
  Klodia Hanna , better known as Klodia is a Iraqi singer and model. She currently lives in Cairo working on her debut album following the release of her first single in the Egyptian dialect, "Bandam Awy"....
  
  , Miss Iraq 2006
• Larsa Pippen, former model married to Scottie Pippen
  Scottie Pippen
  Scottie Maurice Pippen is a retired American professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association . He is most remembered for his time with the Chicago Bulls, with whom he was instrumental in six NBA Championships and their record 1995–96 season of 72 wins...
  
  
• Jessica Wardeh, Miss Middle East University 2009.

Musicians and composers

Complete list; List of Assyrian musicians

• Ashur Bet Sargis
  Ashur Bet Sargis
  Ashur Bet Sargis , , is an Assyrian Composer and Singer. He became famous in the Assyrian communities worldwide for his nationalistic songs in the seventies.-Early career in Iraq:...
  
  
• Gabriel Asaad
  Gabriel Asaad
  Gabriel Asaad was an Assyrian composer and musician. Among the classical songs of Gabriel Asaad there are Ho Donho Shemsho , Motho Rhimto and Moth Beth-Nahrin...
  
  
• Jamil Bashir
• Fairuz
  Fairuz
  Nouhad Wadi Haddad , famously known as Fairuz is a Lebanese singer who is widely considered to be the most famous living singer in the Arab world and one of the best known of all time...
  
   - The most famous living singer in the Arab world and one of the best known of all time.
• Munir Bashir
  Munir Bashir
  Munir Bashir was an Assyrian musician in Iraq and one of the most famous musicians in the Middle East during the 20th century and was considered to be the supreme master of the Arab maqamat scale system....
  
  
• Paul Caldani
  Paul Caldani
  Paul Caldani , is a musician, radio personality, Assyrian scholar, and author of non-fictional Iranian folk tales. He was born on May 25, 1949, in Sanandaj, Iran....
  
  
• Linda George
  Linda George
  Linda George is an ethnic Assyrian singer who resides in the United States Of America. The vast majority of her songs are sung in her native Assyrian language...
  
  
• Juliana Jendo
  Juliana Jendo
  Juliana Jendo is an Assyrian–American singer. She was born and raised in Tel Tamer, Syria. Along with her family, she emigrated to the USA in 1980 and settled in Chicago, Illinois...
  
  
• Benjamin Üzel - Zmaryothe Ruhonoye - Christian Music
• Paulus Khofri
  Paulus Khofri
  Paulus Khofri was an Assyrian composer, lyricist and painter. He was born August 7, 1923 in Baghdad, Iraq and died in Tehran, Iran in May 2000 at the age of 77.-Biography:...
  
  
• Janan Sawa
  Janan Sawa
  Janan Sawa is a famous Assyrian musician.A Catholic by faith, Janan started singing in 1972, at the age of 17. In 1975, Janan's father forced him to marry. He spent 4 years in the Iraqi army, from 1974 to 1978....
  
  
• Nawfal Shamoun
  Nawfal Shamoun
  Nawfal Shamoun is an Assyrian singer.-Early life:Nawfal was born in Basra, south of Iraq on 28 November 1968. And that was only a few months after his father, the teacher Mr. Khoshaba, died in a car crash between Baghdad and Basra...
  
  
• Elias Zazi
  Elias Zazi
  Elias Zazi is an Assyrian composer and a theorist in music. Zazi also teaches music and works as a music critic and writer to a daily newspaper in Södertälje, Sweden.- History :...
  
  
• Timz
  Timz
  Tommy Hanna, known by his stage name Timz, is an Iraqi American rapper best known for his song "Iraq". His debut album is entitled Open for Business....
  
  
• Josef Özer
  Josef Özer
  Josef Özer is a Syriac musician. He was born 18 July 1983 in Västerås, Sweden. In 2005 he made his debut in Melodifestivalen with the song Rain, written by Bobby Ljunggren...
  
  
• Habib Mousa
  Habib Mousa
  Habib Mousa is an Assyrian/Syriac singer. He was born in 1952. In 1971 he made his debut in singing in Syriac.Habib Mousa was born in Malikiyeh-Syria on October 9, 1952 and raised in Al-Qamishli, Syria where he studied at the Syriac school. Since his early childhood he liked the church melodies...
  
  
• Jan Karat
• Elias Karam
  Elias Karam
  Elias Karam is a Syrian singer from Assyrian/Syriac ethnic origins, born in the city of Al-Hasakah in the Northeastern governorate of Al-Hasakah.-Biography:Elias was born in Al-Hasakah, Syria in the Northeastern governorate of Al-Hasakah....
  
  
• Wadih El Safi
  Wadih El Safi
  Wadih El Safi is a Lebanese singer songwriter, and actor of Assyrian/Syriac background. He is a Lebanese cultural icon, and is often called the "Voice of Lebanon"...
  
  
• Assyrian Kings - Assyrian band
• Sargon Gabriel
  Sargon Gabriel
  Sargon Gabriel is a famous Assyrian musician born in Baghdad, Iraq.Sargon Gabriel began singing as a teenager and made his first appearance on live television at the age of 17 in Baghdad, Iraq...
  
  
• Michael Dayan
• Firas Younadam

Non-Assyrian music

• Tony Aziz Yaqoo - Member of Iraqs only heavy metal band Acrassicauda
  Acrassicauda
  Acrassicauda is an Iraqi thrash metal band formed in 2001. It is often credited as being the first heavy metal group to emerge from Iraq. The band consists of three Arab members and one Assyrian . The band formed and played concerts under the regime of Saddam Hussein...
  
  
• Melechesh
  Melechesh
  Melechesh is a Assyrian-Armenian black metal band that originated in Jerusalem. Ashmedi started the band as a solo project in 1993. In the following year, guitarist Moloch and drummer Lord Curse were added to the line-up...
  
   - Assyrian Death/Thrash Heavy Metal band
• Aril Brikha
  Aril Brikha
  Aril Brikha is one of the world leading Assyrian Techno musicians, he is nominated for the Best Dance album in the Swedish National radio Gold Gala award in his adopted country of Sweden.-History:...
  
   - Assyrian Techno/House music artist
• Claudia Hanna
  Claudia Hanna
  Klodia Hanna , better known as Klodia is a Iraqi singer and model. She currently lives in Cairo working on her debut album following the release of her first single in the Egyptian dialect, "Bandam Awy"....
  
   - Assyrian singer of Arabic & Assyrian music, based in Egypt
• Rola Bahnam
  Rola Bahnam
  Rola Bahnam or often spelt Rula Bahnam, is an Iraqi Lebanese television presenter, mostly known for working in Future TV and now presenting the TV Show "Isma Wi Naseeb" "Perfect Bride" on LBC...
  
   - Lebanon based TV presenter and singer with The 4 Cats
  The 4 Cats
  The 4 Cats is a Lebanese band made up of four ladies: Dalida, Maya, Raya and Aline. They are also called, 4 Cats. The band is famous for singing oldies in Arabic. The members in the band have changed frequently.- Beginning of the band 1998 :...
  
  .
• Timz
  Timz
  Tommy Hanna, known by his stage name Timz, is an Iraqi American rapper best known for his song "Iraq". His debut album is entitled Open for Business....
  
   (real name Tommy Hanna) Chaldean American Rap musician
• Ninsun Poli
  Ninsun Poli
  Ninsun Poli is an Assyrian singer and songwriter raised in Botkyrka, a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden. This soul and R&B artist made her debut at Hultsfred Festival 2004 in Sweden followed by performances at Stockholm's Berns, Lydmar, Alcazar and Nalen and at Malmö Festival in Malmö in summer of...
  
  
• Nabu Poli - member of Mili Mili World Music
  Mili Mili World Music
  Mili Mili World Music is an eclectic mix of artists and music with the moto One World, One Race, One Voice.Mili Mili, in Arabic translates into movement, is a dynamic world music band originally from Los Angeles...
  
  
• Dalli Hadad
• Alan Enwia - Music producer
• Samir Peter - Pianist, and subject of the BBC Documentary The Liberace of Baghdad
  The Liberace of Baghdad
  The Liberace of Baghdad is a 2005 British documentary film by filmmaker Sean McAllister focusing on the life and music of Iraqi pianist Samir Peter and his family in wartime Baghdad. The film received a 2005 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury award as well as the 2005 British Independent Film...
  
  
• Muthana Mani - Assyrian Member of Iraqi Thrash Metal
  Thrash metal
  Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that is characterized usually by its fast tempo and aggression. Songs of the genre typically use fast percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work...
  
   band Brutal Impact
• Haval Yousif - Assyrian member of Iraqi Heavy Metal
  Heavy metal music
  Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
  
   band Maybe
  Maybe
  Maybe may refer to:-Music:* Maybe, a song written in 1926 by George and Ira Gershwin, from the musical Oh, Kay!* "Maybe" , a 1935 song by Allan Flynn and Frank Madden, performed by The Ink Spots, Dinah Shore and others...
  
  
• Rafaiel Saib - Assyrian Member of Iraqi Thrash Metal
  Thrash metal
  Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that is characterized usually by its fast tempo and aggression. Songs of the genre typically use fast percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work...
  
   band Fataology

Physicians and Scientists

• Callinicus
  Greek fire
  Greek fire was an incendiary weapon used by the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantines typically used it in naval battles to great effect as it could continue burning while floating on water....
  
   - Inventors of the so called "Greek" fire
• Bukhtishu
  Bukhtishu
  Bakhtshooa Gondishapoori were Persian Nestorian Christian physicians from the 7th, 8th, and 9th centuries, spanning 6 generations and 250 years. Some of them served as the personal physicians of Caliphs. Jurjis son of Bukht-Yishu was awarded 10,000 dinars by al-Mansur after attending to his malady...
  
   Family - an ethnic Assyrian family of physicians from the 7th, 8th, and 9th centuries in Persia and Mesopotamia, spanning 6 generations and 250 years. Some of them served as the personal physicians of Caliphs.
• Berossus
  Berossus
  Berossus was a Hellenistic-era Babylonian writer, a priest of Bel Marduk and astronomer writing in Greek, who was active at the beginning of the 3rd century BC...
  
   - Astronomer in Seleucid Mesopotamia
• Diophantus
  Diophantus
  Diophantus of Alexandria , sometimes called "the father of algebra", was an Alexandrian Greek mathematician and the author of a series of books called Arithmetica. These texts deal with solving algebraic equations, many of which are now lost...
  
   - Mathematician
• Bar-Hebraeus
  Bar-Hebraeus
  Gregory Bar Hebraeus was a catholicos of the Syriac Orthodox Church in the 13th century...
  
  
• Yuhanna Ibn Masawaih
• Hunayn bar Ishaq
• Thabit ibn Qurra
  Thabit ibn Qurra
  ' was a mathematician, physician, astronomer and translator of the Islamic Golden Age.Ibn Qurra made important discoveries in algebra, geometry and astronomy...
  
  
• Ibrahim ibn Sinan
  Ibrahim ibn Sinan
  Ibrahim ibn Sinan ibn Thabit ibn Qurra was a Syriac speaking Mandean from Harran in northern Mesopotamia/Assyria. He was mathematician and astronomer who studied geometry and in particular tangents to circles. He also made advances in the theory of integration...
  
  

Iraq

• Yonadam Kanna
  Yonadam Kanna
  Yonadam Yousef Kanna is an Iraqi politician and a member of the Iraqi National Assembly. He was a member of the Iraqi Governing Council in 2003-2004 that was created following the Invasion of Iraq by the United States in 2003. An Assyrian Christian from northern Iraq, Kanna served in the Kurdistan...
  
  , Secretary General of the Assyrian Democratic Movement
  Assyrian Democratic Movement
  The Assyrian Democratic Movement also known as Zowaa is an ethnic Assyrian political party in Iraq, and is currently the only Assyrian-based political party to be voting in the Iraqi parliament....
  
   and Iraq Parliament Representative
• Basim Bello
  Basim Bello
  Basim Bello is, as of December 2006, the mayor of Tel Keppe, Iraq An ethnic Assyrian, Bello is a member of the Assyrian Democratic Movement.-References:...
  
  , Mayor of Tel Kaif, Iraq
• Bahnam Zaya Bulos
  Bahnam Zaya Bulos
  Bahnam Zaya Bulos was Minister of Transport in the cabinet appointed by the Interim Iraq Governing Council in September 2003. A member of Iraq's Assyrian Christian minority, Bulos is originally from Baghdad, where he worked as a civil engineer....
  
  , Iraq Minister of Transport (2003–2004)
• Basimah Yusuf Butrus
  Basimah Yusuf Butrus
  Professor Basimah Yusuf Butrus is an Iraqi Assyrian politician who was Minister of Science and Technology in the Iraqi Transitional Government from May 2005 until May 2006. She was then the only Christian Minister in Iraq. She graduated from Salahaddin University, earning Master's degree in...
  
  , Iraq Minister of Science and Technology 2005-2006
• Franso Hariri
  Franso Hariri
  Franso Toma Hariri, an Assyrian politician, was a high ranking and long-standing Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iraq member and head of the KDP block of Iraqi Kurdistan National Assembly....
  
  , Mayor of Arbil
  Arbil
  Arbil / Hewlêr is the fourth largest city in Iraq after Baghdad, Basra and Mosul...
  
  
• Fawzi Franso Hariri, Iraq Parliament Representative, Current Minister of Industry in Iraq
• Yonadam Kanna
  Yonadam Kanna
  Yonadam Yousef Kanna is an Iraqi politician and a member of the Iraqi National Assembly. He was a member of the Iraqi Governing Council in 2003-2004 that was created following the Invasion of Iraq by the United States in 2003. An Assyrian Christian from northern Iraq, Kanna served in the Kurdistan...
  
  , Secretary General of the Assyrian Democratic Movement
  Assyrian Democratic Movement
  The Assyrian Democratic Movement also known as Zowaa is an ethnic Assyrian political party in Iraq, and is currently the only Assyrian-based political party to be voting in the Iraqi parliament....
  
   and Iraq Parliament Representative
• Wijdan Michael
  Wijdan Michael
  Wijdan Michael Salim is the current Iraqi Minister for Human Rights in the government of Nouri al-Maliki. An ethnic Assyrian and a Chaldean Catholic, she was elected as part of the Iyad Allawi's Iraqi National List...
  
  , Current Minister of Human Rights in Iraq
• Georges Sada
  Georges Sada
  General Georges Hormiz Sada is an Iraqi of Assyrian descent, an author and retired general officer of the Iraqi Air Force....
  
  , General served under Saddam in the Iraqi Air force
• Ablahad Afraim Sawa
  Ablahad Afraim Sawa
  Ablahad Afraim Sawa is a member of the National Assembly of Iraq who was elected on the Kurdistani Alliance slate. A member of the Chaldean Democratic Union, he was also elected in January 2005- References :...
  
  , Iraq Parliament Representative
• Pascal Esho Warda
  Pascal Esho Warda
  Pascal Esho Warda was the Minister of Immigration and Refugees in the Iraqi Interim Government. A Chaldean Catholic and an ethnic Assyrian, she was born in 1961 in the Northern Iraqi city of Dahuk, but later exiled to France. There, she attended the University of Lyon and received her Masters in...
  
  , Iraq Minister of Immigration and Refugees 2003-2004
• Albert Edward Ismail Yelda
  Albert Edward Ismail Yelda
  Albert Edward Ismail Yelda is currently Iraq's ambassador to the Vatican. Yelda, an ethnic Assyrian, belongs to the Ancient Church of the East...
  
  , Iraq Ambassador to the Vatican
  Holy See
  The Holy See is the episcopal jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Rome, in which its Bishop is commonly known as the Pope. It is the preeminent episcopal see of the Catholic Church, forming the central government of the Church. As such, diplomatically, and in other spheres the Holy See acts and...
  
  
• Yusuf Salman Yusuf
  Yusuf Salman Yusuf
  Fahd , the nom de guerre of Yusuf Salman Yusuf , an ethnic Assyrian and Christian was one of the first Iraqi communist activists and was first secretary of the Iraqi Communist Party from 1941 until his death on the gallows in 1949. He is generally credited with a vital role in the party’s rapid...
  
  , Secretary General of Iraqi Communist Party
  Iraqi Communist Party
  Since its foundation in 1934, the Iraqi Communist Party has dominated the left in Iraqi politics. It played a fundamental role in shaping the political history of Iraq between its foundation and the 1970s. The Party was involved in many of the most important national uprisings and demonstrations...
  
   1941-1949
• Lady Surma D'Bait Mar Shimun
  Surma D'Bait Mar Shimun
  Lady Surma D'Bait Mar Shimun was the sister of the Catholics Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East and leader of the Assyrians, Mar Shimun XXI Benyamin.-Biography:...
  
   (Surma Khanum)
• Sarkis Aghajan Mamendo
  Sarkis Aghajan Mamendo
  Sarkis Aghajan Mamendo , is an Iraqi Assyrian politician who was appointed Minister for Finance and Economy in the cabinet of Iraqi Kurdistan on 2006-05-07....
  
  , Current Minister of Finance and Economy in Kurdistan Regional Government
  Kurdistan Regional Government
  The Kurdistan Regional Government , , is the official ruling body of the predominantly Kurds-populated Kurdistan Region in Northern Iraq...
  
  
• Tariq Aziz
  Tariq Aziz
  Tariq Aziz and Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq and a close advisor of former President Saddam Hussein. Their association began in the 1950s when both were activists for the then-banned Ba'ath Arab Socialist Party...
  
  , Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq 1979–2003 (Real name Michael Youkhana)
• Kamel Hana Gegeo - chief bodyguard to Saddam Hussein
  Saddam Hussein
  Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003...
  
  
• Tiras Odisho
  Tiras Odisho
  Tiras Odisho is an ethnic Assyrian former Martial Arts practitioner and expert who has served as the Director General of the National Olympic Committee of Iraq. He currently resides in Sweden....
  
   - Director General of National Olympic Committee of Iraq
  National Olympic Committee of Iraq
  The National Olympic Committee of Iraq is the National Olympic Committee for Iraq. It was established in 1948 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee that same year. It was officially dissolved in May 2003 by L...
  
  
• Dala Ashur - Assyrian Iraqi Army General of Saddam Hussein
  Saddam Hussein
  Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003...
  
  s Armed Forces
• Tiras Odisho
  Tiras Odisho
  Tiras Odisho is an ethnic Assyrian former Martial Arts practitioner and expert who has served as the Director General of the National Olympic Committee of Iraq. He currently resides in Sweden....
  
   - Head of the Iraqi Olympic Committee

Iran

• Yonathan Betkolia, Representative in Iran's Parliament
• Freydun Atturaya
  Freydun Atturaya
  Freydun Bet-Abram Atturaya was an Assyrian physician born in the town of Charbash in the district of Urmia in Iran. He was sent by his father to live with an uncle in Tbilisi, then in the Russian Empire, and studied medicine there. He worked as a medical doctor for the Russian Army as soon as he...
  
  , Co-founder of the Assyrian Socialist Party

Turkey

• Erol Dora First ever Assyrian representative in Turkey's Parliament, 2011–present
• Naum Faiq
  Naum Faiq
  Naum Elias Yaqub Palakh , better known as Naum Faiq was one of the founding fathers of modern Assyrian nationalism during the early 20th century. He was a teacher and writer throughout his life...
  
  , 1868–1930

United Nations

• Dr. William Ishaya - Deputy Permanent Representative - Mission of the Republic of Iraq to the United Nations in New York, USA.

USA

• Mitch Daniels
  Mitch Daniels
  Mitchell Elias "Mitch" Daniels, Jr. is the 49th and current Governor of the U.S. state of Indiana. A Republican, he began his first four-year term as governor on January 10, 2005, and was elected to his second term by an 18-point margin on November 4, 2008. Previously, he was the Director of the...
  
   - Governor of Indiana and potential Republican presidential candidate
• Adam Benjamin, Jr.
  Adam Benjamin, Jr.
  Adam Benjamin Jr. was a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1977 to 1982.Born to Assyrian parents, in Gary, Indiana on August 6, 1935, Adam Benjamin, Jr. became one of the Calumet Region's most dynamic and respected legislators...
  
  , Indiana
  Indiana
  Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is...
  
   Congressman
• Anna Eshoo
  Anna Eshoo
  Anna Georges Eshoo is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1993. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district, which includes part of Silicon Valley, includes the cities of Redwood City, Sunnyvale, Mountain View and Palo Alto...
  
  , California
  California
  California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
  
   Congressman
• John Nimrod, Illinois
  Illinois
  Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
  
   Senator
• John S. Lazar, Turlock, California Mayor
• Wadie P. Deddeh, California Assembly Member 1967-1983 and State Senator 1983-1993.

Australia

• Andrew Rohan
  Andrew Rohan
  Andrew Baijan Rohan MP , an Australian politician, is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Smithfield for the Liberal Party of Australia since 2011.-Early years and background:...
  
  , Current State Member for Smithfield New South Wales Parliament, and Fairfield City Council Councillor for the Liberal Party of Australia
  Liberal Party of Australia
  The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...
  
  
• Ninos Khoshaba
  Ninos Khoshaba
  Ninos Khoshaba is an Australian politician of Assyrian decent, and currently a member of Parliament of New South Wales. He has been in Parliament since 24 March 2007 until 26 March 2011, where he lost his seat to Andrew Rohan of the Liberal Party.-Early life:...
  
  , Former Member of the New South Wales Parliament
  Parliament of New South Wales
  The Parliament of New South Wales, located in Parliament House on Macquarie Street, Sydney, is the main legislative body in the Australian state of New South Wales . It is a bicameral parliament elected by the people of the state in general elections. The parliament shares law making powers with...
  
   Sydney
  Sydney
  Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
  
   Australia
  Australia
  Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
  
  
• Anwar Khoshaba
  Anwar Khoshaba
  Anwar Khoshaba, is an Australian politician, Fairfield City Councillor , in Sydney Australia. He is of Assyrian descent.- References :...
  
  , Fairfield City Councillor (former Mayor) Sydney
  Sydney
  Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
  
   Australia
  Australia
  Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
  
  

Sweden

• Ibrahim Baylan
  Ibrahim Baylan
  Ibrahim Baylan, is a Swedish politician and a member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party. He was Minister for Schools in the cabinet of Göran Persson from 2004 to 2006 and was replaced by Jan Björklund of the Liberal People's Party following the defeat of the Social Democrats in the 2006 election...
  
  , Sweden Minister of Education 2004-2006 and Sweden Parliament
  Parliament of Sweden
  The Riksdag is the national legislative assembly of Sweden. The riksdag is a unicameral assembly with 349 members , who are elected on a proportional basis to serve fixed terms of four years...
  
   Representative
• Yilmaz Kerimo
  Yilmaz Kerimo
  Yilmaz Kerimo is an Assyrian/Syriac and a member of the Riksdag and a member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party. He was first elected in the Swedish parliament in 1998 and was re-elected in 2006.-References:...
  
  , Sweden Parliament
  Parliament of Sweden
  The Riksdag is the national legislative assembly of Sweden. The riksdag is a unicameral assembly with 349 members , who are elected on a proportional basis to serve fixed terms of four years...
  
   Representative
• Roger Haddad, Sweden Parliament
  Parliament of Sweden
  The Riksdag is the national legislative assembly of Sweden. The riksdag is a unicameral assembly with 349 members , who are elected on a proportional basis to serve fixed terms of four years...
  
   Representative
• Metin Ataseven, Sweden Parliament
  Parliament of Sweden
  The Riksdag is the national legislative assembly of Sweden. The riksdag is a unicameral assembly with 349 members , who are elected on a proportional basis to serve fixed terms of four years...
  
   Representative
• Robert Halef, Sweden Parliament
  Parliament of Sweden
  The Riksdag is the national legislative assembly of Sweden. The riksdag is a unicameral assembly with 349 members , who are elected on a proportional basis to serve fixed terms of four years...
  
   Representative

Canada

• Helena Guergis
  Helena Guergis
  Helena C. Guergis, PC, is a Canadian politician. She has represented Simcoe—Grey in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004, and was appointed Minister of State on October 30, 2008, following the October 14, 2008 Canadian federal election...
  
  , former Canadian
  Canada
  Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
  
   Member of Parliament
  Canadian House of Commons
  The House of Commons of Canada is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign and the Senate. The House of Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 308 members known as Members of Parliament...
  
   and Minister of State
  Minister of state (Canada)
  A Minister of State is a junior cabinet minister in the Canadian Cabinet, usually given specific responsibilities to assist a senior cabinet minister in a specific area....
  
   (Status of Women)

Other countries

• Eugene Dooman
  Eugene Dooman
  Eugene Hoffman Dooman served as counselor at the United States Embassy in Tokyo during the critical negotiations between the two countries during World War II. Born in Osaka to missionary parents of Assyrian background who themselves were born in northwest Iran, Dooman knew Japanese as a native...
  
  
• Emmanuel Kamber, Assyrian Universal Alliance
  Assyrian Universal Alliance
  Assyrian Universal Alliance is an ethnic Assyrian umbrella organization in the Middle East. The Assyrian Universal Alliance is an international alliance made up of different sectors of the Assyrian federations and organisations throughout the world. Mr...
  
   Secretary General
• Sargon Dadesho
  Sargon Dadesho
  Sargon Dadesho is an Assyrian nationalist leader. Dadesho is currently the head of various Assyrian organizations and political parties, and is married to Janet Shamon.- Biography :...
  
   - Activist, Author and leader of Assyrian National Congress
• Iskender Alptekin
  Iskender Alptekin
  Iskender Alptekin also known as "Matay Rabo" Kafro, Tur Abdin was an Assyrian/Syriac politician, musician and the President of the European Syriac Union .-Biography:...
  
   - Politicians, singer and former President of the European Syriac Union
  European Syriac Union
  European Syriac Union is an alliance between Chaldean-Syriac-Assyrian political of cultural organizations in Europe that was established in May 2004...
  
  
• Praydon Darmoo - British based Acting Secretary General of the Assyrian Universal Alliance
  Assyrian Universal Alliance
  Assyrian Universal Alliance is an ethnic Assyrian umbrella organization in the Middle East. The Assyrian Universal Alliance is an international alliance made up of different sectors of the Assyrian federations and organisations throughout the world. Mr...
  
  

Religious figures

• Bar Sauma
  Bar Sauma
  Barsauma was Metropolitan of Nisibis in the 5th century, and a major figure in the history of the Church of the East. A capable politician, he was on good terms with Peroz I, King of the Sassanid Empire of Persia, and wielded great influence in the Church of the East. As such he was frequently in...
  
  
• Babai the Great
  Babai the Great
  Babai the Great was an early church father of the Church of the East. He set several of the foundational pillars of the Church, revived the monastic movement, and formulated its Christology in a systematic way. He served as an unofficial head of the Nestorian Church from 611 to 628 AD, leaving a...
  
   551-628
• Basile Georges Casmoussa
  Basile Georges Casmoussa
  Basile Georges Casmoussa is the Syrian Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of the Syrian Catholic Archeparchy of Mosul, Iraq. His Excellency, Archbishop Emeritus Casmoussa was transferred to the Syriac Catholic Patriarchal Curia...
  
  
• David Benjamin Keldani
  David Benjamin Keldani
  David Benjamin Keldani or Dawud Benyamin was a Catholic priest who converted to Islam and adopted the name Abd ul-Aḥad Dāwūd .- Name :He was baptized as David , a name he retained after his conversion to Islam...
  
  
• Henana of Adiabene
  Henana of Adiabene
  Henana of Adiabene was headmaster of the School of Nisibis, the theological center of the Church of the East .His predecessor was Abraham of Beth Rabban who had worked hard to make the legacy of Theodore of Mopsuestia more accessible. Before he became headmaster, Henana of Adiabene had occupied the...
  
  
• Isaac of Nineveh
  Isaac of Nineveh
  Isaac of Nineveh also remembered as Isaac the Syrian and Isaac Syrus was a Seventh century bishop and theologian best remembered for his written work. He is also regarded as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church...
  
  
• Mar Dinkha IV 1935–present
• Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII
  Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII
  Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII , sometimes known as Mar Shimun XXI Ishaya, Mar Shimun Ishai, or Simon Jesse, was Catholicos Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East from 1920, when he was a youth, until his assassination on 6 November 1975...
  
  
• Mar Shimun XIX Benyamin 1903-1918
• Mar Yousip Khnanisho 1893-1977
• Sargis Bkheera 633 AD
• Tatian
  Tatian
  Tatian the Assyrian was an Assyrian early Christian writer and theologian of the 2nd century.Tatian's most influential work is the Diatessaron, a Biblical paraphrase, or "harmony", of the four gospels that became the standard text of the four gospels in the Syriac-speaking churches until the...
  
  120AD - 180AD
• Theodore of Mopsuestia
  Theodore of Mopsuestia
  Theodore the Interpreter was bishop of Mopsuestia from 392 to 428 AD. He is also known as Theodore of Antioch, from the place of his birth and presbyterate...
  
  
• Toma bar Yacoub
• Yusuf Akbulut
  Yusuf Akbulut
  Yusuf Akbulut , is a Syriac Orthodox priest from St. Mary's Church in Diyarbakır, Turkey.He was arrested by Turkish authorities after stating in a newspaper interview that he believed Armenians, Assyrians/Syriacs and Greeks were the victims of a genocide by the Ottoman Empire.A native of Anıtlı , a...
  
  
• Ephrem the Syrian
  Ephrem the Syrian
  Ephrem the Syrian was a Syriac and a prolific Syriac-language hymnographer and theologian of the 4th century. He is venerated by Christians throughout the world, and especially in the Syriac Orthodox Church, as a saint.Ephrem wrote a wide variety of hymns, poems, and sermons in verse, as well as...
  
  
• Babai the Great
  Babai the Great
  Babai the Great was an early church father of the Church of the East. He set several of the foundational pillars of the Church, revived the monastic movement, and formulated its Christology in a systematic way. He served as an unofficial head of the Nestorian Church from 611 to 628 AD, leaving a...
  
  
• Bar-Hebraeus
  Bar-Hebraeus
  Gregory Bar Hebraeus was a catholicos of the Syriac Orthodox Church in the 13th century...
  
  
• Bar Daisan
  Bar Daisan
  Bardaisan was an Assyrian gnostic, founder of the Bardaisanites, and an scientist, scholar, astrologer, philosopher and poet, also renowned for his knowledge of India, on which he wrote a book, now lost.-Biography:...
  
  
• Nestorius
  Nestorius
  Nestorius was Archbishop of Constantinople from 10 April 428 to 22 June 431.Drawing on his studies at the School of Antioch, his teachings, which included a rejection of the long-used title of Theotokos for the Virgin Mary, brought him into conflict with other prominent churchmen of the time,...
  
  
• Jacob of Nisibis
  Jacob of Nisibis
  Jacob of Nisibis , is a Syriac saint. He was the second bishop of Nisibis, spiritual father of the renowned Syriac writer Ephrem the Syrian, and celebrated ascetic....
  
  
• Diodorus of Tarsus
  Diodorus of Tarsus
  Diodore of Tarsus was a Christian bishop, a monastic reformer, and a theologian. A strong supporter of the orthodoxy of Nicaea, Diodore played a pivotal role in the Council of Constantinople and opposed the anti-Christian policies of Julian the Apostate...
  
  
• Tatian
  Tatian
  Tatian the Assyrian was an Assyrian early Christian writer and theologian of the 2nd century.Tatian's most influential work is the Diatessaron, a Biblical paraphrase, or "harmony", of the four gospels that became the standard text of the four gospels in the Syriac-speaking churches until the...
  
  
• Mar Youhannan Semaan Issayi
• Mani
  Mani (prophet)
  Mani , of Iranian origin was the prophet and the founder of Manichaeism, a gnostic religion of Late Antiquity which was once widespread but is now extinct...
  
   (216–276 AD) - Founder of the Manichean Religion.
• Pkidha
  Pkidha
  Pkidha was the first Christian bishop of Adiabene, a kingdom in northern Mesopotamia. He held the see from 104 to 114 AD.-References:Moffet, Samuel. A History of Christianity in Asia. Orbis, 1998....
  
   (104–114) - First Bishop of Adiabene
• Heliodorus
  Heliodorus
  -People:Several persons named Heliodorus are known to us from ancient times, the best known of which are:*Heliodorus a minister of Seleucus IV Philopator ca...
  
  - 4th Century Assyrian martyr
• Josephus Adjutus
  Josephus Adjutus
  Josephus Adjutus was a famous theologian with an ethnic Assyrian background. He advanced some fundamental theories on religion during the Reformation, and criticized corruption in the Catholic church.-Biography:...
  
   - 17th century Theologian
• George Garmo
  George Garmo
  Mar George Garmo was the Archbishop of the Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Mosul in Iraq from September 14, 1980 until his death on September 9, 1999.-Biography:...
  
  
• Shlemon Warduni
  Shlemon Warduni
  Bishop Mar Shlemon Warduni is Auxiliary Bishop of the Patriarchate of Babylon, Iraq, of the Chaldean Catholic Church. In 2003 he was the Locum tenens of the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans.-Life:...
  
  
• Paulos Faraj Rahho
  Paulos Faraj Rahho
  Archbishop Mar Paulos Faraj Rahho was the Chaldean Catholic Archeparch of Mosul, in the northern part of Iraq.Also known as Paul Faraj Rahho and Paulos Faradsch Raho he was born into an ethnic Assyrian family, he lived almost his entire life in Mosul, Iraq, which has a long established community...
  
  
• Emil Shimoun Nona
  Emil Shimoun Nona
  Emil Shimoun Nona is the current Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Mosul in the northern part of Iraq since the consent of Pope Benedict XVI to his election on 13 November 2009. He took over the archeparchy after the murder of Paulos Faraj Rahho in early 2008.Nona, an ethnic Assyrian, was born in...
  
  
• Raphael I Bidawid
  Raphael I Bidawid
  Mar Raphael I Bidawid † was the patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church from 1989-2003. He was also a Syriac scholar.-Life:He was born on April 17, 1922 in northern Iraqi city of Mosul into an ethnic Assyrian family, and took his school and seminar training in Mosul...
  
  
• Elias Mellus
  Elias Mellus
  Mar Yohannan Elias Mellus was a Bishop of the Chaldean Catholic Church.Elias Mellus was born on September 19, 1831 in Mardin. He entered in the monastery of Rabban Hormizd in Alqosh...
  
  
• Basile Georges Casmoussa
  Basile Georges Casmoussa
  Basile Georges Casmoussa is the Syrian Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of the Syrian Catholic Archeparchy of Mosul, Iraq. His Excellency, Archbishop Emeritus Casmoussa was transferred to the Syriac Catholic Patriarchal Curia...
  
  
• Ignatius Isaac Azar
  Ignatius Isaac Azar
  Ignatius Isaac Azar was the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch during 1709-1722. He was an Assyrian, born in Mosul, and was made a monk and priest at the monastery of St. Mathew or Dayro D'Mor Mattai. Later he became the bishop of this monastery, and was elevated as the Maphrian in 1687. In 1709...
  
  
• Mar Meelis Zaia
  Mar Meelis Zaia
  Mar Meelis Zaia , is the Assyrian Church of the East's Metropolitan of Australia and New Zealand. He was ordained a priest of the Church in 1982 in California. He is an ethnic Assyrian...
  
  

Ancient

• Aphrahat
  Aphrahat
  Aphrahat was a Syriac-Christian author of the 4th century from the Adiabene region of Northern Mesopotamia, which was within the Persian Empire, who composed a series of twenty-three expositions or homilies on points of Christian doctrine and practice...
  
  
• Bar Daysan
• Iamblichus of Chalcis
  Iamblichus of Chalcis
  Iamblichus, also known as Iamblichus Chalcidensis, was an Assyrian Neoplatonist philosopher who determined the direction taken by later Neoplatonic philosophy...
  
  
• John bar Penkaye
  John bar Penkaye
  John bar Penkaye; Yūḥannan bar penqayê, was a 7th century East Syriac Nestorian Christian writer of the late 7th century. He lived at the time of fifth caliph of the Umayyad dynasty Abd al-Malik....
  
  
• John of Ephesus
  John of Ephesus
  John of Ephesus was a leader of the non-Chalcedonian Syriac-speaking Church in the sixth century, and one of the earliest and most important of historians who wrote in Syriac.-Life:...
  
  
• Moses Bar-Kepha
  Moses Bar-Kepha
  Moses Bar-Kepha was a writer and one of the most celebrated bishops of the Syriac Orthodox Church of the ninth century....
  
  
• Philoxenus of Mabbog
  Philoxenus of Mabbog
  Philoxenus of Mabbug was one of the most notable Syriac prose writers and a vehement champion of Miaphysitism.- Early life :...
  
  
• Stephen Bar Sudhaile
  Stephen Bar Sudhaile
  Stephen Bar Sudhaile was a Syrian mystical writer who flourished about the end of the 5th century AD.The earlier part of his career was passed at Edessa, of which he may have been a native...
  
  
• Lucian of Samosata - A.D. 125 – after A.D. 180 was an Assyrian rhetorician, writer and satirist who wrote in the Greek language. He is noted for his witty and scoffing nature.

Modern

• Ivan Kakovitch
  Ivan Kakovitch
  Ivan Kakovitch was an Assyrian author, journalist, professor, and a nationalist leader. He is most notably known for writing the Assyrian manifesto and the novel Mount Semele....
  
  
• Maria Theresa Asmar
  Maria Theresa Asmar
  Maria Theresa Asmar an ethnic Assyrian, is the author of Memoirs of a Babylonian Princess, which consists of two volumes and 720 pages. This book was written in the early 19th century, describing her travels through Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, and Israel and the harem system used in Turkey. It was...
  
  
• Sargon Boulus
  Sargon Boulus
  Sargon Boulus was an Iraqi-Assyrian poet and short story writer.He was born in Habbaniyah, Iraq. In 1967, he left for Beirut, where he worked as a journalist and a translator. He later emigrated to the United States, and from 1968 lived in San Francisco. He studied comparative literature at the...
  
  
• Nina Burleigh
• Thea Halo
  Thea Halo
  Thea Halo is an American writer and painter of Assyrian and Greek heritage. Born in New York City she is the 8th child of Abraham and Sano Halo. Thea began writing poetry and short-stories in 1992 and in 2000 she published her book Not Even My Name , the memoir of her mother who belonged in...
  
  
• Ivan Kakovitch
  Ivan Kakovitch
  Ivan Kakovitch was an Assyrian author, journalist, professor, and a nationalist leader. He is most notably known for writing the Assyrian manifesto and the novel Mount Semele....
  
  
• Leilah Nadir
  Leilah Nadir
  Leilah Nadir is an Iraqi Canadian novelist and writer. Born to an ethnic Assyrian Iraqi Christian father and an English mother, she was raised in Britain and Canada....
  
  
• George Lamsa
  George Lamsa
  George M. Lamsa was an Assyrian author. He was born in Mar Bishu in what is now the extreme east of Turkey. A native Aramaic speaker, he translated the Aramaic Peshitta Old and New Testaments into English.-History and views:Lamsa was a member of the Assyrian Church of the East...
  
  
• Yuhanun Üzel - Writer&translator of the Modern Peshitta Bible in Aramaic (Turoyo)
• Benjamin Üzel - Writer&translator of the Modern Peshitta Bible in Aramaic (Turoyo)
• Yuhanon Qashisho
  Yuhanon Qashisho
  Yuhanon Qashisho was a praised Assyrian author and poet. He is known in the Assyrian community as one of the greatest Assyrian writer in the past century. His writings created a power base from which many Assyrian political and cultural movements in Syria and Lebanon have emerged in the late 20th...
  
  
• Rosie Malek-Yonan
  Rosie Malek-Yonan
  Rosie Malek-Yonan is an Assyrian actress, author, director, public figure and human rights activist.-Early life:Born in Tehran, Iran, Rosie Malek-Yonan is a descendant of one of the oldest and most prominent Assyrian families, tracing her Assyrian roots back nearly 11 centuries...
  
  
• Terrence Malick
  Terrence Malick
  Terrence Frederick Malick is a U.S. film director, screenwriter, and producer. In a career spanning almost four decades, Malick has directed five feature films....
  
  
• Alphonse Mingana
  Alphonse Mingana
  Alphonse Mingana; was an Assyrian theologian, historian, Syriacist, orientalist and a former priest who is best known for collecting and preserving the Mingana Collection of ancient Middle Eastern manuscripts at Birmingham...
  
  
• Jacob of Serugh
  Jacob of Serugh
  Jacob of Serugh , also called Mar Jacob, was one of the foremost Syriac poet-theologians among the Syriac, perhaps only second in stature to Ephrem the Syrian and equal to Narsai. Where his predecessor Ephrem is known as the 'Harp of the Spirit', Jacob is the 'Flute of the Spirit'...
  
  
• Dunya Mikhail
  Dunya Mikhail
  Dunya Mikhail is an ethnic Chaldean United States-based poet who was born in Iraq. Mikhail worked as Literary Editor for The Baghdad Observer. Facing increasing threats and harassment from the Iraqi authorities for her writings, she fled Iraq in the late 1990s and studied Near Eastern Studies at...
  
  
• Heather Raffo
  Heather Raffo
  Heather Raffo is an Lucille Lortel Award-winning Iraqi American playwright and actress, best known for her leading role in the one-woman play 9 Parts of Desire.-Early life:...
  
  
• Fuat Deniz
  Fuat Deniz
  Fuat Deniz was a Swedish sociologist and writer of Assyrian descent. Until his murder in 2007, he worked as a lecturer in sociology at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Örebro University....
  
  
• Rabi Adai Alkhas

In the news

• Munir Redfa
  Munir Redfa
  Munir Redfa was an Iraqi fighter pilot, of ethnic Assyrian origin, who defected to Israel in 1966 by flying a MiG-21 of the Iraqi Air Force. In what is considered as one of the Mossad's most successful operations, Redfa's entire extended family was smuggled safely out of Iraq to Israel...
  
  
• Elias Syriani
  Elias Syriani
  Elias Hanna Syriani was a convicted murderer executed by the U.S. state of North Carolina by lethal injection. He was convicted of the July 28, 1990 murder of his wife, Teresa Yousef Syriani, in Charlotte, North Carolina.At 67, he was one of the oldest people executed in the United States since 1976...
  
  
• George Nassar
  George Nassar
  George Nassar is an American murderer; Albert DeSalvo allegedly confessed to being the Boston Strangler to Nassar in late 1965. Nassar contacted his lawyer F...
  
  
• Nadya Suleman
  Nadya Suleman
  Nadya Denise Doud-Suleman , known as Octomom in the media, is an American woman who came to international attention when she gave birth to octuplets in January 2009. The Suleman octuplets are only the second full set of octuplets to be born alive in the United States...
  
  
• Sami Khoshaba Latchin
  Sami Khoshaba Latchin
  Sami Khoshaba Latchin is an ethnic Assyrian and Christian Iraqi-born U.S. citizen, who was jailed for four years for acting as a sleeper agent of the Iraqi government.-Biography:...
  
  
• Chaldean mafia
  Chaldean mafia
  - Background & Infrastructure :The Assyrian-Chaldean Mafia, composed predominantly of Iraqi nationals , operated a narcotics distribution network moving drugs from Phoenix and San Diego to Detroit...
  
  
• Denho Acar
  Denho Acar
  Denho Acar , also known as Dano and Djingis Khan, is a Turkish mobster of Assyrian/Syriac descent and founder of the Swedish crime syndicate Original Gangsters.-Biography:...
  
   Leader of the criminal gang
  Criminal gang
  A criminal gang may be:* Prison gang* Street gang* gangs within organized crime* Outlaw motorcycle club...
  
   Original Gangsters
  Original Gangsters (gang)
  Original Gangsters is a Assyrian/Syriac criminal gang in Sweden. Founded in 1993, it has its base in Gothenburg and members in Halmstad and Jönköping, among other places, and is one of a handful of Swedish criminal gangs that have received significant media attention. Its leader and founder is...
  
  
• Ragheed Aziz Ganni

Other

• Narsai David
  Narsai David
  Narsai Michael David is an author, radio and television personality in the Bay Area.-Biography:Narsai Michael David was born in South Bend, Indiana to Assyrian parents Michael Khanno David and Shulamith Sayad. During college he supported himself by working in restaurants, then opening a plastic...
  
  - President of Assyrian Aid Society
  Assyrian Aid Society
  The Assyrian Aid Society or AAS, originally founded as the Assyrian Aid and Social Society in northern Iraq, is an Assyrian organization established for the purpose of providing humanitarian aid to Assyrian Christians in the Assyrian homeland, Bet Nahrain....
  
  
• Lado Davidov
  Lado Davidov
  Lado Shirinshayevich Davidov - soviet soldier during the Second World War. He was born in Vladikavkaz, his parents were Assyrians. In 1944 he was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union. Died in Moscow.-References:...
  
   - Hero of the Soviet Union
  Hero of the Soviet Union
  The title Hero of the Soviet Union was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded personally or collectively for heroic feats in service to the Soviet state and society.-Overview:...
  
  
• Cindy Sargon
  Cindy Sargon
  Cindy Sargon is an Australian TV chef who currently hosts Food 4 Life on the Seven Network. Cindy is of Assyrian descentSargon also appeared in the second series of Surprise Chef in 2003, as well as My Restaurant Rules, Melbourne Woman and Saturday Kitchen...
  
  - T.V Chef
• Alfred Yaghobzadeh
  Alfred Yaghobzadeh
  Alfred Yaghobzadeh , is an Iranian Photographer of Assyrian descent who is noted for his war photography.Yaghobzadeh was born in Tehran, to a Christian Assyrian family. His photographs in Iran during the turmoil of 1979 and during the Iran-Iraq war led to his work for the Associated Press, Gamma,...
  
  - Photographer