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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....

 and people who are of Iraqi

Iraqi people

The Iraqi people or Mesopotamian people are natives or inhabitants of the country of Iraq, known since antiquity as Mesopotamia , with a large diaspora throughout the Arab World, Europe, the Americas, and...

 ancestry, who are significantly notable for their life and/or work.

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جمهورية العراق Republic of Iraq

Academics

• Amal Al Khedairy
  Amal Al Khedairy
  Amal Al Khedairy is an Iraqi academic, writer, lecturer, scholar, art historian and founder and director of the cultural centre "Al Beit Al Iraqi" in Baghdad...
  
  , academic, lecturer and founder and director of the cultural centre "Al Beit Al Iraqi" ("The Iraqi House")
• Nada Shabout
  Nada Shabout
  Nada Shabout is an Iraqi American art historian specializing in modern Iraqi art. She has been a professor of art history at University of North Texas since 2002.-Early life and education:...
  
  , Prof. of Art History, Lecturer.
• Azad Bonni, MD, PhD Professor at Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School.He has a lab for conducting neurological researches called Bonni lab
• Karim Yassen, a Kurdish Professor who discovered the enzyme that has been named Karilysin in his honor after six months research in a university in Poland.
• Hanna Petros
  Hanna Petros
  Hanna Petros , was an Iraqi Assyrian composer and a scholar. He wrote numerous books and treatises over oriental music, Iraqi Maqams and Syriac hymnody. He is also established a renowned conservatory in Baghdad.- Life :...
  
   was an Iraqi Assyrian composer and a scholar. He wrote numerous books and treatises over oriental music, Iraqi Maqams and Syriac hymnody. Hanna Petros was born to a Chaldean Catholic family in Mosul in 1896 and died after a heart attack on 1958, and was buried at the Chaldean cemetery in Baghdad.

Archaeologists

• 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...
  
  
• Taha Baqir
  Taha Baqir
  Taha Baqir was an Iraqi archaeologist, author, cuneiformist, linguist, historian, and former curator of the National Museum of Iraq.Baqir is considered one of Iraq's most eminent archaeologists...
  
  
• Zainab Bahrani
  Zainab Bahrani
  Zainab Bahrani is an Iraqi professor of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology at Columbia University.-Career:A native of Baghdad, Iraq, she was educated in Europe and the United States. She received her Master of Arts and doctoral degrees Zainab Bahrani (born 1962) is an Iraqi professor of...
  
  , (born 1962) is an Iraqi professor of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology at Columbia University
• Jim Al-Khalili
  Jim Al-Khalili
  Jim Al-Khalili OBE is an Iraqi-born British theoretical physicist, author and science communicator. He is Professor of Theoretical Physics and Chair in the Public Engagement in Science at the University of Surrey...
  
  , is an Iraqi-born British theoretical physicist, author and science communicator. He is Professor of Theoretical Physics and Chair in the Public Engagement in Science at the University of Surrey. He has hosted several BBC productions about science and is a frequent commentator about science in other British media venues.
• 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...
  
   (1826 – 16 September 1910), 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.

Artists

• Faik Al-Aboudi
  Faik Al-Aboudi
  Faik Al-Aboudi is a French painter of Iraqi descent.Born in Baghdad, Faik now lives in Lausanne since 1999.From 1990 he participated in numerous group exhibitions in Iraq, but his first personal exhibition at The Gallery Enae in Baghdad, arrived in 1996.Since the start of his career Faik...
  
  , painter
• Jananne Al-Ani
  Jananne Al-Ani
  Jananne Al-Ani is an artist, born to an Iraqi father and Irish mother.She came to Britain in 1980 and attended the Byam Shaw School of Art and received a Fine Art Diploma in 1986, then she went on to the University of Westminster and was awarded a BA in Arabic in 1991, after which she attended the...
  
  , artist
• Layla Al-Attar
  Layla Al-Attar
  Layla Al-Attar was an Iraqi artist and painter that graduated from the Academy of fine Arts in Baghdad. Layla, known for her beauty and kindness, had once held five one-women shows in Iraq and took part in all national and other collective exhibitions held in the country and abroad.Layla also took...
  
  , painter
• Mahmoud Alibadi, Iraqi-Danish artist
• Rassim al-Jumaili
  Rassim al-Jumaili
  Rassim al-Jumaili was a well known Iraqi comedian and actor.He was born in 1938 in a poor neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq. He attended and graduated from Baghdad's College of Fine Arts in 1964. Al-Jumaili joined the Iraq military following his graduation as an officer. He became an active member of...
  
  
• Omran Al-Kaysi
  Omran Al-Kaysi
  Omran Al-Kaysi is an award-winning artist, historian and art critic. He currently writes for the daily Lebanese newspaper, Kifaharabi and is a correspondent to a newspaper in Saudi Arabia.- Early life :...
  
  , artist and historian
• Sama Raena Alshaibi
  Sama Raena Alshaibi
  Sama Raena Alshaibi سما الشيبي to an Iraqi father and Palestinian mother. She is an artist and photographer, in which she uses her cultural heritage to reflect her work and help inform her audience of her identity....
  
  , artist
• Jaber Alwan
  Jaber Alwan
  Jaber Alwan is an Italian artist and painter of Iraqi descent.-Biography:Born in Babylon, Iraq, in 1948, Alwan graduated from the Institute of Fine Art in Baghdad in 1970. In 1972 he arrived in Rome and started painting in the famous Piazza Navona.In 1975 he gained a diploma degree in Sculpture...
  
  , artist
• Hanaa Al-Wardi, Iraqi American artist
• Khalil al-Zahawi
  Khalil al-Zahawi
  Khalil al-Zahawi was one of Iraq's most prominent Arabic calligraphers. An ethnic Kurd and a native of Diyala Governorate, he began studying calligraphy in 1959, and moved to Baghdad in 1963, where he gave his first exhibition in 1965. He later graduated from the Fine Arts Institute of Baghdad,...
  
  , calligrapher
• Apo Avedissian, Director - Photographer (Iraqi-Armenian)
• Halla Ayla
  Halla Ayla
  Halla Ayla is an Iraqi American artist and self taught photographer, currently living in San Francisco, CA.- Early life and career:...
  
  , Iraqi-American artist
• Dr Princess Nisreen El-Hashemite, painter
• Raad Ghantous
  Raad Ghantous
  Raad Ghantous is an interior designer notably known for helping improve the appearance of the Cultural Center in San Clemente....
  
  , interior designer
• Tamara Abdul Hadi, photojournalist
• Hayv Kahraman
  Hayv Kahraman
  Hayv Kahraman is an Iraqi artist and painter. Her works reflect the controversial issues of gender, honor killings and war, all issues that plague her home country of Iraq. Hayv currently lives and works in Phoenix, AZ, United States.-Biography:...
  
  , Iraqi-American artist
• 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...
  
  , Iraqi-born Canadian artist
• Toba Khedoori
  Toba Khedoori
  Toba Khedoori is an Australian-born artist of Iraqi heritage, known primarily for highly-detailed mixed-media paintings executed on large sheets of wax-coated paper. Khedoori's works often fill the spectator's entire field of vision; a 'typical' Khedoori painting combines elements of drawing,...
  
  , artist
• Leila Kubba
  Leila Kubba
  Leila Kubba Kawash or simply Leila Kubba is an Iraqi-American artist who was born and educated in Baghdad, Iraq.She graduated with a National Diploma of Art and Design from the Manchester College of Art and Architecture and also studied at the Corcoran College of Art in Washington DC...
  
  , artist
• Nedim Kufi
  Nedim Kufi
  Nedim Kufi is an Iraqi-Dutch multi disciplinary visual artist.- Vita :Nedim Kufi was born in Baghdad, 1962. He has studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Baghdad, at the...
  
  , artist
• Hassan Massoudy
  Hassan Massoudy
  Hassan Massoudy , born in 1944, considered by the French writer Michel Tournier as the "greatest living calligrapher", currently lives in Paris.-Biography:Hassan Massoudy was born in 1944 in Najaf. He grew up in a traditional society...
  
  , calligrapher
• Talal Refit
  Talal Refit
  Talal Refit is an Iraqi visual artist, architect and multimedia designer. He was born in Kirkuk, 1957. He is a graduate from the Faculty of Architecture of the Middle East Technical University in Ankara. After working for Ankara’s Department of City and Regional Planning, he settled in Germany in...
  
  , visual artist, architect, film director and multimedia designer
• Faisel Laibi Sahi
  Faisel Laibi Sahi
  Faisel Laibi Sahi or simply known as Faisel Laibi is an Iraqi artist from Basra born in 1947, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Baghdad in the late sixties, with further studies at the École supérieure des beaux-arts and the Université de la Sorbonne in Paris...
  
  , artist
• Rashad Salim
  Rashad Salim
  Rashad Salim is an Iraqi-London based artist and activist.-Early life:Born in Khartoum, Sudan to a German mother and Iraqi father, Salim had travelled widely before settling in Iraq in 1971...
  
  , Iraqi-German artist
• Tamara Salman
  Tamara Salman
  Tamara Salman 1967 is half-Iraqi, half-British holding an alumna of Romeo Gigli and Prada. As creative design director for Liberty of London, her role is to update the brand's image and revive its signature prints. She has worked in textile design for the past 12 years at some of Europe's most...
  
  , design director
• Yitzhak Yamin
  Yitzhak Yamin
  Yitzhak Yamin is an Israeli painter and sculptor.Yitzhak Yamin was born in Iraq, and in 1951 emigrated to Israel...
  
   - Israeli painter and sculptor. (Born in Iraq of Iraqi Jewish heritage).
• Andrea Samarrai-Zietko, painter (half Iraqi)

Architects

• Hisham N. Ashkouri
  Hisham N. Ashkouri
  Hisham N. Ashkouri is a Boston and New York-based architect.Dr. Ashkouri graduated first in class in 1970 with a Bachelor of Architecture Degree from the University of Baghdad and continued for his Masters of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania under the late Louis I. Kahn in 1973...
  
  
• Zaha Hadid
  Zaha Hadid
  Zaha Hadid, CBE is an Iraqi-British architect.-Life and career:Hadid was born in 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq. She received a degree in mathematics from the American University of Beirut before moving to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London.After graduating she worked...
  
  , won numerous awards including Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture
  Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture
  The Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture is presented for notable achievement in design or for distinguished contributions to the field of architecture. The award has been made annually since its establishment in 1966. The award is granted jointly by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation and...
  
   (2007)
• Raed Jarrar
  Raed Jarrar
  Raed Jarrar is an Iraq-born architect, blogger, and political advocate resident in the U.S. Capital Washington, DC.Jarrar was born in Iraq, and raised in Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. He is half Iraqi and half Palestinian...
  
  
• Yasmin Al-Ani Spence, Iraqi-American architect and photographer
• Rifat Kamil Chadirji was born on December 6, 1926 in Baghdad, is an Iraqi architect and author

Fashion designers

• Reem Alasadi
  Reem Alasadi
  Reem Alasadi is an internationally known Iraqi haute couture fashion designer. She is based in both London and Tokyo, and is very popular in Japan, with her style being described as "British punk and recycled materials molded into voluminous and voluptuous Victorian-inspired dresses".- Early life...
  
  , Iraqi-born British fashion designer
• Bassem Al Cheikh Jawad
  Bassem Al Cheikh Jawad
  Bassem Al Cheikh Jawad or Bassem Al Sheikh Jawad is an Iraqi fashion designer born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1946, and has been exiled in Amman, Jordan for 25 years. He studied Eastern average stylism, Pharaonic behaviours, European fashion and architecture. He has held fashion shows in Marrakesh,...
  
  
• Salim al-Shimiri
  Salim al-Shimiri
  Salim al-Shimiri is an Iraqi fashion designer. His job entails selecting the fabrics used, the models, positioning the lighting for runway shows as well as creating the garments. He graduated at Baghdad University with a degree in microbiology, he later returned to study art...
  
  
• Miliana Al-Talibi, fashion designer (Iraqi father/Belarusian mother).
• Boaz David fashion designer, (Born in Israel to Iraqi immigrant parents)
• May Joseph Ramou
  May Joseph Ramou
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• 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...
  
  
• Amir Slama
  Amir Slama
  Amir Slama is a Brazilian-born fashion designer of Iraqi Jewish and Romanian heritage . He is the designer, stylist and owner of the Brazilian beach fashion brand Rosa Chá....
  
  , fashion designer, stylist and owner of the most famous beach fashion brand Rosa Chá in Brazil
  Brazil
  Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
  
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• Essam Zaki, fashion designer
• Zeena Zaki, fashion designer
• Shuaib Ali, soccer player
• Reem Al-Asadi an international recognised iraqi haute coutour fashion designer

Business people and entrepreneurs

• Nadhmi Auchi
  Nadhmi Auchi
  Nadhmi Shakir Auchi, , is a British Iraqi businessman and billionaire, founding president of the Anglo Arab Organisation, and the founder and chairman of General Mediterranean Holding , a conglomerate of 120 companies worldwide...
  
  , Iraqi-born businessman. He is the founder and chairman of General Mediterranean Holding (GMH), a conglomerate of 120 companies worldwide. In the Sunday Times Rich List 2008
  Sunday Times Rich List 2008
  The Sunday Times Rich List 2008 was published on 27 April 2008.Since 1989 the UK national Sunday newspaper The Sunday Times has published an annual magazine supplement to the newspaper called the Sunday Times Rich List...
  
  ranking of the wealthiest people in the UK he was placed 27th with an estimated fortune of £2,150 million.
• Nemir Kirdar
  Nemir Kirdar
  Nemir A. Kirdar is an Iraqi businessman and financier, he is the executive chairman & CEO of Investcorp, a private equity investment group operating out of New York, London and Bahrain. Kirdar currently lives in London.- Career :...
  
  , Iraqi-born businessman (President and CEO of Investcorp
  Investcorp
  Investcorp is a manager of alternative investment products, serving high-net-worth private and institutional clients. Its principal client base is in the six countries of the Gulf Co-operation Council, but it also has institutional clients in North America and Europe...
  
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• Khalid Muhmood
  Khalid Muhmood
  Khalid Muhmood MBE is the co-founder of Apollo Education and Training and the British University Vietnam. His contributions to Vietnam's education have been recognized by the Vietnam Government and UK Government...
  
  , director of Apollo Education and Training
• Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi
  Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi
  Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi to a Palestinian-Jordanian-Lebanese Muslim father and an Iraqi-Syrian Christian mother. He is co-founder and chairman of the British based organization, Arab Media Watch....
  
   co-founder and chairman of Arab Media Watch
  Arab Media Watch
  Arab Media Watch is a London-based media watchdog organization with the stated aim of working toward objective British media coverage of the Arab world. Founded in 2000, by Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi, Arab Media Watch is the "only organization of its kind in the UK". The organization monitors...
  
  
• Samuel Nalo, businessman, hijacker, and burglar
• Ezra Zilkha, Iraqi born businessman (president of Zilkha & Sons)
• Selim Zilkha
  Selim Zilkha
  Selim Zilkha is an entrepreneur who founded Mothercare, one of the United Kingdom's largest retail chains.-Career:Born in Baghdad and brought up in Lebanon, Egypt and the United States, Selim Zilkha was educated at the Horace Mann School in New York City and Williams College in Williamstown,...
  
   is an entrepreneur
  Entrepreneur
  An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...
  
   who founded Mothercare
  Mothercare
  Mothercare plc is a British retailer which specialises in products for expectant mothers and in general merchandise for children up to 8 years old. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.-History:...
  
  , one of the United Kingdom's largest retail chains.
• Awn Al Khashlok, Iraqi businessman, founder and president of Al Baghdadia TV station
• Calouste Gulbenkian
  Calouste Gulbenkian
  Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian was an Armenian businessman and philanthropist. He played a major role in making the petroleum reserves of the Middle East available to Western development...
  
  , (23 March 1869–20 July 1955) was an Armenian businessman and philanthropist. He played a major role in making the petroleum reserves of the Middle East available to Western development. By the end of his life he had become one of the world's wealthiest individuals and his art acquisitions considered one of the greatest private collections.

Business people and entrepreneurs of Iraqi descent

• Shai Agassi
  Shai Agassi
  Shai Agassi is an Israeli entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Better Place, which has developed a model and infrastructure for employing electric cars as an alternative to fossil fuel technology. Agassi was President of the Products and Technology Group at SAP AG...
  
  , Founder
  Entrepreneur
  An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...
  
   and Chairman of Better Place
• Zadik Bino
  Zadik Bino
  Zadik Bino is an Israeli businessman of Iraqi Jewish descent.He has also been selected as "Globes Man of the Year" in Tel Aviv, Israel.He owns majority shares in Israeli company, Paz.He is married with three children....
  
   - Israeli businessman of Iraqi Jewish descent. He was ranked Israel's 24th richest man in 2006 by Forbes
  Forbes
  Forbes is an American publishing and media company. Its flagship publication, the Forbes magazine, is published biweekly. Its primary competitors in the national business magazine category are Fortune, which is also published biweekly, and Business Week...
  
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• Bahaa Hariri
  Bahaa Hariri
  Bahaa Hariri is the eldest son of assassinated former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, brother of former Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri and a billionaire...
  
   - businessman. Son of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri
  Rafik Hariri
  Rafic Baha El Deen Al-Hariri , was a business tycoon and the Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2000 until his resignation, 20 October 2004.He headed five cabinets during his tenure...
  
   and an Iraqi mother (Nidal Al-Bustani).
• Samuel Hayek
  Samuel Hayek
  Samuel Hayek is an Israeli millionaire real-estate tycoon and chairman of The KKL Charitable Trust.Hayek was chairman of the Likud youth department.He founded the S. Hayek holding company in 2004.-Biography:...
  
   - Israeli millionaire real-estate tycoon of Iraqi Jewish descent.
• Bashar Issa - British businessman/property developer
• Badr Jafar
  Badr Jafar
  Badr Jafar is an Emirati business executive and entrepreneur based in the United Arab Emirates . Educated in the UAE and United Kingdom, he is the President of Crescent Petroleum and founder-Chief Executive Officer of Crescent Investments, the Crescent Group conglomerate's non-petroleum division...
  
  , business executive and entrepreneur based in the United Arab Emirates
• 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...
  
   - businessman and current Vice President of Design Business Aspects for Nissan Design America. He is of Mexican, Lebanese and Iraqi ancestry.
• Ghadir Razuki
  Ghadir Razuki
  Ghadir Razuki ia a British Iraqi multi-millionaire and along with his brother, Ali, is founder of TNT Magazine Group, the largest publishers of free magazines in the world, with magazine and media interests in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa....
  
   - British multi-millionaire of Iraqi parents. Founder of TNT Magazine Group, the largest publishers of free magazines in the world, with magazine and media interests in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
• Pnina Rosenblum
  Pnina Rosenblum
  Pnina Rosenblum is an Israeli businesswoman, model and media personality, who has also been involved in politics.-Career:Rosenblum was an actress and fashion model, known to foreign media in her youth as Pnina Golan. She appeared in the films Kasach , Am Yisrael Hai , Lo LeShidur , Diamante Lobo ,...
  
   - Israeli businesswoman, model and media personality, who has also been involved in politics.
• Joseph Aslan Seroussi, Canadian businessman (Born in Sudan to an Iraqi mother and Spanish father - moved to Canada in 1964)
• Karen El Zein
  Karen El Zein
  Karen El Zein is a senior programme specialist at the eGovernment Authority in Bahrain, working in the governmental sector of Bahrain as a project manager for the GAID Alliance Bahrain office initiative has allowed her to work in conjunction with Talal Abu-Ghazalah Organization.- Early life and...
  
  , consultant and program
  Computer program
  A computer program is a sequence of instructions written to perform a specified task with a computer. A computer requires programs to function, typically executing the program's instructions in a central processor. The program has an executable form that the computer can use directly to execute...
  
  me specialist at the eGovernment Authority in Bahrain
  Bahrain
  ' , officially the Kingdom of Bahrain , is a small island state near the western shores of the Persian Gulf. It is ruled by the Al Khalifa royal family. The population in 2010 stood at 1,214,705, including 235,108 non-nationals. Formerly an emirate, Bahrain was declared a kingdom in 2002.Bahrain is...
  
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• Kevork Hovnanian
  Kevork Hovnanian
  Kevork S. Hovnanian was an Iraqi-born Armenian-American businessman and home builder, who founded Hovnanian Enterprises in 1959. He remained the president and chief executive officer of Hovnanian Enterprises until his retirement in 1997...
  
  , (1923 - September 24, 2009) was an Iraqi-born Armenian-American businessman and home builder, who founder of Hovnanian Enterprises in 1959. He remained the president and chief executive officer of Hovnanian Enterprises until his retirement in 1997
• Charles Saatchi
  Charles Saatchi
  Charles Saatchi is the co-founder with his brother Maurice of the global advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi, and led that business - the world's largest advertising agency in the 1980s - until they were forced out in 1995. In the same year the Saatchi brothers formed a new agency called M&C...
  
  , (born 9 June 1943 in Baghdad) is the co-founder of the new agency called M&C Saatchi.Charles is also known worldwide as an art collector and owner of the Saatchi Gallery. His wife is Nigella Lawson
• Michael Kadoorie
  Michael Kadoorie
  The Hon. Sir Michael David Kadoorie, GBS is a business executive and philanthropist. As of March 2011, he is the 6th wealthiest person in Hong Kong, with the wealth of his family estimated to be 6.1 billion US dollars according to Forbes' annual list of billionaires.The son of business tycoon...
  
  , The Hon. Sir Michael David Kadoorie, GBS (born 1941, Hong Kong) is a business executive and philanthropist. As of March 2011, he is the 6th wealthiest person in Hong Kong, with the wealth of his family estimated to be 6.1 billion US dollars according to Forbes' annual list of billionaires
• Sir Albert Abdullah David Sassoon, 1st Baronet, (25 July 1818 - 24 October 1896), a British Indian philanthropist and merchant. He was born in Baghdad
• David and Simon Reuben
  David and Simon Reuben
  David and Simon Reuben are well known British businessmen and philanthropists. In the Forbes magazine List of billionaires 2011, ranking of the wealthiest people in the UK, the brothers were placed second with an estimated fortune of £5.5  billion...
  
  , They are joint Chief Executives of Reuben Brothers. are well known British businessmen and philanthropists. In the Forbes magazine List of billionaires 2011, ranking of the wealthiest people in the UK, the brothers were placed second with an estimated fortune of £5.5 billion
• Patricia Kluge, the 1980s society queen and ex-wife of billionaire media mogul John Kluge. She was born in Baghdad 1948 to a British father and a Scottish-Iraqi mother
• Kevin Azzouz, Orlando-area developer. He is a former software magnate who is active in west Orlando and west Orange County, with a number of high-profile real estate projects. Azzouz is the son of an Iraqi father and an American mother, He started a computer-game company in college and sold for profit, studied computer engineering for a couple of years. He struck up a friendship with former IBM senior executive Lennart Mengwall, who became his mentor and partner. They co-founded Quest Development Corp., which created and sold backup-storage systems for personal computers to clients, including Microsoft.
• David Sassoon
  David Sassoon
  David Sassoon was the treasurer of Baghdad between 1817 and 1829. He became the leader of the Jewish community in Bombay after Baghdadi Jews emigrated there.-Biography:...
  
  , Indian merchant and banker; born at Bagdad Oct., 1792; died at Bombay Nov. 7, 1864. His father, who was a wealthy Mesopotamian merchant, and who was for many years state treasurer to the Turkish governor of Baghdad
• Mark Suleiman, a teenage business tycoon
• Jirair S. Hovnanian, (June 9, 1927 – August 14, 2007) was an Armenian Iraqi-American home builder based in New Jersey. Hovnanian's business developed and built over 6,000 houses throughout South Jersey

Educators

• Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi
• Nadje Sadig Al-Ali
  Nadje Sadig Al-Ali
  Nadje Sadig Al-Ali is the author of Iraqi Women: Untold Stories From 1948 to the Present. and co-author with Nicola Pratt of What Kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq...
  
  , educator and writer
• 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...
  
  , was an Assyrian theologian, historian, orientalist and a former priest who is best known for collecting and preserving the Mingana Collection of ancient Middle Eastern manuscripts at Birmingham.
• 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....
  
  ,She is the chair of the Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Mercy College, New York.

Engineers and scientists

• 'Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk
  'Abd al-Hamid ibn Turk
  ' , known also as ' was a ninth century Turkic Muslim mathematician. Not much is known about his biography. The two records of him, one by Ibn Nadim and the other by al-Qifti are not identical. However al-Qifi mentions his name as ʿAbd al-Hamīd ibn Wase ibn Turk Jili...
  
  
• Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi
• Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi
  Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi
  Abu'l Hasan Ahmad ibn Ibrahim Al-Uqlidisi was an Arab mathematician who was active in Damascus and Baghdad. As his surname indicates, he was a copyist of Euclid's works. He wrote the earliest surviving book on the positional use of the Arabic numerals, Kitab al-Fusul fi al-Hisab al-Hindi around 952...
  
  
• Lihadh Al Ghazali, scientist
• Al-Abbās ibn Said al-Jawharī
• Al-Jazari
  Al-Jazari
  Abū al-'Iz Ibn Ismā'īl ibn al-Razāz al-Jazarī was a Muslim polymath: a scholar, inventor, mechanical engineer, craftsman, artist, mathematician and astronomer from Al-Jazira, Mesopotamia, who lived during the Islamic Golden Age...
  
  
• Al-Kindi
  Al-Kindi
  ' , known as "the Philosopher of the Arabs", was a Muslim Arab philosopher, mathematician, physician, and musician. Al-Kindi was the first of the Muslim peripatetic philosophers, and is unanimously hailed as the "father of Islamic or Arabic philosophy" for his synthesis, adaptation and promotion...
  
   (Alkindus)
• Ahmed ibn Yusuf
  Ahmed ibn Yusuf
  Abu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Yusuf ibn Ibrahim ibn Tammam al-Siddiq Al-Baghdadi , known in the West by his Latinized name Hametus, was an Arab mathematician, like his father Yusuf ibn Ibrahim .- Life :...
  
  , mathematician
• 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...
  
  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.
• Brethren of Purity
  Brethren of Purity
  The Brethren of Purity were a secret society of Muslim philosophers in Basra, Iraq, in the 10th century CE....
  
   (Ikhwan al-Safa')
• 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...
  
  , scientist and physician
• Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen/Alhazen)
• Ibn Sahl
  Ibn Sahl
  This article is about the physicist. For the physician, see Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari. For the poet, see Ibn Sahl of Sevilla.Ibn Sahl was a Muslim Persian mathematician, physicist and optics engineer of the Islamic Golden Age associated with the Abbasid court of Baghdad...
  
  
• Ibn Tahir al-Baghdadi
  Ibn Tahir al-Baghdadi
  Abu Mansur Abd al-Qahir ibn Tahir ibn Muhammad ibn Abdallah al-Tamimi al-Shaffi al-Baghdadi was an Arabian mathematician from Baghdad who is best known for his treatise al-Takmila fi'l-Hisab. It contains results in number theory, and comments on works by al-Khwarizmi which are now lost.-...
  
  
• Kidinnu
  Kidinnu
  Kidinnu was a Chaldean astronomer and mathematician. Strabo of Amaseia called him Kidenas, Pliny the Elder Cidenas, and Vettius Valens Kidynas....
  
  
• Naburimannu
  Naburimannu
  Nabu-ri-man-nu was a Chaldean astronomer and mathematician.Classical and ancient cuneiform sources mention an astronomer with this name:...
  
  
• Sudines
  Sudines
  Sudines : Babylonian sage. He is mentioned as one of the famous Chaldean mathematicians and astronomer-astrologers by later Roman writers like Strabo ....
  
   Babylonian sage. He is mentioned as one of the famous Chaldean mathematicians and astronomer-astrologers by later Roman writers like Strabo (Geografia 16:1–6).
• Grigor Gurzadyan
  Grigor Gurzadyan
  - Life :Gurzadyan was born on October 15, 1922 in Baghdad, to parents who fled in 1915 Western Armenia. Upon graduating the from the Hydrotechnical and Constructional Department of Yerevan Polytechnic Institute in 1944, he became the postgraduate of Victor Ambartsumian, who had just moved to Armenia...
  
  , is an Armenian astronomer, and pioneer of space astronomy. Gurzadyan was born on October 15, 1922 in Baghdad, to parents who fled in 1915 Western Armenia.
• Thābit 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...
  
   (Thebit)
  • Sinan ibn Thabit
    Sinan ibn Thabit
    Sinan ibn Thabit ibn Qurra سنان بن ثابت بن قرة ) was an ethnic Mandean physician and a Sabian who later converted to Islam. He was the son of Thabit ibn Qurra and the father of Ibrahim ibn Sinan.- References :...
    
    
  • 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...
    
    
• Dlawer Ala'Aldeen
  Dlawer Ala'Aldeen
  Dlawer Ala'Aldeen دلاوه‌ر عبدالعزيز علاءالدين, MD, PhD, FRCPath, is the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Kurdistan Regional Government, Iraq...
  
  
  • Basil Jamil Al-Fakhri
• Abdul-Jabbar Abdallah* عبد الجبار عبد الله , a Sabean scholar and second president of Baghdad University
• Farouk Al-Kasim, Born in 1938, an Iraqi geologist by training, not only helped increase oil production in Norway, he also regulated the industry and prevented Norway from the so-called “Dutch Disease”. The country then becomes largely dependent on oil revenues.

Film actors and directors

• Ban Abdul
  Ban Abdul
  Ban Abdul is an actress and dancer of half Iraqi, half Yemeni origin, who is best known for her role in the romantic comedy film Eagle vs Shark...
  
  , actress and dancer
• Kasim Abid, London-based cameraman and director of Iraqi origin
• Mohamed Al-Daradji
  Mohamed Al-Daradji
  Mohammed Al-Darraji is an Iraqi Dutch film director. Al-Daradji is a dual Dutch-Iraqi citizen. He studied theatre directing in Baghdad and fled to The Netherlands in 1995, where he specialised as a cameraman. Later he graduated with two MA's in cinematography and directing in Leeds at The Northern...
  
  
• Yossi Alfi, Iraqi Jewish actor (Born in Basra).
• Nazem Al-Ghazali
  Nazem Al-Ghazali
  Nazem El Ghazali was one of the most popular singers in the history of Iraq and his songs are still heard by many in the Arab world. He was born in the Haydar Khanah quarter in Baghdad, and studied at the Institute of Fine Arts in Iraq. He started his career as an actor, and after a few years...
  
  , actor/singer
• Koutaiba Al Janabi
  Koutaiba Al Janabi
  Koutaiba Al Janabi is a Britain-based Iraqi filmmaker, director and photographer born in Baghdad, who documented Wasteland: Between London and Baghdad.Koutaiba attended the Academy of Drama and Cinema in Budapest, Hungary...
  
  
• Bashir Al Majid, Iraqi actor in Ahlaam.
• Nahida Al Rammah
  Nahida Al Rammah
  Nahida Al Rammah is a famous Iraqi actress. She was one of the founders of the Modern Iraqi Theatre. Nahida is now 60 years old. She has starred in a film production Wasteland between London and Baghdad by fellow Iraqi director Koutaiba Al Janabi. Rammah, who lost her sight last decade, was one of...
  
  , actress
• Awatif al Salman, actress
• Jawad Al Shakarchi
  Jawad Al Shakarchi
  Jawad Al Shakarchi is an Iraqi actor and dramatist.He has participated in more than 60 Arab and international theatre festivals, and received dozens of awards, including that of Best Actor in Cairo's Theatre Festival 1989, a medal of honour from the Carthage Theatre Festival in Tunisia 1995 and...
  
  , actor
• Namaa Alward
  Namaa Alward
  Namaa Alward is an Iraqi actress and political activist who is well known in Iraq. She was forced to flee her homeland in the 1980s and sought refugee status in Norway, along with her two sons....
  
  , actress
• 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...
  
  , actor
• Abbas Fahdel
  Abbas Fahdel
  Abbas Fahdel is an Iraqi-French film director, screenwriter and film critic, born in Babylon, Iraq.Based in France since the age of 18 years, he studied cinema at the Sorbonne University until Ph.D....
  
  , director of Dawn of the World
  Dawn of the World
  Dawn of the World is a feature film written and directed by the Iraqi-French film director Abbas Fahdel.Starring Venice Film Festival revelation Hafsia Herzi and Hiam Abbass , Dawn of the World gives an unexpected account of the multiple impacts of the Iran–Iraq War, the Gulf War and the 1991...
  
  
• Tariq Hashim
  Tariq Hashim
  Tariq Hashim is an Iraqi filmmaker who was born in Baghdad, 1960. He studied theatre and film in Baghdad, Copenhagen and Bulgaria and he returns to an Iraq, full-fledged into war, after 23 years of exile. He tapes 16 hours of film leading to the movie 16 hours in Baghdad . The film reveals the...
  
  
• Sophia Jawad
  Sophia Jawad
  Sophia Jawad is an Iraqi actress and model based in the United Arab Emirates.- Career :Jawad has played in over twenty student productions as the New York Film Academy, and in 2009 she portrayed the character Gertrude in the Shakespeare play Hamlet...
  
  , actress and model based in the United Arab Emirates
• Hind Kamel
  Hind Kamel
  Hind Kamel is a well-known Iraqi actress and film director now residing in Jordan.Born in Baghdad, Kamel has a Bachelor of Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in Baghdad in 1984...
  
  , famous actress
• Fakhriya Abdel Karim
  Fakhriya Abdel Karim
  Fakhriya Abdel Karim was a prominent Iraqi actress and activist.Known professionally as Zainab, she became an actress in the early 1950s when the Iraqi film industry was just emerging...
  
  , actress/activist/communist
• Saaed Khalifa
  Saaed Khalifa
  Saaed Khalifa is an Iraqi actor and comedian. He stars in a television series called Hurry Up, He's Dead written by Baghdadi poet and writer, Talib Al Sudani which is filmed in Dubai; as it would be too dangerous and impractical, with curfews and loud helicopters flying overhead, to film in...
  
  , actor
• Farid Majari
  Farid Majari
  Farid C. Majari is currently the director of the Goethe-Institut in Beirut. The Goethe-Institut is the German Cultural Center, which operates worldwide. He has produced numerous films and documentaries and has produced the soap opera "Matabb" set in Ramallah in the West Bank. -References:...
  
  , film maker
• Dina Mousawi
  Dina Mousawi
  Dina Mousawi is a London-based Iraqi-Ukrainian actress and presenter.- Early life :Born to an Iraqi father and Ukrainian mother, Dina grew up in Baghdad. In 1986, her family moved to Bradford in England to escape the perils of the Iran-Iraq war....
  
   - actress
• Lauren Nadada
  Lauren Nadada
  Lauren Nadada is an Iraqi actress who starred in the shory story film In Deep, where she was portrayed as a victim being tortured and eventually murdered. Most of Nadada's scenes were without music as it was said that there was no need to heighten the emotion, it was all already there; a...
  
  , actress
• Awatif Naim, actress
• Maysoon Pachachi
  Maysoon Pachachi
  Maysoon Pachachi is a film director, editor and producer of Iraqi origin. She was educated in Iraq, the U.S., Britain and can speak English, Arabic, French and Italian. She studied Philosophy at University College London and Film at the Slade School of Art under Thorold Dickinson where visiting...
  
  , director of Return to the Land of Wonders
  Return to the Land of Wonders
  Return to the Land of Wonders is a documentary film made almost single-handedly by Maysoon Pachachi in 2003-4.Pachachi went returned to Iraq after an absence of 30 years when her father, Adnan Pachachi, was appointed to the Iraqi Governing Council in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq...
  
  
• Maysalun Qamar
  Maysalun Qamar
  Maysalun Qamar is an Iraqi actress well known for her roles in television series and stage plays. She is 29 years old and lives in Baghdad's middle-class Mansour district.-External links:* at BBC News...
  
  , actress
• Basam Ridha
  Basam Ridha
  Basam Ridha Al-Husaini is an advisor to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki charged with overseeing judicial matters. He also was an advisor to his predecessor, Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari...
  
  , actor
• Shath Salem
  Shath Salem
  Shath Salem is an Iraqi actress who starred alongside fellow Iraqi actor Raed Mehsen in the play Cruel Wedding at the National Theatre in Baghdad. The play is part of a festival organized by the National Theatre Association.-External links:**...
  
  , actress
• Hiner Saleem
  Hiner Saleem
  Huner Saleem, also transliterated as Huner Salim, , is an Iraqi–Kurdish film director. He was born in the town of Aqrah in Iraqi Kurdistan. He left Iraq at the age of 17, and soon made his way to Italy, where he completed school and attended university. Later on, he moved to France where he lives now...
  
  , film director
• Saad Salman
  Saad Salman
  Saad Salman is an Iraqi-French film director. He filmed Baghdad On/Off, a documentary filmed when Saddam Hussein was in power. He has been exiled in Paris since 1976...
  
  , film director known for his documentary Baghdad On/Off
• Baz Shamoun
  Baz Shamoun
  Baz Shamoun is an Iraq independent filmmaker who has lived in Canada since 1996. He was exiled from his homeland in 1978 to Prague. He graduated from Charles University in 1988...
  
  , film director and maker of short documentary Where is Iraq?
• Majid Shokor
  Majid Shokor
  Majid Shokor is an Iraqi actor. He has starred in Lucky Miles as Saleh and has completed filming his television appearance in the Australian television series Kick, playing an Iraqi man.He is now living in Australia....
  
  , actor
• Amal Yassin
  Amal Yassin
  Amal Yassin is an Iraqi actress. When talking about the current situation in women for Iraq, she quotes "If every one of us stayed home, then our lives would be a waste."-External links:*...
  
  , actress

Film actors and directors of Iraqi descent

• Layth Abdulamir
  Layth Abdulamir
  Layth Abdulamir an Iraqi-French film director, who currently lives in Paris, left Iraq in 1977. He has a Masters in fine art and has studied cinema at the Sorbonne University in Paris...
  
  
• Antonio Albadran
  Antonio Albadran
  Haithem Albadran , better known as Antonio Albadran, is an Iraqi American actor. His most notable credit is his role as Prince Tariq in the 2005 film Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story.- Early life :...
  
  , Iraqi-American actor born in Basra.
• Hana Al Bayaty
  Hana Al Bayaty
  Hana Al Bayaty is an Iraqi-French documentary film maker and journalist for the Al Ahram weekly in Egypt. Based in Brussels, she is a member of the Executive Committee of The Brussels Tribunal...
  
  , filmmaker and journalist
• Anja Al-Erhayem
  Anja Al-Erhayem
  Anja Al-Erhayem is a Danish filmmaker born to an Iraqi father and Danish mother.Before the US-led invasion of Iraq, in 2002, Anja travelled to Iraq with her father to make a film about his family. The film titled Back to Baghdad, showed unique footage of everyday life in Iraq under Saddam Hussein....
  
  , filmmaker (Iraqi father/Danish mother)
• Dina Al-Erhayem, actress (sister of Anja Al-Erhayem)
• Ja'far 'Abd Al-Hamid
  Ja'far 'Abd Al-Hamid
  Ja'far 'Abd Al-Hamid is an Iraqi British filmmaker of "Mesocafe".Born in Iraq, Ja'far and his family moved to other parts of the Arab world before settling in London in the mid 1980s....
  
  , Iraqi-British filmmaker of "Mesocafe".
• Fajer Al-Kaisi
  Fajer Al-Kaisi
  - Early life :Born in Iraq, Al-Kaisi spent much time of his childhood being raised in Kuwait and later settled in Montreal, Canada. He soon moved to the United States, where he had completed his Masters in Acting from the University of Texas at Austin....
  
  , Iraqi-Canadian actor, now resides in the States.
• Sarmed al-Samarrai, actor starred in the Universal Pictures
  Universal Pictures
  -1920:* White Youth* The Flaming Disc* Am I Dreaming?* The Dragon's Net* The Adorable Savage* Putting It Over* The Line Runners-1921:* The Fire Eater* A Battle of Wits* Dream Girl* The Millionaire...
  
   film United 93
  United 93 (film)
  United 93 is a 2006 fact-based historical drama film written, co-produced, and directed by Paul Greengrass that chronicles events aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked during the September 11 attacks...
  
  
• Usama Alshaibi
  Usama Alshaibi
  Usama Alshaibi is an Iraqi-American independent filmmaker and visual artist.Starting in early 2004, Alshaibi worked on a documentary on his homeland, and its current situation, titled Nice Bombs...
  
  , director of Muhammad and Jane and Nice Bombs
  Nice Bombs
  Nice Bombs is a 2006 documentary directed by Iraqi-American filmmaker Usama Alshaibi about his return to his home country to visit his family after the 2003 invasion of Iraq...
  
  
• Amer Alwan
  Amer Alwan
  Amer Alwan is an Iraqi French film director. Alwan was forced to shoot his movie Zaman, The Man From The Reeds on videotape, as when Iraq was under severe economic sanctions the United Nations and United States, would not allow Iraq to import 35 and 16 millimeter film stocks, because they believed...
  
  , film director known for winning an award for Zaman, The Man From The Reeds
• Joe Balass
  Joe Balass
  Joe Balass is an Iraqi Canadian film maker.Of Jewish heritage, Balass is most known for Nana, George and Me, which is an autobiographical video by a young, gay Iraqi Jewish filmmaker who takes a charmingly unconventional look at three Iraqi Jewish lives; that of the filmmaker, his 92-year-old Nana...
  
  , film maker
• Claudia Basrawi
  Claudia Basrawi
  - Early life :She was born in Beirut, Lebanon to an Iraqi father and a German mother. Basrawi grew up in the German city of Hannover where she had graduated from. She began her studies in Arabic Philology and Political Science at Berlin in 1982...
  
  , German actress and writer (German mother and Iraqi father)
• Carole Basri
  Carole Basri
  Carole Basri is a Jewish American filmmaker and lawyer of Iraqi Jewish descent. Most of her productions focus on the History of the Jews in Iraq as she documents her ancestral roots and discusses Jewish traditions in Iraq.-Work:...
  
  , filmmaker
• Zana Briski
  Zana Briski
  Zana Briski is a photographer and filmmaker best known as the director of Born into Brothels, the 2004 winner of the Academy Award for Documentary Feature...
  
  , director of Born into Brothels
  Born into Brothels
  Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids is a 2004 American documentary film about the children of prostitutes in Sonagachi, Kolkata's red light district...
  
  
• Selma Chalabi
  Selma Chalabi
  Selma Chalabi is a British filmmaker and journalist. She was born in the United Kingdom to an Iraqi father and English mother, and was raised in Winchester.-Career:...
  
  , film maker
• 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....
  
  , Iraqi-American actress
• Brian George
  Brian George
  Brian George is a British-Israeli actor and voice actor for Indian accents, who typically plays guest roles for characters of South Asian descent. Perhaps his most famous role is as Pakistani restaurateur Babu Bhatt on Seinfeld.-Early life:...
  
   - British-Israeli actor, most famous role is as Pakistan
  Pakistan
  Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
  
  i restaurateur Babu Bhatt on Seinfeld
  Seinfeld
  Seinfeld is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, lasting nine seasons, and is now in syndication. It was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, the latter starring as a fictionalized version of himself...
  
  . (Born to Baghdadi Jewish parents).
• Shosha Goren
  Shosha Goren
  Shosha Goren is an Israeli actress and comedian of Iraqi Jewish descent.Shosha immigrated to Israel in 1951, while on a visit to the United States, she abandoned her position as teacher of Hebrew Literature and Language, and went to pursue her acting career at Brooklyn College in New York...
  
  , actress and comedian
• Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez
  Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez
  Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez was born in 1968 in Moscow, Russia to an Iraqi father and Chilean-Costa Rican mother She is a director and scriptwriter.Director of El Camino, a film designed for the Latin American cinema, was described as an "impressive debut", shot in Costa Rica, Nicaragua and...
  
  , film director (Iraqi father and Chilean mother)
• 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"...
  
   - American actress featured in documentary films Voices of Iraq
  Voices of Iraq
  Voices of Iraq is a 2004 documentary film about Iraq, created by distributing cameras to the subjects of a film, thus enabling subjects to film themselves...
  
  and My Country, My Country
  My Country, My Country
  My Country, My Country is a 2006 documentary film. Filmmaker Laura Poitras spent over eight months alone in Iraq filming this documentary. The film shows life in Iraq for average Iraqis under U.S. occupation. Poitras focuses primarily on Dr...
  
  
• Don Hany
  Don Hany
  Don Hany is an Australian award-winning actor. He is best known for his role in the series White Collar Blue, the film Lucky Miles and in the mini-series East West 101.-Biography:...
  
  , actor (Won Best Actor for Winning the Peace (2005)
• Parine Jaddo
  Parine Jaddo
  Parine Jaddo is an Iraqi Arab Americanfilm director, best known for her production of Rasta's Paradise.- Biography :...
  
  , Iraqi-American filmmaker of Rasta's Paradise
• Nicholas Kadi
  Nicholas Kadi
  Nicholas Kadi is a Turkish-born Iraqi American actor.Kadi was born in Istanbul, Turkey of Iraqi descent. His father, Nizar el Kadi, was an Iraqi ambassador....
  
  , actor
• Nadia Kamil, actor, comedian and writer (Iraqi father/Welsh mother, born in Swansea
  Swansea
  Swansea is a coastal city and county in Wales. Swansea is in the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan. Situated on the sandy South West Wales coast, the county area includes the Gower Peninsula and the Lliw uplands...
  
  , South Wales
  South Wales
  South Wales is an area of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south, and Mid Wales and West Wales to the north and west. The most densely populated region in the south-west of the United Kingdom, it is home to around 2.1 million people and includes the capital city of...
  
  )
• Chris Kattan
  Chris Kattan
  Christopher Lee "Chris" Kattan is an American actor/comedian, best known for his work on Saturday Night Live.-Early life:Kattan was born in Sherman Oaks, California. His father, Kip King, was an actor and voice actor who appeared on the series Reno 911! as Larrie Plum. His mother, Hajnalka E....
  
   - American comedian and actor, best known for his work on the sketch show Saturday Night Live
  Saturday Night Live
  Saturday Night Live is a live American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night.The show's sketches often parody contemporary American culture...
  
  . (Born to an Iraqi Jewish father and Hungarian Buddhist mother).
• Charlotte Lewis
  Charlotte Lewis
  Charlotte Lewis is an English actress.-Career:Charlotte Lewis made her film debut as a teenager in the 1986 Roman Polanski film Pirates. She followed it that same year with the female lead in The Golden Child alongside Eddie Murphy. Later appearances include the film Tripwire and Storyville...
  
  , actress most notable for her lead female role in The Golden Child
  The Golden Child
  The Golden Child is a 1986 American comedy film starring Eddie Murphy. Murphy plays Chandler Jarrell, a social worker who is confronted by a young Asian woman , who tells him that he is The Chosen One destined to save The Golden Child, the savior of all mankind, from the clutches of the demon Sardo...
  
  alongside Eddie Murphy
  Eddie Murphy
  Edward Regan "Eddie" Murphy is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, singer, director, and musician....
  
  
• Anisa Mehdi
  Anisa Mehdi
  Anisa Marie Mehdi is an Emmy Award winning film director and journalist. She is of half Iraqi and half Canadian descent.Her main focus when producing documentaries or programmes lie within religion, as her most notable documentary was Inside Mecca, which was produced by National Geographic. Many of...
  
   - Emmy Award winning film director, journalist and director of Inside Mecca
  Inside Mecca
  Inside Mecca is a 2003 National Geographic documentary film that offers an intimate documentation of the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. Aside from providing insight regarding the universal principles of Islam, this production emphasizes the historical significance of Mecca to both the Muslim and...
  
  
• Safia Monney
  Safia Monney
  Safia Monney is a French-German actress.Monney was born to an Iraqi father from Baghdad and a French mother, but she was born and raised in Germany, her grandfathers native country. She grew up in Saarbrücken, close to the French frontier. She is also fluent in French and German...
  
  , actress
• Yigal Naor
  Yigal Naor
  Yigal Naor is an Israeli actor.Naor was born in Giv'atayim of Iraqi Jewish descent. He has appeared in the American movies Munich, Green Zone and Rendition...
  
  , actor
• Lorca Peress, director and producer of Off Off Broadway plays (Born to a Puerto Rican mother and an Iraqi and Polish Jewish father)
• Rashed Radwan
  Rashed Radwan
  Rashed Radwan is a Spanish film director, producer and writer of Iraqi origin. "Target:Heart of Iraq", "Gaza Genocide" "Human Market" and "Iraq at the Edge of Civil War" are among documentaries Rashed has directed.- Filmography :...
  
  , Spanish film director
• 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:...
  
  , Award winning playwright/actress most known for her role in 9 Parts of Desire
• Haider Rashid
  Haider Rashid
  Haider Rashid is a British London-based director, producer and writer.- Early life :Born in Florence, Italy to an Iraqi father and Italian mother...
  
  , director, producer and writer (Iraqi father and Italian mother)
• Shero Rauf
  Shero Rauf
  Shero Rauf is a Kurdish-Iraqi actor and stuntman. He is the first Kurdish Iraqi to work as an actor, stuntman, 3D visual effects animator, lead artist, and assistant director in Hollywood movies.-Career:...
  
  , actor and a stuntman in the film Troy (film)
  Troy (film)
  Troy is a 2004 epic war film written by David Benioff and directed by Wolfgang Petersen based on the events of the Trojan War. Its cast includes Brad Pitt as Achilles, Eric Bana as Hector.It was nominated for the Academy Award for Costume Design.-Plot:...
  
  alongside Brad Pitt
  Brad Pitt
  William Bradley "Brad" Pitt is an American actor and film producer. Pitt has received two Academy Award nominations and four Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one...
  
  
• Liat Ron
  Liat Ron
  Liat Ron is an actress, dancer and dance instructor born to an Iraqi Jewish mother and a Russian Jewish father. Reflecting her cultural heritage she began her Middle Eastern dance journey by training with Israel’s prime dancer Elina Pechersky. She later trained with Yousry Sharif at the Egyptian...
  
  , actress and dancer
• Mohamed Said (actor)
  Mohamed Said (actor)
  Mohamed Said , is a Swedish actor of Iraqi parentage. He lives in Huddinge in Stockholm. He played one of the lead characters, Raddi, in Daniel Fridell's full-length film Säg att du älskar mig in 2006...
  
  , Swedish actor
• Osamah Sami
  Osamah Sami
  Osamah Sami is an Australian actor of Persian origin. He has appeared in numerous episodes of the Australian television programme Kick.-Biography:...
  
  , actor
• Ashley Sawdaye, actor (Iraqi Jewish father and French/Israeli mother)
• Alia Shawkat
  Alia Shawkat
  Alia Martine Shawkat is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Maeby Fünke in the Fox series Arrested Development.- Personal life :...
  
   - American actress known as Maeby Funke on Arrested Development
• Zina Zaflow
  Zina Zaflow
  Zina Zaflow is an American actress and writer of Iraqi origin. She has made numerous appearances in American television dramas such as ER, Grey's Anatomy, 24 and The West Wing. She has a role in Waleed Moursi's film Jelly .-External links:...
  
  , actress
• Nadira
  Nadira
  -People:* Nadira of the Khanate of Kokand* Nadira , an Indian actress of the 1950s and 1960s, best known for her roles as a temptress* Nadira Babbar, an Indian actress and producer of the present day-In fiction:...
  
  , (Farhat Ezekiel Nadira (5 December 1932 – 9 February 2006), commonly known as Nadira was an actress in Indian Bollywood cinema
• Amy Fadhli
  Amy Fadhli
  Amy Fadhli is an American fitness model, actress and winner of the Fitness America National Champion 1996...
  
  , (born January 30, 1966 in Galveston, Texas, U.S.) is an American fitness model, actress and winner of the Fitness America National Champion 1996. Her father is Iraqi who was born in Baghdad, a cardiovascular surgeon, and her mother is Czech, a sculptor and breeder of Arabian horses
• Ashley Sawdaye, (born June 2, 1974) is an American actor. He is most notable for his role as Sgt. Bridges in the 2007 film, The Ungodly.
• Ayman Reda, (Iraqi father / Syrian mother) Is one of the most famous Actor and Comedian in the Arab World

Journalists

• Fadhil Al Azzawi
  Fadhil Al Azzawi
  Fadhil Al Azzawi is an Iraqi writer and highly respected in the Arab world, as he has published seven volumes of poetry, six novels, three books of criticism and memoir, and several translations of German literary works...
  
  , writer, journalist and translator
• Zuhair Al-Jezairy
  Zuhair Al-Jezairy
  Zuhair Al-Jezairy sometimes referred to as Zuhair Al Jazairy is an Iraqi journalist, currently editor in chief of Aswat al-Iraq news agency and part of the Iraqi Journalist Union, he was the previous editor in chief of the daily Arabic newspaper Al Mahda, he has also written several publications...
  
  , journalist
• Atwar Bahjat
  Atwar Bahjat
  Atwar Bahjat was an Iraqi journalist and reporter for al-Arabiya television who was abducted and murdered while covering a story. She had previously worked for al-Jazeera...
  
  , journalist and reporter murdered in Iraq
• Rauf Hassan
  Rauf Hassan
  Rauf Hassan is a renowned Kurdish writer who was born in 1945 in the city of Sulaymaniyah in the Iraqi Kurdistan.He was imprisoned during the rule of the Ba'ath Party regime, because of his critical articles he wrote against the Ba'ath Party regime in Iraq...
  
  , journalist and writer
• Bilal Hussein
  Bilal Hussein
  Bilal Hussein is an Associated Press photojournalist based in Fallujah, Iraq who had been detained by U.S. forces, suspected of aiding insurgents in Iraq. He was handed over to face charges in the Iraqi Central Court, reportedly over the circumstances of his photos supplied by the U.S. military...
  
  , photojournalist
• Salam Pax
  Salam Pax
  Salam Pax is the pseudonym of Salam Abdulmunem , aka Salam al-Janabi , under which he became the "most famous blogger in the world" during and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Along with a massive readership, his site "Where is Raed?" received notable media attention. The pseudonym consists of the...
  
   blogger, translator and journalist
• Taher Thabet
  Taher Thabet
  Thaer Thabet al-Hadithi is an Iraqi activist.A native of Haditha and founder of the Hammurabi Organization for Human Rights and Democracy. The day after a squad of US Marines killed 24 Iraqi civilians after an improvised explosive device detonated by insurgents killed American soldier Miguel...
  
  , journalist
• Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
  Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
  Ghaith Abdul-Ahad is an Iraqi journalist who began working after the U.S. invasion and has written for The Guardian and Washington Post and published photographs in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Times , and other media outlets...
  
  , is an unembedded Iraqi journalist who began working after the U.S. invasion and has written for The Guardian and Washington Post and published photographs in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Times (London), and other media outlets, Besides reporting from his native Iraq, Abdul-Ahad has also reported from Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan and Libya.

Journalists of Iraqi descent

• Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
  Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
  Ghaith Abdul-Ahad is an Iraqi journalist who began working after the U.S. invasion and has written for The Guardian and Washington Post and published photographs in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Times , and other media outlets...
  
   - British-Iraqi journalist (born in Baghdad), has written for The Guardian
  The Guardian
  The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
  
  and Washington Post, as well as other media outlets.
• Firas Al-Atraqchi, Canadian journalist/writer
• Hana Al Bayaty
  Hana Al Bayaty
  Hana Al Bayaty is an Iraqi-French documentary film maker and journalist for the Al Ahram weekly in Egypt. Based in Brussels, she is a member of the Executive Committee of The Brussels Tribunal...
  
   film maker and journalist
• Leila Barclay
  Leila Barclay
  Leila Khoury Barclay is an American storyteller, journalist and founder of Al-Hakawati , an online provider dedicated to educating people on Arabic art, culture and history, in 2002...
  
  , American journalist and storyteller
• Dunja Hayali - German journalist and TV presenter
• Salam Karam
  Salam Karam
  Salam Kamel Karam is a Swedish journalist.Salam Karam was born in Baghdad in Iraq. He speaks fluent Arabic as well as Swedish. He has a bachelor's degree in Middle-Eastern studies from Uppsala University. He has worked as a Middle East reporter for the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet and in the radio...
  
   - Swedish journalist, has reported for the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet
  Svenska Dagbladet
  Svenska Dagbladet is a daily newspaper in Sweden. The first issue appeared on 18 December 1884. Svenska Dagbladet is published in Stockholm and provides coverage of national and international news as well as local coverage of the Greater Stockholm region...
  
  and in the radio program Godmorgon, världen!
  Godmorgon, världen!
  Godmorgon, världen! is a long-running Swedish radio programme, sent on the Sveriges Radio channel P1 between 9 and 11 every Sunday morning since 1986. The programme covers the news of the last week with reports and interviews, includes a panel of selected Swedish media personalities who comment...
  
  .
• Farah Nosh
  Farah Nosh
  Farah Nosh is an Iraqi Canadian photojournalist who was born and grew up in Canada.Nosh attended the University of British Columbia in 1998 to study geography for her BA, and then in 2002 she undertook a diploma in photojournalism at the Western Academy of Photography in Victoria, she also holds...
  
  , photojournalist
• Michelle Nouri
  Michelle Nouri
  Michelle Raghdee Nouri, is an Italian journalist and author, most known for her first novel, "The girl in Baghdad", which highlights her childhood in Baghdad, fleeing Iraq and her arrival in Italy...
  
   - journalist and writer, her publications include "La ragazza di Baghdad" ("The girl in Baghdad").
• Daniel Pearl
  Daniel Pearl
  Daniel Pearl was an American journalist who was kidnapped and killed by Al-Qaeda.At the time of his kidnapping, Pearl served as the South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, and was based in Mumbai, India. He went to Pakistan as part of an investigation into the alleged links between...
  
   - (1963–2002), was an American journalist who was kidnapped and murdered in Karachi, Pakistan. (Born to an Iraqi Jewish mother).
• Anias Mehdi, Emmy Award winning film director, journalist and director of Iraqi Arab father and Anglo-Canadian mother
• Lorraine Ali
  Lorraine Ali
  Lorraine Ali is a reporter, editor and culture writer for many publications, including Newsweek where she is a Contributing Editor. She covers culture at large as well as pop culture, and writes frequently about the Middle East and Iraq in pieces such as "When Home Becomes Hell"...
  
  , a reporter, editor and culture writer for many publications, including Newsweek where she is a Contributing Editor. She covers culture at large as well as pop culture, and writes frequently about the Middle East and Iraq. Lorraine was born to an Iraqi American father who immigrated from Baghdad to Los Angeles in the 1950s. Her mother is of French Canadian descent and was born and raised in Los Angeles. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son

Military figures

• Abdul Karim Qasim
• Ashur-nasir-pal II
  Ashur-nasir-pal II
  Ashur-nasir-pal II was king of Assyria from 883 to 859 BC.Ashurnasipal II succeeded his father, Tukulti-Ninurta II, in 883 BC...
  
  
• Hamid Raja Shalah
  Hamid Raja Shalah
  Hamid Raja, also known as Hamid Raja-Shalah Hassan al-Tikriti or Hamid Raja-Shalah Hassum al-Tikriti was a commander of the Iraqi Air Force under Saddam Hussein....
  
  
• Nebuchadrezzar II
  Nebuchadrezzar II
  Nebuchadnezzar II was king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, who reigned c. 605 BC – 562 BC. According to the Bible, he conquered Judah and Jerusalem, and sent the Jews into exile. He is credited with the construction of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and also known for the destruction...
  
  
• Sargon of Akkad
  Sargon of Akkad
  Sargon of Akkad, also known as Sargon the Great "the Great King" , was an Akkadian emperor famous for his conquest of the Sumerian city-states in the 23rd and 22nd centuries BC. The founder of the Dynasty of Akkad, Sargon reigned in the last quarter of the third millennium BC...
  
  

Modern military figures

• Salah al-Din al-Sabbagh
  Salah al-Din al-Sabbagh
  Salah al-Din al-Sabbagh was an Iraqi Army officer and Arab nationalist that led the Golden Square group which had opposed the government at the time and had highly influenced politics between the years of 1939 to 1941.-Early life and career:...
  
  , (1889–1945) Iraqi Army officer
• Mustafa Al Hankawi, he is first foreign graduate to be presented the Sword of Honour by the Queen of England at Sandhurst Military Academy
• Hagop Hagopian
  Hagop Hagopian
  Hagop Hagopian , also Bedros Ohanessian was one of the founders and the main leader of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia .- Life :...
  
  , was one of the founders and the main leader of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA).Born in Mosul, Iraq as Bedros Ohanessian in 1955, in later years he took the pseudonym Hagop Hagopian. He was assassinated outside his home in Athens' Palaio Faliro suburb on April 28, 1988, while he was waiting for a taxi to take him to the airport for a flight to Belgrade.
• Toma Tomas
  Toma Tomas
  Toma Tomas also known by his nom de guerre Abu Joseph, was an Assyrian politician and the leader of anti-government communist millitias in northern Iraq during the 1960s and 70s.- Early life :...
  
  , also known by his nom de guerre Abu Joseph, was an Assyrian politician and the leader of anti-government millitias (al-Ansar) in northern Iraq during the 1960s and 70s. Toma Tomas was born in Alqosh to a Chaldean Catholic in 1924. He witnessed the Simele Massacre first-hand when Assyrians escaped the massacres to Alqosh. This event was crucial in shaping his political ideas in the future.

Misc

• Dan Halutz
  Dan Halutz
  ' is an Israeli Air Force Lt. General and former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces and commander of the Israeli Air Force. Halutz was appointed as Chief of Staff on June 1, 2005. On January 17, 2007 he announced his resignation. He has a degree in economics. He was born to a Mizrahi...
  
  , Israeli air force general
• Moshe Levi
  Moshe Levi
  Leiutanant General Moshe Levy was the 12th Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces . He served in this position from 1983–1987...
  
  , (1936 – January 8, 2008), was the 12th Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces. He was the first Chief of Staff of Mizrahi (Iraqi) origin.
• Zee M Kane
  Zee M Kane
  Ziad Muhmood Kane is the Editor-in-Chief of the blog The Next Web, which is a Technorati Top 50 blog worldwide.In 2009, Kane was listed by The Daily Telegraph as one of the top ten most influential users of Twitter...
  
  , (born 8 October 1982) to Iraqi father and English mother. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the blog The Next Web, which is a Technorati Top 50 blog worldwide.
• Amira Mor, bellydancer
• Yitzhak Mordechai
  Yitzhak Mordechai
  Yitzhak Mordechai is an Israeli former general and politician. He served as a member of the Knesset between 1996 and 2001, and as Minister of Defense and Minister of Transport. He retired from political life after being indicted for sexual assaults during his military service and later...
  
  , was as an Israeli general, and later Minister of Defense and Minister of Transport.
• Muayyed Nureddin
  Muayyed Nureddin
  An Iraqi-born Canadian geologist, Muayyed Nureddin was imprisoned in similar circumstances to Maher Arar in Syria. He claims to have been beaten and interrogated about his connection to a Toronto Islamic school; and has called for a public inquiry into the role of Canadian officials in his...
  
  , geologist
• Ibn Rajab
  Ibn Rajab
  Zain ad-Din, Abu al-Faraj, 'Abd ar-Rahman ibn Ahmad ibn 'Abd ar-Rahman ibn al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Abi al-Barakat Mas'ud as-Sulami, al-Baghdadi, al-Hanbali, also known as Ibn Rajab, which was a nickname he inherited from his grandfather who was born the month of Rajab, was a Muslim...
  
  , scholar
• Kaysar Ridha, (born August 10, 1980) was a contestant on Big Brother 6 and Big Brother 7, a reality TV series in the United States shown on the channel CBS. He was extremely popular as a contestant on Big Brother 6, but came in 10th place. Kaysar was born in Baghdad, Iraq. His family immigrated to the USA when he was an infant.
• Fairuz Yamulky
  Fairuz Yamulky
  Fairuz Yamulky is an Iraqi-born Canadian, from Calgary, Alberta, who was working in Iraq for GSF Cement and Sand Company, when she was kidnapped and held captive for 16 days in northern Iraq....
  
  
• Duha Asker, actor and photographer
• Zahra Alkabi, director and founder of Save Refugees
• Sitti Maani Gioerida, Pietro Della Valle's wife,an Italian Renaissance traveler. She was born in Baghdad, Iraq of mixed Syrian and Armenian descent (1586–1652)
• 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...
  
  , was known as Babylon's Princess in Europe. She was born in 1804 in Tel Keppe, Iraq and died in France before the Franco-Prussian War . She was 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.

Models

• Anais Catala
  Anais Catala
  Anais Catala is a half Iraqi and half French model of Jewish faith.Daughter of an Iraqi mother and French father, she was a delegate in Miss Earth 2007 competing as Miss Iraq and held the title for Miss Iraq 2007 being only 20 years old....
  
  
• Klodia Hanna, model and singer
• Pavla Drabkova
• Amy Fadhli
  Amy Fadhli
  Amy Fadhli is an American fitness model, actress and winner of the Fitness America National Champion 1996...
  
  , fitness model, actress and winner of the "Fitness America National Champion 1996" (Iraqi father and Czech mother)
• Somy Ali
  Somy Ali
  Somy Ali is a former Bollywood actress and current model and journalist. She has her own clothing line, So-Me Designs apart from running a non profit organization, No More Tears...
  
  , former Bollywood
  Bollywood
  Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...
  
   actress and now model and journalist (Iraqi mother and Pakistani father)
• Viola Haqi
  Viola Haqi
  Viola Haqi is a Dutch fashion model of mixed Dutch and Iraqi heritage.Her mother worked at an insurance company and her father was a chef...
  
  , Dutch-Iraqi model
• Alexander Farsi, an Iraqi model and actor
• Silva Shahakian
  Silva Shahakian
  Silva Shahakian, an Iraqi Armenian, was crowned Miss Iraq on April 10, 2006. She received the crown because the initial winner, Tamar Goregian feared retribution from militants.-Sources:***...
  
  , an Iraqi Armenian who was crowned as Miss Iraq in 2006. She received the crown because the initial winner, Tamar Goregian feared retribution from militants.
• Tamar Goregian, Miss Iraq in 2006. She decided to step down just four days after her election, making this the shortest reign in the pageant's 60-year history. She announced her resignation after receiving threats by a group of religious extremists who referred to her as "the queen of infidels" for participating in the contest. She is Iraqi Armenian.

Monarchs

• Hashemite Dynasty
  Hashemite
  Hashemite is the Latinate version of the , transliteration: Hāšimī, and traditionally refers to those belonging to the Banu Hashim, or "clan of Hashim", a clan within the larger Quraish tribe...
  
  
• Kings of Akkad
  Kings of Akkad
  This is a list of kings of Akkad, also rendered as Agade. Akkad was a major empire in ancient Mesopotamia in the 3rd millennium BCE. The area covered by the kingdom is now located in the region of present-day Iraq, eastern Turkey and northern Syria....
  
  
• Kings of Assyria
  Kings of Assyria
  The list of Assyrian kings is compiled from the Assyrian King List, an ancient kingdom in northern Mesopotamia with information added from recent archaeological findings. The Assyrian King List includes regnal lengths that appear to have been based on now lost limmu lists...
  
  
• List of kings of Babylon
• List of Kings of Iraq
• Sumerian king list
  Sumerian king list
  The Sumerian King List is an ancient manuscript originally recorded in the Sumerian language, listing kings of Sumer from Sumerian and neighboring dynasties, their supposed reign lengths, and the locations of "official" kingship...
  
  

Musicians

• Rida Al Abdullah
  Rida Al Abdullah
  Rida Al Abdulla is an Iraqi singer. He gained enormous attention across the Arab world for his singles "Bo'dak Habibi", "Qasawa", "Dhalim", "Min Trid Abousak", "Al Asabe3", "Melih Wa Zad", "Ya Hali" and many other hits including "Weinkom Ya Arab" , which was a protest song...
  
  
• Nazem Al-Ghazali
  Nazem Al-Ghazali
  Nazem El Ghazali was one of the most popular singers in the history of Iraq and his songs are still heard by many in the Arab world. He was born in the Haydar Khanah quarter in Baghdad, and studied at the Institute of Fine Arts in Iraq. He started his career as an actor, and after a few years...
  
  
• Rahim AlHaj
  Rahim AlHaj
  Rahim AlHaj is an Iraqi American oud musician and composer.-Early life:AlHaj was born in Baghdad, Iraq and began playing the oud at age nine...
  
  
• Hatim Al-Iraqi, Iraqi singer
• Karim Al-Iraqi, poet and musician
• Basim al-karbalaie
• Hussam Al-Rassam
  Hussam Al-Rassam
  Hussam Al Rassam is an Iraqi singer who has become a known singer post the 2003 Iraq war. He is credited for being the first Iraqi singer to debut in the post Saddam Hussein era....
  
  
• Kathem Al Saher
  Kathem Al Saher
  Kadim Al Sahir , is an Iraqi singer, composer, and poet. He has been dubbed the "Caesar of Arabic Song", "George Michael of the Arab world", "Iraq’s Diplomatic Ambassador to the world", and "Iraq’s Ambassador for Peace"....
  
  , one of the most successful Arab singers in the Arab world
• 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:...
  
  , Assyrian
  Assyrian people
  The Assyrian people are a distinct ethnic group whose origins lie in ancient Mesopotamia...
  
   singer
• 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...
  
  , Iraq's only heavy metal band
• Jamil Bachir
  Jamil Bachir
  Jamil Bachir was born to an ethnic Assyrian/Syriac Christian family and is the brother of Munir Bashir. His father started to teach him the oud when he was around six years old, as his father was a singer, oud player and oud maker...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• Ahmed El Faleh
  Ahmed El Faleh
  Ahmed El Faleh is a singer who rose to popularity around the world after placing fourth in Super Star 3, the pan-Arabic version of Pop Idol....
  
  
• Filfel Gourgy, singer
• Seta Hagopian
  Seta Hagopian
  Seta Hagopian is a legendary Iraqi singer of Armenian origin. Her singing career began in 1968 which led to much success for she is known to be the "Warm voice of Iraq" and has been dubbed as Iraq's Fairouz.-Early career:...
  
  , famous Iraqi Armenian singer
• Jamal Al Atawi, Musicologist, Emeritus PHD in Iraqi Maqam, Iraqi Babylonian Jewish relevant Makam theorist and performer.
• Klodia Hanna - singer and model
• Shatha Hassoun
  Shatha Hassoun
  Shada Amjad Nasser Hassoun Alshamery better known as Shatha Hassoun is an Arabic singer from both Iraqi and Moroccan ancestry, who rose to fame as the winner of the 4th season of the pan-Arab television talent show Star Academy Arab World. She was the first female to win the competition...
  
   winner of Star Academy 4
• Bashar Lulua
  Bashar Lulua
  Bashar Lulua is a Paris-based Arab orchestra conductor. He is the founding conductor and manager of L'Orchestre et Chœur des Arts Écléctiques a cross-cultural, crossover ensemble of virtuoso performers based in Paris.- Early life :...
  
  , orchestra conductor
• Rahma Mezher
  Rahma Mezher
  Rahma Mezher born January 19, 1987 in Iraq) Al-Basrah, is an Iraqi singer who rose to popularity after participating in Super Star 2, the pan-Arabic version of Pop Idol. Rahma was eliminated from the beginning of the competition...
  
   came 2nd in Najm Al Khaleej
• Majid Al Muhandis
  Majid Al Muhandis
  Majid Al Muhandis Al-Otaibi is an Iraqi singer and composer.-Song In Albumi:*Dagat galb*Mo bs hob ahbak*Wahshne moot*Angenit*Ensa*La Tebchin Ya Gaza*"Ouzkourini" *"Waheshni Moot*" *"Ghab El Qamar*"*"Gowa Gowa*"...
  
  
• Ahmed Mukhtar
  Ahmed Mukhtar
  Ahmed Mukhtar Arabic ,أحمد مختار is an Iraqi musician who is internationally renowned for his playing of the oud. He was born in Baghdad and is a graduate of the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad.- Biography :...
  
  
• Niz-r
  Niz-r
  NiZ-R is a half-Iraqi, half-Palestinian rapper living in Jordan.- Biography :NiZ-R was raised in a family that was always attached to politics, with different political points of view, so he developed his own personal political point of view at a really small age.He was really influenced by his...
  
  , rapper
• Beatrice Ohanessian
  Beatrice Ohanessian
  Beatrice Ohanessian was an Iraqi Armenian pianist, notable for being Iraq's first concert pianist and first female composer.-Early life and education:...
  
   - (1927–2008) was an Iraqi pianist, notable for being Iraq's first concert pianist and first female composer. (Born in Baghdad, of Armenian origin).
• Salima Pasha
  Salima Pasha
  Salima Mourad or Salima Murad was a well known Iraqi Jewish singer and was highly respected both in the Arab world and Israel....
  
   - (?-1974), was a well known Iraqi Jewish singer and was dubbed as the most famous female singer, since the early 1930s. She married fellow Iraqi singer and actor Nazem Al-Ghazali
  Nazem Al-Ghazali
  Nazem El Ghazali was one of the most popular singers in the history of Iraq and his songs are still heard by many in the Arab world. He was born in the Haydar Khanah quarter in Baghdad, and studied at the Institute of Fine Arts in Iraq. He started his career as an actor, and after a few years...
  
  .
• Ehab Salem, Iraqi pop singer
• 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....
  
  
• Naseer Shamma
  Naseer Shamma
  Naseer Shamma is a renowned Arab Iraqi musician and oud player.He was born in 1963 in Kut, a city on the Tigris River. He is born to a Fayli Kurdish father and a Khazrajite Arab mother. He began studying the oud at the age of 12 in Baghdad, following in the footsteps of Jamil and Munir Bashir...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Salman Shukur
  Salman Shukur
  Salman Shukur was born in 1921 in Baghdad, Iraq. He studied oud under Sherif Muheddin Haydar at the Baghdad Conservatory. Later, he became Professor of oud and the head of the Oriental Music Department at the Institute founded by Sharif Muheddin, and held that post for 30 years. He was also...
  
  
• Sahar Taha
  Sahar Taha
  Sahar Taha is an Iraqi musician and journalist living in Lebanon who co-hosts the Lebanese programme Banat Hawa on LBC. She is best known for playing the oud in both eastern and western music.-Early life and career:...
  
  , singer and artist
• Unknown to No One
  Unknown to No One
  UTN1 or Unknown to No One is an Iraqi pop/rock band formed in 1999 in Baghdad - Iraq. It is notable for being a pioneering group that sings in both Arabic and English, and for being formed under Saddam Hussein's regime. It was founded by Shant Garabedian and Artin Haroutiounian...
  
  , boyband
• Haitham Yousif
  Haitham Yousif
  Haitham Yousif is an Iraqi singer, composer and songwriter. Born and raised in Baghdad, Iraq. Referred to as the Prince of Love, he is the most commercially successful and one of the most influential entertainers in Iraq...
  
  , popular Iraqi singer
• Mansour Zalzal
  Mansour Zalzal
  Mansour Zalzal ,late 700s - early 800s was an Arab Musician and composer of Al-Kufa during the Abbasid era. Contributed musical scales that were later named after him and introduced positions within scales such as the wasati-zalzal.Mansour Made improvements on the design of the lute instrument...
  
  
• Ziryab
  Ziryab
  Abu l-Hasan ‘Ali Ibn Nafi‘ , nicknamed Ziryab , was a Black African or Persian or Kurdish polymath: a poet, musician, singer, chemist, cosmetologist, fashion designer, trendsetter, strategist, astronomer, botanist and...
  
  

Musicians of Iraqi descent

• Hanan Alattar
  Hanan Alattar
  Hanan Alattar is an American operatic soprano and actress who has made appearances at the Los Angeles Opera, Berlin Staatsoper, New York City Opera, Lincoln Center New York]] as well collaborating with fellow conductors, Placido Domingo, James Conlon and Miguel Harth-Bedoya.- Early life :Alattar...
  
   - American Soprano opera singer
• Laith Alattar
  Laith Alattar
  Laith Alattar is an Iraqi American composer, singer, and oud player.Born in Baghdad, Laith later moved to the United States and graduated from the composition program at the University of Michigan School of Music.-External links:*...
  
  , Iraqi American musician
• Laith Al-Deen
  Laith Al-Deen
  Laith Al-Deen, born February 20, 1972 in Karlsruhe, Germany, is a German language pop musician.-Biography and Career:Born of an Iraqi father and German mother, Al-Deen grew up in the United States and Mannheim, Germany...
  
  , German pop musician
• Farida Mohammad Ali
  Farida Mohammad Ali
  Farida Mohammad Ali is an Iraqi singer. She performs regularly in the Iraqi Maqam Ensemble. The ensemble was established in 1989 in Baghdad by Mohammad H.Gomar to continue of the 1973 ensemble organized by the prominent lute professor Munir Bashir. She had taught maqam singing at the Baghdad...
  
  , singer
• Nora Foss al-Jabri
  Nora Foss al-Jabri
  Nora Foss al-Jabri is a Norwegian child singer.Her father is Iraqi and her mother is an ethnic Norwegian, Foss being her mother's last name....
  
  , Norwegian child singer
  Child singer
  A child singer is a child who has a career as a singer. Child singers and people who have been child singers include:* From age 2 Judy Garland* From age 4 Donny Osmond* From age 5 Michael Jackson...
  
  
• Saleh and Daoud Al-Kuwaity
  Saleh and Daoud Al-Kuwaity
  Saleh and Daud Al-Kuwaity האחים צאלח ודאוד אל-כוויתי) were Jewish - Iraqi musicians born in Kuwait as Saleh and Daud Ezra.-Early life:The brothers were born in Kuwait to a family from an Iraqi origin...
  
  
• Oren Ambarchi
  Oren Ambarchi
  Oren Ambarchi is a multi-instrumentalist who in major plays electric guitar and drums, with longstanding interests in transcending conventional instrumental approaches. He was born in Sydney, Australia in 1969 to a Jewish family originally from Iraq....
  
   - Australian electronic guitarist and drummer. Is of Iraqi (Sephardi Jewish) heritage.
• Inbar Bakal
  Inbar Bakal
  Inbar Bakal is an Israeli singer and songwriter. Her debut album Song of Songs produced by Carmen Rizzo, is a mix of Western classical, Arabic and Israeli music.Bakal now resides in Los Angeles.-Early life:...
  
   - Israeli singer/songwriter of mixed Iraqi and Yemeni descent.
• Bruno Coulais
  Bruno Coulais
  Bruno Coulais is a French composer, most widely known for his music on film soundtracks. He recently composed the score for the animated film, The Secret of Kells, released 12 March 2010.- Life and career :...
  
  , composer
• Dganit Daddo, Israeli singer born to an Iraqi Jewish family
• Yair Dalal
  Yair Dalal
  Yair Dalal is an Israeli musician of Iraqi-Jewish descent.His main instruments are the oud and the violin, and he also sings as accompaniment. He composes his own music and draws on Arab and Jewish traditions, as well as European classical music and Indian music...
  
  
• Amir ElSaffar
  Amir ElSaffar
  Amir ElSaffar is an Iraqi-American trumpeter and vocalist.In addition to being a classical and jazz trumpeter, he is also a skilled interpreter of Iraqi maqam, which he sings and plays on santur...
  
  
• Dena El Saffar
  Dena El Saffar
  Dena El Saffar is a musician who plays the violin and jowza. She is of Iraqi and American heritage and is the older sister of Amir El Saffar.Along with her brother she was exposed to Arabic music in the suburbs of Chicago, where she grew up attending Iraqi gatherings with her family. She began...
  
   sister of Amir El Saffar
• Rami Fortis
  Rami Fortis
  Rami Fortis , often Fortis, is an Israeli rock singer.-Biography:Rami Fortis is of Iraqi and Italian origin. He served in the 1973 Yom Kippur war and was influenced by his experiences at the front. He began his musical career in 1975 as a lighting-man in the shows of Tamuz - one of Israel's...
  
   - Israeli rock singer (Iraqi/Italian ancestry)
• 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...
  
   - singer
• 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....
  
   - musician
• Natalya Ginaty, Natalya "Nazima" Ginaty, Israeli singer/songwriter/actress (Iraqi father)
• 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...
  
   - singer
• Klodia Hanna - singer
• 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:...
  
   - singer
• Chemda Khalili, singer/songwriter and co-host of the Keith and The Girl
  Keith and The Girl
  Keith and The Girl, abbreviated as KATG, is a popular comedy podcast that began on March 7, 2005. It is hosted by comedian Keith Malley and singer Chemda Khalili in Queens, New York. Chemda is of Persian descent whilst Keith's exact origins are unknown, but believed to be eastern European...
  
   podcast
• Lowkey
  Lowkey
  Kareem Dennis is a musician and political activist of English and Iraqi descent, better known by his stage name Lowkey. He first became known through a series of mixtapes he released before he was 18, before taking a hiatus from the music business...
  
  , British-Iraqi rapper
• Sara Manasseh, singer, doctor, performer (Iraqi Jew born in Bombay, India).
• The Narcicyst
  The Narcicyst
  Yassin Alsalman, better known by his stage name The Narcicyst , is an Iraqi journalist and Hip Hop MC[1][2]. Originally from Basra, he was born and raised in Dubai.[2] Now settled in Montreal, Canada....
  
  , Iraqi-Canadian rapper
• Aida Nadeem
  Aida Nadeem
  Aida Nadeem is an Iraqi musician living in Denmark.-Early career:As a child, Aida, began to sing, dance and write poetry. With interest in classical music, at the age of twelve, she began her studies at the prestigious Music and Ballet school Baghdad...
  
  , Iraqi-Danish musician
• Karim Othman-Hassan, oudist
• Esma Redžepova
  Esma Redzepova
  Esma Redžepova is a Macedonian vocalist, songwriter, and humanitarian. During her life she has performed in more than 9000 concerts in 30 countries, with her late husband Stevo Teodosievski she has fostered forty-seven children, and she has received numerous accolades for her humanitarian work. By...
  
  , Romani Macedonian vocalist, songwriter, and humanitarian. Her grandfather was an Iraqi Jew.
• Denise Roxenhamn, Swedish bassist for band, The Laundry Shop (half Swedish and half Iraqi)
• Shlomo
  Shlomo (human beatbox)
  Simon Shlomo Kahn is a British beatboxing artist.-Background and career:Shlomo is of Israeli, Iraqi and German descent and grew up in the village of Bourne End, Buckinghamshire. He can speak Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic; he is a classically trained percussionist and a jazz drummer.His original...
  
  , human beatbox and member of UK-hip hop act, Foreign Beggars
  Foreign Beggars
  Foreign Beggars are a critically acclaimed British Hip Hop, Grime and Dubstep group based in London. The group consists of MCs Orifice Vulgatron, Metropolis, producer Dag Nabbit and DJ Nonames and are renowned for their eclectic and energetic live shows...
  
  
• 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....
  
   Iraqi-American rapper
• Elliott Yamin
  Elliott Yamin
  Elliott Yamin , born Efraym Elliott Yamin, is an American singer known for his hit single "Wait for You" and placing third on the fifth season of American Idol....
  
  
• Daron Malakian
  Daron Malakian
  Daron Vartan Malakian is an Armenian-American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. He is best known as the guitarist, songwriter, and occasional vocalist of the heavy metal band System of a Down and as the lead vocalist, lead guitarist, and songwriter of the alternative...
  
  , (born July 18, 1975) is an Armenian-American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. He is best known as the guitarist, songwriter, and occasional vocalist of the heavy metal band System of a Down and as the lead vocalist, lead guitarist, and songwriter of the alternative rock band Scars on Broadway.
• Roni Dalumi
  Roni Dalumi
  Roni Daloomi is an Israeli singer. She won the final of Kochav Nolad 7 contest in August 2009.-Biography:Roni Daloomi was born and raised in Omer, Israel. She started singing at the age of twelve after seven years of dancing with the Bat Dor Dance Company in Beer Sheva. She participated in "Shir...
  
   (born September 15, 1991) is an Israeli singer. She won the final of Kochav Nolad 7 contest in August 2009
• Darin
  Darin
  Darin may refer to*Darin , full name Darin Zanyar, a Swedish pop singer*Bobby Darin, American pop singer*Ricardo Darín, Argentine actor*Darin Strauss, American author-See also:*Daran, a village in Azerbaijan*Daren, Taitung, a township in Taiwan...
  
   or Darin Zanyar (born June 2, 1987 in Stockholm, Sweden) more commonly known as Darin is a Swedish, Kurdish pop singer and songwriter of Kurdish descent and one of Sweden's best-selling artists, with numerous chart topping songs and music albums.
• Loris Ohannes Chobanian
  Loris Ohannes Chobanian
  Loris Ohannes Chobanian is an accomplished Armenian-American composer of classical music, expert conductor, and guitar and lute teacher and performer. A naturalized US citizen, he served as Professor of Composition as well as Composer-in-Residence at Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory.-Early...
  
    (born April 17, 1933 to Armenian parents in Mosul, Iraq) is an accomplished Armenian-American composer of classical music, expert conductor, and guitar and lute teacher and performer. He served as Professor of Composition as well as Composer-in-Residence at Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory.

Physicians & surgeons

• Ala Bashir
  Ala Bashir
  Ala Bashir is the most celebrated Iraqi painter, sculptor and plastic surgeon. His works of art have been shown in several international exhibitions in, for example, France , the United Kingdom , Ireland , Austria , Germany , Yugoslavia , Italy , Russia , Qatar , Morocco , Libya...
  
  
• 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...
  
   - Assyrian physician
• Esagil-kin-apli
• Ibn Hubal
  Ibn Hubal
  Muhadhdhib al-Dīn Abūʼl-Hasan ʻAlī ibn Ahmad Ibn Hubal known as Ibn Hubal was an Arab physician and scientist born in Baghdad. He was known primarily for his medical compendium titled Kitab al-Mukhtarat fi al-tibb , "The Book of Selections in Medicine." It was written in 1165 in Mosul, north of...
  
  
• 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...
  
   (Hunayn bar Ishaq) - Assyrian Physician
• Al-Kindi
  Al-Kindi
  ' , known as "the Philosopher of the Arabs", was a Muslim Arab philosopher, mathematician, physician, and musician. Al-Kindi was the first of the Muslim peripatetic philosophers, and is unanimously hailed as the "father of Islamic or Arabic philosophy" for his synthesis, adaptation and promotion...
  
  
• Ali ibn Abbas al-Majusi
  Ali ibn Abbas al-Majusi
  Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi , also known as Masoudi, or Latinized as Haly Abbas, was a Persian physician and psychologist most famous for the Kitab al-Maliki or Complete Book of the Medical Art, his textbook on medicine and psychology.-Biography:He was born in Ahvaz, southwestern Persia, and...
  
  
• Mohammed A.F. Al-Rawi
  Mohammed A.F. Al-Rawi
  Mohammed A. F. Al-Rawi Mohammed Abdallah Falah Al-Rawi was a medical specialist, president of Baghdad University and the dean of College of Medicine University of Baghdad...
  
  
• Imad Sarsam
  Imad Sarsam
  Imad Matti Sarsam was a highly reputed Iraqi orthopaedic surgeon, teaching at the Department of Orthopedics in Baghdad University and as assistant professor at the Baghdad Medical College, who was assassinated on August 31, 2004, just three months after his participation in an international...
  
  
• Sinan ibn Thabit
  Sinan ibn Thabit
  Sinan ibn Thabit ibn Qurra سنان بن ثابت بن قرة ) was an ethnic Mandean physician and a Sabian who later converted to Islam. He was the son of Thabit ibn Qurra and the father of Ibrahim ibn Sinan.- References :...
  
  
• Yuhanna Ibn Masawaih(Yuhanna Bit Msawaih) - Assyrian physician
• Ibn Kammuna
  Ibn Kammuna
  Sa'd ibn Mansur Ibn Kammuna was a 13th Century Jewish physician , philosopher and critic of Islam who lived under the rule of the Mongols in Baghdad....
  
  Sa'd ibn Mansur (Izz Al-dawla) Ibn Kammuna (died 1284) was a 13th Century Jewish physician (ophthalmologist), philosopher and critic of Islam who lived under the rule of the Mongols in Baghdad.

Politicians

• Khudayer Abbas
• Izzat Ibrahim ad-Douri
• Haidar al-Abbadi
  Haidar al-Abbadi
  Dr Haider Al-Abadi is an Iraqi politician and spokesman for the Islamic Call Party or Islamic Dawa Party.He was appointed Minister of Communications in the Iraqi Governing Council on 1 September 2003...
  
  
• Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi
  Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi
  Ali Jawdat al-Ayubi was Prime Minister of Iraq 1934–1935, 1949–1950, 1957. He was born in 1886 and died in 1969....
  
  
• Mohammed A. Aldouri
  Mohammed A. Aldouri
  Mohammed A. Aldouri was the Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations from 2001 to 2003.Born in Baghdad, Aldouri attended Baghdad University and earned a bachelors degree in law in 1964. In 1973, Aldouri received a Ph.D. in public law from France’s Dijon University...
  
  
• Iyad Allawi
  Iyad Allawi
  Ayad Allawi is an Iraqi politician, and was the interim Prime Minister of Iraq prior to Iraq's 2005 legislative elections. A prominent Iraqi political activist who lived in exile for almost 30 years, the politically secular Shia Muslim became a member of the Iraq Interim Governing Council, which...
  
  
• Alaudin Abdul-Saheb al-Alwan
• Jafar al-Askari
  Jafar al-Askari
  Ja'far Pasha al-Askari ‎ served twice as prime minister of Iraq: from November 22, 1923, to August 3, 1924; and from November 21, 1926, to December 31, 1927....
  
  
• Nori al-Badran
• Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
  Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
  General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr , was the fourth President of Iraq from 1968 to 1979.-Military career:...
  
  
• Ahmed al-Barak
  Ahmed al-Barak
  Ahmed Shya'a al-Barak was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council, created following the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq and dissolved in June 2004. A Shia Muslim from the city of Babylon, al-Barak is a lawyer and coordinator for the Iraqi Bar Association...
  
  
• Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz
  Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz
  Abd al-Rahman al-Bazzaz was a politician, reformist, and writer. He was an pan-Arab nationalist and he was the Dean of Baghdad Law College and Prime Minister of Iraq. Al-Bazzaz main political project was the professionalization of the government on the basis of civilian expertise. That civic...
  
  
• Naseer al-Chaderchi
  Naseer al-Chaderchi
  Naseer Kamel al-Chaderchi was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council, created following the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq. al-Chaderchi is a Sunni Muslim and the leader of the National Democratic Party...
  
  
• Kamil Mubdir al-Gailani
• Ali Faik al-Ghadban
  Ali Faik al-Ghadban
  Ali Faik al-Ghadban was Minister of Youth and Sports in the cabinet appointed by the Interim Iraq Governing Council in September 2003 and in the Iraqi Interim Government. A Shia Muslim, al-Ghadban is a supporter of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council....
  
  
• Mohammed Shakir al-Ghanam
• Mahdi al-Hafidh
• Ali Al-Haidri
• Abdul Aziz al-Hakim
  Abdul Aziz al-Hakim
  Sayyed Abdul Aziz al-Hakim was an Iraqi theologian and politician and the leader of Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, a party that enjoys approximately 5% support in the Iraqi Council of Representatives....
  
  
• Abdul Razak al-Hashimi
  Abdul Razak al-Hashimi
  Dr. Abdul Razak al-Hashimi is a former Iraqi diplomat, Minister of Higher Education, and senior advisor to Saddam Hussein.Dr. Hashimi graduated from Boston University in 1969...
  
  
• Aqila al-Hashimi
  Aqila al-Hashimi
  Aqila al-Hashimi was an Iraqi politician who served on the Iraqi Governing Council.Aqila al-Hashimi was born in 1953 into a prominent Shi'ite religious family in Najaf...
  
  
• Yasin al-Hashimi
  Yasin al-Hashimi
  Yasin al-Hashimi was an Iraqi politician who served twice as that country's prime minister. Like many of Iraq's early leaders, Hashimi, who was born Yasin Hilmi Salman, served as an officer during Ottoman control of the country...
  
  
• Taha al-Hashimi
  Taha al-Hashimi
  Taha al-Hashimi served briefly as prime minister of Iraq for two months, from February 1, 1941, to April 1, 1941. He was appointed prime minister by the regent, 'Abd al-Ilah, following the first ouster of the pro-Axis government of Rashid Ali al-Kaylani during World War II...
  
  
• Hajim al-Hassani
  Hajim al-Hassani
  Hajim Mahdi Saleh al-Hassani to a prominent Kirkuki family is an Iraqi politician and was the speaker of the Iraqi National Assembly under the Iraqi Transitional Government...
  
  
• Ibrahim al-Jaafari
  Ibrahim al-Jaafari
  Ibrahim abd al-Karim Hamzah al-Eshaiker al-Jafari is an Iraqi politician who was Prime Minister of Iraq in the Iraqi Transitional Government from 2005 to 2006, following the January 2005 election. He was previously one of the two Vice-Presidents of Iraq under the Iraqi Interim Government from 2004...
  
  
• Mofeed Mohammed Jawad al-Jazaeri
• Rashid Ali al-Kaylani
  Rashid Ali al-Kaylani
  Rashid Aali al-Gaylani served as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Iraq on three occasions. He is chiefly remembered as an Arab nationalist who attempted to remove the British influence from Iraq...
  
  
• Abd ar-Rahman al-Haydari al-Kaylani
• Salama al-Khufaji
  Salama al-Khufaji
  Salama al-Khufaji was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council, created following the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq. She was appointed on 8 December 2003 to hold the seat formerly held by Aquila al-Hashimi, who was assassinated in September 2003...
  
  
• Raja Habib al-Khuzaai
  Raja Habib al-Khuzaai
  Raja Habib al-Khuzaai was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council, created following the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq, and one of only three women on the twenty-five-member governing body. She has also been a member of the Iraqi National Assembly, elected under the banner of the...
  
  
• 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...
  
   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 human rights studies. A member of the Assyrian Democratic Movement, she co-founded the Iraqi Society for Human Rights and was the President of the Assyrian Womens Union in Baghdad.
• Ali Abdul-Amir Allawi
• Ali Hassan al-Majid
  Ali Hassan al-Majid
  Ali Hassan Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti , , was a Ba'athist Iraqi Defense Minister, Interior Minister, military commander and chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service...
  
  
• Sami Izara al-Majoun
• Nouri al-Maliki
  Nouri al-Maliki
  Nouri Kamil Mohammed Hasan al-Maliki , also known as Jawad al-Maliki or Abu Esraa, is the Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Al-Maliki and his government succeeded the Iraqi Transitional Government. He is currently in his second term as Prime Minister...
  
  
• Naziha al-Dulaimi
  Naziha al-Dulaimi
  Dr Naziha Jawdet Ashgah al-Dulaimi was an early pioneer of the Iraqi feminist movement. She was a cofounder and first president of the Iraqi Women League, the first woman minister in Iraq’s modern history, and the first woman cabinet minister in the Arab world.-Biography:Al-Dulaimi, whose...
  
  
• Jamil al-Midfai
  Jamil al-Midfai
  Jamil al-Midfai ‎ was an Iraqi politician. He served as that country's prime minister on five separate occasions:# November 9, 1933 – August 25, 1934# March 1, 1935 – March 16, 1935...
  
  
• Abdel-Karim Mahoud al-Mohammedawi
  Abdel-Karim Mahoud al-Mohammedawi
  Abdel-Karim Mahoud al-Mohammedawi was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council created following the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq...
  
  
• Rashid al-Rifai
  Rashid al-Rifai
  Rashid Muhammad-Said al-Rifai, , was an Iraqi academic, Baathist, ambassador and minister of several establishments in Iraq....
  
  
• Mowaffak al-Rubaie
• Muqtada al-Sadr
  Muqtada al-Sadr
  Sayyid Muqtadā al-Ṣadr is an Iraqi Islamic political leader.Along with Ali al-Sistani and Ammar al-Hakim of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, Sadr is one of the most influential religious and political figures in the country not holding any official title in the Iraqi government.-Titles:He is...
  
  
• Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf
  Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf
  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf is a former Iraqi diplomat and politician. He came to wide prominence around the world during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, during which he was the Iraqi Information Minister under Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, acting as the mouthpiece for the Baath Party and Saddam's regime...
  
  
• Ayham al-Samaraie
• Hussain al-Shahristani
  Hussain al-Shahristani
  Hussain Ibrahim Saleh al-Shahristani is the current Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister for Energy.Born in 1942 in Karbala, Iraq, Shahristani received a BSc in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London in 1965, and an MSc from the University of Toronto in 1967, from where he also received a PhD in...
  
  
• Hashim Abdul-Rahman al-Shibli
• Tawfiq al-Suwaidi
  Tawfiq al-Suwaidi
  Tawfiq al-Suwaidi was an Iraqi politician who served as Prime Minister of Iraq on three occasions:* April 28, 1929 - August 25, 1929* February 23, 1946 - May 31, 1946* February 5, 1950 - September 4, 1950....
  
  
• Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai
• Rafi' Dahham Al-Tikriti, Chief Iraqi Intelligence Service
• Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti
  Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti
  Barzan Ibrahim al-Hasan al-Tikriti was one of three half-brothers of Saddam Hussein, and a leader of the Mukhabarat, the Iraqi intelligence service...
  
  
• Sabawi Ibrahim al-Tikriti
  Sabawi Ibrahim al-Tikriti
  Sabawi Ibrahim al-Tikriti , half brother of Saddam Hussein, was the leader of the Iraqi secret service, the Mukhabarat, at the time of the 1991 Gulf War...
  
  
• Watban Ibrahim al-Tikriti
  Watban Ibrahim al-Tikriti
  Watban Ibrahim al-Tikriti , half brother of Saddam Hussein, brother of Barzan, is a former senior Interior Minister of Iraq. He was taken into coalition custody April 13, 2003, following his capture as he was attempting to flee into Syria....
  
  
• Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum
  • Ibrahim Mohamed Bahr al-Uloum
• Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer
  Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer
  Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawar is an Iraqi political figure. He was a Vice President of Iraq under the Iraqi Transitional Government from 2005 to 2006, and was Acting President of Iraq under the Iraqi Interim Government from 2004 to 2005....
  
  
• Dara Noor Alzin
  Dara Noor Alzin
  Dara Nur al-Din is an Iraqi judge and politician and Minister of Justice since February 2008.A Sunni Kurd, Alzin was a judge who ruled that an edict of Saddam Hussein's government which allowed confiscation of land without proper compensation was unconstitutional...
  
  
• Abdul Rahman Arif
  Abdul Rahman Arif
  Hajj Abdul Rahman Mohammed Arif Aljumaily was president of Iraq from April 16, 1966 to July 17, 1968.-Biography:...
  
  
• Abdul Salam Arif
  Abdul Salam Arif
  Abdul Salam Mohammed Arif Aljumaily was President of Iraq from 1963 till his death. He played a leading role in the coup in which the Hashemite monarchy was overthrown on July 14, 1958.-1958 revolution and conflict with Qasim:...
  
  
• Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i
  Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i
  Muhammad Najib Ar-Ruba'i was the first President of Iraq from July 14, 1958 to February 8, 1963....
  
  
• Abd al-Muhsin as-Sa'dun
  Abd al-Muhsin as-Sa'dun
  Abd al-Muhsin Al-Saadoon, Honorary KCMG ‎ was an Iraqi politician who served as Prime Minister of Iraq four separate times between 1922 and 1929...
  
  
• Nuri as-Said
  Nuri as-Said
  Nuri Pasha al-Said was an Iraqi politician during the British Mandate and during the Kingdom of Iraq. He served in various key cabinet positions, and served seven terms as Prime Minister of Iraq....
  
  
• Zeyad Abdul-Razzaq Mohammed Aswad
• 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...
  
  
• Salaheddine Bahaaeddin
  Salaheddine Bahaaeddin
  Salahaddin Muhammad Bahaaddin Sadiq is a Kurdish Iraqi politician.He was born in Tawela, a town referring to Halabja. He is a graduate of The House of Teachers 1969. He worked as a teacher from 1971 to 1981. Then he was ordered to be arrested by the former Iraqi regime. After he refused to join...
  
  
• Massoud Barzani
  Massoud Barzani
  Massoud Barzani is the current President of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region and the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. Barzani was born in Mahabad, Iran, during the rule of the Republic of Mahabad...
  
  
• Nesreen Mustafa Sidiq Berwari
• Ahmed Chalabi
  Ahmed Chalabi
  Ahmed Abdel Hadi Chalabi is an Iraqi politician. He was interim oil minister in Iraq in April-May 2005 and December-January 2006 and deputy prime minister from May 2005 until May 2006. Chalabi failed to win a seat in parliament in the December 2005 elections, and when the new Iraqi cabinet was...
  
  
• Sondul Chapouk
  Sondul Chapouk
  Sondul Chapouk was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council created following the United States' 2003 invasion of Iraq. She was the only Turk and one of only three women in the council...
  
  
• Ali Fadel
  Ali Fadel
  Ali Fadel al-Misir is an Iraqi politician who was the Governor of Baghdad Province from December 2004 to January 2005.Mr Fadel is a Shia Muslim. In 1980, he was selected to represent Iraq on the national Olympic soccer team...
  
  
• Aras Habib
  Aras Habib
  Aras Habib was a colonel in the Free Iraqi Fighters and the long-term director of intelligence for Ahmed Chalabi and the Iraqi National Congress...
  
  
• Mohsen Abdel Hamid
  Mohsen Abdel Hamid
  Mohsen Abdel Hamid is an Iraqi politician and Islamic scholar who was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council , created following the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq.-Biography:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Faisal I of Iraq
  Faisal I of Iraq
  Faisal bin Hussein bin Ali al-Hashemi, was for a short time King of the Arab Kingdom of Syria or Greater Syria in 1920, and was King of the Kingdom of Iraq from 23 August 1921 to 1933...
  
  
• Faisal II of Iraq
  Faisal II of Iraq
  Faisal II was the last King of Iraq. He reigned from 4 April 1939 until July 1958, when he was killed during the "14 July Revolution" together with several members of his family...
  
  
• Ghazi of Iraq
  Ghazi of Iraq
  Ghazi bin Faisal was the King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq from 1933 to 1939 having been briefly Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Syria in 1920...
  
  
• Hussein Kamel al-Majid
• Hatem Kamil
  Hatem Kamil
  Hatem Kamil Abdul Fatah was the deputy governor of Iraq's Baghdad Governorate.Hatem Kamil was assassinated by gunmen in a drive-by shooting in Baghdad, in the southern district of Dura, while on his way to work...
  
  
• Yunadam Kanna
• Abdul-Rahman Sidiq Kareem
• Lamiya Abed Khadawi
  Lamiya Abed Khadawi
  Lamiya Javed Bodian was an Iraqi Member of Parliament. A member of former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's coalition, she was shot dead on her doorstep on April 27, 2005. She was the first MP killed since the January elections.-References:...
  
  
• Mohammed Jassem Khudair
• Wael Abdul Latif
  Wael Abdul Latif
  Wael Abdul Latif is an Iraqi politician from the secular Iraqi National List coalition. He was the Minister of Provincial Affairs in the Iraqi Interim Government created following the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq....
  
  
• Samir Shakir Mahmoud
• Abdul-Wahab Mirjan
• Hamid Majid Mousa
  Hamid Majid Mousa
  Hamid Majid Mousa is the Secretary General of the Iraqi Communist Party. He was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council created following the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq, and currently holds a seat on the National Assembly under Iyad Allawi's Iraqi National List. An economist and...
  
  
• Rashad Mandan Omar
  Rashad Mandan Omar
  Rashad Mandan Omar was Minister of Science and Technology in the cabinet appointed by the Interim Iraq Governing Council in September 2003 and in the Iraqi Interim Government....
  
  
• Mahmoud Othman
  Mahmoud Othman
  - Timeline :*1954 - Joined the Kurdish Struggle*1962 - Became a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party .*1968 - Became Mustafa Barzani's Deputy dealing with foreign affairs of the revolution....
  
  
• Adnan Pachachi
  Adnan Pachachi
  Adnan al-Pachachi or Adnan Muzahim Amin al-Pachachi is a veteran Iraqi politician and diplomat. Pachachi was Iraq's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1959 to 1965 and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iraq from 1965 to 1967; he again served as Permanent Representative to the UN...
  
  
• Behnam Zayya Polis
• Abdul Karim Qassim
  Abdul Karim Qassim
  Abd al-Karim Qasim , was a nationalist Iraqi Army general who seized power in a 1958 coup d'état, wherein the Iraqi monarchy was eliminated. He ruled the country as Prime Minister of Iraq until his downfall and death in 1963....
  
  
• Mohammed Raad, one of the founders of Hezbollah and an important political leader
• Mohammed Tawfik Raheem
• Abdul-Ameer Abboud Rahima
• Taha Yassin Ramadan
  Taha Yassin Ramadan
  Taha Yasin Ramadan al-Jizrawi was a prominent Iraqi Kurd, serving as Vice President of Iraq from March 1991 to the fall of Saddam Hussein in April 2003....
  
  
• Abdul-Latif Rashid
• Naji Sabri
  Naji Sabri
  Naji Sabri Ahmad Al-Hadithi served as the Iraqi Foreign Minister under Saddam Hussein in the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.-Background:...
  
  
• Barham Salih
  Barham Salih
  Barham Ahmad Salih is an Iraqi Kurdish politician. He is currently the prime minister of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. He is married and has a daughter who attended Princeton University and a son who graduated from King's Academy in Madaba, Jordan and currently attends Columbia.-Early life:Dr....
  
  
• Ezzedine Salim
  Ezzedine Salim
  Ezzedine Salim, , also known as Abdelzahra Othman Mohammed , was an Iraqi politician.-Biography:...
  
  
• Talib Shabib
  Talib Shabib
  Talib El-Shibib was an Iraqi politician. Born in Babylon, he studied engineering at Imperial College in London.Shibib was elected to the leadership of Ba'ath party, and was one of a triumvirate who planned the later coup against President Abdul Karim Qassim. He became foreign minister under the...
  
  
• Naji Shawkat
  Naji Shawkat
  Muhammad Naji Shawkat Bey was an Iraqi politician who served as Prime Minister of Iraq under King Faisal I.- Early Life:Muhammad Naji Shawkat was born to an Arabized family of Turkish and Caucasian origins in the Iraqi town of al-Kut where his father was stationed as provincial governor...
  
  
• Bakr Sidqi
  Bakr Sidqi
  Bakr Sidqi , an Iraqi nationalist and general of Kurdish origin, but not a Kurdish nationalist, was born 1890 in Kirkuk and assassinated on August 12, 1937, at Mosul.-Biography:...
  
  
• Bayan Baqir Solagh
• Hikmat Sulayman
  Hikmat Sulayman
  Hikmat Sulayman was prime minister of Iraq from October 30, 1936 to August 12, 1937 at the head of a Party of National Brotherhood government. Sulayman, an ethnic Turkmen, was a key figure in the early days of Iraqi independence and the effort to create a multi-ethnic state. He came to power in...
  
  
• Jalal Talabani
  Jalal Talabani
  Jalal Talabani is the sixth and current President of Iraq, a leading Kurdish politician. He is the first non-Arab president of Iraq, although Abdul Kareem Qasim was half Kurdish....
  
  
• Abdul-Basit Turki
• Hoshyar Zebari
  Hoshyar Zebari
  Hoshyar Zebari is the current Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iraq. A Kurd originally from Aqrah, a city in Iraqi Kurdistan, Zebari holds a masters degree in sociology from the University of Essex, England and studied political science in Jordan...
  
  
• Mohammed Amza Zubeidi
  Mohammed Amza Zubeidi
  Mohammed Amza az-Zubeidi was the Prime Minister of Iraq from 1991 to 1993. He is on the "Saddam's Dirty Dozen" list of people responsible for torture and murder in Iraq, playing a key role in Iraq's brutal suppression of the Shiite Muslim uprising of 1991...
  
  
• Jalal Dabagh
  Jalal Dabagh
  - Life :Jalal Dabagh was born on May 12, 1939, in Silêmanî city in south Kurdistan. He is one of nine children, five sons and four daughters.- Education and Profession :...
  
  
• Sassoon Eskell
  Sassoon Eskell
  Sir Sassoon Eskell, KBE was an Iraqi statesman and financier. Also known as Sassoon Effendi . Regarded in Iraq as the Father of Parliament, Sir Sassoon was the first Minister of Finance in the Kingdom and a permanent Member of Parliament until his death...
  
  , (17 March 1860 – 31 August 1932) was an Iraqi statesman and financier, Regarded in Iraq as the Father of Parliament. Sir Sassoon was the first Minister of Finance in the Kingdom and a permanent Member of Parliament until his death.
• Christian Anthony Rassam, ((died 1872), Nestorian Christian and explorer; British vice-consul at Mosul

Politicians of Iraqi descent

• Anood Al-Samerai
  Anood Al-Samerai
  Anood Al-Samerai is a British Southwark based councillor for British political party, the Liberal Democrats and leader of Southwark's Liberal Democrat Group.-Early life:Born in Southwark, London to an Iraqi father and an English mother...
  
   - British Southwark
  Southwark
  Southwark is a district of south London, England, and the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Southwark. Situated east of Charing Cross, it forms one of the oldest parts of London and fronts the River Thames to the north...
  
   councillor for the Liberal Democrats
  Liberal Democrats
  The Liberal Democrats are a social liberal political party in the United Kingdom which supports constitutional and electoral reform, progressive taxation, wealth taxation, human rights laws, cultural liberalism, banking reform and civil liberties .The party was formed in 1988 by a merger of the...
  
  . (Born to an Iraqi father and British mother).
• Binyamin Ben-Eliezer
  Binyamin Ben-Eliezer
  Binyamin Fuad Ben-Eliezer , , born 12 February 1936) is an Israeli politician and former military officer of Iraqi origin. He currently serves as a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party, and has held several ministerial posts, including Minister of Industry, Trade and Labour, Minister of...
  
   - is an Israeli politician and former soldier. He was the first Iraqi Jew to lead the Israeli Labour party.
• José Murat Casab
  José Murat Casab
  José Murat Casab is a Mexican politician and a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He was Governor of Oaxaca and is a Diputado Federal Electo by the Alliance for Mexico of Institutional Revolutionary Party-Ecologist Green Party of Mexico. He is of Iraqi descent.Murat was a...
  
   - (born to Iraqi immigrants) Mexican politician and a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party
  Institutional Revolutionary Party
  The Institutional Revolutionary Party is a Mexican political party that held power in the country—under a succession of names—for more than 70 years. The PRI is a member of the Socialist International, as is the rival Party of the Democratic Revolution , making Mexico one of the few...
  
   also former Governor of Oaxaca
  Governor of Oaxaca
  The Governor of Oaxaca , who is Gabino Cué Monteagudo‎, heads the executive branch of the Mexican state of Oaxaca...
  
  .
• Ra'anan Cohen
  Ra'anan Cohen
  Dr Ra'anan Cohen is a former Israeli politician who served as a government minister during the early 2000s.-Biography:Born in Baghdad in Iraq, Cohen made aliyah in 1951. During his youth he was a counsellor in the HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed youth movement, and was secretary of the Labor Party youth...
  
   - former Israeli politician who served as a government minister during the early 2000s.
• Ran Cohen
  Ran Cohen
  Ran Cohen is an Israeli politician and former Knesset member for Meretz-Yachad. He is a resident of Mevaseret Zion and married with four children....
  
   - Israeli politician and Knesset
  Knesset
  The Knesset is the unicameral legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem.-Role in Israeli Government :The legislative branch of the Israeli government, the Knesset passes all laws, elects the President and Prime Minister , approves the cabinet, and supervises the work of the government...
  
   member for Meretz-Yachad
  Meretz-Yachad
  New Movement-Meretz , previously known as Meretz, then Yachad, and then Meretz-Yachad is a left-wing, Zionist, social democratic political party in Israel....
  
  . (Born in Baghdad to Iraqi parents)
• Saad Hariri
  Saad Hariri
  Saad-eddine Rafiq Al-Hariri is a Saudi-Lebanese billionaire who served as the Prime Minister of Lebanon from 2009 until 2011. He is the second son of Rafiq Hariri, the former Lebanese Prime Minister who was assassinated in 2005...
  
   - Lebanese Legislator (2005-), son of Rafik Hariri
  Rafik Hariri
  Rafic Baha El Deen Al-Hariri , was a business tycoon and the Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2000 until his resignation, 20 October 2004.He headed five cabinets during his tenure...
  
   and an Iraqi mother.
• Dalia Itzik
  Dalia Itzik
  Dalia Itzik , born 20 October 1952, is an Israeli politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Kadima. She has previously served in several ministerial positions, and on 4 May 2006 became the first female speaker of the Knesset, and has since served as President of Israel in an...
  
   - is an Israeli politician affiliated with the Kadima
  Kadima
  Kadima is a centrist and liberal political party in Israel. It was established on 24 November 2005 by moderates from Likud largely to support the issue of Ariel Sharon's unilateral disengagement plan, and was soon joined by like-minded Labor politicians...
  
   party. She took office as the first female speaker of the Knesset
  Knesset
  The Knesset is the unicameral legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem.-Role in Israeli Government :The legislative branch of the Israeli government, the Knesset passes all laws, elects the President and Prime Minister , approves the cabinet, and supervises the work of the government...
  
   on 4 May 2006.
• David Saul Marshall
  David Saul Marshall
  David Saul Marshall was the leader of the Singapore Labour Front and became the first Chief Minister of Singapore in 1955....
  
   - was the leader of the Singapore Labour Front
  Labour Front
  The Labour Front was a political party in Singapore. It was founded before the 1955 legislative council elections by David Saul Marshall, Singapore's first chief minister in 1955 and Lim Yew Hock, Singapore's second chief minister...
  
   and became the first Chief Minister
  Chief Minister
  A Chief Minister is the elected head of government of a sub-national state, provinces of Sri Lanka, Pakistan, notably a state of India, a territory of Australia or a British Overseas Territory that has attained self-government...
  
   of Singapore
  Singapore
  Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
  
   in 1955. He was born into an Orthodox Jewish family of Iraqi ancestry in Singapore.
• Eliyahu Navi
  Eliyahu Navi
  Eliyahu Nawi is a former judge, lawyer, poet, Politician, Bible investigator, and mayor of Beersheba. He was born in Basra, Iraq, and started his public career in 1947.-Professional career:...
  
   - Mayor of Beersheba, Israel. (Born in Basra).
• Ebrahim Daoud Nonoo
  Ebrahim Daoud Nonoo
  Ebrahim Daoud Nonoo is a former member of the National Assembly of Bahrain and currently the CEO of the Basma Company. The Nonoos are a Jewish family originating from Iraq. In 2006, he financed repairs to the country's only synagogue.-External links:*...
  
   - former member of the National Assembly of Bahrain and currently the CEO of the Basma.
• Houda Nonoo
  Houda Nonoo
  Houda Ezra Ebrahim Nonoo is the Bahraini Ambassador to the United States. She was appointed to the position by decree of Foreign Affairs Minister Khaled Ben Ahmad Al-Khalifa. Nounou is the first Jewish person, and third woman, to be appointed ambassador of Bahrain...
  
   - politician and current Bahraini Ambassador to the United States. She is of Iraqi Jewish origin.
• Professor Sir Ara Darzi is one of the world's leading surgeons at Imperial College London where he holds Hamlyn Chair of Surgery, specialising in the field of minimally invasive and robot-assisted surgery, having pioneered many new techniques and technologies. On 29 June 2007 Darzi was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Lords) at the Department of Health by the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown
• 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...
  
   - is the U.S. Representative for California's 14th congressional district, 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. She is the only Member of Congress of Assyrian descent.
• Esabelle Dingizian
  Esabelle Dingizian
  Esabelle Dingizian is a Swedish Green Party politician. She has been a member of the Riksdag since 2006.Till March 2008 she was known as Esabelle Reshdouni. Dingizian is her maiden's name, her father is Krikor Dingizian and her sister the researcher Matilda Mettala.-External links:* at the Riksdag...
  
   - (born in Baghdad in 1962) is a Swedish Green Party politician. She has been a member of the Riksdag since 2006.
• Murad Artin
  Murad Artin
  Murad Artin, born the 6th January 1960 in Iraq, is a Swedish politician and Left Party member who worked in the Riksdag from 1998 to 2002. Artin was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Since 2003 he has been a municipal commissioner in the commune of Örebro.-References:* *...
  
   - born the 6th January 1960 in Iraq, is a Swedish politician and Left Party member who worked in the Riksdag from 1998 to 2002
• Les Gara
  Les Gara
  Les Gara is a Democratic member of the Alaska House of Representatives, representing the 23rd District since 2003.Gara is a former Assistant Attorney General and part owner of a local restaurant, Snow City Cafe. Although in the House Minority, he has been successful with various progressive social...
  
   - is a Democratic member of the Alaska House of Representatives, representing the 23rd District since 2003.
• 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....
  
   - (1937 - February 18, 2001) 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.
• Fawzi Hariri
  Fawzi Hariri
  Fawzi Franso Toma Hariri is Iraq's Minister of Industry and Minerals. He was sworn in on May 20, 2006. Despite inaccurately being labeled as Kurdish throughout different media reports, Hariri is of Assyrian origin and son of the politician Franso Hariri . Fawzi Hariri lived for 16 years in London...
  
   - (1958 Arbil, Iraq) is Iraq's Minister of Industry and Minerals. He was sworn in on May 20, 2006. Despite inaccurately being labeled as Kurdish throughout different media reports, Hariri is of Assyrian origin and son of the politician Franso Hariri (1937–2001).[1] Fawzi Hariri lived for 16 years in London where he worked for British Airways. Like his father, he is a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iraq.

Religious figures

• Abo of Tiflis
  Abo of Tiflis
  Saint Abo of Tiflis or Abo Tbileli is a Christian martyr and the Patron Saint of the city of Tbilisi, Georgia....
  
   - Patron Saint of Tbilisi
  Tbilisi
  Tbilisi is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Mt'k'vari River. The name is derived from an early Georgian form T'pilisi and it was officially known as Tiflis until 1936...
  
  , Georgia
  Georgia (country)
  Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...
  
  
• Muhsin al-Hakim
• Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr
  Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr
  Shahid-e-Khamis Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr was an Iraqi Shi'a cleric, a philosopher, and ideological founder of Islamic Dawa Party born in al-Kazimiya, Iraq. He is the father-in-law of Muqtada al-Sadr and cousin of both Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr and Imam Musa as-Sadr...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Mordechai Eliyahu
  Mordechai Eliyahu
  Mordechai Tzemach Eliyahu ) was a prominent rabbi, posek and spiritual leader. He served as the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1983 to 1993.-Biography:...
  
   - former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel
• Yitzchak Kaduri
  Yitzchak Kaduri
  Yitzhak Kaduri, also spelled Kadouri, Kadourie, Kedourie; "Yitzhak" also spelled Yitzchak , was a renowned Mizrahi Haredi rabbi and kabbalist who devoted his life to Torah study and prayer on behalf of the Jewish people. He taught and practiced the kavanot of the Rashash...
  
   - was a renowned Mizrahi Orthodox Haredi rabbi and kabbalist
• Yitzhak Nissim
  Yitzhak Nissim
  Rabbi Yitzhak Nissim was a former Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel. Rabbi Nissim was born in Baghdad and immigrated to Palestine in 1925....
  
   - (1896–1981), former Sephardic Chief rabbi of Israel
• Ovadia Yosef
  Ovadia Yosef
  Ovadia Yosef is the former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, a recognised Talmudic scholar and foremost halakhic authority.He currently serves as the spiritual leader of the Shas political party in the Israeli parliament...
  
   - He is the former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, and the current spiritual leader of the Shas
  Shas
  Shas is an ultra-orthodox religious political party in Israel, primarily representing Sephardic and Mizrahi Haredi Judaism.Shas was founded in 1984 by dissident members of the Ashkenazi dominated Agudat Israel, to represent the interests of religiously observant Sephardic and Mizrahi ...
  
   political party in the Knesset (Israel's parliament).
• Mar Dinkha IV - The current Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East.
• Andraos Abouna
  Andraos Abouna
  Andraos Abouna was the Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of Hirta and the auxiliary bishop of the Chaldean Catholic Patriarchate of Babylon. He is an ethnic Assyrian....
  
  , (March 23, 1943 – July 27, 2010) was the Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of Hirta and the auxiliary bishop of the Chaldean Catholic Patriarchate of Babylon. He is an ethnic Assyrian.Ordained to the priesthood on June 5, 1960, he was named bishop on November 6, 2002 and was ordained on January 6, 2003
• Emmanuel III Delly
  Emmanuel III Delly
  Mar Emmanuel III Delly is the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans and Primate of the Chaldean Catholic Church, an Eastern Catholic sui juris Particular church of the Catholic Church and a Cardinal. He was born on October 6, 1927 in Tel Keppe and was ordained a priest on December 21, 1952. He was...
  
  , is the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans and Primate of the Chaldean Catholic Church, an Eastern Catholic sui juris Particular church of the Catholic Church and a Cardinal. He was born on October 6, 1927 in Tel Keppe and was ordained a priest on December 21, 1952. He was ordained a bishop ten years later in December 1962 at the age of 35. He was elected Patriarch of the Chaldean Church on December 3, 2003, succeeding the late Patriarch Raphael I Bidawid. He was created a Cardinal Bishop on November 24, 2007.
• Mar Paul II Cheikho, was the patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church from 1958-1989. He was born on November 19, 1906 in Alqosh
• 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...
  
  , was the patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church from 1989-2003. He was also a Syriac scholar.
• Asenath Barzani
  Asenath Barzani
  Tanna’it Asenath Barzani was a renowned Kurdish Jewish woman who lived in Mosul, Iraq. She was the daughter of the illustrious Rabbi Samuel Barzani. She studied Kabbalah.-The life of Tanna’it Asenath:...
  
  , (1590–1670) was a renowned Kurdish Jewish woman who lived in Mosul, Iraq. She was the daughter of the illustrious Rabbi Samuel Barzani. She studied Kabbalah.
• Anastas Al-Karmali
  Anastas Al-Karmali
  Anastas Al-Karmali , literally Anastas the Carmelite was a Christian priest, most famed for his contributions to the field of Arabic linguistics.-Life:...
  
  , Anastas the Carmelite (b. 5 Aug 1866-d. 1947 Jan 7) was a Christian priest, most famed for his contributions to the field of Arabic linguistics.
• 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:...
  
  , (b. 1859 d. 1927) 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.
• Torkom Manoogian
  Torkom Manoogian
  Patriarch Torkom Manoogian is the current Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem serving the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem as Archbishop under the authority of the Catholicos of Armenia and of all Armenians of the Armenian Apostolic Church...
  
  , is the current Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem serving the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem as Archbishop under the authority of the Catholicos of Armenia and of all Armenians of the Armenian Apostolic Church. Archbishop Torkom Manoogian was born on February 16, 1919, in a refugee camp near the desert town of Baquba, north of Baghdad, Iraq.

Sports personalities

• Bassim Abbas
  Bassim Abbas
  Bassim Abbas Gatea Al-Ogaili simply known as Bassim Abbas, is an Iraqi professional footballer. He currently plays as a defender for Konyaspor football club in Turkey and the Iraq national football team.-Information:...
  
  , footballer
• Fareed Lafta
  Fareed Lafta
  Fareed Lafta is an Iraqi pilot and athlete. He was the first qualified cosmonaut from Iraq, and has appeared in Guinness World Records for participating in the first skydive above Mount Everest.-External links :*...
  
   - (Arabic: ‎, فريد لفتة) is an Iraqi pilot and athlete. He was the first qualified cosmonaut from Iraq, and has appeared in Guinness World Records for participating in the first skydive above Mount Everest.
• Haidar Abdul-Razzaq
  Haidar Abdul-Razzaq
  Haidar Abdul-Razzaq Hassan is an Iraqi footballer who plays as a defender for Al-Talaba. He is a member of the Iraq national football team.-Information:...
  
  , footballer
• Haidar Aboodi
  Haidar Aboodi
  Haeder Aboudi is an Iraqi footballer who is a Defender for Ahli Al-Fujairah football club in UAE. He is a member of the Iraq national football team.-External links :*...
  
  , footballer
• Nashat Akram
  Nashat Akram
  Nashat Akram Abid Ali is an Iraqi professional footballer who is currently playing for Lekhwiya. He is an Iraqi international. He usually plays as a midfielder. Akram is one of Iraq's promising young prospects, and has been linked with Manchester City and Sunderland...
  
  , footballer
• Najah Ali
  Najah Ali
  Najah Ali is an Iraqi professional boxer, who was the only Iraqi boxer to qualify for the 2004 Athens, Greece Olympics.-Career:...
  
  , Iraqi boxer who qualified for the 2004 Olympics in Athens
  Athens
  Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...
  
  
• Adnan Al-Kaissie
  Adnan Al-Kaissie
  Adnan Bin Abdulkareem Ahmed Alkaissy El Farthie , better known professionally as Adnan Al-Kaissie, is a former iraqi professional wrestler and a manager best known as Sheik Adnan Al-Kaissy, Billy White Wolf, or General Adnan...
  
  , professional wrestler
• Abdul Wahid Aziz
  Abdul Wahid Aziz
  Abdul Wahid Aziz was a weightlifter from Iraq, who won a bronze medal in the lightweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympics, his country's only Olympic medal so far.-External links:*...
  
  , Iraqi weightlifter, who won a bronze medal in the lightweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympics
  1960 Summer Olympics
  The 1960 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held from August 25 to September 11, 1960 in Rome, Italy...
  
  .
• 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...
  
  , former Iraqi international football player and coach of the Iraq national football team
  Iraq national football team
  The Iraqi national football team represents Iraq in international football and is controlled by the Iraq Football Association. They won the 2007 Asian Football Confederation Asian Cup tournament.-The Golden Generation:...
  
  .
• 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:...
  
  , footballer
• Faisal Faisal
  Faisal Faisal
  Faisal Ghazi Faisal is an Iraqi athlete who hoped to represent Iraq in the 2006 Winter Olympics.-Early life and education:Faisal grew up in Baghdad and lived in Wales as a child....
  
  , footballer
• Ghanim Ghudayer
  Ghanim Ghudayer
  Ghanim Ghudayer was a member of the Iraq national football team, and played for Baghdad’s Air Force Club. On September 3, 2006, he was abducted by unknown assailants, some of whom were wearing military uniforms. Neither Ghudayer nor his remains have been found....
  
  , footballer
• Basil Gorgis
  Basil Gorgis
  Basil Gewargis Hanna or Basil Korkis was a former Iraqi, and ethnic Assyrian Christian international football player...
  
  , footballer
• Jassim Muhammad Haji, footballer
• Falah Hassan
  Falah Hassan
  Falah Hassan is a former Iraqi international football player.Early lifeFalah Hassan was born in 1951 in the village of Mimouna, in a district of Qalat Salih...
  
  , footballer
• Louay Salah Hassan, footballer
• Khaldoun Ibrahim
  Khaldoun Ibrahim
  Khaldoun Ibrahim Mohammed is an Iraqi footballer. He currently plays for Naft Tehran F.C. in the Iran Pro League and is a member of the Iraq national football team....
  
  , footballer
• Salih Jaber
  Salih Jaber
  Saleh Jaber is an Iraqi football player who currently plays for Partizanul Merei in Romania. He played once for the Iraq national team.-Career :...
  
  , footballer
• Abbas Obeid Jassim, footballer
• Ihab Kareem
  Ihab Kareem
  Ihab Kareem was an Iraqi footballer who played in an attacking midfield position for Al Sinaa.He died in a hospital after bombings in Baghdad on February 18, 2007, at the age of 26.-References:...
  
  , footballer
• Mahdi Karim
  Mahdi Karim
  Mahdi Karim Ajeel is an Iraqi footballer. He currently plays as a winger for Arbil FC in Iraq and the Iraq national football team.- Career :...
  
  , footballer
• Younis Mahmoud
  Younis Mahmoud
  Younis Mahmoud Khalef is an Iraqi football striker who currently playes for Al-Wakrah. He was recently removed from his previous club, Al-Gharafa in Qatar despite being the top goal scorer in the league for the third time in five years. He is also the captain of the Iraq national football team...
  
  , Iraqi football striker and captain of the Iraq national football team. In 2007 he captained the Iraq football team to the Asian Cup glory. He currently plays for Al-Gharafa Sports Club in Qatar.
• Ahmad Mnajed
  Ahmad Mnajed
  Ahmad Mnajed Abbas is an Iraqi footballer. He currently plays for Duhok FC in Iraq and the Iraq national football team. He usually plays the Second striker position.-Info:...
  
  , Iraqi national soccer team player, who plays for Al-Ansar in Lebanon.
• Emad Mohammed
  Emad Mohammed
  Emad Mohammed Ridha is an Iraqi football striker who currently plays for Sepahan in Iran Pro League and the Iraq national football team. Emad Mohammed has been a regular starter for Iraq ever since he played for the youth national team...
  
  , footballer
• Karrar Jassim Mohammed, footballer
• Hawar Mulla Mohammed
  Hawar Mulla Mohammed
  Hawar Mulla Mohammed Taher Zebari is an Iraqi Kurdish football player, who plays as Winger and Wingback positions for Zob Ahan in Iran. Hawar is known to be one of the best players in Iraqi national team and was a key figure in Iraq 2007 Asian Cup glory...
  
  , Iraqi footballer who is known to be one of the best players in Iraqi national team
  Iraq national football team
  The Iraqi national football team represents Iraq in international football and is controlled by the Iraq Football Association. They won the 2007 Asian Football Confederation Asian Cup tournament.-The Golden Generation:...
  
  . He currently plays for Anorthosis FC in Cyprus.
• Sarhang Muhsin
  Sarhang Muhsin
  Sarhang Muhsin Qadir is an Iraqi football Goalkeeper of Kurdish ethnicity. He played for the Iraq national football team and plays for Arbil FC in Iraq.-External links:*...
  
  , footballer
• Samal Saeed Mujbel, footballer
• Qusay Munir
  Qusay Munir
  Qusay Muneer Abboodi Al-Hussein is an Iraqi footballer who is a midfielder for Qatar SC in Qatar and the Iraq national football team. Munir, the defensive midfielder of the Iraqi national team, is most noted for playing a big role in addition to playing every single minute in Iraq's successful...
  
  , Iraqi national soccer team player, who is a midfielder for Qatar SC
  Qatar Sports Club
  Qatar Sports Club is a sports club based in Doha, Qatar. It is best known for its football team that plays in the Qatari League.Qatar Sports Club players wear a yellow shirt and black shorts as their home kit and have the fourth largest stadium in Qatar, Qatar SC Stadium, which has a capacity of...
  
   in Qatar.
• Mohammad Nasser, Iraqi national soccer team player. Plays for Esteghlal Ahvaz in Iran.
• Yassir Raad
  Yassir Raad
  Yassir Raad Mohammed is an Iraqi defender who plays for Arbil.The left-side Al-Zawraa player is capable of playing in defence, as well as midfield. Yassir has been one of the Iraqi league's top defenders for the past four years, having played for Al-Defaa Al-Jawiya , Al-Shorta, Al-Zawraa and now...
  
  , footballer
• Ahmed Radhi, footballer
• Ali Rehema
  Ali Rehema
  Ali Hussein Rehema Al-Ka'abi is an Iraqi footballer who is a Defender for Al-Wakra in Qatar. He has represented the Iraq national football team.- Info :...
  
  , footballer
• Noor Sabri
  Noor Sabri
  Noor Sabri Abbas Hasan , simply known as Noor Sabri is an Iraqi football goalkeeper. He is currently playing for Zakho FC in Iraq and Iraq national football team....
  
  , footballer
• Saleh Sader, footballer
• Hussein Saeed
  Hussein Saeed
  Hussein Saeed Mohammed is a former Iraqi football player. Hussein Saeed is in 10th place in FIFA’s list of most international matches at 126 matches. He was also in the Iraq national football team's golden team in 1986. He competed for Iraq at the 1980, 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics.Saeed is also...
  
  , footballer
• Edison David
  Edison David
  Edison Eshay David was an Iraqi Assyrian football player, who played for Iraq and Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya in the 50's and 60's.-Career:...
  
  , (born in Iraq) was an Iraqi Assyrian football player, who played for Iraq and Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya in the 50's and 60's
• Kadhem Sharif
  Kadhem Sharif
  Kadhem Sharif also known as al-Yabani is an Iraqi world-class wrestler and weightlifter. He is most famous for attempting to use a sledgehammer to bring down the statue of Saddam Hussein at the Firdos Square in Baghdad.-Biography:...
  
  , Iraqi world-class wrestler and weightlifter
• Abdul-Razzaq Ahmed Taha
  Abdul-Razzaq Ahmed Taha
  Abdul-Razzaq Ahmed Taha was an Iraqi chess player and former president of Iraqi Chess Federation.He represented the Iraqi national team in the Chess Olympiad on three occasions, 1972 in Skopje, 1974 in Nice and 1984 in Thessaloniki. In the 1972 Olympiad he played the top board for Iraq which...
  
  , was an Iraqi chess player and former president of Iraqi Chess Federation.
• 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...
  
  , footballer
• Saadi Toma
  Saadi Toma
  Saadi Toma is an Iraqi Assyrian former football player and coach.He played during his professional career at Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya and made 10 appearances with the Iraqi national team....
  
  , (born 25 April 1955 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an Iraqi Assyrian former football player and coach.
• Youra Eshaya Pera, first Iraqi football player abroad
• Peter Murad
  Peter Murad
  -References:*RSSSF...
  
  , is a former football player of Al-Minaa , Manchester United and Iraq national team.

Sports personalities of Iraqi descent

• Moshe Agami
  Moshe Agami
  Moshe Agami is a former Israeli professional football player who is best known for his time with Maccabi Haifa, when he led the club to a 4-1 victory over city rivals, Hapoel, while the majority of players were unavailable, serving in the Yom Kippur War...
  
   - former Israeli professional soccer player who is best known for his time with Maccabi Haifa F.C.
  Maccabi Haifa F.C.
  Maccabi Haifa Football Club is an Israeli football team from the city of Haifa, a section of Maccabi Haifa sports club. The club has won 12 championships, 5 State Cups and 4 Toto Cups...
  
  .
• Riyadh Al-Azzawi
  Riyadh Al-Azzawi
  Riyadh Al-Azzawi is an Iraqi-British kickboxer and the 2008 World Kickboxing Network World Champion after a fight against 3-times world champion Tomasz Borowiec in the 91 kg category on February 12, 2008, becoming the first-ever Arab World Champion in heavyweight kickboxing with a record...
  
   - Iraqi-British kickboxer and the 2008 World Kickboxing Network
  World Kickboxing Network
  The World Kickboxing Network is a professional kick boxing and thai boxing organization and is one of the largest professional sanctioning organizations in the world, represented in more than 100 countries....
  
   World Champion.
• Rabeh Al-Hussaini
  Rabeh Al-Hussaini
  Rabeh Ahmed Al-Hussaini is a Filipino professional basketball player who currently plays for the Petron Blaze Boosters in the Philippine Basketball Association...
  
   - Iraqi-Filipino basketball player for Ateneo Blue Eagles
  Ateneo Blue Eagles
  The Ateneo Blue Eagles is the name of the collegiate men's varsity basketball team of the Ateneo de Manila University that plays in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines, the premiere sports league in the country. The collegiate women's varsity basketball team is called the Lady...
  
  .
• Faris Al-Sultan
  Faris Al-Sultan
  Faris al-Sultan was born 21 January 1978 in Munich, Germany to a German mother and an Iraqi father. He is a professional triathlete and the winner of the 2005 Ironman World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii....
  
   - German professional triathlete and winner of the 2005 Ironman Triathlon
  Ironman Triathlon
  An Ironman Triathlon is one of a series of long-distance triathlon races organized by the World Triathlon Corporation consisting of a swim, a bike and a marathon run, raced in that order and without a break...
  
  . Born in Munich to a German mother and Iraqi father.
• Avram Grant - former football manager of Chelsea F.C.
  Chelsea F.C.
  Chelsea Football Club are an English football club based in West London. Founded in 1905, they play in the Premier League and have spent most of their history in the top tier of English football. Chelsea have been English champions four times, FA Cup winners six times and League Cup winners four...
  
  . His mother is an Iraqi Jew.
• Colo Halit - Swedish football player (born in Iraq), who plays for IK Brage
  IK Brage
  IK Brage is a Swedish football club located in Borlänge. The club, formed 1925, has played 18 seasons in the highest Swedish league, Allsvenskan. The 2010 season will be played in the second highest Swedish league, Superettan...
  
   in Sweden.
• Shwan Jalal
  Shwan Jalal
  Shwan Saman Jalal is a footballer who plays for Bournemouth as a goalkeeper. He played for the England C team from 2005 to 2006.-Club career:...
  
   - Iraqi-English football goalkeeper who plays for Bournemouth F.C.
  Bournemouth F.C.
  Bournemouth Football Club is an English football team currently playing in the Wessex League Premier Division. Their nickname is "The Poppies", and they are often known as Bournemouth Poppies to avoid confusion with the Football League club A.F.C. Bournemouth...
  
  . He was also former goalkeeper at Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, during 2002-2004.
• Bovar Karim
  Bovar Karim
  Bovar Mohammed Karim is a France-born Swedish footballer of Kurdish decent, who currently plays for Limhamn Bunkeflo.-Early life:Bovar Karim was born in Paris to an Iraqi-Kurdish family and son of Sulaymaniyah FC's former player Mohammed Karim.-Notes:...
  
   - Iraqi-Swedish footballer who currently plays for Tromsø I.L.
  Tromsø I.L.
  Tromsø Idrettslag is a Norwegian professional football team founded in 1920, and based in Tromsø. They play their home games at Alfheim Stadium. Tromsø I.L...
  
   in Norwegian Premier League.
• Malik Hassan Karim - French citizen who played for OC Agaza
  OC Agaza
  OC Agaza is a Togolese football club based in Lomé. They play in the top division in Togolese football. Their home stadium is Stade Agoè-Nyivé.-Notes:...
  
   in Togo during 2005-2006. He had also played in the lower divisions in France, Bulgaria, and Portugal, and for first division clubs in Iraq and Lebanon.
• Alan Omer - German mixed martial artist of Iraqi descent.
• Zia Shawel - first coach of the Assyrian Sports Club in Baghdad,http://www.assyriansportsclub.com/english/association.php he then played for Eintracht Frankfurt
  Eintracht Frankfurt
  Eintracht Frankfurt is a German sports club, based in Frankfurt, Hesse that is best known for its association football club.- Club origins :...
  
   amauters for a season in 1961-62 in Frankfurt, West Germany, before coaching a local amateur team called Kelsterbach
  Kelsterbach
  Kelsterbach is a town in Groß-Gerau district in Hessen, Germany. It lies on Frankfurt's southwestern outskirts at a bend on the left bank of the river Main, right where a small brook, called the Kelster empties into the river...
  
   for 5 years.
• Mohammed Yussuf - Mexican footballer who plays Midfielder for Juventus (Belize)
  Juventus (Belize)
  Juventus is a Belizean football team which currently competes in the Belize Premier Football League of the Football Federation of Belize.The Team is based in Orange Walk. Their home stadium is Orange Walk People's Stadium.-Achievements:...
  
   in the Belizean Top Division.
• Karo Murat
  Karo Murat
  Karo Murat is an Iraqi born German professional boxer who competes in the light heavyweight division. He is a former European champion at super middleweight and is the current holder of the WBO Inter continental light heavyweight title...
  
   - World Rated Boxer of Armenian Iraqi Origin
• Ayoub Odisho Barjam (born 1960 in Baghdad) is an ethnic Assyrian Christian former Iraq national coach, who is currently coach of Arbil FC

Television and radio personalities

• Rosil Al Azawi
  Rosil Al Azawi
  Rosil Al Azawi is an Iraqi television presenter and model based in the United Arab Emirates.-Career:...
  
  , television presenter
• Jasim Al-Azzawi
  Jasim Al-Azzawi
  Jasim Al-Azzawi is an Iraqi host, who presented the show Inside Iraq on Al Jazeera English.Before joining Al Jazeera English in July 2006, Jasim was one of the main news anchors at Abu Dhabi TV from September 1999 until June 2006. For seven years he presented the main evening news at Abu Dhabi,...
  
  , Iraqi host, who presents the show Inside Iraq on Al Jazeera English.
• Suhair al-Qaisi
  Suhair al-Qaisi
  Suhair al-Qaisi is an Iraqi news anchor for the Al Arabiya television station.- References :...
  
  , television presenter
• Laila Al Shaikhli
  Laila Al Shaikhli
  Laila Al Shaikhli is an Iraqi anchorwoman and television presenter on Al Jazeera English. Shaikhli was born in Baghdad, raised in Saudi Arabia and educated in England and the United States. Her professional career spans thirteen years...
  
  , television presenter on Al Jazeera English
• 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...
  
  , television presenter and former member of the Lebanese
  Lebanon
  Lebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies. The term Lebanese Republic, a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names that is not used in today's world. Arabic is the most common language spoken among...
  
   girl band 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 :...
  
  
• Ali Jaafar
  Ali Jaafar
  Ali Jaafar was a sports anchorman for Iraqi state television Al Iraqiya who was gunned down in Baghdad on May 31, 2006. He was killed by masked gunmen as he left his home. He and other journalists from the government-funded station have been targeted by insurgents.-External links:*...
  
  , (? - May 31, 2006), was a sports anchorman for Iraqi state television Al Iraqiya
  Al Iraqiya
  Al Iraqiya is a satellite and terrestrial public broadcaster and television network in Iraq that was set up after the fall of Sadaam Hussein. It is an Arabic language network that serves upwards of 85% of Iraq's population, and is viewed by a significant percentage .The channel began under the...
  
  .
• Shaima Zubeir
  Shaima Zubeir
  Shaima Zubeir is an Iraqi television presenter. She is currently the host of Labour and Materials, a popular Iraqi property makeover show. In 2005, she was voted Iraq's favourite television personality and her maternal approach has led to her being dubbed the 'Oprah of Iraq'.Zubeir has gained a...
  
  , television presenter

Television and radio personalities of Iraqi descent

• Kenza Braiga
  Kenza Braiga
  Manal Braiga better known as Kenza Braiga is a French television contestant, actress and author of Iraqi origin, she is simply known as Kenza Braiga....
  
  , French TV reality show star of Iraqi origin.
• Péri Cochin
  Peri Cochin
  Périhane Chalabi Cochin is a French TV host with Iraqi Lebanese origins. She was born in Beirut on May 28, 1965 and grew up in Tyre in a Shi’a Muslim family. She left Lebanon for France in 1975 when the Lebanese Civil War broke.She lives in Paris where she married Guillaume Cochin, a famous French...
  
  , television host (French of Lebanese/Iraqi ancestry)
• Eli Yatzpan
  Eli Yatzpan
  Eliyahu Yatzpan is an Israeli television host and comedian, best known as the host of the Channel 3 late-night talk show/variety show Yatzpan between 2001 and 2006.-Early life:...
  
  , Israeli television host and comedian

• Daisy Al-Amir
  Daisy Al-Amir
  Daisy Al Amir or often referred to as simply Dayzi Amir is an Iraqi writer, poet and novelist. She is author of has renowned her as one of the leading female writers of Iraq.- Biography :...
  
  , writer
• Shalash al-Iraqi
  Shalash al-Iraqi
  Shalash al-Iraqi is the pseudonym of an essayist and fiction writer from Iraq. He first attracted notice in late 2005, writing an opinion column for the website , and quickly gained popularity among Iraqi citizens, especially those with Internet access...
  
  , writer and blogger
• Walid al-Kubaisi
  Walid al-Kubaisi
  Walid al-Kubaisi is a Norwegian-Iraqi writer and author. His criticism of Islamism includes the documentary film Frihet, likhet og Det muslimske brorskap.-Personal life and career:...
  
  , writer
• Nazik Al-Malaika
  Nazik Al-Malaika
  Nazik Al-Malaika , Al-Malaika in English: Angels , she was an Iraqi female poet and is considered by many to be one of most influential contemporary Iraqi female poets....
  
  , poet
• Ola Basil Al-Fakhri- junior poet, first Iraqi to have her work published 2011 in the New Zealand Herald, one of the most prestigious accolades. http://www.collegeherald.co.nz/winners/

• Wafaa' Al-Natheema, poet, writer, translator and independent researcher
• Thura Al Windawi
  Thura Al Windawi
  Thura Al Windawi is author of , which was a written diary by Thura on the eve of and during the Iraq war, it was then later published as it caught the eye of a British journalist...
  
  , author
• Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi
  Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi
  Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi was a prominent Iraqi poet and philosopher. He is regarded as one of the greatest contemporary poets of the Arab world and was known for his defense of women's rights.-Biography:...
  
  , poet and philosopher
• 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...
  
  , author
• Al-Hariri of Basra
  Al-Hariri of Basra
  Muhammad al-Qasim ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Uthman al-Hariri , popularly known as al-Hariri of Basra was an Arab poet, scholar of the Arabic language and a high government official of the Seljuk Empire...
  
  , Iraqi poet, scholar of the Arabic language
  Arabic language
  Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...
  
   and high government official of the Seljuk Empire
  Great Seljuq Empire
  The Great Seljuq Empire was a medieval Persianate, Turko-Persian Sunni Muslim empire, originating from the Qynyq branch of Oghuz Turks. The Seljuq Empire controlled a vast area stretching from the Hindu Kush to eastern Anatolia and from Central Asia to the Persian Gulf...
  
  .
• Hafsa Bikri
  Hafsa Bikri
  Hafsa Bikri is a poet born to an Iraqi mother and a Moroccan father. She is also politically active, by reading poems in English and French against the Iraq war, in which she attended "A poetry world day against the war" in Casablanca, Morocco dedicated to the Iraqi people.-References:...
  
  , poet
• Judith Fathallah, author
• Naeim Giladi
  Naeim Giladi
  Naeim Giladi was an anti-Zionist Iraqi jew, president of the World Organization of Jews From Islamic Countries and author of an autobiographical article and historical analysis entitled The Jews of Iraq...
  
   - is an Anti-Zionist, and author of an autobiographical article and historical analysis entitled The Jews of Iraq. The article later formed the basis for his originally self-published book Ben Gurion
  Ben Gurion
  Ben Gurion can refer to the following persons:* Nicodemus ben Gurion, a Biblical figure, probably a rich Jewish member of the Sanhedrin that felt sympathetic to Jesus Christ...
  
  's Scandals: How the Haganah
  Haganah
  Haganah was a Jewish paramilitary organization in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948, which later became the core of the Israel Defense Forces.- Origins :...
  
   and the Mossad
  Mossad
  The Mossad , short for HaMossad leModi'in uleTafkidim Meyuchadim , is the national intelligence agency of Israel....
  
   Eliminated Jews.
• Jamal Jumá
  Jamal Jumá
  Jamal Jumá, An Iraqi poet and researcher, born in Baghdad, and since 1984 lived in Denmark. Has Bachelor of Arts in Arabic Literature from University of Basrah and Cand.mag. in Semitic Philology from the University of Copenhagen....
  
  , poet and researcher
• Loolwa Khazzoom
  Loolwa Khazzoom
  Loolwa Khazzoom is an Iraqi American Jewish writer who writes about Jewish multiculturalism and the cultural traditions and modern struggles of Sephardi, Mizrahi, Yemenite and Ethiopian Jews...
  
  , editor and writer
• Betool Khedairi
  Betool Khedairi
  Betool Khedairi is a novelist born to an Iraqi father and Scottish mother. She is most known for her debut novel, A Sky So Close which has been published in numerous languages such as Arabic, English, Italian, French and Dutch...
  
  , author
• Moshe Levy, author
• Alia Mamdouh
  Alia Mamdouh
  Alia Mamdouh also spelled Aliyah Mamduh is an Iraqi novelist, author and journalist living in exile in Paris, France. She won the 2004 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature for her novel The Loved Ones...
  
  , author
• 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...
  
  , poet
• Abu Nuwas
  Abu Nuwas
  Abu-Nuwas al-Hasan ben Hani Al-Hakami ,a known as Abū-Nuwās , was one of the greatest of classical Arabic poets, who also composed in Persian on occasion. Born in the city of Ahvaz in Persia, of an Arab father and a Persian mother, he became a master of all the contemporary genres of Arabic poetry...
  
   - (750–810) Born in Ahvaz, of Arab and Persian descent. He was one of the greatest of classical Arabic and Persian poets.
• David Rabeeya
  David Rabeeya
  David Rabeeya is an author and professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies.David Rabeeya was an Iraqi Jew born in Baghdad, Iraq. Him and his family later moved to Israel. Over the years, Dr. Rabeeya has taught countless students, in all schooling environments-high school, university, and elementary...
  
   - (born 1938), author and professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies.
• Mahmoud Saeed
  Mahmoud Saeed
  Mahmoud Saeed is an Iraqi-born American award-winning novelist.Born in Mosul, Saeed has written more than twenty novels and short story collections, and hundreds of articles. He started writing short stories at an early age. He wrote an award-winning short story in the Newspaper “Fatal Iraq,...
  
  , novelist
• Rena Kirdar Sindi
  Rena Kirdar Sindi
  Rena Kirdar Sindi is an Iraqi author, socialite and party hostess.Sindi was born in Baghdad and spent part of her childhood in the Persian Gulf region, where her father the Iraqi billionaire, Nemir A...
  
  , author and party hostess (born in Baghdad).
• Reuven Snir
  Reuven Snir
  Reuven Snir is an Israeli Jewish academic, Professor of Arabic language and Arabic literature at the University of Haifa, Dean of Humanities, and a translator of poetry between Arabic, Hebrew, and English....
  
  , writer
• Haifa Zangana
  Haifa Zangana
  Haifa Zangana is an Iraqi novelist, author, artist, and political activist. She is most notably known for writing Women on a Journey: Between Baghdad and London. Haifa grew up in Baghdad and graduated from Baghdad University and the School of pharmacy in 1974...
  
  , novelist, author and artist

Writers & poets of Iraqi descent

• Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen
  Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen
  Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen is an Iraqi Australian poet, journalist and translator writing mainly in ArabicAdeeb Kamal Ad-Deen studied Economics and English Literature at the Baghdad University and has a Diploma of Interpreting from the Adelaide Institute of TAFE in South Australia.He has published 12...
  
   - Iraqi Australian poet
• Suzanne Alaywan
  Suzanne Alaywan
  Suzanne Alaywan is a poet and painting artist. She has admitted to Joan Miro as being inspiration to her work, in addition to Japanese art.- Personal life :...
  
  , poet and painting artist (Born in Beirut to a Lebanese father and Iraqi mother)
• Lorraine Ali
  Lorraine Ali
  Lorraine Ali is a reporter, editor and culture writer for many publications, including Newsweek where she is a Contributing Editor. She covers culture at large as well as pop culture, and writes frequently about the Middle East and Iraq in pieces such as "When Home Becomes Hell"...
  
   - American reporter, editor, culture writer and music critic for Newsweek
  Newsweek
  Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...
  
  .
• Khalid al-Maaly
  Khalid al-Maaly
  Khalid al-Maaly, born in as-Samawa, Iraq in 1956 is a leading Arab writer, poet and publisher.-References:...
  
   - German-Iraqi writer, poet and publisher
• Alise Alousi
  Alise Alousi
  Alise Alousi is an Iraqi American poet living in Detroit and is also director of Alternatives for Girls, a local program to keep young women from dropping out of school. Born to an Iraqi father, Alousi still has relatives in Iraq....
  
  , Iraqi-American poet
• Eli Amir
  Eli Amir
  -External links:...
  
  , Israeli writer and activist
• Alon Ben-Meir, professor, writer and is the Middle East Project director at the World Policy Institute
  World Policy Institute
  The World Policy Institute, a non-partisan policy institute which claims to develop policies that require a progressive ideology. WPI focuses on cooperative policies in order to achieve : an inclusive and sustainable global market economy, engaged global civic participation and effective...
  
  
• Ari Ben-Menashe
  Ari Ben-Menashe
  Ari Ben-Menashe is the author of Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network, a book purporting to describe his involvement in Iran-Contra and other intelligence operations. An Iraqi Jew who was educated in Israel, he is a former Israeli government employee, and has said that he...
  
   - Israeli author of Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network
• Saul Fathi
  Saul Fathi
  Saul Fathi is an Iraqi-born American Jewish author of stories on the plight of Sephardic Jews in Iraq.-Bibliography:* History of the Jews and Israel ISBN 0977711730...
  
   - Iraqi-born American Jewish author of stories on the plight of Sephardic Jews in Iraq.
• Amira Hess
  Amira Hess
  Amira Hess is an Israeli poet and artist. Arriving in Israel in 1951, she first lived in an immigrant transit camp, then moved to Jerusalem, where she still lives today. Her first book, And the Moon is Dripping Madness, was awarded the Luria Prize...
  
   - Israeli poet and artist
• Julie Iny
  Julie Iny
  Julie Iny is an American activist and author of The Flying Camel: Essays on Identity by Women of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Heritage, she is committed to ending oppression, racism, and antisemitism...
  
  , author and activist
• Armand Nassery
  Armand Nassery
  Armand Nassery is an Iraqi-American author and filmmaker, born in 1966, Iraq.- Biography :Armand Nassery is an independent filmmaker and Iraqi-American author. Armand was born near the Iraqi province of Dhi-Qar; one of eleven children. His family moved to the capital,Baghdad, when he was young in...
  
  , author and filmmaker.
• Raed Jarrar
  Raed Jarrar
  Raed Jarrar is an Iraq-born architect, blogger, and political advocate resident in the U.S. Capital Washington, DC.Jarrar was born in Iraq, and raised in Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. He is half Iraqi and half Palestinian...
  
  , writer, architect and human rights activist
• Naïm Kattan
  Naïm Kattan
  Naïm Kattan, is a Canadian novelist, essayist and critic of Iraqi Jewish origin.Born in Baghdad, Iraq, he studied at the University of Baghdad from 1945 until 1947 and at the Sorbonne from 1947 until 1951. He emigrated to Montreal in 1954...
  
   - Canadian novelist, essayist and critic.
• Achmed Khammas
  Achmed Khammas
  Achmed Adolf Wolfgang Khammas is a German author, translator and interpreter. He is most popular for being one of the very few authors to write about Islam and science fiction in the Arabic language. Khammas is also active in the field of sustainable energy.- Early life :Khammas was born in Berlin...
  
   - German writer (Iraqi/German heritage)
• Sam Kubba
  Sam Kubba
  Dr.Sam Kubba is an international architect/interior designer, poet, author and businessman. Dr. Kubba is an American citizen of Iraqi origin....
  
  , author, businessman
• Jack Marshall (author)
  Jack Marshall (author)
  Jack Marshall is an award-winning American poet and author born to an Iraqi father and a Syrian mother of Jewish heritage.-Upbringing:...
  
  , poet and author
• M.T. Mehdi
  M.T. Mehdi
  Mohammed Taki Mehdi, commonly M.T. Mehdi was an Iraqi-American based in New York. He was highly visible in media circles for being one of the earliest pro-Palestinian activists in the United States, and garnered controversy for his often brash defense of the Palestinian cause...
  
   - (1928–1999) Iraqi-American writer and pro-Palestinian activist.
• Sami Michael
  Sami Michael
  Sami Michael is an Israeli author. Since 2001, Michael has been the President of The Association for Civil Rights in Israel .Michael was among the first in Israel to call for the creation of an independent Palestinian state to exist alongside Israel. In his novels Michael writes about the...
  
   - Israeli author and the president of The Association for Civil Rights in Israel.
• Abdul Rahman Munif
  Abdul Rahman Munif
  Abdul Rahman Munif is one of the most important Arabic novelists of the 20th century.He is most noted for closely reflecting the political surroundings of his day.-Life:...
  
   - (1933–2004) He was one of the most important Arabic novelists of the 20th century. Born in Amman to an Iraqi mother and Saudi father.
• 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....
  
  , novelist and writer
• Michelle Nouri
  Michelle Nouri
  Michelle Raghdee Nouri, is an Italian journalist and author, most known for her first novel, "The girl in Baghdad", which highlights her childhood in Baghdad, fleeing Iraq and her arrival in Italy...
  
   - writer, her publications include "La ragazza di Baghdad" ("The girl in Baghdad").
• Greg Patent
  Greg Patent
  Greg Patent is an American award-winning cookbook author and baker. He also co-hosts a weekly radio show about food on Montana Public Radio, The Food Guys, with Jon Jackson, and has made guest appearances on television and radio programs throughout the United States.- Early life :Born in the...
  
  , author (Born in Hong Kong to a Russian father and Iraqi mother)
• Zainab Salbi
  Zainab Salbi
  Zainab Salbi is an Iraqi American writer, activist and social entrepreneur who is co-founder and president of Washington-based Women for Women International.-Early years:...
  
  , writer, activist, co-founder and president of Women for Women International
  Women for Women International
  Women for Women International is an international organization advocating for women's rights.-Organization and mission: is a humanitarian organization that provides financial and emotional support to women survivors of war. Their programs help women achieve self-sufficiency through direct aid,...
  
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• Rachel Shabi
  Rachel Shabi
  Rachel Shabi is the author of Not the Enemy: Israel's Jews from Arab Lands, a book on Israel's Oriental Jews, and a contributing writer to The Guardian.Shabi was born to Iraqi Jewish parents...
  
  , author and contributing writer to The Guardian
  The Guardian
  The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
  
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• Ella Shohat
  Ella Shohat
  Professor Ella Habiba Shohat is Professor of Cultural Studies at New York University, and has taught, lectured and written extensively on issues having to do with Eurocentrism and Orientalism, as well as with postcolonial and transnational approaches to Cultural Studies...
  
  , writer and activist
• Ronny Someck
  Ronny Someck
  Ronny Someck is an Israeli poet and author, whose works have been translated into many languages.-Biography:Someck was born in Baghdad and came to Israel as a young child. He studied Hebrew literature and philosophy at Tel Aviv University and drawing at the Avni Academy of Art...
  
   - Israeli poet
• Rachel Wahba
  Rachel Wahba
  Rachel Wahba is a psychotherapist in private practice in San Francisco and in Marin County. She is also a published author of several anthologies relating to being a Mizrahi/Sephardi Jew of Egyptian and Iraqi parents and the indignities suffered by Jews who were forced into second class status in...
  
  , writer
• Abraham Yahuda
  Abraham Yahuda
  Abraham Shalom Yahuda was a Jewish polymath, teacher, writer, researcher, linguist, and collector of rare documents.He was born in Jerusalem to a Jewish family originally from Baghdad. During his early life he studied under his brother Isaac Ezekial Yahuda. In 1895, at the age of fifteen, he wrote...
  
   - (1877–1951) Jewish writer, teacher and linguist. (Born in Jerusalem to a Jewish family originally from Baghdad).
• Samuel Shimon
  Samuel Shimon
  Samuel Shimon is an Iraqi writer and journalist of Assyrian descent. He left Iraq in 1979 with dreams of becoming a director in Hollywood, and has since then lived in Damascus, Amman, Beirut, Nicosia, Aden, Cairo, Tunis and Paris, before finally settling in London...
  
  , writer and co-founder of Banipal magazine. His autobiographical novel (An Iraqi in Paris), was published in Arabic in 2005, and a limited first edition in English translation was published the same year.
• Naji Jawad Al Saati, writer (1922-2009)
• Shant Kenderian
  Shant Kenderian
  Shant Kenderian is notable as an Iraqi-born United States citizen who became an American prisoner-of-war after being forced to fight against the United States in the Persian Gulf War....
  
  , is notable as an Iraqi-born United States citizen who became an American prisoner-of-war after being forced to fight against the United States in the Persian Gulf War.