* [[Maria Theresa Asmar]], known as Babylon's Princess in Europe, born in 1804 in Tel Keppe, Iraq, and died in France before the Franco-Prussian War, author of ''Memoirs of a Babylonian Princess'', consisting 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.<ref>[http://www.archive.org/details/memoirsababylon00asmagoog]</ref>
* [[Maria Theresa Asmar]], known as Babylon's Princess in Europe, born in 1804 in Tel Keppe, Iraq, and died in France before the Franco-Prussian War, author of ''Memoirs of a Babylonian Princess'', consisting 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.<ref>[http://www.archive.org/details/memoirsababylon00asmagoog]</ref>
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* [[Muayyed Nureddin]], geologist
* [[Muayyed Nureddin]], geologist
* [[Ibn Rajab]], scholar
* [[Ibn Rajab]], scholar
* [[Kaysar Ridha]] reality TV contestant.
* [[Kaysar Ridha]] (born August 10, 1980), contestant on Big Brother 6 and Big Brother 7, a reality TV series in the United States shown on the channel CBS. 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 U.S. when he was an infant.
* [[Curtis Sliwa]], American anti-crime activist, founder and CEO of the Guardian Angels, and radio talk show host and media personality.
* [[Curtis Sliwa]], American anti-crime activist, founder and CEO of the Guardian Angels, and radio talk show host and media personality.
* [[Fairuz Yamulky]]
* [[Fairuz Yamulky]]
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This list of Iraqis includes people who were born in Iraq and people who are of Iraqi ancestry, who are significantly notable for their life and/or work.
Zainab Bahrani (born 1962), an Iraqi professor of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology at Columbia University
Hormuzd Rassam (1826 – 16 September 1910), 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.
Calouste Gulbenkian (23 March 1869 – 20 July 1955), 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
Zadik Bino, Israeli businessman of Iraqi Jewish descent.
Bahaa Hariri, businessman. Son of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and Iraqi mother (Nidal Al-Bustani).
Samuel Hayek, Israeli millionaire real-estate tycoon of Iraqi Jewish descent.
Badr Jafar, business executive and entrepreneur based in the United Arab Emirates
Victor Nacif, businessman and current Vice President of Design Business Aspects for Nissan Design America. He is of Mexican, Lebanese and Iraqi ancestry.
Ghadir Razuki, British multi-millionaire of Iraqi parents. Founder of TNT Magazine Group, with magazine and media interests in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
Pnina Rosenblum, Israeli businesswoman, model and media personality, who has also been involved in politics.
Kevork Hovnanian (1923 – September 24, 2009), Iraqi-born Armenian-American businessman and home builder, founder of Hovnanian Enterprises in 1959. He remained the president and chief executive officer of Hovnanian Enterprises until his retirement in 1997
Charles Saatchi (born 9 June 1943 in Baghdad), co-founder of the PR agency called M&C Saatchi. He is also known as an art collector and owner of the Saatchi Gallery.
Michael Kadoorie, The Hon. Sir Michael David Kadoorie, GBS (born 1941, Hong Kong), business executive and philanthropist.
David and Simon Reuben, joint Chief Executives of Reuben Brothers, well-known British businessmen and philanthropists.
David Sassoon, Indian merchant and banker; born at Bagdad Oct., 1792; died at Bombay Nov. 7, 1864. His father, a wealthy Mesopotamian merchant, for many years state treasurer to the Turkish governor of Baghdad
Majid Jafar, A businessman of Iraqi origin and the CEO of Crescent Petroleum.
Azad Bonni, MD, PhD, Iraqi Professor in the Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School.
Amal Al Khedairy, academic, lecturer and founder and director of the cultural centre "Al Beit Al Iraqi" ("The Iraqi House")
Alphonse Mingana, Assyrian theologian, historian, orientalist and former priest best known for collecting and preserving the Mingana Collection of ancient Middle Eastern manuscripts at Birmingham.
Hind Rassam Culhane, chair of the Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Mercy College, New York.
Karim Yassen, Iraqi Professor who discovered the enzyme that has been named Karilysin in his honor after six months research in a university in Poland.
Dlawer Ala'Aldeen, Professor of Medicine in Nottingham University, UK; Former Minister of Higher Education & Scientific Research in Kurdistan Regional Government (2009-2012); human right lobbyist.
Jim Al-Khalili, Iraqi-born British theoretical physicist, author and science communicator; professor of theoretical physics and chair in the Public Engagement in Science at the University of Surrey.
Sudines Babylonian sage, mentioned as one of the famous Chaldean mathematicians and astronomer-astrologers by later Roman writers like Strabo (Geografia 16:1–6).
Grigor Gurzadyan, Armenian astronomer, and pioneer of space astronomy, born October 15, 1922, in Baghdad to parents who fled in 1915 Western Armenia.
Chris Kattan, American comedian and actor, best known for his work on the sketch show Saturday Night Live. (Born to an Iraqi Jewish father and Hungarian Buddhist mother).
Nadira (Farhat Ezekiel Nadira (5 December 1932 – 9 February 2006), commonly known as Nadira, actress in Indian Bollywood cinema
Amy Fadhli (born January 30, 1966 in Galveston, Texas), an American fitness model, actress and winner of the Fitness America National Champion 1996. Her father is Iraqi, born in Baghdad, a cardiovascular surgeon, and her mother is Czech, a sculptor and breeder of Arabian horses.
Ashley Sawdaye (born June 2, 1974), American actor, most notable for his role as Sgt. Bridges in the 2007 film, The Ungodly.
Hagop Hagopian, one of the founders and the main leader of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA).
Toma Tomas, also known by his nom de guerre Abu Joseph, Assyrian politician and the leader of anti-government millitias (al-Ansar) in northern Iraq during the 1960s and 70s.
Maria Theresa Asmar, known as Babylon's Princess in Europe, born in 1804 in Tel Keppe, Iraq, and died in France before the Franco-Prussian War, author of Memoirs of a Babylonian Princess, consisting 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.[9]
Silva Shahakian, Iraqi Armenian crowned as Miss Iraq in 2006, received the crown because the initial winner, Tamar Goregian, feared retribution from militants.
Acrassicauda, Iraqi thrash metal band formed in 2001. Members are Faisal Talal, Tony Aziz, Firas Al-Lateef, Marwan Riyadh and James Al Ansari (assyrian)
Beatrice Ohanessian (1927–2008), Iraqi pianist, notable for being Iraq's first concert pianist and first female composer.[10] (Born in Baghdad, of Armenian origin).
Salima Pasha (?-1974), well known Iraqi Jewish singer and dubbed as the most famous female singer since the early 1930s. She married fellow Iraqi singer and actor Nazem Al-Ghazali.
Hanna Petros (1896–1958), Iraqi Chaldean composer and scholar, wrote numerous books and treatises over oriental music, Iraqi Maqams and Syriac hymnody.
Daron Malakian (born July 18, 1975), Armenian-American singer-songwriter.
Roni Dalumi (born September 15, 1991), Israeli singer, won the final of Kochav Nolad 7 contest in August 2009
Darin or Darin Zanyar (born June 2, 1987 in Stockholm, Sweden) more commonly known as Darin, a Swedish, Kurdish pop singer and songwriter of Kurdish descent.
Loris Ohannes Chobanian (born April 17, 1933 to Armenian parents in Mosul, Iraq), accomplished Armenian-American composer of classical music.
Ibn Kammuna Sa'd ibn Mansur (Izz Al-dawla) Ibn Kammuna (d.1284), a 13th Century Jewish physician, philosopher and critic of Islam who lived under the rule of the Mongols in Baghdad.
Eliyahu Navi, mayor of Beersheba, Israel, bBorn in Basra.
Ebrahim Daoud Nonoo, former member of the National Assembly of Bahrain and currently the CEO of the Basma.
Houda Nonoo, politician and current Bahraini Ambassador to the United States, of Iraqi Jewish origin.
Anna Eshoo, U.S. Representative for California's 14th congressional district, serving since 1993, a member of the Democratic Party, the only member of Congress of Assyrian descent.
Esabelle Dingizian, born in Baghdad in 1962, Swedish Green Party politician, member of the Riksdag since 2006.
Murad Artin, born 6 January 1960 in Iraq, a Swedish politician and Left Party member who worked in the Riksdag from 1998 to 2002
Les Gara, Democratic member of the Alaska House of Representatives, representing the 23rd District since 2003.
Franso Hariri (1937 – February 18, 2001), Assyrian politician, high ranking and long-standing Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iraq member and head of the KDP block of Iraqi Kurdistan National Assembly.
Fawzi Hariri (1958 Arbil, Iraq), Iraq's Minister of Industry and Minerals, sworn in on May 20, 2006.
Yitzchak Kaduri, renowned Mizrahi Orthodox Haredi rabbi and kabbalist
Yitzhak Nissim (1896–1981), former Sephardic Chief rabbi of Israel
Ovadia Yosef, the former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, and the current spiritual leader of the Shas political party in the Knesset (Israel's parliament).
Mar Dinkha IV, the current Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East.
Andraos Abouna (March 23, 1943 – July 27, 2010), the Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of Hirta and the auxiliary bishop of the Chaldean Catholic Patriarchate of Babylon.
Emmanuel III Delly, the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans and Primate of the Chaldean Catholic Church.
Paul II Cheikho, the patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church from 1958-1989, born on November 19, 1906, in Alqosh
Raphael I Bidawid, patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, 1989-2003, Syriac scholar.
Asenath Barzani (1590–1670), renowned Kurdish Jewish woman who lived in Mosul, Iraq, daughter of the illustrious Rabbi Samuel Barzani, studied Kabbalah.[14]
Anastas Al-Karmali, Anastas the Carmelite (b. 5 Aug 1866-d. 1947 Jan 7), Christian priest, most famed for his contributions to the field of Arabic linguistics.
Louis Cheikhô (b. 1859 d. 1927) thnic Assyrian Orientalist and Theologian, considered as a major contributor and pioneer of the rediscovery of the Eastern Rite Christian heritage.
Torkom Manoogian, 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.
Fareed Lafta (Arabic:, فريد لفتة), Iraqi pilot and athlete, the first qualified cosmonaut from Iraq, and has appeared in Guinness World Records for participating in the first skydive above Mount Everest.
Younis Mahmoud, 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, Iraqi national soccer team player, who plays for Al-Ansar in Lebanon.
Naeim Giladi, an Anti-Zionist, author of an autobiographical article and historical analysis titled The Jews of Iraq.[16] The article later formed the basis for his originally self-published book Ben-Gurion's Scandals: How the Haganah and the Mossad Eliminated Jews.
Abraham Yahuda (1877–1951), Jewish writer, teacher and linguist, born in Jerusalem to a Jewish family originally from Baghdad.
Samuel Shimon, 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.
Shant Kenderian, 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.
