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Academics

2> Amal Al Khedairy, academic, lecturer and founder and director of the cultural centre "Al Beit Al Iraqi" ("The Iraqi House") Nada Shabout, Prof. of Art History, Lecturer. Azad Bonni, MD, PhD, Kurdish Professor in the Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School. Karim Yassen, 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 (1896–1958), Iraqi Chaldean composer and scholar, wrote numerous books and treatises over oriental music, Iraqi Maqams and Syriac hymnody. Born to a Chaldean Catholic family in Mosul in 1896 and died after a heart attack on 1958, and buried at the Chaldean cemetery in Baghdad. Sabir Hasan Birot, Iraqi born Kurd (1982), the former head of English Language Department at the University of Human Development, and a current PhD researcher at the University of Leeds, UK. His expertise includes English-Kurdish Translation, Translation and Ideology, the Sociocultural Aspects of Translation. Author of Evaluation in Media Reporting: A Comparative Analysis in BBC, CNN, and Aljazeera (MA dissertation, the University of Liverpool [edit]

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Archaeologists

3> Jim Al-Khalili Hormuzd Rassam Donny George Youkhanna Taha Baqir Mustafa Yahya Al-Najar (born 1988), an Iraqi archaeologist, and he received the award of the best graduation project in Iraq 2012. He has been accredited 'The next big Archaeologist' and is renowned for his forward and innovative thinking. Zainab Bahrani (born 1962), an Iraqi professor of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology at Columbia University 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. He has hosted several BBC productions about science and is a frequent commentator about science in other British media venues. 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. [edit]

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Artists

2> Yitzhak Yamin Faik Al-Aboudi, painter Jananne Al-Ani, artist Layla Al-Attar, painter Betool Al-Fekaiki, painter Mahmoud Alibadi, Iraqi-Danish artist[1] Rassim al-Jumaili Omran Al-Kaysi, artist and historian Sama Raena Alshaibi, artist Jaber Alwan, artist Hanaa Al-Wardi, Iraqi American artist[2] Khalil al-Zahawi, calligrapher Apo Avedissian, Director-Photographer (Iraqi-Armenian)[3] Halla Ayla, Iraqi-American artist[4] Dr Princess Nisreen El-Hashemite, painter Raad Ghantous, interior designer Tamara Abdul Hadi, photojournalist[5] Hayv Kahraman, Iraqi-American artist Farouk Kaspaules, Iraqi-born Canadian artist Toba Khedoori, artist Leila Kubba, artist Nedim Kufi, artist Hassan Massoudy, calligrapher Talal Refit, visual artist, architect, film director and multimedia designer Faisel Laibi Sahi, artist Rashad Salim, Iraqi-German artist Tamara Salman, design director Yitzhak Yamin, Israeli painter and sculptor. (Born in Iraq of Iraqi Jewish heritage). [edit]

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Architects

3> Further information: Sumerian architecture and Art and architecture of Assyria Hisham N. Ashkouri Hisham N. Ashkouri Zaha Hadid, winner of numerous awards including Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture (2007) Raed Jarrar Yasmin Al-Ani Spence, Iraqi-American architect and photographer Rifat Kamil Chadirji, born December 6, 1926 in Baghdad, Iraqi architect and author Mohamed Al-Jubori Labid Al-Fakhri B.Arch, ARIBA, Iraqi born currently British subject, Managing director (group consult international) Raya Ani [edit]

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Fashion designers

3> Reem Alasadi, Iraqi-born British fashion designer Bassem Al Cheikh Jawad Salim al-Shimiri Miliana Al-Talibi, fashion designer (Iraqi father/Belarusian mother).[6] Boaz David fashion designer, born in Israel to Iraqi immigrant parents[7] May Joseph Ramou Hana Sadiq Amir Slama, fashion designer, stylist and owner of the most famous beach fashion brand Rosa Chá in Brazil. Essam Zaki, fashion designer[8][9] Zeena Zaki, fashion designer Shuaib Ali, soccer player Reem Al-Asadi, international recognised Iraqi haute coutour fashion designer [edit]

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Business people and entrepreneurs

2> Calouste Gulbenkian Nadhmi Auchi, Iraqi-born businessman, founder and chairman of General Mediterranean Holding (GMH), a conglomerate of 120 companies worldwide. In the Sunday Times Rich List 2008 ranking of the wealthiest people in the UK he was placed 27th with estimated fortune of £2,150 million.[10] Nemir Kirdar, Iraqi-born businessman (President and CEO of Investcorp)[11] Khalid Muhmood, director of Apollo Education and Training Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi, co-founder and chairman of Arab Media Watch Samuel Nalo, businessman, hijacker, and burglar Ezra Zilkha, Iraqi born businessman (president of Zilkha & Sons)[12] Selim Zilkha, entrepreneur, founder of Mothercare, one of the United Kingdom's largest retail chains. Awn Al Khashlok, Iraqi businessman, founder and president of Al Baghdadia TV station 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. [edit]

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Business people and entrepreneurs of Iraqi descent

3> Badr Jafar Pnina Rosenblum Shai Agassi, Founder and Chairman of Better Place Zadik Bino, Israeli businessman of Iraqi Jewish descent.[13] Ranked Israel's 24th richest man in 2006 by Forbes.[14] 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. Bashar Issa, British businessman/property developer[15][16] 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, 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, 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)[17] Karen El Zein, consultant and programme specialist at the eGovernment Authority in Bahrain. 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 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, The Hon. Sir Michael David Kadoorie, GBS (born 1941, Hong Kong), business executive and philanthropist. As of March 2011, 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), British Indian philanthropist and merchant, born in Baghdad David and Simon Reuben, joint Chief Executives of Reuben Brothers, well known British businessmen and philanthropists. Forbes magazine List of billionaires 2011, ranking of the wealthiest people in the UK, ranked the brothers second, with an estimated fortune of £5.5 billion Patricia Kluge, the 1980s society queen and ex-wife of billionaire media mogul John Kluge, born in Baghdad 1948 to a British father and a Scottish-Iraqi mother Kevin Azzouz, Orlando-area developer, former software magnate active in west Orlando and west Orange County, with a number of high-profile real estate projects. 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, 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 Mark Suleiman, teenage business tycoon[18] Jirair S. Hovnanian (June 9, 1927 – August 14, 2007), Armenian Iraqi-American home builder based in New Jersey. Hovnanian's business developed and built over 6,000 houses throughout South Jersey [edit]

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Educators

2> Alphonse Mingana Nadje Sadig Al-Ali Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi Khalil M. H. Al-Shamma' , Ph.D , Business Administration 62 ,Vice President Of the Arab Academy for Banking And Financial Sciences, Chairman ,Board Of Directors Of PCT Group Nadje Sadig Al-Ali, educator and writer 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.[19] Hind Rassam Culhane, chair of the Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Mercy College, New York.[20] [edit]

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Engineers and scientists

2> Further information: List of Muslim & Christian scientists, Babylonian mathematics, and Babylonian astronomy Ibn al-Haytham 'Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi Lihadh Al Ghazali, scientist[21] Al-Abbās ibn Said al-Jawharī Al-Jazari Al-Kindi (Alkindus) Ahmed ibn Yusuf, mathematician Berossus, Hellenistic-era Babylonian writer, priest of Bel Marduk and astronomer writing in Greek, active at the beginning of the 3rd century BC. Brethren of Purity (Ikhwan al-Safa') Hunayn ibn Ishaq, scientist and physician Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen/Alhazen) Ibn Sahl Ibn Tahir al-Baghdadi Kidinnu Naburimannu 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. Thābit ibn Qurra (Thebit) Sinan ibn Thabit Ibrahim ibn Sinan Dlawer Ala'Aldeen Basil Jamil Al-Fakhri Abdul-Jabbar Abdallah* عبد الجبار عبد الله, Sabean scholar and second president of Baghdad University[22] Farouk Al-Kasim, Born in 1938, 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. [edit]

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Film actors and directors

2> Naguib el-Rihani Ban Abdul, actress and dancer Kasim Abid, London-based cameraman and director of Iraqi origin[23] Mohamed Al-Daradji Yossi Alfi, Iraqi Jewish actor (Born in Basra).[24] Nazem Al-Ghazali, actor/singer Koutaiba Al Janabi Bashir Al Majid, Iraqi actor in Ahlaam.[25] Nahida Al Rammah, actress Awatif al Salman, actress[26] Jawad Al Shakarchi, actor Namaa Alward, actress Naguib el-Rihani, actor Abbas Fahdel, director of Dawn of the World Tariq Hashim Sophia Jawad, actress and model based in the United Arab Emirates Hind Kamel, famous actress Fakhriya Abdel Karim, actress/activist/communist Saaed Khalifa, actor Farid Majari, film maker Dina Mousawi, actress Lauren Nadada, actress Awatif Naim, actress[27] Maysoon Pachachi, director of Return to the Land of Wonders Maysalun Qamar, actress Basam Ridha, actor Shath Salem, actress Hiner Saleem, film director Saad Salman, film director known for his documentary Baghdad On/Off Baz Shamoun, film director and maker of short documentary Where is Iraq? Majid Shokor, actor Amal Yassin, actress Samir, film director based in Switzerland, known for his documentary Forget Baghdad [edit]

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Film actors and directors of Iraqi descent

3> Usama Alshaibi Kattan at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival. Layth Abdulamir Antonio Albadran, Iraqi-American actor born in Basra. Hana Al Bayaty, filmmaker and journalist Anja Al-Erhayem, filmmaker (Iraqi father/Danish mother) Dina Al-Erhayem, actress (sister of Anja Al-Erhayem)[28] Ja'far 'Abd Al-Hamid, Iraqi-British filmmaker of "Mesocafe".[29] Fajer Al-Kaisi, Iraqi-Canadian actor, now resides in the States. Sarmed al-Samarrai, actor starred in the Universal Pictures film United 93 Usama Alshaibi, director of Muhammad and Jane and Nice Bombs Amer Alwan, film director known for winning an award for Zaman, The Man From The Reeds Joe Balass, film maker Claudia Basrawi, German actress and writer (German mother and Iraqi father)[30] Carole Basri, filmmaker Zana Briski, director of Born into Brothels Selma Chalabi, film maker Tamara Dhia, Iraqi-American actress Brian George, British-Israeli actor, most famous role is as Pakistani restaurateur Babu Bhatt on Seinfeld. (Born to Baghdadi Jewish parents). Shosha Goren, actress and comedian Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez, film director (Iraqi father and Chilean mother) Yasmine Hanani, American actress featured in documentary films Voices of Iraq and My Country, My Country Don Hany, actor (Won Best Actor for Winning the Peace (2005) Parine Jaddo, Iraqi-American filmmaker of Rasta's Paradise Nicholas Kadi, actor Nadia Kamil, actor, comedian and writer (Iraqi father/Welsh mother, born in Swansea, South Wales)[31] 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). Charlotte Lewis, actress most notable for her lead female role in The Golden Child alongside Eddie Murphy Anisa Mehdi, Emmy Award winning film director, journalist and director of Inside Mecca Safia Monney, actress Yigal Naor, actor Lorca Peress, director and producer of Off Off Broadway plays (Born to a Puerto Rican mother and an Iraqi and Polish Jewish father)[32] Rashed Radwan, Spanish film director[33] Heather Raffo, Award winning playwright/actress most known for her role in 9 Parts of Desire Haider Rashid, director, producer and writer (Iraqi father and Italian mother) Shero Rauf, actor and a stuntman in the film Troy (film) alongside Brad Pitt Liat Ron, actress and dancer Mohamed Said (actor), Swedish actor Osamah Sami, actor Ashley Sawdaye, actor (Iraqi Jewish father and French/Israeli mother) Alia Shawkat, American actress known as Maeby Funke on Arrested Development Zina Zaflow, actress 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[34] Ashley Sawdaye (born June 2, 1974), American actor, most notable for his role as Sgt. Bridges in the 2007 film, The Ungodly. Ayman Reda (Iraqi father / Syrian mother), one of the most famous actors and comedians in the Arab World [edit]

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Journalists

2> Fadhil Al Azzawi, writer, journalist and translator Zuhair Al-Jezairy, journalist Atwar Bahjat, journalist and reporter murdered in Iraq Omar Fekeiki, journalist and former Washington Post Iraq correspondent. Currently, Assignment Editor and Cultural Advisor for Iraq news website. Rauf Hassan, journalist and writer Bilal Hussein, photojournalist Salam Pax, blogger, translator and journalist Taher Thabet, journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, unembedded Iraqi journalist who began working after the U.S. invasion and has written for The Guardian and The Washington Post and published photographs in The New York Times, The 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. [edit]

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Journalists of Iraqi descent

3> Daniel Pearl passport Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, British-Iraqi journalist (born in Baghdad), has written for The Guardian and The Washington Post, as well as other media outlets. Firas Al-Atraqchi, Canadian journalist/writer[35] Hana Al Bayaty film maker and journalist Leila Barclay, American journalist and storyteller Dunja Hayali, German journalist and TV presenter[36][37] Salam Karam, Swedish journalist, has reported for the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet and in the radio program Godmorgon, världen!. Farah Nosh, photojournalist Michelle Nouri, journalist and writer, her publications include "La ragazza di Baghdad" ("The girl in Baghdad"). Daniel Pearl (1963–2002), American journalist, 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, 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. 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[38] [edit]

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Military figures

2> Abdul Karim Qasim Abdul Karim Qasim Ashur-nasir-pal II Hamid Raja Shalah Nebuchadrezzar II Sargon of Akkad [edit]

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Modern military figures

3> Salah al-Din al-Sabbagh (1889–1945) Iraqi Army officer Mustafa Al Hankawi, the first foreign graduate to be presented the Sword of Honour by the Queen of England at Sandhurst Military Academy Hagop Hagopian, 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. Assassinated outside his home in Athens' Palaio Faliro suburb April 28, 1988, while waiting for a taxi to take him to the airport for a flight to Belgrade. 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. 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. [edit]

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Misc

2> Yitzhak Mordechai Dan Halutz, Israeli air force general Moshe Levi (1936 – January 8, 2008), 12th Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, the first Chief of Staff of Mizrahi (Iraqi) origin. Zee M Kane (born 8 October 1982) to Iraqi father and English mother, Editor-in-Chief of the blog The Next Web, a Technorati Top 50 blog worldwide. Amira Mor, bellydancer[39] Yitzhak Mordechai, Israeli general and later Minister of Defense and Minister of Transport. Muayyed Nureddin, geologist Ibn Rajab, scholar 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. Fairuz Yamulky Duha Asker, actor and photographer[40][41] Zahra Alkabi, director and founder of Save Refugees[42] Sitti Maani Gioerida, Pietro Della Valle's wife, Italian Renaissance traveler, born in Baghdad of mixed Syrian and Armenian descent (1586–1652)[43] 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.[44] Curtis Sliwa, American anti-crime activist, founder and CEO of the Guardian Angels, and radio talk show host and media personality.[45] [edit]

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Models

2> Anais Catala Klodia Hanna, model and singer Pavla Drabkova[46] Amy Fadhli, fitness model, actress and winner of the "Fitness America National Champion 1996" (Iraqi father and Czech mother) Somy Ali, former Bollywood actress and now model and journalist (Iraqi mother and Pakistani father) Viola Haqi, Dutch-Iraqi model Alexander Farsi, Iraqi model and actor Silva Shahakian, Iraqi Armenian crowned as Miss Iraq in 2006, 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. [edit]

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Monarchs

2> Main article: List of Kings of Iraq Hashemite Dynasty Kings of Akkad Kings of Assyria List of kings of Babylon List of Kings of Iraq Sumerian king list [edit]

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Musicians

2> Main article: Music of Iraq Kathem Al Saher Ashur Bet Sargis Shatha Hassoun holds her Murex D'or award Rida Al Abdullah Acrassicauda, Iraqi thrash metal band formed in 2001. Members are Faisal Talal, Tony Aziz, Firas Al-Lateef, Marwan Riyadh and James Al Ansari Nazem Al-Ghazali Rahim AlHaj Hatim Al-Iraqi, Iraqi singer[47] Karim Al-Iraqi, poet and musician[48] Basim al-karbalaie Hussam Al-Rassam Kathem Al Saher, one of the most successful Arab singers in the Arab world Ashur Bet Sargis, Assyrian singer Acrassicauda, Iraq's only heavy metal band Jamil Bachir Munir Bashir Ahmed El Faleh Filfel Gourgy, singer[49] Seta Hagopian, famous Iraqi Armenian singer Jamal Al Atawi, Musicologist, Emeritus PHD in Iraqi Maqam, Iraqi Babylonian Jewish Relevant Maqam,and Historical Music Topics - Theorist and Performer / Recitist. Klodia Hanna, singer and model Shatha Hassoun winner of Star Academy 4 Bashar Lulua, orchestra conductor Rahma Mezher came 2nd in Najm Al Khaleej Majid Al Muhandis Ahmed Mukhtar Niz-r, rapper Beatrice Ohanessian (1927–2008), Iraqi pianist, notable for being Iraq's first concert pianist and first female composer.[50] (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. Ehab Salem, Iraqi pop singer[51] Janan Sawa Naseer Shamma Nawfal Shamoun Salman Shukur Sahar Taha, singer and artist[52] Unknown to No One, boyband Haitham Yousif, popular Iraqi singer Mansour Zalzal Ziryab [edit]

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Musicians of Iraqi descent

3> Laith Al-Deen in concert. Nora Foss al-Jabri Munir Bashir Hanan Alattar, American Soprano opera singer Laith Alattar, Iraqi American musician Laith Al-Deen, German pop musician Farida Mohammad Ali, singer Nora Foss al-Jabri, Norwegian child singer Saleh and Daoud Al-Kuwaity Oren Ambarchi, Australian electronic guitarist and drummer of Iraqi (Sephardi Jewish) heritage. Naufalle Al Wahab, Iraqi rapper and composer of Aïwa Wamid Al Wahab, Iraqi musician and composer of Aïwa Inbar Bakal, Israeli singer/songwriter of mixed Iraqi and Yemeni descent. Bruno Coulais, composer Dganit Daddo, Israeli singer born to an Iraqi Jewish family[53] Yair Dalal Amir ElSaffar Dena El Saffar sister of Amir El Saffar Rami Fortis, Israeli rock singer (Iraqi/Italian ancestry) Linda George, singer Munir Bashir, musician Natalya Ginaty, Natalya "Nazima" Ginaty, Israeli singer/songwriter/actress (Iraqi father)[54] Juliana Jendo, singer Klodia Hanna, singer Ashur Bet Sargis, singer Chemda Khalili, singer/songwriter and co-host of the Keith and The Girl podcast Lowkey, British-Iraqi rapper Sara Manasseh, singer, doctor, performer (Iraqi Jew born in Bombay, India).[55] The Narcicyst, Iraqi-Canadian rapper Aida Nadeem, Iraqi-Danish musician Karim Othman-Hassan, oudist[56] Esma Redžepova, 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)[57] Shlomo, human beatbox and member of UK-hip hop act, Foreign Beggars TIMZ Iraqi-American rapper Elliott Yamin Daron Malakian (born July 18, 1975), Armenian-American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer, 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 (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 and one of Sweden's best-selling artists, with numerous chart topping songs and music albums. Loris Ohannes Chobanian (born April 17, 1933 to Armenian parents in Mosul, Iraq), accomplished Armenian-American composer of classical music, expert conductor, and guitar and lute teacher and performer, served as professor of composition as well as composer-in-residence at Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory. [edit]

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2> Ala Bashir Bukhtishu, Assyrian physician Esagil-kin-apli, Babylonian ummânū, or chief scholar, author of the Diagnostic Handbook, Sakikkū (SA.GIG) Adeeb al-Fekaiki Ibn Hubal Hunayn ibn Ishaq (Hunayn bar Ishaq), Assyrian Physician Al-Kindi Ali ibn Abbas al-Majusi Mohammed A.F. Al-Rawi Imad Sarsam Sinan ibn Thabit Yuhanna Ibn Masawaih(Yuhanna Bit Msawaih), Assyrian physician Ibn KammunaSa'd ibn Mansur (Izz Al-dawla) Ibn Kammuna (died 1284), a 13th Century Jewish physician (ophthalmologist), philosopher and critic of Islam who lived under the rule of the Mongols in Baghdad. Kamal Hussein Saleh al Husseiny, famous plastic surgeon in Iraq [edit]

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2> See also: Politics of Iraq Izzat Ibrahim ad-Douri Iyad Allawi Abdul Aziz al-Hakim Watban Ibrahim al-Tikriti Saddam Hussein Khudayer Abbas Izzat Ibrahim ad-Douri Haidar al-Abbadi Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi Mohammed A. Aldouri Iyad Allawi Alaudin Abdul-Saheb al-Alwan Jafar al-Askari Nori al-Badran Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr Ahmed al-Barak Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz Naseer al-Chaderchi Hani al-Fekaiki Kamil Mubdir al-Gailani Ali Faik al-Ghadban Mohammed Shakir al-Ghanam Mahdi al-Hafidh Ali Al-Haidri Abdul Aziz al-Hakim Abdul Razak al-Hashimi Aqila al-Hashimi Yasin al-Hashimi Taha al-Hashimi Hajim al-Hassani Ibrahim al-Jaafari Mofeed Mohammed Jawad al-Jazaeri Rashid Ali al-Kaylani Abd ar-Rahman al-Haydari al-Kaylani Salama al-Khufaji Raja Habib al-Khuzaai Pascal Esho Warda, former Minister of Immigration and Refugees in the Iraqi Interim Government, Chaldean Catholic and ethnic Assyrian, born in 1961 in the Northern Iraqi city of Dahuk, but later exiled to France, where 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 Women's Union in Baghdad. Ali Abdul-Amir Allawi Ali Hassan al-Majid Sami Izara al-Majoun Nouri al-Maliki Naziha al-Dulaimi[58] Jamil al-Midfai Abdel-Karim Mahoud al-Mohammedawi Rashid al-Rifai Mowaffak al-Rubaie Muqtada al-Sadr Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf Ayham al-Samaraie Hussain al-Shahristani Hashim Abdul-Rahman al-Shibli Tawfiq al-Suwaidi Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai Rafi' Dahham Al-Tikriti, Chief Iraqi Intelligence Service Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti Sabawi Ibrahim al-Tikriti Watban Ibrahim al-Tikriti Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum Ibrahim Mohamed Bahr al-Uloum Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer Dara Noor Alzin Abdul Rahman Arif Abdul Salam Arif Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i Abd al-Muhsin as-Sa'dun Nuri as-Said Zeyad Abdul-Razzaq Mohammed Aswad Tariq Aziz Salaheddine Bahaaeddin Massoud Barzani Nesreen Mustafa Sidiq Berwari Ahmed Chalabi Sondul Chapouk Ali Fadel Aras Habib Mohsen Abdel Hamid Saddam Hussein Faisal I of Iraq Faisal II of Iraq Ghazi of Iraq Hussein Kamel al-Majid Hatem Kamil Yunadam Kanna Abdul-Rahman Sidiq Kareem Lamiya Abed Khadawi Mohammed Jassem Khudair Wael Abdul Latif Samir Shakir Mahmoud Abdul-Wahab Mirjan Hamid Majid Mousa Rashad Mandan Omar Mahmoud Othman Adnan Pachachi Behnam Zayya Polis Abdul Karim Qassim Mohammed Raad, one of the founders of Hezbollah and an important political leader[59][60] Mohammed Tawfik Raheem Abdul-Ameer Abboud Rahima Taha Yassin Ramadan Abdul-Latif Rashid Naji Sabri Barham Salih Ezzedine Salim Talib Shabib Naji Shawkat Bakr Sidqi Bayan Baqir Solagh Hikmat Sulayman Jalal Talabani Abdul-Basit Turki Hoshyar Zebari Mohammed Amza Zubeidi Jalal Dabagh Sassoon Eskell (17 March 1860 – 31 August 1932), Iraqi statesman and financier, regarded in Iraq as the Father of Parliament, the first Minister of Finance in the Kingdom and a permanent Member of Parliament until his death.[61] Christian Anthony Rassam (died 1872), Nestorian Christian and explorer; British vice-consul at Mosul [edit]

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3> Saad Hariri Dalia Itzik Anood Al-Samerai, British Southwark councillor for the Liberal Democrats. (Born to an Iraqi father and British mother).[62] Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Israeli politician and former soldier, the first Iraqi Jew to lead the Israeli Labour party. José Murat Casab, born to Iraqi immigrants), Mexican politician and a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party also former Governor of Oaxaca. Ra'anan Cohen, former Israeli politician who served as a government minister during the early 2000s. Ran Cohen, Israeli politician and Knesset member for Meretz-Yachad. (Born in Baghdad to Iraqi parents) Saad Hariri, Lebanese Legislator (2005-), son of Rafik Hariri and an Iraqi mother. Dalia Itzik, Israeli politician affiliated with the Kadima party.[63] She took office as the first female speaker of the Knesset on 4 May 2006. David Saul Marshall, the leader of the Singapore Labour Front and became the first Chief Minister of Singapore in 1955, born into an Orthodox Jewish family of Iraqi ancestry in Singapore. 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. Professor Sir Ara Darzi, 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, appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Lords) at the Department of Health by the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown 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.[64] 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. Despite inaccurately being labeled as Kurdish throughout different media reports, Hariri is of Assyrian origin and son of the politician Franso Hariri (1937–2001). 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. [edit]

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2> Mar Dinkha IV Mordechai Eliyahu Abo of Tiflis, Patron Saint of Tbilisi, Georgia Muhsin al-Hakim Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr Basile Georges Casmoussa Mordechai Eliyahu, former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel 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. An ethnic Assyrian, ordained to the priesthood on June 5, 1960, named bishop on November 6, 2002, and ordained on January 6, 2003

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