- Ahmed Chalabi
Ahmed Abdel Hadi Chalabi,<sup>1</sup> (born October 30, 1944) 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 announced in May 2006, he was not awarded a post. Once dubbed the "George Washington of Iraq" by American neoconservatives, …
- Adnan Pachachi
Adnan Pachachi (born on May 14, 1923 in Baghdad), is an Iraqi politician. Pachachi is the scion of a Sunni Arab family with a long tradition in Iraqi politics and a graduate from Victoria College, Alexandria in Egypt. He was Iraq's permanent representative to the United Nations in 1959-65 and 1967-68, and as foreign minister during the regime of presidents Abdul Salam Arif and Abdul Rahman Arif in 1965-67.
- Yanar Mohammed
Yanar Mohammed (b. 1960) is a prominent Iraqi feminist. She is a co-founder and the director of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq, and serves as the editor of the newspaper "Al-Mousawat" (Equality).
- Kanan Makiya
Kanan Makiya is an Iraqi-American academic. He is the Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University. Although he was born in Baghdad, he left Iraq to study architecture at M.I.T., later joining Makiya Associates to design and build projects in the Middle East.
- 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.
- Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad (born in Baghdad, Iraq, 1975) is an unembedded Iraqi journalist who began working after the U.S. invasion and has written for The Guardian and Washington Post and publish photographs in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Times (London), and other media outlets. Ghaith studied architecture at Baghdad University and had never traveled outside Iraq until after the recent war.
- Harith Al-Dhari
Sheik Harith Sulayman al-Dhari was born in 1941 in Baghdad. He is a Sunni Arab cleric, and chairman of the Association of Muslim Scholars. Dhari is an outspoken critic of the American invasion of Iraq and has praised the insurgency. His grandfather played a part in the 1920 revolution against British imperial rule. That uprising, which was fiercest in the Shi'ite south, was a seminal moment of unity between Iraq's Sunnis, …
- Adil Abdul-Mahdi
Adil (Adel) Abdul-Mahdi (al Muntafiki) is an Iraqi Shi'a politician, economist, and is one of the two current Vice Presidents of Iraq. He was formerly the Finance Minister in the Interim government. Abdel-Mahdi is a member of the powerful Shi'a party the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, or SIIC. Long based in neighboring Iran, the group opposed a United States administration but holds close ties with the other U.S.-backed groups that opposed Saddam Hussein, …
- Abdul Rahman Yasin
Abdul Rahman Yasin helped make the bombs used in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing attack. Yasin is of Iraqi heritage, having grown up in Baghdad, Iraq. The history of his childhood and early adult life in Iraq up until 1992 would be the most direct connection possibly implicating the Saddam Hussein regime of Iraq to the 1993 attack in Manhattan, which occurred on the 2nd anniversary (February 26) of the retreat of Iraqi forces from Kuwait, thus ending the Gulf War.
- Abd Al-Karim Qasim
Abd al-Karim Qasim ('); also various other spellings; including Qassim, Kassem, Quasim; popularly known as "az-Za‘īm" (Arabic: الزعيم) "the leader") (1914 – February 9, 1963), was an Iraqi military officer involved in the 1958 military coup d'état. Named Prime Minister of Iraq, Qasim associated himself with the ordinary Iraqi people.
- Rahim Alhaj
Rahim AlHaj is an Iraqi oud musician and composer.
- Avi Shlaim
Avi Shlaim (born October 31, 1945 in Baghdad) is an Israeli-British dual citizen and historian and identifies ethnically as an Iraqi Jew. He is considered a key member of a group of Israeli scholars known as the New Historians who put forward revised interpretations of the history of Zionism and Israel. He is a regular contributor to "The Guardian" newspaper.
- Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash
Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash is an American-educated Iraqi scientist, dubbed Mrs. Anthrax by the U.S. government. Ammash was number 53 on the Pentagon's list of the 55 most wanted, the five of hearts in the deck of Most wanted Iraqi playing cards, and the only woman to be featured. U.S. officials allege that Ammash, who earned a Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Missouri–Columbia, …
- David Sassoon
David Sassoon (1792 - 1864) was a prominent Bombay (now Mumbai) businessman and philanthropist of Iraqi origin. He was born in Baghdad into a family of Nasis, traditional leaders of the Jewish community. His father, Saleh Sassoon, was a wealthy banker and chief treasurer to the pashas, the governors of Baghdad, from 1781 to 1817. However, the Jews came under pressure from the Muslim Turkish rulers of Baghdad.
- Sharif Ali bin Al-Hussein
Sharif Ali Bin al-Hussein was born in 1956, in Baghdad, Iraq as a member of the Hashemite House. He is currently a Pretender to the Iraqi throne and the leader of the Iraqi Constitutional Monarchy political party. Sharif Ali bin al-Hussein claims to be the legitimate heir to the position of King of Iraq, based on his relationship to the last monarch, the late King Faisal II.
- Elie Kedourie
Elie Kedourie C.B.E., FBA (25 January 1926-29 June1992) was a British historian of the Middle East. He wrote from a conservative perspective, dissenting from many points of view taken as orthodox in the field. He was at the London School of Economics (LSE) from 1953 to 1990, becoming Professor of Politics. He was born in Baghdad; his background was Iraqi Jewish and he grew up in the Jewish quarter, …
- Alon Ben-Meir
Dr. Alon Ben-Meir (born 1937) is a professor of international relations and Middle Eastern Studies at The New School and at New York University and is the Middle East Project Director at the World Policy Institute. Born in Baghdad, Iraq, Ben-Meir has resided in the United States since the late 1960s. He earned his master's degree in philosophy and doctorate in international relations from Oxford University.
- Sami Michael
Sami Michael (born 1926) is an Israeli author and the president of The Association for Civil Rights in Israel. He was born as Sallah Menasse in Baghdad, Iraq, where his father was a merchant. He grew up and was educated in a mixed neighborhood of Jews, Muslims, and Christians. At 15 he joined the Communist underground in Iraq. At 17 he began to write for underground's newspapers. When he was 21 a warrant was issued for his arrest.
- Ziryab
Abu l-Hasan ‘Ali Ibn Nafi‘, was a poet, a musician and singer and one of the most famous gourmands at the Umayyad court in Córdoba in Spain. Historians differ over whether Ziryab was Persian, Kurdish or African. According to some sources, he was a former slave, possibly a Zanj of Tanzanian descent. He first achieved notoriety at the Abbasid court in Baghdad, Iraq, his birth place, as a performer and student of the great musician and composer, Ishaq al-Mawsili.
- Naïm Kattan
Naïm Kattan is a Canadian novelist, essayist and critic. 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. He is the author of more than 30 books, translated into several languages.
- Ran Cohen
Ran Cohen (born 20 June 1937) is an Israeli politician and Knesset member for Meretz-Yachad. He is a resident of Mevaseret Zion and married with four children. Born in Baghdad, Iraq, Cohen was 13 years old when he immigrated to Israel through Iran. He grew in Kibbutz Gan Shmuel, where he absorbed Socialist and Zionist ideologies. During his military service he rose to the rank of Colonel (Aluf Mishne).
- Ben Ish Chai
Yosef Chaim (Hebrew: יוסף חיים מבגדאד) was a leading "Hakham" (Sephardic Rabbi), authority on Jewish law (Halakha) and Kabbalist. He is best known as author of the work of Halakha Ben Ish Chai ("Son of Man (who) Lives"), by which title he is also known.
- Al-Mufid
Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Nu'man al-'Ukbari al-Baghdadi known as al-Shaykh al-Mufid and Ibn al-Mu'allim for his expertise in philosophical theology (c. 948-1022 CE) was an eminent Twelver Shi'ite theologian. He was born in 'Ukbara, a small town to the north of Baghdad and later migrated together with his father to Baghdad, where the Shiite Buwayhids were ruling.
- Ammo Baba
Emmanuel Baba Dawud, better known as Ammo Baba., is a former Iraqi Assyrian international football player and coach for the Iraq national football team. He scored the first international goal for Iraq in 1957 against Morocco at the 2nd Pan Arab Games in Beirut. He later returned as to the team as the coach in 1978.
- Nuha Al-Radi
Nuha al-Radi (January 27, 1941, Baghdad - 2004) was an Iraqi diarist, ceramist and painter. She was born into a distinguished Iraqi family which included Mahmoud Shawkat, the last Prime Minister of the Ottoman Empire. In 1919, her father Mohammed Selim al-Radi was one of the first Iraqis to be educated in the USA when he studied agriculture in Texas.
- Samir Naqqash
Samir Naqqash is a Jewish novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, born in Baghdad in 1938. He died in the Israeli town of Petah Tiqva in 2004. He received his degree in Arabic literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was one of the last and probably the most important Jewish writers to continue writing in Arabic throughout his career. He was well known in the Arab world and among the Iraqi community in Israel, …
- Raed George
Raed George is an Iraqi Musician who began his musical career by composing some music tracks for the Iraqi National Radio Station in 1989. In 1997, Raed George's music won the golden medal of International Cairo Radio and Television Festival for best Arabic audio track of the year. (Click here to play).<br /> Education: (1975-1980) Music Certificate, Institute of Radio Training, Baghdad Iraq.<br /> (1983-1988) Diploma, Fine Arts Institute, …
- Ahmed Ibn Yusuf
Ahmed ibn Yusuf ibn Ibrahim ibn Tammam al-siddiq Al-Baghdadi also known as Ahmed ibn Yusuf al-misri (835 - 912) was an Arab mathematician, like his father Yusuf ibn Ibrahim (Arabic
- N. J. Dawood
Nessim Joseph Dawood (Arabic,نعيم جوزيف داوود in Baghdad, Iraq, to an Iraqi Jewish family. He came to England in 1945 as an Iraq State scholar, and settled there. He graduated from the University of London. He is known for his English translation of the Qur’an, Tales from the One Thousand and One Nights (Penguin Classics) and his edition of the Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun. Dawood’s translation of the Qur’an, titled “The Koran”, …
- Bint Al-Huda
Bint al-Huda was an Iraqi educator and political activist who was killed by Saddam Hussein along with her brother, Ayatullah Sayyid Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr, in 1980. Also called Aminah Haidar as-Sadr, Bint al-Huda was born in 1938 in Kazimiyah, Baghdad where she would eventually establish several religious schools for girls. Bint al-Huda played a significant role in creating Islamic awareness among the Muslim women of Iraq.
- Hussein Saeed
Hussein Saeed is a former Iraqi football (soccer) player. Hussein Saeed is in 20th place in FIFA’s list of most international matches at 126 matches. Saeed is also President of the Iraqi FA.
- Tawfiq Al-Suwaidi
Tawfiq al-Suwaidi was an Iraqi politician who served as Prime Minister of Iraq on four occasions: * April 28 1929 - August 25 1929 * November 18 1929 - March 9 1930 * February 23 1946 - May 31 1946 * February 5 1950 - September 4 1950. Suwaidi also served in various other prominent cabinet positions, including minister of education and minister of foreign affairs, during most of the Iraqi monarchy.
- Ibn Tahir Al-Baghdadi
Abu Mansur Abd al-Qahir ibn Tahir ibn Muhammad ibn Abdallah al-Tamimi al-Shaffi al-Baghdadi (Arabic:أبو منصور عبدالقاهر ابن طاهر بن محمد بن عبدالله التميمي الشافعي البغدادي) was an Arab mathematician (c. 980-1037) 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.
- Usama Alshaibi
Chicago-based film director Usama Alshaibi was born in Baghdad, Iraq in November 20, 1969. Alshaibi is the director of one feature length film, "Muhammad and Jane", and more than thirty short films and videos, some of which star performance artist Echo Transgression and Polish actor and filmmaker Piotr Tokarski. He has also produced and directed numerous music videos for a variety of musicians, including Bobby Conn, Panicsville and Magic is Küntmaster.
- Rashid Ali Al-Gaylani
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani also spelled Sayyad Rashid Ali al-Gillani or Sayyad Rashid Ali al-Gailani, son of Sayyad Abdul Wahhab al-Gillani ‎ (1892-1965) served as prime minister of Iraq on three occasions: # March 20, 1933 - October 29, 1933 # March 31, 1940 - January 31, 1941 # April 3, 1941 - May 29, 1941 He is chiefly remembered as an Arab Nationalist who wanted to remove British Influence from Iraq.
- Charles Saatchi
Charles Saatchi (born June 9, 1943) was the co-founder with his brother Maurice of the global advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi, which became the world's biggest before the brothers were forced out of their own company in 1995. In the same year the Saatchi brothers formed a new agency called M&C Saatchi. Many large clients followed, and their new agency quickly overtook their ex agency in Britain's top ten.
- Al-Abbās Ibn Said Al-Jawharī
"'"' (c. 800 Baghdad? - c. 860 Baghdad?) was a geometer who worked at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad and for in a short time in Damascus where he made astronomical observations. His most important work was his "Commentary on Euclid's Elements" which contained nearly 50 additional propositions and an attempted proof of the parallel postulate.
- Nazem Al-Ghazali
Nazem El Ghazali (Arabic: ناظم الغزالي, also spelled Nadhem Al-Ghazali, Nadhem Ghazali, Nazem Al-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 turned to singing.
- Saadoun Sughaiyer Al-Janabi
Known as a defence attorney during the Hussein Trials, Saadoun Sughaiyer al-Janabi was one of two lawyers representing Awad Hamed al-Bandar. Ten masked gunmen wearing Iraqi Police uniforms abducted al-Janabi, who was reportedly cooperative, from the office in his Baghdad home on October 20th 2005, one day after the trial began. His body was recovered outside an Ur mosque the following day with two gunshots to the head.
- Nazik Al-Malaika
Nazik Al-Malaika (August 23 1922 - 20 June 2007) was an Iraqi female poet and is considered by many the most influential contemporary Iraqi female poet. Al-Malaika is famous as the first poet in Arabic to use free verse.