Heather Raffo is an Iraqi American playwright/Actor. Her father is Iraqi and her mother is American, who are both of Christian faith and Heather was raised a Roman Catholic in Michigan. She is most famous for her notable role in 9 Parts of Desire, which has been noted "Profoundly moving!Rated A" by Entertainment Weekly. The play focuses on the lifes of women in her fathers homeland, Iraq.

Dahlia S. Wasfi is an Iraqi American activist who has spoken out against the war in Iraq.

Specialist Ahmed Qusai al-Taayie (b. ca. 1965) is a Iraqi American United States Army linguist soldier, who was kidnapped on October 23, 2006 in Baghdad.

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.

Shakir al Khafaji (born 1955) is a Detroit-based Iraqi-American businessman involved in the United Nations Oil for Food scandal. He immigrated to the United States in 1975. He graduated with a degree in architecture from Lawrence Tech University. In 2004 he was reported by the "Wall Street Journal" to have received funds from Saddam Hussein and to have helped bankroll the lobbying activities of former weapons-inspector turned anti-sanctions activist, …

Tommy Hanna, better known as TIMZ, is a rapper from El Cajon near San Diego, California. While TIMZ is his stage name, his real name is Tommy Hanna. He was born in San Diego, California to a Chaldean family that emigrated from Baghdad, Iraq in the 1970s. He is a Catholic, and recently proclaimed his support for the troops in Iraq. TIMZ has gained global exposure, and a fair degree of notoriety, with his song aptly named, "Iraq".

Amir ElSaffar (b. near Chicago, Illinois, United States) 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". In 2002 he began studying the "maqam" tradition in Baghdad and London, with Hamid al-Saadi, one of the most renowned "maqam" singers in Iraq.

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.

Stephan Smith (born Stephan Said, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and poet. Smith describes himself as a traveling troubadour and is known for his leftist political activism. Dave Matthews once said "Stephan Smith is an incredible songwriter and musician. Keep your ears open. You will see him in the future." Smith has been compared to Woody Guthrie, Bruce Springsteen, and Bob Dylan. He has collaborated with Pete Seeger, Dean Ween, …

Husham Al-Husainy is an Iraqi-American Sheikh of the Karbalaa Islamic Education Center, a Shi'ite mosque servicing largely people of Iraqi and Lebanese descent in Dearborn, Michigan. Al-Husainy arrived in the United States in the late 1970s as Saddam Hussain was rising into power. He is a spokesman of the Iraqi expatriate community in America. During the American occupation of Iraq n the early and mid 2000s, …

Wafaa Bilal (born June 10 1966) is an Iraqi American artist and professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is best known for his work "Domestic Tension", where he lived in a gallery for a month and was shot by paintballs interactively by internet users watching from a webcam.

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 and is a Shia Muslim. His family immigrated to the USA when he was an infant. Kaysar is currently residing in Irvine, California, where he is a graphic designer.

Ayad Rahim is an Iraqi-American journalist. He has written extensively on Middle Eastern affairs, including a series of articles on the Operation Iraqi Freedom Documents with co-author Laurie Mylroie. In addition, he hosts a radio show on station WJCU in Cleveland. His show features scholars and guests from the Middle East and discusses the war, terrorism and Iraq. The radio station is run by John Carroll University.

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.

Yasmine Hanani (also spelled "Yasmine Hannaney", born June 5,1980) is an American actress, of Iraqi heritage. Hanani was born in Baltimore but grew up in Southfield, Michigan and later in Southern California. After working as an investment banking analyst on Wall Street, the University of Southern California graduate and former child actress made her return to the industry on the 2004 documentary "Voices of Iraq".

Farris Hassan (born 1989) is an American who, while a junior at Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, took an unaccompanied trip Iraq. He said he was inspired by a personal attachment to the situation in Iraq and an English class having a project on "immersion journalism". It was reported that Hassan left home for Iraq without telling his parents. Hassan's parents, now divorced, are Iraqi-born but immigrated to the United States, where they have lived for 35 years.

Elliott Yamin (born Efraym Elliott Yamin on July 20, 1978) is an American singer who is known for being the third-place finalist on the fifth season of "American Idol".

Christopher Lee Kattan (born October 19, 1970) is an American comedian, perhaps best known for his work on "Saturday Night Live".

Rend al-Rahim Francke is an Iraqi political activist who often appears on various current affairs programs. She held the position as Iraqi ambassador to the United States. She is considered to be a secularist trying to enable Iraq to transition to a liberal democratic model.

Ayham al-Samarie (also spelt Aiham Alsammarae) is a Sunni Arab Iraqi politician and the former Minister of Electricity.

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.

Saadi Simawe, an Iraqi-American translator, novelist, and teacher, has published many articles in English and Arabic, both original and in translation, and a novel (in Arabic) Al-Khuruj min al-Qumqum, London 1999. He is the editor of an anthology of 40 writers, "Contemporary Iraqi Poetry", published by Zephyr Press in 2002 and author of the work of cultural criticism, "Black Orpheus: Music in African American Fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison", …

Hisham N. Ashkouri (born August 15, 1948, Baghdad, Iraq) 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. He further completed his Urban Design studies at Harvard University and M.I.T. with a Masters in Urban Design in 1975. Dr.

Mohammed Odeh al-Rehaief (born circa 1970) is an Iraqi attorney who helped the United States armed forces rescue prisoner of war Jessica Lynch from a hospital in Nasiriyah. As reward for his assistance, the U.S. government granted him humanitarian parole on April 28, 2003. That same year, al-Rehaief published the autobiography "Because Each Life Is Precious" (ISBN 0-06-059054-8), in which he explains why he decided to help Lynch.

Dr. Rafil A. Dhafir is an American Iraqi born physician, who was sentenced on October 28, 2005, to 22 years in prison for violating the Iraqi sanctions by sending money to Iraq through his charity front Help the Needy, and for fraud, money laundering, tax evasion, and a variety of other nonviolent crimes. Five other people, including his wife, had already pleaded guilty to charges in connection with the case. Dr.

Sami Khoshaba Latchin is an Iraqi-born U.S. citizen, naturalized in 1998, after moving to the U.S. in 1993. On August 31, 2004, Latchin was arrested by U.S. federal agents on charges of making false statements to immigration officials when he applied for his citizenship. The indictment claims Latchin failed to disclose his employment by the Iraqi Intelligence Service and membership Iraq's Baath Party. It also claims that Latchin was a deep undercover "sleeper" spy, …

Majid Khadduri was an Iraqi–born founder of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies Middle East Studies program. Internationally, he was recognized as a leading authority on a wide variety of Islamic subjects, modern history and the politics of the Middle East. He was the author of more than 35 books in English and Arabic and hundreds of articles.

Linda George is an internationally renowned Assyrian singer who began singing at the age of five. Fourteen albums later, she is now one of the most famous Assyrian singers. Her music is a blend of traditional Assyrian beats, to modern new age music and her golden voice is admired by all. Linda currently resides in California.

Alia Martine Shawkat (born on April 18, 1989) is an American actress. Shawkat was born in Riverside, California of Iraqi Kurdish, Irish, and Norwegian heritage. Her maternal grandfather is actor Paul Burke, who appeared as Detective Adam Flint on the TV series "Naked City" (1959-1963). From 2001 to 2002, Shawkat starred as Hannah Rayburn in the television sitcom "State of Grace", …

Samuel "The Arab" Nalo was the more successful and well-known New York City hijacker and large scale burglar who is the better known brother of Robert Nalo; whom are of Iraqi descent. Samuel stood a 5'5 and had dark deep-set guy with hairy arms and chest, and a permanent five o'clock shadow and bald. He was a sinister looking little man who never smiled.

Abdul Ameer Yousef Habeeb is an Iraqi-born journalist currently living, with refugee status, in the United States. Habeeb's brother Abdallah was executed in 1982 by Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime, and he himself was imprisoned twice in Iraq, most recently in 1997; his hands and face were scarred by torture in Iraqi prisons. His father, a monarchist and a leader of the Rabia tribe, died in a suspicious car crash in 1999.

Jumana Hanna (born c. 1962) is a member of formerly rich and prominent Iraqi family who, in July 2003, contacted the new provisional government of Iraq to present information about her imprisonment in the "loose dogs" prison during the President Saddam Hussein's administration.

Toba Khedoori (b. 1964) 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, painting, and art installation. Some of Khedoori's best-known paintings feature architectural renderings surrounded by a vast expanse of white or blank space.

Saul Fathi (born 1938) is an Iraqi-born American Jewish author of stories on the plight of Sephardic Jews in Iraq.