Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein

male, deceased (2006)
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq and Chairman of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council from 1979 until his...
Jalal Talabani

Jalal Talabani

male, 75 years old
Jalal Talabani (born 1933), is an Iraqi politician, who was elected State President of Iraq on April 6, 2005, (sworn in the next day, April 7, and...
Massoud Barzani

Massoud Barzani

male, 63 years old
Massoud Barzani (born August 16, 1946) is the President of the Autonomous Kurdish Government in Iraq and leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party....
Benazir Bhutto

Benazir Bhutto

female, deceased (2007) (Pakistan)
She was elected co-chairwoman of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) along with her mother, and when free elections were finally held in 1988, she...
Hoshyar Zebari

Hoshyar Zebari

male, 56 years old
Hoshyar Zebari (born 1953) is the current Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iraq. A Kurd originally from Aqrah, a city in Iraqi Kurdistan, Zebari...
Mahmoud Othman

Mahmoud Othman

male, 71 years old
Dr Mahmoud Ali Othman (b. 1938) was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council created following the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq. A...
Bahman Ghobadi

Bahman Ghobadi

male, 40 years old
Bahman Ghobadi is a Kurdish Iranian film director. He was born on February 1, 1969 in Baneh, Iran. Ghobadi belongs to the so called "new wave" of...
Abdullah Öcalan

Abdullah Öcalan

male, 61 years old
Abdullah "Apo" Öcalan, is the founding leader of the Kurdish militant group Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
Ali Hassan Al-Majid

Ali Hassan Al-Majid

male, 68 years old
Ali Hassan Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (born 1941) is a former Ba'athist Iraqi Defense Minister and military commander. A first cousin of former...
Barham Salih

Barham Salih

male, 49 years old
Barham Ahmad Salih (born 1960) is a Kurdish politician who serves as Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq. He was elected to the Iraqi National Assembly...