- male
- Father Yusuf Akbulut is a Syriac Orthodox Assyrian priest from St. Mary's Church in Diyarbakır,Turkey. He was arrested by Turkish authorities a...
- male, 62 years old
- Frank Viviano (born Francesco Paolo Viviano in Detroit, Michigan in 1947) is a Sicilian-American journalist and foreign correspondent. He attended...
- male, deceased (2007)
- Khalil al-Zahawi (1946 - 25 May, 2007) was one of Iraq's most prominent Arabic calligraphers. An ethnic Kurd and a native of Diyala Governorate, he...
- male, deceased (1956)
- Sheikh Mahmmud Barzanji (1878 - October 9, 1956) was the leader of several Kurdish uprisings against the British Mandate of Iraq. He was Sheikh of...
- female
- Leyla Qasim was a Kurdish activist against the Iraqi Ba'ath regime who was executed in Baghdad. She is known as a national martyr among the Kurds.
- male, deceased (2002)
- Roddy Scott was a British freelance cameraman working for Britain's Frontline television news agency.
- male, deceased (1610)
- Emîr Xan Lepzêrîn (transliterated: Amir Khan Lapzerin) was a Kurdish ruler of Beradost near Urmia. In 1609 he build up the ruined structure of the...
- male, deceased (1952)
- Hijri Dede was a celebrated poet from Kirkuk, Iraq. His poems were written mainly in the Turkmen language but he also composed works in Persian and...
- male
- Abdul Razzak Al-Hassani, an Iraqi historian, wrote a book titled "The Political History of Iraq" (in the Arabic language). In this famous book, he...
- male, deceased (1135)
- Al-Mustarshid (d. 1135) was the Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad from 1118 to 1135. Son of the preceding Caliph, he once more tried independence while the...
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