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, …

Frans Cornelis Adrianus van Anraat (born August 9, 1942 in Den Helder) is a Dutch businessman who sold raw materials for the production of chemical weapons to Iraq during the reign of Saddam Hussein.

Chris Kutschera is a French journalist, researcher, writer, specialist on the Middle East and the Kurds. He has written several books and published numerous articles in the Monde Diplomatique, Les Cahiers de l’Orient, Al Wasat and The Middle East magazine.

Rizgar Mohammed Amin is the former chief judge of the Iraqi Special Tribunal's Al-Dujail trial. He is the only judge whose identity was revealed on the trial's opening on 19 October 2005, the names and faces of his four colleagues remaining secret. Amin graduated from the Law School of Baghdad University in 1980. He is an ethnic Kurd, though he has no record of political activism, or connections to the "Peshmerga".

Hiner Saleem or Hiner Salim, (1954-), is a Kurdish film director. He was born in the town of Aqrah in Iraqi Kurdistan. He left Iraq at the age of 17, and soon made his way to Italy, where he completed school and attended university. Later on, he moved to France where he lives now. In 1992, after the First Gulf War, he filmed undercover the living conditions of Iraqi Kurds. This footage was shown at the Venice Film Festival.

Azad (born Azad Azadpour, January 1, 1974 in Sanandaj, Kurdistan, Iran) is a rapper. He came from the Kurdish part of Iran as the child of a Kurdish family of refugees and now lives in Frankfurt, Germany. In hip hop culture, he found his home since it was a common part of life in the area he grew up. He became a member of multicultural, radical rappers Asiatic Warriors, who used to rap in English, but also Kurdish and German.

Mehdi Zana is a former Turkish politician of Kurdish origin. Zana started to work as a tailor in Silvan after he graduated from elementary school. In 1963 he became a member of Workers Party of Turkey (TİP). Two years later he became the head of the party's Silvan branch. In 1978 he was elected as the first independent socialist mayor of Diyarbakır. After 1980 Turkish coup d'état, he was imprisoned in the Military Prison of Diyarbakır. He was incarcerated for 16 years.

Pir Sultan Abdal (ca. 1480 - 1550), a legendary Sufi poet, whose direct and clear language as well as the richness of his imagination and the beauty of his verses led him to become a loved among the Turks and Kurds. Pir Sultan Abdal reflected the social, cultural and religious life of the people; he was a humanist, and wrote about love, peace, death and God. He was also rebellious against authoritarian rule which led him into problems with the Ottoman establishment.

Qazi Muhammad (1893 - March 30, 1947) was a nationalist and religious Kurdish leader and the Head of the Republic of Kurdistan, (Republic of Mahabad) the second modern Kurdish state in the Middle East (after the Republic of Ararat). Qazi Muhammad acted as the President of the Soviet backed Republic of Mahabad, in Kurdistan of Iran, (Eastern Kurdistan) in 1946. He was also the founder of the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran, the PDKI, …

İbrahim Kaypakkaya was a leader of the Turkish communist movement. He led the split away from the neighboring Soviet Union's ideology and took up Maoism and the Cultural Revolution. As such, Kaypakkaya led a life that was a concrete manifestation of the Sino-Soviet split. Kaypakkaya also took the position that there is a national question involved with the Kurdish people. Prison wardens tortured Ibrahim Kaypakkaya to death at Diyarbakır in May, 1973 at age 24, …

Father Yusuf Akbulut is a Syriac Orthodox Assyrian priest from St. Mary's Church in Diyarbakır,Turkey. He was arrested by Turkish authorities after stating in an interview that he believed Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks have been victims of a genocide by Turkey. A native of Anıtlı (Hah), a village in Midyat district, …

Frank Viviano (born Francesco Paolo Viviano in Detroit, Michigan in 1947) is a Sicilian-American journalist and foreign correspondent. He attended De La Salle High School in Detroit and the University of Michigan. He traveled widely for many years as the at-large foreign correspondent for the "San Francisco Chronicle", covering events across Asia and Europe, …

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 began studying calligraphy in 1959, and moved to Baghdad in 1963, where he gave his first exhibition in 1965. He later graduated from the Fine Arts Institute of Baghdad, and proceeded to work for the State Directorate for the Plastic Arts in the 1980s. Eventually, he found work as a lecturer at Baghdad University.

Sheikh Mahmmud Barzanji (1878 - October 9, 1956) was the leader of several Kurdish uprisings against the British Mandate of Iraq. He was Sheikh of a Qadiriyah Sufi family from town of Barzinjah, which is now in Iraq. He proclaimed himself King of an independent Kurdish state and took over the city and area of Sulaimaniya in 1919 and. He was originally chosen by the British authorities to subdue and supervise the Kurds for them in their newly acquired mandate of Iraq.

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.

Roddy Scott was a British freelance cameraman working for Britain's Frontline television news agency.

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 castle DimDim. He tries to get more independence of his expanding principality in the face of both Ottoman and Safavid penetration into the region. Rebuilding of Dimdim was considered a move toward independence that could threaten Safavid power in the northwest. Many Kurds including the rulers of Mukriyan (Mahabad), rallied around Amir Khan.

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 Kurdish. He was believed to belong to the heterogeneous community of the Kakais. The Kakais have their own language, Macho, which is a dialect of Gurani. The poet's ethnicity and religious beliefs are still a source of controversy, reflecting the ethnic nature of Kirkuk city.

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 considered the Hamrin Mountain Range as a natural border of Kurdistan. His approach towards this sensitive issue concerning the border created controversy about the ethnicity of Kirkuk city. Kirkuk is a multiethnic city in Iraq. The ethnic identity of the city has been disputed among Kurds, Turkmen, Arabs, and Assyrians.

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 Seljuks were engaged in war in the East. They had left Baghdad much to itself. Risings in Iraq at this time were common. One of the rising was led by the famous but unscrupulous general Dubeis. After plundering Basra, he joined the Crusaders in their attempt upon Aleppo, …

Cecil J. Edmonds was a British political officer who served with the British Expeditionary Forces in Mesopotamia and western Persia, and later in the civil administration of Iraq. From 1935 to 1945 he was adviser to the Ministry of Interior in Iraq. Edmonds recorded down his observations and experiences as a political officer in Iraqi Kurdistan between 1920 and 1925 in his famous book "Kurds, Turks, and Arabs: Politics, Travel and Research in North-Eastern Iraq, …

Said Pasha Kurd, Kurdish statesman in Ottoman Empire, son of Hussein Pasha and father of Şerif Pasha, was born in Suleimani. After holding various administrative posts he became governor-general of the Archipelago (1881), minister for foreign affairs (1881), ambassador at Berlin (1883) and again foreign minister in 1885. He was afterwards president of the Council of State, an office which he held until his death.

Mufid Mohammad Jawad al-Jazairi was Minister of Culture in the cabinet appointed by the Interim Iraq Governing Council in September 2003 and in the Iraqi Interim Government. A Shia Muslim and member of the Iraqi Communist Party, al-Jazairi was a journalist by profession. He worked for the Arabic desk at Czechoslovak Radio in the 1960s and 1970s and married Czech radio journalist Pavla Jazairiová.

Konstantin von Benckendorff ("Konstantin Khristoforovich Benkendorf", 1785-August 6, 1828) was a Russian general and diplomat. His brother Alexander von Benckendorff (1783-1844) was also a general and statesman, and his sister Dorothea von Lieven was a political force famous at London St. Petersburg, and Paris. Benckendorff was born to a Baltic German family in Reval (now Tallinn, Estonia).

Joy Enamavu is a bilingual journalist from Kerala, South India. He covered the first Gulf War(1990-1991) for the Malayalam language newspaper Mathrubhumi, which is the second largest newspaper in Kerala. Joy Enamavu was the only journalist-an Indian expatriate-who could effectively report the War affairs in details.

Friedrich Edward Schulz was a German professor. Schulz had himself been recording inscriptions and other antiquities for the French government in the Lake Van area, until he was murdered by Kurds in 1829. Professor Edward Schultz was one of the first to obtain original information on Urartu. Later when Shulz was murdered his papers, containing 42 inscriptions found at Van and in its neighborhood, were saved.

Feleknas Uca (born September 17, 1976) is a member of the European Parliament for the left German Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS). She was at one time the world's only Yazidi parliamentarian until the Iraqi legislature was elected in 2005. Feleknas Uca was born in Celle, Lower Saxony, Germany to a Kurdish family. She graduated from Comprehensive School in Celle before taking an apprenticeship as a doctor's assistant, …

Rojhan Beken, is a Turkish musician and singer of Kurdish decent. His family background is from Mardin. He studied in the Trakya University, and established a music band in university. For a number of years, he worked with the Turkish musician "Haluk Levent", and sang several songs in his albums. Rojhan's first Kurdish album was released under the title "Lawo". His second Kurdish album is titled "Evîna Azadî".

Ahmed Arif was a Turkish poet of Kurdish origin. Ahmed Arif has studied philosophy at Ankara University. He has been arrested on political grounds in 1950 and spent time in prison till 1952. Published in various literary journals, his poems were widely read due to their original lyricism and imagery influenced by Anatolian folk cultures.

Leyla Zana (born May 3, 1961), is a former female Turkish politician of Kurdish origin, who was imprisoned for speaking Kurdish in the Turkish Parliament after taking her parliamentary oath and for her political actions which were considered against the unity of Turkey. She was awarded the 1995 Sakharov Prize by the European Parliament, but was unable to collect it until her release in 2004.

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 overthrow by US forces in 2003. He was executed after being found guilty of war crimes at his trial in 2006. He was a member of the revolutionary Ba'ath Party, which espoused secular pan-Arabism, economic modernization, and Arab socialism. Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup that brought the party to long-term power.

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