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This list of Iraqis includes people who were born in Iraq and people who are of Iraqi ancestry, who are significantly notable for their life and/or work.

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جمهورية العراق Republic of Iraq

Academics

Amal Al Khedairy, academic, lecturer and founder and director of the cultural centre "Al Beit Al Iraqi" ("The Iraqi House")

Archaeologists

Artists

Faik Al-Aboudi, painter
Jananne Al-Ani, artist
Layla Al-Attar, painter
Taha Al Douri, artist
Mahmoud Alibadi, Iraqi-Danish artist
Rassim al-Jumaili
Omran Al-Kaysi, artist and historian
Shatha al-Rawi, artist & designer
Sama Raena Alshaibi, artist
May Alsouz, BA in Fine Arts ,BA in English Language
Jaber Alwan, artist
Hanaa Al-Wardi, Iraqi American artist
Khalil al-Zahawi, calligrapher
Apo Avedissian, Director - Photographer (Iraqi-Armenian)
Halla Ayla, Iraqi-American artist
Gabriel Cohen, artist
Dr Princess Nisreen El-Hashemite, painter
Maysaloun Faraj, artist
Raad Ghantous, interior designer
Tamara Abdul Hadi, photojournalist
Hayv Kahraman, Iraqi-American artist
Mosh Kashi, artist
Farouk Kaspaules, Iraqi-born Canadian artist
Toba Khedoori, artist
Leila Kubba, artist
Nedim Kufi, artist
Hassan Massoudy, calligrapher
Michael Rakowitz, artise based in Chicago (American of Iraqi Jewish descent).
Talal Refit, visual artist, architect, film director and multimedia designer
Faisel Laibi Sahi, artist
Rashad Salim, Iraqi-German artist
Tamara Salman, design director
Yitzhak Yamin - Israeli painter and sculptor. (Born in Iraq of Iraqi Jewish heritage).
Andrea Samarrai-Zietko, painter (half Iraqi)

Architects

Further information: Sumerian architecture and Art and architecture of Assyria

Senan Al-Hilli
Hussam Salman Al-Rawi, former dean of Baghdad University Dr. Hussam Al-Rawi won numerous awards and was known for his martial arts skills (rank 4th dan) just as well as his arcitectural skills.
Hisham N. Ashkouri
Zaha Hadid, won numerous awards including Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture (2007)
Raed Jarrar
Jala Makhzoumi
Yasmin Al-Ani Spence, Iraqi-American architect and photographer

Fashion designers

Reem Alasadi, Iraqi-born British fashion designer
Bassem Al Cheikh Jawad
Dr Sanan al-hilli
Salim al-Shimiri
Miliana Al-Talibi, fashion designer (Iraqi father/Belarusian mother).
Boaz David fashion designer, (Born in Israel to Iraqi immigrant parents)
May Joseph Ramou
Hana Sadiq
Amir Slama, fashion designer, stylist and owner of the most famous beach fashion brand Rosa Chá in Brazil.
Essam Zaki, fashion designer
Zeena Zaki, fashion designer

Business people and entrepreneurs

Nadhmi Auchi, Iraqi-born businessman. He is the founder and chairman of General Mediterranean Holding (GMH), a conglomerate of 120 companies worldwide. In the Sunday Times Rich List 2008 ranking of the wealthiest people in the UK he was placed 27th with an estimated fortune of £2,150 million.
Nemir Kirdar, Iraqi-born businessman (President and CEO of Investcorp)
Khalid Muhmood, director of Apollo Education and Training
Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi co-founder and chairman of Arab Media Watch
Samuel Nalo, businessman, hijacker, and burglar
Ezra Zilkha, Iraqi born businessman (president of Zilkha & Sons)
Selim Zilkha is an entrepreneur who founded Mothercare, one of the United Kingdom's largest retail chains.
Awn Al Khashlok, Iraqi businessman, founder and president of Al Baghdadia TV station

Business people and entrepreneurs of Iraqi descent

Shai Agassi, Founder and Chairman of Better Place
Kevin Azzouz - Orlando-area developer (Iraqi father and American mother)
Zadik Bino - Israeli businessman of Iraqi Jewish descent. He was ranked Israel's 24th richest man in 2006 by Forbes.
Bahaa Hariri - businessman. Son of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and an Iraqi mother (Nidal Al-Bustani).
Samuel Hayek - Israeli millionaire real-estate tycoon of Iraqi Jewish descent.
Bashar Issa - British businessman/property developer
Badr Jafar, business executive and entrepreneur based in the United Arab Emirates
Patricia Kluge, businesswoman (Kluge Estates)
Serra Kirdar-Meliti, founder and director of the Muthabara Foundation (daughter of Nemir Kirdar).
Victor Nacif - businessman and current Vice President of Design Business Aspects for Nissan Design America. He is of Mexican, Lebanese and Iraqi ancestry.
Ghadir Razuki - British multi-millionaire of Iraqi parents. Founder of TNT Magazine Group, the largest publishers of free magazines in the world, with magazine and media interests in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
Pnina Rosenblum - is an Israeli businesswoman, model and media personality, who has also been involved in politics.
Joseph Aslan Seroussi, Canadian businessman (Born in Sudan to an Iraqi mother and Spanish father - moved to Canada in 1964)
Karen El Zein, consultant and programme specialist at the eGovernment Authority in Bahrain.

Caliphs

Main article: List of caliphs Further information: Abbasid

Comedians

Remy Munasifi, also known as GoRemy

Educators

Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi
Nadje Sadig Al-Ali, educator and writer
Dr. Saad Al-Harran, Micro-finance professor
Sami Ramadani, senior lecturer in sociology at London Metropolitan University

Engineers and scientists

Further information: List of Muslim & Christian scientists, Babylonian mathematics, and Babylonian astronomy

'Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk
Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi
Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi
Dr Aotan Al-Hilli
Lihadh Al Ghazali, scientist
Keldo Gliana, Network engineer (CCNP, MCSE, ITILv3)
Al-Abbās ibn Said al-Jawharī
Al-Jazari
Al-Kindi (Alkindus)
Ahmed ibn Yusuf, mathematician
Berossus
Brethren of Purity (Ikhwan al-Safa')
Diophantus
Hunayn ibn Ishaq, scientist and physician
Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen/Alhazen)
Ibn Sahl
Ibn Tahir al-Baghdadi
Kidinnu
Naburimannu
Seleucus of Seleucia
Sudines
Teukros
Thābit ibn Qurra (Thebit)
- Sinan ibn Thabit
- Ibrahim ibn Sinan

Film actors and directors

Ban Abdul, actress and dancer
Kasim Abid, London-based cameraman and director of Iraqi origin
Mohamed Al-Daradji
Yossi Alfi, Iraqi Jewish actor (Born in Basra).
Nazem Al-Ghazali, actor/singer
Koutaiba Al Janabi
Bashir Al Majid, Iraqi actor in Ahlaam.
Nahida Al Rammah, actress
Awatif al Salman, actress
Jawad Al Shakarchi, actor
Jawad Assadi, director and playwright
Namaa Alward, actress
Naguib el-Rihani, actor
Abbas Fahdel, director of Dawn of the World
Urban Hamid, film director
Omar Hashim, sound-designer and film maker
Tariq Hashim
Ibrahim Jalal, actor
Sophia Jawad, actress and model based in the United Arab Emirates
Hind Kamel, famous actress
Fakhriya Abdel Karim, actress/activist/communist
Saaed Khalifa, actor
Farid Majari, film maker
Dina Mousawi - actress
Lauren Nadada, actress
Awatif Naim, actress
Maysoon Pachachi, director of Return to the Land of Wonders
Maysalun Qamar, actress
Basam Ridha, actor
Rijin Sahakian, Iraqi producer/director
Shath Salem, actress
Hiner Saleem, film director
Saad Salman, film director known for his documentary Baghdad On/Off
Baz Shamoun, film director and maker of short documentary Where is Iraq?
Majid Shokor, actor
Amal Yassin, actress
Samir Ibrahim Zedan
Ali Al-Rumaih, Director, DP, Editor

Film actors and directors of Iraqi descent

Layth Abdulamir
Antonio Albadran, Iraqi-American actor born in Basra.
Hana Al Bayaty, filmmaker and journalist
Anja Al-Erhayem, filmmaker (Iraqi father/Danish mother)
Dina Al-Erhayem, actress (sister of Anja Al-Erhayem)
Ja'far 'Abd Al-Hamid, Iraqi-British filmmaker of "Mesocafe".
Fajer Al-Kaisi, Iraqi-Canadian actor, now resides in the States.
Sarmed al-Samarrai, actor starred in the Universal Pictures film United 93
Usama Alshaibi, director of Muhammad and Jane and Nice Bombs
Amer Alwan, film director known for winning an award for Zaman, The Man From The Reeds
Joe Balass, film maker
Claudia Basrawi, German actress and writer (German mother and Iraqi father)
Carole Basri, filmmaker
Zana Briski, director of Born into Brothels
Jasmine Callan, actress
Selma Chalabi, film maker
Tamara Dhia, Iraqi-American actress
Brian George - British-Israeli actor, most famous role is as Pakistani restaurateur Babu Bhatt on Seinfeld. (Born to Baghdadi Jewish parents).
Shosha Goren, actress and comedian
Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez, film director (Iraqi father and Chilean mother)
Yasmine Hanani - American actress featured in documentary films Voices of Iraq and My Country, My Country
Don Hany, actor (Won Best Actor for Winning the Peace (2005)
Parine Jaddo, Iraqi-American filmmaker of Rasta's Paradise
Nicholas Kadi, actor
Nadia Kamil, actor, comedian and writer (Iraqi father/Welsh mother, born in Swansea, South Wales)
Sarab Kamoo, actress starred in Super Sucker as Tamara Thompson and alongside Heather Raffo in 9 Parts of Desire
Chris Kattan - American comedian and actor, best known for his work on the sketch show Saturday Night Live. (Born to an Iraqi Jewish father and Hungarian Buddhist mother).
Charlotte Lewis, actress most notable for her lead female role in The Golden Child alongside Eddie Murphy
Anisa Mehdi - Emmy Award winning film director, journalist and director of Inside Mecca
Safia Monney, actress
Yigal Naor, actor
Lorca Peress, director and producer of Off Off Broadway plays (Born to a Puerto Rican mother and an Iraqi and Polish Jewish father)
Rashed Radwan, Spanish film director
Heather Raffo, Award winning playwright/actress most known for her role in 9 Parts of Desire
Ammar Ramzi, Iraqi-American actor
Haider Rashid, director, producer and writer (Iraqi father and Italian mother)
Shero Rauf, actor and a stuntman in the film Troy (film) alongside Brad Pitt
Yael Reuveny, film director
Liat Ron, actress and dancer
Mohamed Said (actor), Swedish actor
Osamah Sami, actor
Ashley Sawdaye, actor (Iraqi Jewish father and French/Israeli mother)
Alia Shawkat - American actress known as Maeby Funke on Arrested Development
Zina Zaflow, actress
Carlo Harootyun, director and actor (Iraqi Armenian)

Journalists

Fadhil Al Azzawi, writer, journalist and translator
Zuhair Al-Jezairy, journalist
Atwar Bahjat, journalist and reporter murdered in Iraq
Rauf Hassan, journalist and writer
Bilal Hussein, photojournalist
Meitham, journalist
Salam Pax blogger, translator and journalist
Taher Thabet, journalist

Journalists of Iraqi descent

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad - British-Iraqi journalist (born in Baghdad), has written for The Guardian and Washington Post, as well as other media outlets.
Firas Al-Atraqchi, Canadian journalist/writer
Hana Al Bayaty film maker and journalist
Leila Barclay, American journalist and storyteller
Hassan Fattah - American-born journalist and reporter for the New York Times.
Dunja Hayali - German journalist and TV presenter Misplaced Pages page in German
Salam Karam - Swedish journalist, has reported for the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet and in the radio program Godmorgon, världen!.
Farah Nosh, photojournalist
Michelle Nouri - journalist and writer, her publications include "La ragazza di Baghdad" ("The girl in Baghdad").
Daniel Pearl - (1963–2002), was an American journalist who was kidnapped and murdered in Karachi, Pakistan. (Born to an Iraqi Jewish mother).

Military figures

Salahddine alayyobi.

Husein al jalily, the greatst leeder Abdul karim Qasim Ashur-nasir-pal II

Modern military figures

Salah al-Din al-Sabbagh, (1889–1945) Iraqi Army officer

Misc

Dahlena, bellydancer
Dan Halutz, Israeli air force general
Moshe Levi, (1936 – January 8, 2008), was the 12th Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces. He was the first Chief of Staff of Mizrahi (Iraqi) origin.
Amira Mor, bellydancer
Yitzhak Mordechai, was as an Israeli general, and later Minister of Defense and Minister of Transport.
Muayyed Nureddin, geologist
Ibn Rajab, scholar
Kaysar Ridha
Fairuz Yamulky
Guri Alfi, comedian (son of Yossi Alfi)
Duha Asker, actor and photographer</ref>
Zahra Alkabi, director and founder of Save Refugees

Models

Thalia Amer Al Jawhar, model and Miss Earth New Zealand contestant 2010
Nadya Castellas, fitness model
Anais Catala
Klodia Hanna, model and singer
Pavla Drabkova
Amy Fadhli, fitness model, actress and winner of the "Fitness America National Champion 1996" (Iraqi father and Czech mother)
Somy Ali, former Bollywood actress and now model and journalist (Iraqi mother and Pakistani father)
Viola Haqi, Dutch-Iraqi model

Monarchs

Main article: List of Kings of Iraq

Musicians

Main article: Music of Iraq

Rida Al Abdullah
Alfred George Al-Babilly
Nazem Al-Ghazali
Rahim AlHaj
Hatim Al-Iraqi, Iraqi singer
Karim Al-Iraqi, poet and musician
Basim al-karbalaie
Hussam Al-Rassam
Kathem Al Saher, one of the most successful Arab singers in the Arab world
Acrassicauda, Iraq's only heavy metal band
Jamil Bachir
Munir Bashir
Dalli, singer
Ahmed El Faleh
Raed George
Filfel Gourgy, singer
Seta Hagopian, famous Iraqi Armenian singer
Klodia Hanna - singer and model
Shatha Hassoun winner of Star Academy 4
Simor Jalal
Bashar Lulua, orchestra conductor
Bassam Abdul Mehdi - winner of Iraq Star 3
Rahma Mezher came 2nd in Najm Al Khaleej
Majid Al Muhandis
Ahmed Mukhtar
Niz-r, rapper
Beatrice Ohanessian - (1927–2008) was an Iraqi pianist, notable for being Iraq's first concert pianist and first female composer. (Born in Baghdad, Armenian ethnicity).
Salima Pasha - (?-1974), was a well known Iraqi Jewish singer and was dubbed as the most famous female singer, since the early 1930s. She married fellow Iraqi singer and actor Nazem Al-Ghazali.
Ehab Salem, Iraqi pop singer
Janan Sawa
Naseer Shamma
Nawfal Shamoun
Salman Shukur
Sahar Taha, singer and artist
Unknown to No One, boyband
Waed
Randa Yaqoub, Iraqi singer, also contestant on Najm Al Khaleej 2010.
Haitham Yousif, popular Iraqi singer
Mansour Zalzal
Ziryab
Ashur Bet Sargis - Assyrian singer

Musicians of Iraqi descent

Aïwa, Iraqi-French band founded by Iraqi brothers Wamid and Naufalle Al Wahab
Hanan Alattar - American Soprano opera singer
Laith Alattar, Iraqi American musician
Laith Al-Deen, German pop musician
Sari Alfi, actress and singer
Farida Mohammad Ali, singer
Nora Foss al-Jabri, Norwegian child singer
Saleh and Daoud Al-Kuwaity
Fabian Alsultany, DJ
Oren Ambarchi - Australian electronic guitarist and drummer. Is of Iraqi (Sephardi Jewish) heritage.
Inbar Bakal - Israeli singer/songwriter of mixed Iraqi and Yemeni descent.
Bruno Coulais, composer
Mike Crush, Iraqi-German musician
Dganit Daddo, Israeli singer born to an Iraqi Jewish family
Yair Dalal
Amir ElSaffar
Dena El Saffar sister of Amir El Saffar
Rami Fortis - Israeli rock singer (Iraqi/Italian ancestry)
Linda George
Natalya Ginaty, Natalya "Nazima" Ginaty, Israeli singer/songwriter/actress (Iraqi father)
Juliana Jendo
Chemda Khalili, singer/songwriter and co-host of the Keith and The Girl podcast
Lowkey, British-Iraqi rapper
Sara Manasseh, singer, doctor, performer (Iraqi Jew born in Bombay, India).
The Narcicyst, Iraqi-Canadian rapper
Aida Nadeem, Iraqi-Danish musician
Karim Othman-Hassan, oudist
Esma Redžepova, Romani Macedonian vocalist, songwriter, and humanitarian. Her grandfather was an Iraqi Jew.
Denise Roxenhamn, Swedish bassist for band, The Laundry Shop (half Swedish and half Iraqi)
Shlomo, human beatbox and member of UK-hip hop act, Foreign Beggars
TIMZ Iraqi-American rapper
Elliott Yamin

Patriarchs

Main article: List of Patriarchs of the Church of the East

Physicians & surgeons

Firas Nadhim Azeez Albadran
Ala Bashir
Esagil-kin-apli
Anwer N. Hafedh
Ibn Hubal
Hunayn ibn Ishaq(Hunayn bar Ishaq)
Al-Kindi
Ali ibn Abbas al-Majusi
Mohammed Rifaat Mohammed
Mohammed A.F. Al-Rawi
Imad Sarsam
Sinan ibn Thabit
Yuhanna Ibn Masawaih(Yuhanna Bit Msawaih)

Politicians

Politicians of Iraqi descent

Anood Al-Samerai - British Southwark councillor for the Liberal Democrats. (Born to an Iraqi father and British mother).
Binyamin Ben-Eliezer - is an Israeli politician and former soldier. He was the first Iraqi Jew to lead the Israeli Labour party.
José Murat Casab - (born to Iraqi immigrants) Mexican politician and a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party also former Governor of Oaxaca.
Ra'anan Cohen - former Israeli politician who served as a government minister during the early 2000s.
Ran Cohen - Israeli politician and Knesset member for Meretz-Yachad. (Born in Baghdad to Iraqi parents)
Saad Hariri - Lebanese Legislator (2005-), son of Rafik Hariri and an Iraqi mother.
Dalia Itzik - is an Israeli politician affiliated with the Kadima party. She took office as the first female speaker of the Knesset on 4 May 2006.
David Saul Marshall - was the leader of the Singapore Labour Front and became the first Chief Minister of Singapore in 1955. He was born into an Orthodox Jewish family of Iraqi ancestry in Singapore.
Eliyahu Navi - Mayor of Beersheba, Israel. (Born in Basra).
Ebrahim Daoud Nonoo - former member of the National Assembly of Bahrain and currently the CEO of the Basma.
- Houda Nonoo - politician and current Bahraini Ambassador to the United States. She is of Iraqi Jewish origin.

Religious figures

Abo of Tiflis
Muhsin al-Hakim
Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr
Basile Georges Casmoussa
Mordechai Eliyahu - former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel
Yitzchak Kaduri - was a renowned Mizrahi Orthodox Haredi rabbi and kabbalist
Yitzhak Nissim - (1896–1981), former Sephardic Chief rabbi of Israel
Ovadia Yosef - He is the former Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel and the current spiritual leader of the Shas political party in the Knesset (Israel's parliament).
Mar Dinkha IV - The current Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East.

Sports personalities

Bassim Abbas, footballer
Haidar Abdul-Razzaq, footballer
Haidar Aboodi, footballer
Nashat Akram, footballer
Yosef Mustafa, footballer
Najah Ali, Iraqi boxer who qualified for the 2004 Olympics in Athens
Adnan Al-Kaissie, professional wrestler
Abdul Wahid Aziz, Iraqi weightlifter, who won a bronze medal in the lightweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Ammo Baba, former Iraqi international football player and coach of the Iraq national football team.
Youra Eshaya, footballer
Faisal Faisal, footballer
Ghanim Ghudayer, footballer
Basil Gorgis, footballer
Jassim Muhammad Haji, footballer
Falah Hassan, footballer
Louay Salah Hassan, footballer
Khaldoun Ibrahim, footballer
Salih Jaber, footballer
Abbas Obeid Jassim, footballer
Ihab Kareem, footballer
Mahdi Karim, footballer
Younis Mahmoud, Iraqi football striker and captain of the Iraq national football team. In 2007 he captained the Iraq football team to the Asian Cup glory. He currently plays for Al-Gharafa Sports Club in Qatar.
Ahmad Mnajed, Iraqi national soccer team player, who plays for Al-Ansar in Lebanon.
Emad Mohammed, footballer
Karrar Jassim Mohammed, footballer
Hawar Mulla Mohammed, Iraqi footballer who is known to be one of the best players in Iraqi national team. He currently plays for Anorthosis FC in Cyprus.
Sarhang Muhsin, footballer
Samal Saeed Mujbel, footballer
Qusay Munir, Iraqi national soccer team player, who is a midfielder for Qatar SC in Qatar.
Mohammad Nasser, Iraqi national soccer team player. Plays for Esteghlal Ahvaz in Iran.
Yassir Raad, footballer
Ahmed Radhi, footballer
Ali Rehema, footballer
Noor Sabri, footballer
Saleh Sader, footballer
Hussein Saeed, footballer
Kadhem Sharif, Iraqi world-class wrestler and weightlifter
Abdul-Razzaq Ahmed Taha, was an Iraqi chess player and former president of Iraqi Chess Federation.
Thamer Yousif, footballer

Sports personalities of Iraqi descent

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Faris Al-Sultan's victory at the Ironman Triathlon World Championship.

Moshe Agami - former Israeli professional soccer player who is best known for his time with Maccabi Haifa F.C..
Riyadh Al-Azzawi - Iraqi-British kickboxer and the 2008 World Kickboxing Network World Champion.
Rabeh Al-Hussaini - Iraqi-Filipino basketball player for Ateneo Blue Eagles.
Faris Al-Sultan - German professional triathlete and winner of the 2005 Ironman Triathlon. Born in Munich to a German mother and Iraqi father.
Avram Grant - former football manager of Chelsea F.C.. His mother is an Iraqi Jew.
Colo Halit - Swedish football player (born in Iraq), who plays for IK Brage in Sweden.
Shwan Jalal - Iraqi-English football goalkeeper who plays for Bournemouth F.C.. He was also former goalkeeper at Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, during 2002-2004.
Seif Kadhim - Iraqi-Swedish footballer, who plays as midfielder position for Swedish football club Örgryte IS based in Gothenburg, in Sweden.
Bovar Karim - Iraqi-Swedish footballer who currently plays for Tromsø I.L. in Norwegian Premier League.
Malik Hassan Karim - French citizen who played for OC Agaza in Togo during 2005-2006. He had also played in the lower divisions in France, Bulgaria, and Portugal, and for first division clubs in Iraq and Lebanon.
Alan Omer - German mixed martial artist of Iraqi descent.
Zia Shawel - first coach of the Assyrian Sports Club in Baghdad, he then played for Eintracht Frankfurt amauters for a season in 1961-62 in Frankfurt, West Germany, before coaching a local amateur team called Kelsterbach for 5 years.
Mohammed Yussuf - Mexican footballer who plays Midfielder for Juventus (Belize) in the Belizean Top Division.
Karo Murat - World Rated Boxer of Armenian Iraqi Origin

Television and radio personalities

Rosil Al Azawi, television presenter
Jasim Al-Azzawi, Iraqi host, who presents the show Inside Iraq on Al Jazeera English.
Haifa Al Husseini, television presenter and anchorwoman
Werd Alnajm, television presenter
Suhair al-Qaisi, television presenter
Laila Al Shaikhli, television presenter on Al Jazeera English
Alia Al Shammari, television presenter on Dubai TV
Rola Bahnam, television presenter and former member of the Lebanese girl band The 4 Cats
Ali Jaafar, (? - May 31, 2006), was a sports anchorman for Iraqi state television Al Iraqiya.
Sahar Abbas Jamil, television presenter
Hind Khaled, television presenter for Al Sharqiya TV.
Dalia Taha - television presenter and personality for the programme "Pure" aired in Al Sumaria TV.
Rana Jafer Yasin, poet and television presenter
Shaima Zubeir, television presenter
Sufian Samarrai- News Anchor

Television and radio personalities of Iraqi descent

Kenza Braiga French TV reality show star of Iraqi origin.
Péri Cochin, television host (French of Lebanese/Iraqi ancestry)
Eli Yatzpan - Israeli television host and comedian

Writers & poets

Hussain Mohammed Al-Amily, author
Daisy Al-Amir, writer
Shalash al-Iraqi, writer and blogger
Walid al-Kubaisi, writer
Nazik Al-Malaika, poet
Wafaa' Al-Natheema, poet, writer, translator and independent researcher
Thura Al Windawi, author
Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi, poet and philosopher
Maria Theresa Asmar, author
Al-Hariri of Basra - was an Iraqi poet, scholar of the Arabic language and a high government official of the Seljuk Empire.
Hafsa Bikri, poet
Joseph Braude, author
Judith Fathallah, author
Naeim Giladi - is an Anti-Zionist, and author of an autobiographical article and historical analysis entitled The Jews of Iraq. The article later formed the basis for his originally self-published book Ben Gurion's Scandals: How the Haganah and the Mossad Eliminated Jews.
Yasmeen Hanoosh, writer and translator of Iraqi novel "Scattered Crumbs" by Muhsin al-Ramli. (Born in Basra in 1978, lived in Baghdad until 1995).
Hatif Janabi, poet and writer
Jamal Jumá, poet and researcher
Loolwa Khazzoom, editor and writer
Betool Khedairi, author
Moshe Levy, author
Alia Mamdouh, author
Dunya Mikhail, poet
Abu Nuwas - (750–810) Born in Ahvaz, of Arab and Persian descent. He was one of the greatest of classical Arabic and Persian poets.
David Rabeeya - (born 1938) is an author and professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies.
Mahmoud Saeed, Iraqi novelist
Victor Sasson, writer
Rena Kirdar Sindi, author and party hostess (born in Baghdad).
Reuven Snir, writer
Haifa Zangana, novelist, author and artist
Jalal Dabag
Dahlia Riad- Poet, Translator, Arabic instructor. Noted for her poetry collection "10,000 Blinks" which one first place in the Diwan al Sharq al Gharb poetry contest in 2007.

Writers & poets of Iraqi descent

Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen - Iraqi Australian poet
Suzanne Alaywan, poet and painting artist (Born in Beirut to a Lebanese father and Iraqi mother)
Lorraine Ali - American reporter, editor, culture writer and music critic for Newsweek.
Khalid al-Maaly - German-Iraqi writer, poet and publisher
Alise Alousi, Iraqi-American poet
Evelyn Alsultany, American writer (Iraqi/Cuban descent)
Eli Amir, Israeli writer and activist
Alon Ben-Meir, professor, writer and is the Middle East Project director at the World Policy Institute
Ari Ben-Menashe - Israeli author of Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network
Saul Fathi - Iraqi-born American Jewish author of stories on the plight of Sephardic Jews in Iraq.
Amira Hess - Israeli poet and artist
Julie Iny, author and activist
Raed Jarrar, writer, architect and human rights activist
Naïm Kattan - Canadian novelist, essayist and critic.
Achmed Khammas - German writer (Iraqi/German heritage)
Sam Kubba, author, businessman
Jack Marshall (author), poet and author
M.T. Mehdi - (1928–1999) Iraqi-American writer and pro-Palestinian activist.
Sami Michael - Israeli author and the president of The Association for Civil Rights in Israel.
Abdul Rahman Munif - (1933–2004) He was one of the most important Arabic novelists of the 20th century. Born in Amman to an Iraqi mother and Saudi father.
Leilah Nadir, novelist and writer
Michelle Nouri - writer, her publications include "La ragazza di Baghdad" ("The girl in Baghdad").
Greg Patent, author (Born in Hong Kong to a Russian father and Iraqi mother)
Zainab Salbi, writer, activist, co-founder and president of Women for Women International.
Rachel Shabi, author and contributing writer to The Guardian.
Ella Shohat, writer and activist
Ronny Someck - Israeli poet
Rachel Wahba, writer
Abraham Yahuda - (1877–1951) Jewish writer, teacher and linguist. (Born in Jerusalem to a Jewish family originally from Baghdad).

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