33.3500° N, 44.4167° E — 657 FAMOUS PEOPLE
BAGHDAD
Most Famous People Born in Baghdad, Iraq
A comprehensive ledger of notable people across arts, science, politics, sport, and public life.
Zaha Hadid
1950 - 2016
Al-Ma'mun
786 - 833
Ahmad ibn Hanbal
780 - 855
Ahmad ibn Fadlan
877 - 960
Abd al-Karim Qasim
1914 - 1963
Faisal II of Iraq
1935 - 1958
Al-Masudi
896 - 956
Jim Al-Khalili
Born 1962
Ovadia Yosef
1920 - 2013
Ahmad ibn Tulun
835 - 884
Abdul Salam Arif
1921 - 1966
Ibn al-Jawzi
1116 - 1200
Charles Saatchi
Born 1943
Junayd of Baghdad
830 - 910
Qusay Hussein
1966 - 2003
Nazik Al-Malaika
1922 - 2007
Nuri al-Said
1888 - 1958
Al-Amin
787 - 813
Al-Baladhuri
806 - 892
Al-Mahdi
744 - 785
Ya'qubi
Died 897
Ali Adnan Kadhim
Born 1993
Abdul Rahman Arif
1916 - 2007
Al-Mu'tasim
794 - 842
Ibn al-Nadim
Died 995
Sasson Gabai
Born 1947
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani
1892 - 1965
Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi
1162 - 1231
Mahmud Shevket Pasha
1856 - 1913
Dar Salim
Born 1977
Ahmet Haşim
1884 - 1933
Avi Shlaim
Born 1945
Al-Nasir
1158 - 1225
Al-Muqtadir
895 - 932
Al-Sharif al-Radi
970 - 1015
Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid
948 - 1022
Haider al-Abadi
Born 1952
Ahmed Yasin Ghani
Born 1991
Abd al-Rahman al-Bazzaz
1913 - 1973
Yitzhak Kaduri
1898 - 2006
Ibn al-Rumi
836 - 896
David Sassoon
1792 - 1864
Jafar al-Askari
1887 - 1936
Faisal Husseini
1940 - 2001
Al-Samawal al-Maghribi
1130 - 1180
Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi
980 - 1037
Ibn Rajab
1335 - 1393
Al-Muktafi
875 - 908
Madan Mohan (composer)
1924 - 1975
Latif Yahia
1964 - 2002
Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi
1863 - 1936
Maurice Saatchi, Baron Saatchi
Born 1946
Adnan Pachachi
1923 - 2019
Ibrahim ibn Sinan
908 - 946
Ibn Butlan
1001 - 1066
Bassim Abbas
Born 1982
Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bayati
1926 - 1999
Ara Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham
Born 1960
Yahya ibn Ma'in
775 - 848
Al-Muqtafi
1096 - 1160
Sami Michael
Born 1926
Abd al-Karīm al-Jīlī
1366 - 1424
Ayad Allawi
Born 1945
Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi
1002 - 1071
Ishaq ibn Hunayn
830 - 910
Ibn Muqla
886 - 940
Nadira (actress)
1932 - 2006
Yosef Hayyim
1835 - 1909
Noor Sabri
Born 1984
Abbas Khider
Born 1973
Ibn al-Bawwab
961 - 1022
Zainab Salbi
Born 1969
Alaa Abdul-Zahra
Born 1987
Humam Tariq
Born 1996
Ibn Aqil
1040 - 1119
Hussein Saeed
Born 1958
Adil Abdul-Mahdi
Born 1942
Ahmed Radhi
1964 - 2020
Eli Amir
Born 1937
Shlomo Hillel
Born 1923
Yasin al-Hashimi
1882 - 1937
Ali Abbas (footballer)
Born 1986
Abdul-Wahab Abu Al-Hail
Born 1975
Sharif al-Murtaza
966 - 1044
Ammo Baba
1934 - 2009
Al-Daraqutni
918 - 995
Qudama ibn Ja'far
873 - 948
Saad Abdul-Amir
Born 1992
Samir (filmmaker)
Born 1955
Al-Mustadi
1142 - 1180
Naïm Kattan
Born 1928
Mohannad Abdul-Raheem
Born 1993
Mahmud al-Alusi
1802 - 1854
Ya'qub ibn Killis
930 - 990
Elie Kedourie
1926 - 1992
Ahmad ibn Yusuf
835 - 912
Ibn Kammuna
1215 - 1284
Salam Shaker
Born 1986
Hassan Blasim
Born 1973
Salam Pax
Born 1974
Raad Hammoudi
Born 1953
Nadhim Zahawi
Born 1967
Al-Qa'im (caliph)
1001 - 1075
Haidar Abdul-Razzaq
Born 1982
Ronny Someck
Born 1951
Al-Qadi Abu Ya'la
990 - 1066
Ja'far ibn Yahya
767 - 803
Ali Faez
Born 1994
Sinan Antoon
Born 1967
Mohammed Gassid
Born 1986
Al-Musta'sim
1213 - 1258
Mahdi Karim
Born 1983
Samir Naqqash
1938 - 2004
Sibt ibn al-Jawzi
1186 - 1256
Abu Mansur Mauhub al-Jawaliqi
1073 - 1144
Ran Cohen
Born 1937
Ibn Abi al-Dunya
823 - 894
Razzaq Farhan
Born 1977
Adnan Al-Kaissie
Born 1939
Ibn al-Tilmidh
1073 - 1165
Tawfiq al-Suwaidi
1892 - 1968
Mahdi Kamel
Born 1995
Shapur ibn Sahl
Died 869
Gillian Clark (badminton)
Born 1961
Al-Qadir
947 - 1031
Marwan Hussein
Born 1992
Saad Natiq
Born 1994
Silas Aaron Hardoon
1851 - 1931
Haidar Abdul-Amir
Born 1982
Ali Allawi
Born 1947
Dunya Mikhail
Born 1965
Ahmad Mukhtar Baban
1900 - 1976
Abo of Tiflis
756 - 786
Mahmud Nedim Pasha
1818 - 1883
Tara Fares
1996 - 2018
Charles Berberian
Born 1959
Alaa Ali Mhawi
Born 1996
Taha al-Hashimi
1888 - 1961
Yusuf Salman Yusuf
1901 - 1949
Saint Nuri
840 - 907
Sinan ibn Thabit
880 - 943
Hüseyin Numan Menemencioğlu
1893 - 1958
Amal al-Jubouri
Born 1967
Abu Sulayman Sijistani
932 - 1000
Ibn Jazla
Died 1100
Kenza Braiga
Born 1976
Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq
Died 796
Bashar Resan
Born 1996
Shwan Jalal
Born 1983
Inaam Kachachi
Born 1952
Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid
882 - 946
Mohammed Ali Karim
Born 1986
Jafar Salmasi
1918 - 2000
Tariq al-Hashimi
Born 1942
Albert Sassoon
1818 - 1896
Adnan Dirjal
Born 1960
Ibn Al-Anbâri
1119 - 1181
Luay Salah
Born 1982
William Watson (chess player)
Born 1962
Safa Khulusi
1917 - 1995
Al-Qahir
899 - 950
Ar-Radi
909 - 940
Sarane Alexandrian
1927 - 2009
Al-Muttaqi
908 - 968
Natik Hashim
1960 - 2004
Muzahim al-Pachachi
1890 - 1982
Randa Markos
Born 1985
Sasson Somekh
1933 - 2019
Samir Shaker
Born 1958
Zana Allée
Born 1994
Az-Zahir (Abbasid caliph)
1176 - 1226
Ahmed Saadawi
Born 1973
Al-Muqtadi
1056 - 1094
Khâlid-i Baghdâdî
1779 - 1826
Abu 'Ali al-Khayyat
770 - 844
Selim Matar
Born 1956
Ar-Rashid (1109–1138)
1109 - 1138
Thoraya Obaid
Born 1945
Ilham al-Madfai
Born 1942
Alia Mamdouh
Born 1944
Al-Hasan ibn 'Ali al-Barbahari
867 - 940
Mustafa Karim
Born 1987
Nadhum Shaker
1958 - 2020
Ra'anan Cohen
Born 1941
Rifat Chadirji
1926 - 2020
Salah Al-Hamdani
Born 1951
Hikmat Sulayman
1889 - 1964
Mohamed Al-Daradji
Born 1978
Dana Hussain
Born 1986
Moshe Shahal
Born 1934
Samira Shahbandar
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Grigor Gurzadyan
1922 - 2014
Yaakov Chaim Sofer
1870 - 1939
Abdelhamid Sharaf
1939 - 1980
Saif Salman
Born 1993
Bashar Warda
Born 1969
Susanne Ayoub
Born 1956
Solomon ben Jeroham
Born 900
Hasan Rıza Pasha
1871 - 1913
Shmuel Moreh
1932 - 2017
Walid al-Kubaisi
1958 - 2018
Radhi Shenaishil
Born 1966
Ahmad Ali Jaber
Born 1982
Victor Franco
1930 - 2018
Yitzhak Nissim
1896 - 1981
Ahmed Kelly
Born 1991
Alon Ben-Meir
Born 1937
Nuha al-Radi
1941 - 2004
Mohammed Dawood Yaseen
Born 2000
Moshe Barazani
1926 - 1947
Mordechai Ben-Porat
Born 1923
Jamal Jumá
Born 1956
Anastas Al-Karmali
1866 - 1947
Muayad Khalid
Born 1985
Selma Al-Radi
1939 - 2010
Mohanad Ali
Born 2000
Rahim AlHaj
Born 1968
Basil Al Bayati
Born 1946
Nazem al-Ghazali
1921 - 1963
Muntadhar al-Zaidi
Born 1979
Linda George (Assyrian singer)
Born 1960
Moshe Carmeli
1933 - 2007
Naziha al-Dulaimi
1923 - 2007
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
Born 1975
Hayv Kahraman
Born 1981
Emad Hashim
Born 1969
Wijdan Ali
Born 1939
Betool Khedairi
Born 1965
Muzaffar Al-Nawab
Born 1934
Abu Azrael
Born 1970
Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i
1904 - 1965
Zainab Bahrani
Born 1962
Mar Sarhad Yawsip Jammo
Born 1941
Robin Ghosh
1937 - 2016
Al-Mustarshid
1092 - 1135
Al-Mustansir (Baghdad)
1192 - 1242
Modhir Ahmed
Born 1956
Abdul Razzak Abdul Wahid
1930 - 2015
Al-Mustazhir
1078 - 1118
Al-Mustakfi
905 - 949
Raghad Hussein
Born 1968
Al-Mustanjid
1124 - 1170
Omar Borkan Al Gala
Born 1990
At-Ta'i
932 - 1003
Elias David Sassoon
1820 - 1880
Kanan Makiya
Born 1949
Zubaidah bint Ja`far
766 - 831
Solhi al-Wadi
1934 - 2007
Abū l-Hudhail
752 - 840
Ali Bader
Born 1979
Esabelle Dingizian
Born 1962
Al-Hakim I
1247 - 1302
Bischr ibn al-Muʿtamir
Died 825
Arieh Elias
1921 - 2015
Rana Hussein
Born 1969
Usama Alshaibi
Born 1969
Amjad Radhi
Born 1990
George Ovadiah
1915 - 1996
Abbas Obeid Jassim
Born 1973
Mustafa Hassan
Born 1990
A. A. Duri
1919 - 2010
Olvi L. Mangasarian
1934 - 2020
Layla Al-Attar
1944 - 1993
Nadhmi Auchi
Born 1937
Nadschm ad-Dīn at-Tūfī
1276 - 1316
Yaakov Nimrodi
Born 1926
Sameh Saeed
Born 1992
Sammy Smooha
Born 1941
Arib al-Ma'muniyya
797 - 890
Shalom Cohen (politician)
1926 - 1992
Ahmed Mukhtar
Born 1967
Shaul Mukamel
Born 1948
Mohammed Saleh Makiya
1914 - 2015
Yehuda Fatiyah
1859 - 1942
Ezra Dangoor
1848 - 1930
Salah Aboud Mahmoud
Born 1950
Abdallah Somekh
1813 - 1889
Munir Redfa
1934 - 1998
Hala Hussein
Born 1972
Abu Isa al-Warraq
889 - 994
Sadqa Hussein
1876 - 1961
Laith Hussein
Born 1968
Arif Abd ar-Razzaq
1921 - 2007
Addai II Giwargis
Born 1950
Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash
1953 - 2016
Abdul Qadir Al Rassam
1882 - 1952
Ghani Alani
Born 1937
Hussein Ali Al-Saedi
Born 1996
‘Ulayya bint al-Mahdī
777 - 825
Ghanim Oraibi
Born 1961
Hafs
709 - 796
Mírzá Muhammad `Alí
1852 - 1937
Tara Jaff
Born 1958
Shosha Goren
Born 1943
Farouk Yousif
Born 1955
Ali Salah Hashim
Born 1987
Sassoon Eskell
1860 - 1932
Amira Hess
Born 1943
Hamdi al-Pachachi
1886 - 1948
Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani
Born 1970