33.3509° N, 44.4145° E
BAGHDAD
Most Famous People Born in Baghdad, Iraq
- Notable people
- 689
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- Median birth year
- 1945
- Most distinctive
- Califfo 1590.8×
Standouts
Notable Births by Decade
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What Baghdad Is Known For
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Football is Baghdad's biggest profession — 15% of all notables (106).
Baghdad over-indexes on califfo — 1590.8× the global rate.
Baghdad under-produces actor — only 0.5× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Baghdad's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Filtered to 1920s Clear ×
Ovadia Yosef
1920 - 2013
Abdul Salam Arif
1921 - 1966
Nazik Al-Malaika
1922 - 2007
Mohammed Ghani Hikmat
1929 - 2011
Madan Mohan (composer)
1924 - 1975
Adnan Pachachi
1923 - 2019
Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bayati
1926 - 1999
Sami Michael
Born 1926
Shlomo Hillel
Born 1923
Naïm Kattan
Born 1928
Elie Kedourie
1926 - 1992
Sarane Alexandrian
1927 - 2009
Rifat Chadirji
1926 - 2020
Grigor Gurzadyan
1922 - 2014
Moshe Barazani
1926 - 1947
Mordechai Ben-Porat
Born 1923
Husain al-Radi
1924 - 1963
Nazem al-Ghazali
1921 - 1963
Naziha al-Dulaimi
1923 - 2007
Arieh Elias
1921 - 2015
Yaakov Nimrodi
Born 1926
Shalom Cohen (politician)
1926 - 1992
Arif Abd ar-Razzaq
1921 - 2007
Salih Mahdi Ammash
1924 - 1985
Beatrice Ohanessian
1927 - 2008
Fadhil Chalabi
1929 - 2019
Eliahu I. Jury
Born 1923
Ya'qub Bilbul
1920 - 2003
Waleed Al-Salam
1926 - 1996
Selim Zilkha
Born 1927
'Atika Wahbi al-Khazraji
1924 - 1997
Mordechai Bibi
Born 1922
Paulus Khofri
1923 - 2000
Ismail Mohammed (football coach)
1922 - 2008
Sasson Soffer
1925 - 2009
Jamil Abbas
1927 - 2005
Wadie P. Deddeh
1920 - 2019
Bahija Ahmed Shihab
1922 - 2012
Aram Karam
Born 1926
Nadhim Ramzi
1928 - 2013
Mahmoud Sabri
1927 - 2012
Wahbi Abd ar-Razzaq Fattah al-Qaraghuli
Born 1929