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×
An Abbasid capital whose intellectual afterlife still shows on the page: a dense Poet bench running at better than three times the global baseline, a thick Mathematician and Theologian presence carried over from the House of Wisdom centuries, and a Rabbi cluster running at better than eleven times baseline, a quiet reminder of how cosmopolitan this city once was before the twentieth century rearranged everything.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Baghdad during each.
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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- Field: Mathematician Clear ×
Al-Samawal al-Maghribi
1130 - 1180
Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi
980 - 1037
Ibrahim ibn Sinan
908 - 946
Ishaq ibn Hunayn
830 - 910
Ahmad ibn Yusuf
835 - 912
Sinan ibn Thabit
880 - 943
Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq
Died 796
Olvi L. Mangasarian
1934 - 2020
Muhammad al-Baghdadi
1101 - 1200
Murad Taqqu
Born 1942
Waleed Al-Salam
1926 - 1996