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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Nuha al-Radi
1941 - 2004
Husain al-Radi
1924 - 1963
Hayv Kahraman
Born 1981
Modhir Ahmed
Born 1956
Layla Al-Attar
1944 - 1993
Abdul Qadir Al Rassam
1882 - 1952
Faeq Hassan
1914 - 1992
Suad al-Attar
Born 1942
Zigi Ben-Haim
Born 1945
Abraham Hadad
Born 1937
Ayad Alkadhi
Born 1971
Sasson Soffer
1925 - 2009
Sandor Alexander Svoboda
1826 - 1896
Vian Sora
Born 1976
Nedim Kufi
Born 1962