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

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1960s with 74 notable births.

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.

  1. Football 106 1.4×
  2. Politician 105 1.3×
  3. Poet 23 3.2×
  4. Writer 19 0.8×
  5. Actor 19 0.5×
  6. Journalist 18 1.7×
  7. Painter 15 0.8×
  8. Singer 14 1.0×
  1. Califfo 11 1590.8×
  2. Rabbi 9 11.7×
  3. Theologian 10 4.0×
  4. Poet 23 3.2×
  5. Mathematician 11 3.2×
  6. Artist 13 1.8×
  7. Physician 8 1.7×
  8. Journalist 18 1.7×
  1. Actor 19 0.5×

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.

1850 1875 1900 1925 1950 1975 2000
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Showing 105 of 689 notable people

0011 POLITICIAN

Abdul Salam Arif

1921 - 1966

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0014 POLITICIAN

Ahmed Chalabi

1944 - 2015

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0018 POLITICIAN

Nuri al-Said

1888 - 1958

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0024 POLITICIAN

Abdul Rahman Arif

1916 - 2007

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0029 POLITICIAN

Rashid Ali al-Gaylani

1892 - 1965

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0039 POLITICIAN

Haider al-Abadi

Born 1952

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0042 POLITICIAN

Abd al-Rahman al-Bazzaz

1913 - 1973

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0046 POLITICIAN

Jafar al-Askari

1887 - 1936

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0047 POLITICIAN

Faisal Husseini

1940 - 2001

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0057 POLITICIAN

Adnan Pachachi

1923 - 2019

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0067 POLITICIAN

Ayad Allawi

Born 1945

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0081 POLITICIAN

Adil Abdul-Mahdi

Born 1942

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0084 POLITICIAN

Shlomo Hillel

Born 1923

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0085 POLITICIAN

Yasin al-Hashimi

1882 - 1937

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0108 POLITICIAN

Nadhim Zahawi

Born 1967

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0122 POLITICIAN

Ran Cohen

Born 1937

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0127 POLITICIAN

Tawfiq al-Suwaidi

1892 - 1968

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0136 POLITICIAN

Ali Allawi

Born 1947

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0138 POLITICIAN

Ahmad Mukhtar Baban

1900 - 1976

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0140 POLITICIAN

Mahmud Nedim Pasha

1818 - 1883

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0144 POLITICIAN

Taha al-Hashimi

1888 - 1961

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0145 POLITICIAN

Yusuf Salman Yusuf

1901 - 1949

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0146 POLITICIAN

Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali

1903 - 1997

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0149 POLITICIAN

Hüseyin Numan Menemencioğlu

1893 - 1958

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0159 POLITICIAN

Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid

882 - 946

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0162 POLITICIAN

Tariq al-Hashimi

Born 1942

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0175 POLITICIAN

Muzahim al-Pachachi

1890 - 1982

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0187 POLITICIAN

Thoraya Obaid

Born 1945

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0193 POLITICIAN

Ra'anan Cohen

Born 1941

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0196 POLITICIAN

Hikmat Sulayman

1889 - 1964

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0203 POLITICIAN

Abdelhamid Sharaf

1939 - 1980

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0220 POLITICIAN

Mordechai Ben-Porat

Born 1923

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0233 POLITICIAN

Naziha al-Dulaimi

1923 - 2007

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0242 POLITICIAN

Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i

1904 - 1965

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0263 POLITICIAN

Esabelle Dingizian

Born 1962

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0283 POLITICIAN

Shalom Cohen (politician)

1926 - 1992

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0297 POLITICIAN

Arif Abd ar-Razzaq

1921 - 2007

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0312 POLITICIAN

Sassoon Eskell

1860 - 1932

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0314 POLITICIAN

Hamdi al-Pachachi

1886 - 1948

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0315 POLITICIAN

Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani

Born 1970

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0330 POLITICIAN

Khodair al-Khozaei

Born 1948

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0356 POLITICIAN

Nisrin Barwari

Born 1967

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0378 POLITICIAN

Aryeh Bibi

Born 1943

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0383 POLITICIAN

Mohammed Al-Ghabban

Born 1961

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0393 POLITICIAN

Uri Amit

1935 - 2011

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0395 POLITICIAN

Samuel Samuel

1855 - 1934

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0399 POLITICIAN

Mowaffak al-Rubaie

Born 1947

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0402 POLITICIAN

Mohammad-Ali Ala al-Saltaneh

1829 - 1918

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0405 POLITICIAN

Eliyahu Gabai

Born 1943

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0411 POLITICIAN

Ameer Sachet

Born 1963

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0427 POLITICIAN

Mordechai Bibi

Born 1922

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0428 POLITICIAN

Namaa Alward

Born 1953

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0433 POLITICIAN

Bafel Talabani

Born 1973

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0434 POLITICIAN

Aiham Alsammarae

Born 1951

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0445 POLITICIAN

Hamid Majid Mousa

Born 1941

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0455 POLITICIAN

Ali Hatem al-Suleiman

Born 1971

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0456 POLITICIAN

Mahmoud al-Mashhadani

Born 1948

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0457 POLITICIAN

Nuzhat Katzav

Born 1932

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0458 POLITICIAN

Naji al-Suwaydi

1882 - 1942

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0466 POLITICIAN

Binyamin Sasson

1903 - 1989

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0475 POLITICIAN

Humam Hamoudi

Born 1956

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0476 POLITICIAN

Muhammad as-Sadr

1882 - 1956

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0481 POLITICIAN

Maysoon Al-Damluji

Born 1962

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0488 POLITICIAN

Baha Araji

Born 1967

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0489 POLITICIAN

Abdul Qadir Obeidi

Born 1947

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0491 POLITICIAN

Omar Al-Rawi

Born 1961

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0497 POLITICIAN

Ayad al-Samarrai

Born 1946

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0499 POLITICIAN

Wijdan Michael

Born 1962

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0501 POLITICIAN

Abdul Karim Luaibi

Born 1959

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0505 POLITICIAN

Samir Abdul Aziz al-Najim

Born 1937

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0512 POLITICIAN

Asaad Al Eidani

Born 1967

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0514 POLITICIAN

Samir Sumaidaie

Born 1944

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0523 POLITICIAN

Rafah DiCostanzo

Born 1962

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0527 POLITICIAN

Abdul Razak al-Hashimi

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0528 POLITICIAN

Qais Abd al-Karim

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0531 POLITICIAN

Anne Nafi Aussi

Born 1964

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0533 POLITICIAN

Haidar Hadi

Born 1970

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0541 POLITICIAN

Sawsan Ali Sharifi

Born 1956

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0543 POLITICIAN

Abid Ali Jaferbhai

1899 - 1973

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0550 POLITICIAN

Ali Al Tamimi

Born 1975

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0551 POLITICIAN

Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi

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0562 POLITICIAN

Walid Hamid Tawfiq al-Tikriti

Born 1954

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0566 POLITICIAN

Carmel Eliash

1933 - 1973

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0572 POLITICIAN

Kamel al-Kilani

Born 1958

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0573 POLITICIAN

Salah Al-Mukhtar

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0575 POLITICIAN

Haidar Al Zamily

Born 1975

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0576 POLITICIAN

Wadie P. Deddeh

1920 - 2019

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0580 POLITICIAN

Bağdatlı Mehmed Hadi Pacha

1861 - 1932

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0582 POLITICIAN

Atwan Al Atwani

Born 1973

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0593 POLITICIAN

Alaa Al Hashimi

Born 1960

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0599 POLITICIAN

Nadim al-Jabiri

Born 1959

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0601 POLITICIAN

Adel Murad

1949 - 2018

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0607 POLITICIAN

Timoor Daghistani

Born 1948

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0621 POLITICIAN

Yousef al-Kalabi

Born 1978

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0623 POLITICIAN

Mouin AlKazmi

Born 1975

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0625 POLITICIAN

Raid Jahid Fahmi

Born 1950

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0641 POLITICIAN

Ali Faisal Alfayadh

Born 1963

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0644 POLITICIAN

Mohammed Naji

Born 1965

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0645 POLITICIAN

Bassam Salih Kubba

1944 - 2004

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0649 POLITICIAN

Sattar Alghanem

Born 1967

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0651 POLITICIAN

Hashem Jawad

1911 - 1969

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0652 POLITICIAN

Nabeel Yasin

Born 1950

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0655 POLITICIAN

Leila Abdul-Latif

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0684 POLITICIAN

Abu Feras Alhamdani

Born 1974

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0685 POLITICIAN

Mehmed Hâdî Pasha

1861 - 1932

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