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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Ilham al-Madfai
Born 1942
Nazem al-Ghazali
1921 - 1963
Linda George (Assyrian singer)
Born 1960
Sarah Idan
Born 1990
Dalli Hadad
Born 1982
Majid al-Muhandis
Born 1971
Saif Nabeel
Born 1984
Haitham Yousif
Born 1969
Hatem Al Iraqi
Born 1969
Naser Al Bahar
Born 1986
Aida Nadeem
Born 1965
Messia Garabedian
Born 1993
Ghassan Alshami
Born 1980
Muhammad al-Kabandschi
Born 1901