List of Famous people born in Baghdad Governorate, Iraq

Abū Yūsuf Ya‘qūb Ibn as-Sikkīt was a philologist tutor to the son of the Abbasid caliph Al-Mutawakkil and a great grammarian and scholar of poetry of al-Kūfah school. He was punished on the orders of the caliph and died shortly after between 857 and 861.

Abd al-Karīm ibn al-Faḍl, better known by his regnal name al-Ṭāʾiʿ li-Amr Allāh/biʾllāh, was the Abbasid caliph of Baghdad from 974 to 991. Very little is known about his personal and official life. He succeeded his father al-Muti as the twenty-fourth Abbasid caliph.

Laith Nobari or Laith Naseri is an Iraq-born Moaved Iranian retired football player who has played for Persepolis and has represented Iran national football team.

Nazem al-Ghazali was one of the most popular singers in the history of Iraq and his songs are still heard by many in the Arab world.

Abd al-Karīm al-Jīlī, or Abdul Karim Jili was a Muslim Sufi saint and mystic who was born in 1365, in what is modern day Iraq, possibly in the neighborhood of Jil in Baghdad. He is known in Muslim mysticism as the author of Universal Man.

Abu’l-Qāsim ʿAbdallāh, better known by his regnal name al-Mustakfī bi’llāh was the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad from 944 to 946.

Jawdat Al-Qazwini was an Iraqi scholar.

Abu Hasan Ali ibn Umar ibn Ahmad ibn Mahdi al-Daraqutni was a 10th-century muhaddith best known for compiling the hadith collection Sunan al-Daraqutni. He was celebrated later by Sunni hadith scholars such as the "imam of his time" and the "amir al-mu'minin in hadith".

Dr. Sinan Al-Shabibi is an Iraqi economist who served as the governor of the Central Bank of Iraq from September 2003 to October 2012.

Bahaa Araji is an Iraqi politician, who was a member of the Iraqi National Assembly until 2014. He served as Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs from September 2014 to August 2015. He is a spokesman for the United Iraqi Alliance and a member of the Sadrist Movement which is led by Muqtada as-Sadr. He was succeeded as the head of the Ahrar bloc in parliament by Dia al-Asadi.