List of Famous people born in Iraq

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".

Al-Mustazhir billah was the Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad from 1094 to 1118. He succeeded his father al-Muqtadi as the twenty-eighth Abbasid Caliph. He was born in 1078.

Rizgar Mohammed Amin is the former chief judge of the Iraqi Special Tribunal's Al-Dujail trial. He is the only judge whose name was revealed on the trial's opening on 19 October 2005, the names of the other four judges and all but two of his four colleagues faces not allowed to be shown during the televised portions of the trial.(Telegraph.co.uk - 12:30AM GMT 15 January 2006)

Amjad Attwan is an Iraqi professional footballer who currently plays for Al-Shorta in the Iraqi Premier League. He can be deployed as a Defensive Midfielder or Central Midfielder.

Suphi Saatçi is a Turkish senior architect, restorator and academician of Iraqi Turkmen background.

Ghanim Oraibi Jassim Al-Roubai is an Iraqi football defender who played for Iraq in the 1986 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Al-Shabab.

Hakeem Shaker, is a former Iraqi football player and manager. At some point between late 2012 and early 2013, Hakeem was the first and only Iraqi coach to manage three Iraqi national teams at the same time.

Mohammed Salem Al-Ghabban is an Iraqi politician and the former Minister of Interior.

Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad al-Husayni al-Shirazi, commonly known as Imam Shirazi, was an Iranian-Iraqi Shia marja' and political theorist.

Saad Abdul-Amir Luaibi Al-Zirjawi is an Iraqi defensive midfielder who plays, and for the Iraq national football team which he earned his first cap in 2010 at the age of 18. Saad started his career in his hometown club Al-Karkh SC. In 2010, he transferred to Northern Iraqi side Erbil SC, spending 5 years at the club where he won the 2011–12 Iraqi Premier League. In 2015, he made his first move abroad, signing for Saudi side Al-Qadisiyah. He moved to Al-Shabab in 2017.