Iraqi Assyrian people

Jibrail Kassab (born 5 August 1938) is a bishop of the Chaldean Catholic Church who presides over the Eparchy of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Sydney in Australia.

Emil Shimoun Nona (born November 1, 1967) is the Archbishop of the Chaldean Catholic Diocese of Australia and New Zealand, prior to this he has been the Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Mosul in the northern part of Iraq since the consent of Pope Benedict XVI to his election on 13 November 2009.

Mar Dinkha IV (Classical Syriac: ܡܪܝ ܕܢܚܐ ܪܒܝܥܝܐ and Arabic: مار دنخا الرابع‎‎), born Dinkha Khanania (15 September 1935 – 26 March 2015), was the Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East.

Archbishop Mar Jacques Ishaq (born February 25, 1938) was a Curial Bishop of the Patriarchate of Babylon, Iraq, of the Chaldean Catholic Church.

Yusuf Salman Yusuf (Syriac: ܝܘܣܦ ܣܠܡܢ ܝܘܣܦ‎, Arabic: يوسف سلمان يوسف‎‎) better known by his nom de guerre Fahd (Arabic: فهد‎‎), (Baghdad 1901 – 14 February 1949), was an ethnic Assyrian and was one of the first Iraqi communist activists and was first secretary of the Iraqi Communist Party from 1941 until his death on the gallows in 1949.

Mar George Garmo (8 December 1921 – 9 September 1999) was the Archbishop of the Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Mosul (Mausiliensis Chaldaeorum) in Iraq from 14 September 1980 until his death on 9 September 1999.

Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII (26 February 1908 – 6 November 1975), sometimes known as Mar Shimun XXI Ishaya, Mar Shimun Ishai, or Simon Jesse, was Catholicos Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East from 1920, when he was a youth, until his murder on 6 November 1975.

Mar Paul II Cheikho † (Syriac: ܦܘܠܘܣ ܬܪܝܢܐ ܫܝܟܘ‎, Arabic: بولس الثاني شيخو) was the patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church from 1958 until his death in 1989.

Mar Eliya XIV [XIII] Abulyonan † (or Abolionan) was the Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church from 1878 to 1894.

Bishop Mar Shlemon Warduni (born April 24, 1943) is Auxiliary Bishop of the Patriarchate of Babylon, Iraq, of the Chaldean Catholic Church.

Louis Raphaël I Sako (Syriac: ܠܘܝܣ ܪܘܦܐܝܠ ܩܕܡܝܐ ܣܟܘ‎) (born 4 July 1948) is the current Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon and the Head of the Chaldean Catholic Church since his election on 1 February 2013.

Mar Gewargis III, Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East (Classical Syriac: ܡܪܝ ܓܝܘܪܓܝܣ ܨܠܝܒܼܐ), born Warda Daniel Sliwa, is the current Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East.

Archbishop Mar Paulos Faraj Rahho (Arabic: بولس فرج رحو‎‎, Būlus Farağ Raḥū; Syriac: ܦܘܠܘܣ ܦ̮ܪܔ ܪܚܘ‎, Paulōs Farağ Raḥō; 20 November 1942 – February or March 2008) was the Chaldean Catholic Archeparch of Mosul, in the northern part of Iraq.

Elias Thamir Yousif (Arabic: تامر يوسف‎‎) was an Iraqi and ethnic Assyrian football player.

Mar Yousip I (Joseph I, † 1707) was the first incumbent of the Josephite line of Church of the East, thus being considered the Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church from 1681 to 1696.

Donny George Youkhanna (Arabic: دوني جورج, Syriac: ܕܘܢܝ ܓܘܪܓ ܝܘܚܢܢ‎) (October 23, 1950 – March 11, 2011) was an Iraqi-Assyrian archaeologist, anthropologist, author, curator, and scholar, and a visiting professor at Stony Brook University in New York.

Mar Yohannan VIII Hormizd (often referred to by European missionaries as John Hormez or Hanna Hormizd) was the last hereditary patriarch of the Eliya line of the Church of the East and the first patriarch of a united Chaldean Church.

Linda George (born 1960) is an ethnic Assyrian singer who resides in the United States Of America.

Emmanuel Baba Dawud better known as Ammo Baba (Arabic: عمو بابا, Syriac: ܥܡܘ ܒܒܐ‎) (born November 27, 1934 in Baghdad, Iraq – May 27, 2009 in Duhok, Iraq), was a former Iraqi and ethnic Assyrian international football player and coach of the Iraq national football team.

Ayoub Odisho Barjam (born 1960 in Baghdad) is an Iraqi Assyrian former football player and current coach of the northern Iraqi club Erbil SC in the Iraqi premier league.

Mar Shimun VIII Yohannan Sulaqa (Syriac: ܫܡܥܘܢ ܬܡܝܢܝܐ ܝܘܚܢܢ ܣܘܠܩܐ‎; also John Soulaqa, Sulaka or Sulacha, circa 1510–1555) was the first Patriarch of what was to become the Chaldean Catholic Church, from 1553 to 1555, after it broke from the Church of the East into full communion with the Holy See and the Catholic Church.

Ibrahim Namo Ibrahim (born October 1, 1937) is a bishop of the Catholic Church in the United States.

Gurgis Shlaymun is the current Deputy Governor of Iraq's Dahuk province in Iraqi Kurdistan.

William Warda (Syriac: ܘܠܝܡ ܘܪܕܐ‎), is an Iraqi-Assyrian journalist and a leading member of the Assyrian Democratic Movement.

Ignatius Aphrem I Barsoum (June 15, 1887 – June 23, 1957) was the 120th Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church.

Mar Sarhad Yawsip Hermiz Jammo (born 14 March 1941) is a Chaldean prelate of the Chaldean Catholic Church who presides over the Eparchy of St.

Ashur Bet Sargis (Syriac: ܐܫܘܪ ܒܝܬ ܣܪܓܝܤ‎, born 2 July 1949) is an Assyrian composer and singer.

Dunya Mikhail (born 1965 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an Iraqi poet based in the United States.

Sargon Boulus (Syriac: ܣܪܓܢ ܦܘܠܘܨ‎, Arabic: سركون بولص‎‎, 1944 – October 22, 2007) was an Iraqi-Assyrian poet and short story writer.

Margaret George Shello (Syriac: ܡܪܓܪܝܬ ܓܝܘܪܓܝܣ ܫܠܘ‎), also known as Margaret George Malik, was an Assyrian guerilla fighter who joined the Kurdish Peshmerga forces in their fight against the Iraqi governments in the 1960s.

Saadi Toma Jirjes (Syriac: ܣܥܕܝ ܬܐܘܡܐ‎) (born 25 April 1955 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an Iraqi-Chaldean former football player and coach.

Edison Eshay David (Arabic: إيديسون إيشاي ديفيد‎‎) (born in Iraq) was an Iraqi-Assyrian football player, who played for Iraq and Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya in the 1950s and 1960s.

Hanna Petros (Syriac: ܚܢܐ ܦܛܪܘܣ‎, Arabic: حنا بطرس‎‎), was an Iraqi Assyrian composer and a scholar.