List of Iraqi Americans

This is a list of notable Iraqi Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.

Academia/Science

• Rafil A. Dhafir, physician
• Elias Alsabti, medical researcher and writer
• Majid Khadduri, academic and founder of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies Middle East Studies program
• Kanan Makiya, academic, professor
• Mohamad Khalil, academic, professor
• Saadi Simawe, translator, novelist and teacher
• Ella Shohat, professor, author and activist
• Hind Rassam Culhane, professor
• Sinan Antoon, academic, writer, filmmaker
• Khidir Hamza, scientist
• Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash, scientist
• Nada Shabout, art historian and Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas.

Activists

• Dahlia Wasfi, activist
• Julie Iny, activist and author

Actors

• Antonio Albadran, Iraqi-American actor born in Basra.
• Tamara Dhia, actress known for her lead role in Santa Claus in Baghdad
• Yasmine Hanani, actress known for her role in Voices of Iraq and The Kingdom
• Nicholas Kadi, actor
• Sarab Kamoo, actress known for her role in Super Sucker
• Chris Kattan, comedian and actor; best known for his work on Saturday Night Live
• Mo Khidir, comedian and actor
• Heather Raffo, Award winning playwright/actress most known for her role in 9 Parts of Desire
• Ammar Ramzi, actor
• Basam Ridha, actor
• Ashley Sawdaye, Actor of Iraqi Jewish, French-Israeli descent.
• Alia Shawkat, actress known as Maeby Fünke on Arrested Development
• Zina Zaflow, actress

Architecture

• Hisham N. Ashkouri, architect
• Raed Jarrar architect, blogger, and activist

Artists

• Sama Raena Alshaibi, artist
• Halla Ayla, artist
• Wafaa Bilal, artist and professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
• Hayv Kahraman, artist/painter
• Toba Khedoori, artist
• Leila Kubba, painter
• Michael Rakowitz, artise based in Chicago (American of Iraqi Jewish descent).
• Athir Shayota, painter
• Rheim alkadhi, conceptual artist

Business

• Sam Kubba, author and businessman
• Shakir al Khafaji, businessman

Comedians

• Remy Munasifi, also known as GoRemy

Directors

• Usama Alshaibi, filmmaker
• Ali Hossaini, filmmaker, philosopher and pacifist
• Anisa Mehdi, Emmy Award winning film director and journalist
• Carole Basri, filmmaker

Military

• Ahmed K. Altaie, Specialist in the United States Army that is currently a Prisoner of War in Iraq.

Models

• Nadya Castellas, fitness model
• Amy Fadhli, fitness model, actress and winner of the Fitness America National Champion 1996

Alexander Uloom, fashion model

Musicians

• Hanan Alattar - Soprano opera singer
• Laith Alattar, Iraqi American musician
• Chemda Khalili, singer/songwriter and co-host of the Keith and The Girl podcast
• TIMZ, rapper
• Elliott Yamin, singer
• Stephan Smith, singer-songwriter, poet and political activist
• Ahmed El Faleh, singer who participated in Super Star 3, the pan-Arabic version of Pop Idol
• Rahim AlHaj, musician and composer
• Dena El Saffar, musician
• Amir ElSaffar, musician and younger brother of Dena
• Linda George, singer
• Juliana Jendo, singer
• Janan Sawa, musician
• Fabian Alsultany, DJ

Politics

• Rend al-Rahim Francke, politician, political activist and once held the position as Iraqi ambassador to the United States
• Ayham al-Samarie, politician
• Qubad Talabani, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) representative in Washington DC and son of Iraqi president Jalal Talabani

Sports

• Najah Ali, boxer
• Falah Hassan, footballer

Writers & Journalists

• Mahmoud Saeed, an Iraqi novelist was born in Mosul in 1939. Wrote more than twenty novels and story collections, and hundreds of articles. He started writing short stories at an early age. <ref: the New Yorker Magazine 1/12-18/2010>
• Ibrahim al-Marashi, academic plagiarized by the British government
• Lorraine Ali, reporter, editor, culture writer and music critic for Newsweek
• Alise Alousi, Iraqi-American poet
• Sinan Antoon, poet, novelist and translator
• Leila Barclay, American journalist and storyteller
• Alon Ben-Meir, professor, writer and is the Middle East Project director at the World Policy Institute
• Saul Fathi, author
• Abdul Ameer Yousef Habeeb, journalist
• Jack Marshall (author), poet and author
• Dunya Mikhail, poet
• Greg Patent, author (Born in Hong Kong to a Russian father and Iraqi mother)
• Daniel Pearl, journalist (kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan)
• Ayad Rahim, journalist
• Zainab Salbi, writer, activist, co-founder and president of Women for Women International
• Rachel Wahba, writer
• Thura Al Windawi, author

Other

• Kaysar Ridha, contestant on reality show Big Brother
• Ahmed Qusai al-Taayie, soldier
• Aban Elias, civil engineer, (recently held hostage and has not been heard from since)
• Michael Mizrachi, professional poker player (Iraqi Jewish father)
• Robert Mizrachi, professional poker player and older brother of Michael Mizrachi
• Jumana Hanna, involved in war propaganda
• Farris Hassan
• Sayed Mohammad Jawad Al-Qazwini, young religious leader
• Husham Al-Husainy, Sheikh of the Karbalaa Islamic Education Center
• Samuel Nalo, businessman, hijacker, burglar and brother of Robert
• Samir Gegea, an Iraqi interpreter who captured Saddam Hussein
• Mohammad Munaf
• Abdul Rahman Yasin, a suspected American terrorist
• Mohammed Odeh al-Rehaief, attorney who helped the United States armed forces rescue Jessica Lynch from Iraq
• Nadya Suleman, gave birth octuplets in January 2008
• Hassan Al-Qazwini, religious leader

See also

• Iraqi American
• List of Iraqis