List of Assyrians

The following is a list of notable Assyrian people, it includes persons who are from (or whose ancestry is from) the Mesopotamian Syriac-Aramaic speaking populations originating in Iraq, north western Iran, north eastern Syria and south eastern Turkey.

Activists

Rosie Malek-Yonan
Jumana Hanna, involved in anti Baath war propaganda - torture victim
Nuri Kino
Sinan Antoon
Farid Nazha
Naum Faiq
Freydun Atturaya
Mike "MK" Khamis"

Actors, directors and comedians

Architects and designers

Raad Ghantous
Hana Sadiq - fashion designer and writer
Diana Mikhail - fashion designer, stylist

Artists and calligraphers

Paulus Khofri - painter, lyricist and composer
Eser Afacan
Farouk Kaspaules - artist
Issa Benyamin - calligrapher
Thea Halo
Fred Parhad - sculptor
Sarguis Ganjeh - graphic designer

Athletes

In the Middle East

Athletics (Track and field)

George Malek-Yonan - Iranian Assyrian Track & Field Athlete. Iran's Champion of Champions, Gold medalist in Pentathlon and Track & Field

Weightlifting

Daniel Gevargiz Nejad - Iranian Assyrian weightlifter- Represented Iran in 1968^[1]

Boxing

Mustafa Hamsho - Syrian Assyrian/Syriac Boxer, Middleweight
George Issabeg - Iranian Assyrian Boxer - Represented Iran in 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics
Anwar Oshana - Syrian Assyrian Boxer, Super Middleweight in USA. Illinois State Champion
Shoura Osipov - Iranian Assyrian Boxer 1948 Summer Olympics representing Iran
Zaya Younan - National Amateur Champion in Iraq, Iran and Canada^[2]

Football (soccer)

Ammo Baba - Iraqi Assyrian footballer & Manager of Iraq - Iraq International. Voted best Iraqi Athlete of All Time
Edison David - Iraqi Assyrian footballer
Youra Eshaya - Iraqi Assyrian footballer - First Iraqi to play professionally in the west, for Bristol Rovers, England - Iraq International
Basil Gorgis Hanna - Iraqi Assyrian footballer - World Cup Player 1986
Thamer Yousif - Iraqi Assyrian Footballer - Iraq International
Saad Benyamin - Iraqi Assyrian Footballer - Iraq International
Aram Karam - Iraqi Assyrian Footballer - Iraq International^[3]
Ayoub Odisho - Iraqi Assyrian Footballer and Club Manager (in Lebanon)
Douglas Aziz - Douglas Aziz Shamasha Eshaya
Baba Shallou - Iraqi Assyrian Footballer^[3]
Gilbert Sammy - Iraqi Assyrian footballer - Iraq International^[3]
Albert Khoshaba - Iraqi Assyrian footballer - Iraq International^[3]
Radhi Shenaishi
Shadrak Yousef - Iraqi Assyrian footballer - Iraq International^[4]
Georgis Ishmael - Iraqi Assyrian footballer - Iraq International^[4]
Gilbert Awekam - Iraqi Assyrian footballer - Iraq International^[4]
Hormis Goriel - Iraqi Assyrian footballer - Iraq International^[4]
Youel Gorgis - Iraqi Assyrian footballer - Iraq International^[4]
Isaac Y. Isaac - Iraqi Assyrian footballer^[5]
Ammo Sammson - Iraqi Assyrian footballer^[6]
Wilson Rasho - Iraqi Assyrian footballer ^[7]
Gibson Younan - Iraqi Assyrian footballer^[8]
Khoshaba Lawo Kanon - Iraqi Assyrian footballer - Iraq International^[9]
Akram Ammanoel - Iraqi Assyrian footballer - ^[10]
Arkan Shamoun - Iraqi Assyrian footballer - Iraq International^[11]
Muhaimen Malakh - Iraqi Assyrian footballer - Iraq International ^[12]
Esho Youkhanna - Iraqi Assyrian footballer - Iraq International^[13]

Tennis

Andrew Simon - Iraqi Assyrian Tennis Champion

Diaspora

American football

Alex Agase - Assyrian American - Top level American Football (Gridiron) player
Lou Agase - Assyrian American - Top level American Football (Gridiron) player

Basketball

Nahren Nina Baresso Assyrian Swedish International Women's Basketball Player^[14]

Boxing

Isho Shiba - Assyrian Canadian Boxer - Canadian Champion
Mustafa Hamsho
Zaya Younan - Assyrian Canadian Boxing Promoter
Anwar Oshana - Assyrian American Super Middleweight Boxer. Illinois State Champion
Sammy Merza - USA based Middleweight^[15]
Ninos Abraham - USA based Middleweight^[16]

Football (soccer)

Zurab Ionanidze - Assyrian Georgian International Footballer - Georgian International player
Steven Beitashour - currently plays for San Jose Earthquakes in Major League Soccer.
Assyriska - Assyrian League Football Team in Sweden (Have reached Swedish Cup Final)
Kennedy Bakircioglu - Assyrian Swedish International Footballer - Sweden Based - Swedish International player
Louay Chanko - Assyrian Syrian Footballer - Denmark Based - Syrian International player
George Mourad - Assyrian Syrian Footballer - Iran Based - Syrian International player
Ilyas Merkes - Assyrian Syrian Footballer - Syrian International player
Sanharib Malki - Assyrian Syrian Footballer - Dutch Based (Roda JC) - Syrian International player
Alexander Alkhazov - Assyrian Russian Footballer, plays for FC Krylia Sovetov Samara
Zaya Avdysh - Assyrian Ukrainian Footballer - Ukrainian Based
Christian Demirtas - Assyrian German Footballer - German Based
Daniel Unal - Assyrian Turkish Footballer - playing for FC Basle in Switzerland
Leena Khamis - Assyrian Australian Female Footballer - Australian Women's Football International
Ninos Gouriye - Assyrian Dutch Footballer
Daniyel Cimen - Assyrian German Footballer
Abgar Barsom - Assyrian Swedish Footballer
Elias Merkes - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Plays for Assyriska^[17]
Stefan Batan - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Plays for Assyriska^[17]
Andreas Haddad - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Plays for Assyriska^[17]
Eddie Moussa - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Plays for Assyriska^[17]
Gabriel Özkan - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Plays for AIK Fotboll
Sharbel Touma - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Plays for Syrianska FC
Suleyman Sleyman - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Plays for Syrianska FC
Jimmy Durmaz - Assyrian Swedish Footballer
David Durmaz - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Plays for Syrianska FC
Imad Chhadeh - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Plays for Assyriska^[17]
Gabriel Ucar - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Played for Assyriska^[17]
Andreas Yacoub-Haddad - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Played for Assyriska
Mikael Ishak - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Plays for Assyriska
Naramsin Awrohum - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Plays for Assyriska
Sargon Simonsson - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Plays for Assyriska
Michel Noyan - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Plays for Assyriska
Dani Hamzo - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - Plays for Assyriska
Jasar Takak - Dutch based Assyrian footballer, formerly of Vitesse Arnhem^[18]
Waad Hermiz - Assyrian USA based Soccer player, played for San Diego Shockers^[19]
Sami Boudakh - Assyrian USA based Soccer player ^[20]
Justin Meram - Assyrian USA based Soccer player^[21]
Sargon Duran - Assyrian Austrian footballer, playing for FC Sollenau
Sargon Cicek - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - plays for Assyriska
Christer Youssef - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - plays for Djurgårdens IF
Gabriel Ucar - Assyrian Swedish Footballer - plays for Ängelholms FF, and previously for Irish team Derry City
Kennedy Bakircioglü

Martial Arts

Mikhail Sado - Assyrian Russian Wrestling Champion
Tiras Odisho - Assyrian Iraqi Karate Champion, currently Director General of National Olympic Committee of Iraq
Beneil Dariush - Assyrian -American Mixed martial arts (MMA)

Poker

Daniel Alaei

Tennis

Andre Agassi - Former world number 1 American tennis player of Assyrian & Armenian descent.
Michael Shabaz - Assyrian American Tennis player
Andre Khabbazi - Assyrian-American actor and Semi-pro tennis player

Miss World Winners

Ramona Amiri - Assyrian Miss Canada 2005

Directors

Terrence Malick, Academy Award nominated director
Henri Charr
Nuri Kino
Rosie Malek-Yonan
Alfred Rasho - Emmy awarded documentary filmmaker 1992, 1995
Billy Tooma - author of the novel A Seemingly Unstoppable Dawn and the award-nominated filmmaker of Fly First & Fight Afterward: The Life of Col. Clarence D. Chamberlin.^[22]^[23]^[24]^[25]
Lina Yakubova

Educators and explorers

Marielle Haddoub - professor and researcher
Donny George Youkhanna
Emmanuel Kamber
Eprime Eshag - academic, professor
Hormuzd Rassam - Middle East's first archaeologist and Assyriologist
Louis Cheikhô - Assyrian Orientalist
Ashur Yousif
Dr. Eden Naby
Prof. Mikhail Sado - Russian linguist, scholar, professor of Semitic languages, orientalist, politician, former paratrooper, and wrestling champion
Paul Bedjan
Kanan Makiya - academic, professor
Gambar Givargidze
Alexey Tamrazov^[26]
Hind Rassam Culhane - lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies and behavioural scientist
Thomas L. Saaty - Iraqi born Assyrian American mathematician
Toma bar Yacoub - 9th Century theological historian
Hunayn ibn Ishaq- scholar, physician, scientist, and translator
Masawaiyh- physician
Bar Daysan - philosopher
Aba I - philosopher, astronomer
Philoxenos - theologian
Babai the Great - philosopher, theologian
Toma Audo - bishop, writer
Mor Philoxenos Yuhanon Dolabani - scholar, poet, editor, and translator
Babai (Nestorian Patriarch) - bishop
Fuat Deniz - professor of and researcher in sociology at Örebro University. Died from a stab wound.
George Kiraz - computational linguist
Aphrahat - 3rd century theologian

Entrepreneurs

Bob Miner - co-founder of Oracle Corporation
Sargon W Zaia - founder and CEO of The i-Shakk™.
Zaya Younan - founder and CEO of Younan Properties, Inc.
Milton Malek-Yonan - inventor of Converted Rice
Sue Ismiel - founder of Nad's, a multimillion-dollar wax and beauty company in Australia with distributions worldwide.
Victor Nacif
Jeff Moorad - lead owner of the San Diego Padres and part-owner (12%) of the Arizona Diamondbacks baseball team.
Tony Rezko - political fundraiser, restaurateur, and real estate developer.
Daniel Hadad

Leaders

see List of Assyrian kings
Shamoun Hanna Haydo
Agha Petros - World War I Assyrian General in Iraq, helped assryians in Iran, Born in the village of Baz
Malik Khoshaba - Assyrian Military Leader World War I
Georges Sada - former Commander of the Iraqi Air Force, and author
Nabonidus (Nabo Naid) - Assyrian born King of Babylon
Belshazzar - Regent of Babylon, son of Nabonidus
Izates I (c. 15 AD) - first King of Adiabene
Izates bar Monobaz - King of Adiabene
Ashur Yousif - professor and ethnic Assyrian nationalist leader prior to World War I and the Assyrian Genocide.

Media

Paul Caldani - Radio Iran 670 Am KIRN Los Angeles, California
Obelit Yadgar - Glendale, Wisconsin
Nineveh Dinha - Fox News anchorwoman and reporter
Cindy Sargon - TV Chef
John Batchelor - radio host and author
Diane Pathieu - ABC 7 News-Chicago
Reta Ismail (Shabo) - news reporter and weather specialist with CTV News London Ontario

Models

Ramona Amiri - Miss Canada 2005
Claudia Hanna - Miss Iraq 2006
Larsa Pippen - former model married to Scottie Pippen

Musicians and composers

Complete list; List of Assyrian musicians

Non-Assyrian music

Tony Aziz Yaqoo - member of Iraqi heavy metal band Acrassicauda
Melechesh - Assyrian Death/Thrash Heavy Metal band
Aril Brikha - Assyrian Techno/House music artist
Rola Bahnam - Lebanon based TV presenter and singer with The 4 Cats.
Timz (real name Tommy Hanna) - Rap musician of Assyrian origin
Ninsun Poli
Samir Peter - pianist, and subject of the BBC Documentary The Liberace of Baghdad^[28]
Muthana Mani - Assyrian Member of Iraqi Thrash Metal band Brutal Impact^[29]
Haval Yousif - Assyrian member of Iraqi Heavy Metal band Maybe^[30]
Rafaiel Saib - Assyrian Member of Iraqi Thrash Metal band Fataology^[31]
Jennifer Brikha - Australian Assyrian Soul singer^[32]

Physicians and scientists

Callinicus - inventors of the so-called "Greek" fire
Bukhtishu Family - ethnic Assyrian family of physicians from the 7th, 8th, and 9th centuries in Persia and Mesopotamia, spanning 6 generations and 250 years. Some of them served as the personal physicians of Caliphs.
Berossus - astronomer in Seleucid Mesopotamia
Diophantus - mathematician
Bar-Hebraeus
Yuhanna Ibn Masawaih
Hunayn bar Ishaq
Thabit ibn Qurra
Ibrahim ibn Sinan
Yevgenia Davitashvili (AKA Dzhuna)^[33]

Politicians

Yonadam Kanna - Secretary General of the Assyrian Democratic Movement and Iraq Parliament Representative
Basim Bello - Mayor of Tel Kaif, Iraq
Bahnam Zaya Bulos - Iraq Minister of Transport (2003–2004)
Basimah Yusuf Butrus - Iraq Minister of Science and Technology 2005-2006
Franso Hariri - Mayor of Arbil
Fawzi Franso Hariri - Iraq Parliament Representative, Current Minister of Industry in Iraq
Yonadam Kanna - Secretary General of the Assyrian Democratic Movement and Iraq Parliament Representative
Wijdan Michael - current Minister of Human Rights in Iraq
Georges Sada - general served under Saddam in the Iraqi Air force
Ablahad Afraim Sawa - Iraq Parliament Representative
Pascal Esho Warda - Iraq Minister of Immigration and Refugees 2003-2004
Albert Edward Ismail Yelda - Iraq Ambassador to the Vatican
Yusuf Salman Yusuf - Secretary General of Iraqi Communist Party 1941-1949
Lady Surma D'Bait Mar Shimun (Surma Khanum)
Sarkis Aghajan Mamendo - current Minister of Finance and Economy in Kurdistan Regional Government
Tariq Aziz - Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq 1979–2003 (Real name Michael Youkhana)
Kamel Hana Gegeo - chief bodyguard to Saddam Hussein
Tiras Odisho - Director General of National Olympic Committee of Iraq
Dala Ashur - Assyrian Iraqi Army General of Saddam Husseins Armed Forces^[34]
Tiras Odisho - head of the Iraqi Olympic Committee

Iran

Freydun Atturaya - co-founder of the Assyrian Socialist Party

Turkey

Naum Faiq - 1868–1930

United Nations

Dr. William Ishaya - Deputy Permanent Representative - Mission of the Republic of Iraq to the United Nations in New York, USA.

In the Assyrian diaspora

USA

Mitch Daniels - Governor of Indiana and potential Republican presidential candidate
Adam Benjamin, Jr. - Indiana Congressman
Anna Eshoo - California Congressman
John Nimrod - Illinois Senator

Australia

Andrew Rohan - current State Member for Smithfield New South Wales Parliament, and Fairfield City Council Councillor for the Liberal Party of Australia
Ninos Khoshaba - former Member of the New South Wales Parliament Sydney Australia
Anwar Khoshaba - Fairfield City Councillor (former Mayor) Sydney Australia

Sweden

Ibrahim Baylan - Sweden Minister of Education 2004-2006 and Sweden Parliament Representative
Yilmaz Kerimo - Sweden Parliament Representative
Metin Ataseven - Sweden Parliament Representative

Canada

Helena Guergis - former Canadian Member of Parliament and Minister of State (Status of Women)

Netherlands

Attiya Gamri - Netherlands Parliament Representative

Other countries

Eugene Dooman
Emmanuel Kamber - Assyrian Universal Alliance Secretary General
Sargon Dadesho - activist, author and leader of Assyrian National Congress
Iskender Alptekin - politician, singer and former President of the European Syriac Union
José Murat Casab - (born to Iraqi immigrants) Mexican politician and a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party also former Governor of Oaxaca.

List of Kings

Kings of Assyria
Kings of Adiabene

Religious figures

Main articles: List of Chaldean Catholic Patriarchs of Babylon, List of Patriarchs of the Church of the East and List of Syriac Orthodox Patriarchs of Antioch

Addagoppe of Harran
Isa Kelemechi
Bar Sauma
Babai the Great 551-628
Basile Georges Casmoussa
David Benjamin Keldani
Henana of Adiabene
Isaac of Nineveh
Mar Dinkha IV 1935–2015
Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII
Mar Shimun XIX Benyamin 1903-1918
Mar Yousip Khnanisho 1893-1977
Sargis Bkheera 633 AD
Tatian120AD-180AD
Theodore of Mopsuestia
Toma bar Yacoub
Yusuf Akbulut
Ephrem the Syrian
Babai the Great
Bar-Hebraeus
Bar Daisan
Nestorius
Jacob of Nisibis
Diodorus of Tarsus
Tatian
Mar Youhannan Semaan Issayi
Mani (216–276 AD) - founder of the Manichaean religion
Pkidha (104–114) - first Bishop of Adiabene
Heliodorus - 4th Century Assyrian martyr
Josephus Adjutus - 17th century theologian
George Garmo
Shlemon Warduni
Paulos Faraj Rahho
Emil Shimoun Nona
Raphael I Bidawid
Elias Mellus
Basile Georges Casmoussa
Ignatius Isaac Azar
Mar Meelis Zaia
Emmanuel III Delly

Writers and poets

Complete list; List of Assyrian authors

Ancient

Tatian^[35]
Aphrahat
Bar Daysan
Iamblichus of Chalcis
John bar Penkaye
John of Ephesus
Moses Bar-Kepha
Philoxenus of Mabbog
Stephen Bar Sudhaile
Lucian of Samosata - (A.D. 125–after A.D.) 180 was an Assyrian rhetorician, writer and satirist who wrote in the Greek language. He is noted for his witty and scoffing nature.

Modern

In the news

Munir Redfa
Elias Syriani
George Nassar
Nadya Suleman
Sami Khoshaba Latchin
Chaldean mafia
Denho Acar - leader of the criminal gang Original Gangsters
Ragheed Aziz Ganni

Other

Narsai David - President of Assyrian Aid Society
Lado Davidov - Hero of the Soviet Union
Cindy Sargon - TV chef
Alfred Yaghobzadeh - photographer
Capt. John Joseph Yossarian - fictional character and protagonist in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22 and its sequel Closing Time. In Closing Time, he is revealed to be an Armenian jokingly posing as an Assyrian.

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