# 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

* Elias Alsabti, plagiarist medical researcher and Pennsylvania medical licensed
* Sinan Antoon, academic, writer, filmmaker
* Hind Rassam Culhane, professor
* Rafil A. Dhafir, physician
* Mona Hanna-Attisha, pediatrician, professor, Flint Water Crisis whistleblower and public health advocate
* Khidir Hamza, scientist and fraudulent
* Emanuel Kamber, physics professor at Western Michigan University
* Abraham Karem, designer of fixed and rotary-wing unmanned aircraft, regarded as the founding father of drone technology
* Majid Khadduri, academic and founder of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies Middle East Studies program
* Jessica Meir, NASA astronaut, marine biologist, and physiologist
* Thomas L. Saaty, Assyrian-Iraqi professor at the University of Pittsburgh
* Nada Shabout, art historian and Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas
* Ella Shohat, professor, author and activist
* Saadi Simawe, translator, novelist and teacher
* Donny George Youkhanna, archaeologist, anthropologist, author, curator, and scholar, and visiting professor at Stony Brook University in New York

## Activists

* Faisal Saeed Al Mutar, human rights activist and social entrepreneur
* Amir Ashour, LGBT Rights activist

## Actors

* Yasmine Hanani, actress known for her role in Voices of Iraq and The Kingdom
* Nicholas Kadi, actor
* Chris Kattan, comedian and actor; best known for his work on Saturday Night Live; paternal grandfather was of Iraqi Jewish descent
* Jemima Kirke, artist, actress and director
* Lola Kirke, actress and singer-songwriter
* Michael Nouri, actor; father is from Iraq
* Heather Raffo, award-winning playwright/actress most known for her role in 9 Parts of Desire
* Basam Ridha, actor
* Alia Shawkat, actress known as Maeby Fünke on Arrested Development, father is from Iraq

## Architecture

* Hisham N. Ashkouri, architect

## Artists

* M. J. Alhabeeb, calligrapher
* Sama Raena Alshaibi, artist
* Halla Ayla, artist
* Zigi Ben-Haim, painter and sculptor
* Wafaa Bilal, artist and professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
* Hayv Kahraman, artist/painter
* Toba Khedoori, artist

## Business

* Efrem Harkham, hotelier and philanthropist
* David Hindawi, software entrepreneur, co-founder of cybersecurity firm Tanium
* Huda Kattan, CEO of Huda Beauty
* Shakir al Khafaji, businessman
* Moishe Mana, businessman and real estate developer
* Selim Zilkha, entrepreneur
* Alina Habba, Donald Trump's personal attorney

## Comedians

* Brian Awadis, also known as FaZe Rug
* Remy Munasifi, also known as GoRemy

## Directors

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

## Military

* Ahmed Qusai al-Taayie, soldier
* Ahmed K. Altaie, Specialist in the United States Army, killed in Iraq

## Models

* Amy Fadhli, fitness model, actress and winner of the Fitness America National Champion 1996

## Musicians

* Hanan Alattar, soprano opera singer
* Rahim AlHaj, musician and composer
* Ahmed El Faleh, singer who participated in Super Star 3, the pan-Arabic version of Pop Idol
* Amir ElSaffar, musician and younger brother of Dena
* Sargon Gabriel, Assyrian singer
* Juliana Jendo, Assyrian singer
* Chemda Khalili, singer-songwriter and co-host of the Keith and The Girl podcast
* Stephan Said, musician, writer and political activist
* Ashur Bet Sargis, Assyrian singer
* Janan Sawa, Assyrian musician
* TIMZ, rapper

## Politics

* Rend al-Rahim Francke, politician, political activist and once held the position as Iraqi ambassador to the United States
* Ayham al-Samarie, politician
* Adam Benjamin, Jr., Assyrian-Iraqi, Indiana Congressman
* Wadie Deddeh, Assyrian assemblyman and California State Senator
* Anna Eshoo, Assyrian-Iraqi, California Congressman
* John Nimrod, Assyrian-Iraqi, Illinois Senator
* Qubad Talabani, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) representative in Washington DC and son of Iraqi president Jalal Talabani

## Sports

* Alex Agase, Assyrian-American, American football (Gridiron) player
* Lou Agase, Assyrian-American, American football (Gridiron) player
* Najah Ali, boxer
* Steven Beitashour, Assyrian who played in Major League Soccer
* Falah Hassan, footballer
* Justin Meram, Assyrian U.S. based soccer player
* Michael Shabaz, Assyrian American tennis player

## Writers and journalists

* Lorraine Ali, reporter, editor, culture writer and music critic for Newsweek
* Ibrahim al-Marashi, academic plagiarized by the British government
* Alise Alousi, 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
* Sargon Boulus, Assyrian-Iraqi
* Abdul Ameer Yousef Habeeb, journalist
* Jack Marshall (author), poet and author
* Dunya Mikhail, poet
* Armand Nassery, author and filmmaker
* 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
* Mahmoud Saeed, Iraqi novelist
* Zainab Salbi, writer, activist, co-founder and president of Women for Women International
* Cindy Sargon, Assyrian-Iraqi TV chef
* Anita Sarkeesian, Canadian-American feminist media critic and public speaker. Her parents are Armenians from Iraq who emigrated to Canada in the 1970s
* Rachel Wahba, writer
* Thura Al Windawi, author
* Obelit Yadgar, Assyrian-Iraqi-Radio Glendale, Wisconsin

## Other

* Husham Al-Husainy, Sheikh of the Karbala Islamic Education Center
* Noor Almaleki, honor killing victim
* Hassan Al-Qazwini, religious leader
* Mohammed Odeh al-Rehaief, attorney who helped the United States armed forces rescue Jessica Lynch from Iraq
* Aban Elias, civil engineer (held hostage and has not been heard from)
* Samir Gegea, Iraqi interpreter who captured Saddam Hussein
* Jumana Hanna, involved in war propaganda
* Farris Hassan
* Steven Menashi, lawyer who serves as a US judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
* Michael Mizrachi, professional poker player (Iraqi Jewish father)
* Robert Mizrachi, professional poker player and older brother of Michael Mizrachi
* Mohammad Munaf, terrorist
* Samuel Nalo, businessman, hijacker, burglar, and brother of Robert
* Nadya Suleman, gave birth to octuplets in January 2008
* Abdul Rahman Yasin, suspected terrorist