محسن الحكيم
He was born in 1911 CE to the al-Hakim Family of scholars. His father was Sayyid Ahmad al-Hakim. His teachers included his uncle, Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhsin al-Hakim, Sheikh Hussain al-Hilli, and Ayatollah Muhammad Hussain al-Isfehani. He had five sons who also became religious scholars, including Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Mohammad Saeed Al-Hakim, who is one of the top four Grand Ayatollahs of Iraq, alongside Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali al-Sistani.