:''This is a list of modern individuals. For early Christian authors, see

List of Syriac writers Syriac literature is literature in the Syriac language. It is a tradition going back to the Late Antiquity. It is strongly associated with Syriac Christianity. Terminology In modern Syriac studies, and also within the wider field of Aramaic stu ...

. For ancient Assyrians, see :Ancient Assyrians.'' The following is a list of notable ethnic

Assyrians Assyrian may refer to: * Assyrian people, the indigenous ethnic group of Mesopotamia. * Assyria, a major Mesopotamian kingdom and empire. ** Early Assyrian Period ** Old Assyrian Period ** Middle Assyrian Empire ** Neo-Assyrian Empire * Assyrian ...

. It includes persons who are from (or whose ancestry is from) the Mesopotamian

Neo-Aramaic The Neo-Aramaic or Modern Aramaic languages are varieties of Aramaic that evolved during the late medieval and early modern periods, and continue to the present day as vernacular (spoken) languages of modern Aramaic-speaking communities. Within ...

speaking populations originating in

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

, north western

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkm ...

, north eastern Syria and south eastern

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

Activists

* Ninos Aho – poet and founding father of modern

Assyrian nationalism Assyrian nationalism is a movement of the Assyrian people that advocates for independence or autonomy within the regions they inhabit in northern Iraq, northeastern Syria, northwestern Iran, and southeastern Turkey. The Assyrian people claim d ...

Freydun Atturaya Freydun Bet-Abram ( syr, ܒܝܬ ܐܒܪܡ ܐܬܘܪܝܐ; 1891 – 2 October 1926), better known as Freydun Atturaya (ܦ̮ܪܝܕܢ ܐܬܘܪܝܐ), was an Assyrian national leader, politician, doctor and poet. Atturaya was one of the founders of the f ...

– physician, poet and founder of the first Assyrian political party, the Assyrian Socialist Party *

Wilson Bet-Mansour Wilson may refer to: People *Wilson (name) ** List of people with given name Wilson ** List of people with surname Wilson * Wilson (footballer, 1927–1998), Brazilian manager and defender *Wilson (footballer, born 1984), full name Wilson Rod ...

– Physician, Assyrian and Chaldean Member of Parliament of Iran 1968-1976, Founder and First Secretary General of Assyrian Universal Alliance (AUA), Founder publisher and editor of Atour newspaper published monthly in Assyrian, English and Farsi from 1968-1979 with a global circulation, Founder of first global Assyrian political party Nineveh Liberation Party 1969-1979; Founder of representation for AUA at UNPO (Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organizations) 1992

* Lado Davidov – Soviet soldier during the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...

and

Hero of the Soviet Union The title Hero of the Soviet Union (russian: Герой Советского Союза, translit=Geroy Sovietskogo Soyuza) was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded together with the Order of Lenin personally or collectively for ...

Naum Faiq Naum Elias Yaqub Palakh (February 1868 – February 5, 1930), better known as Naum Faiq (, Naˁum Fayëq), was one of the founding fathers of modern Assyrian nationalism during the early 20th century. He was a teacher and writer throughout his life ...

– writer, poet and founding father of modern Assyrian nationalism * Jumana Hanna – involved in anti Baath war propaganda, torture victim * Reine Hanna – Director of the ''Assyrian Policy Institute'' *

Nuri Kino Nuri Kino, (born February 25, 1965, in Tur Abdin), is a Swedish-Assyrian award-winning investigative journalist, documentary filmmaker, author and human rights expert. He is the author of several nonfiction books, and hundreds of stories and repo ...

– award-winning journalist, documentary filmmaker, author, human rights expert, and founder o
A Demand for Action
*

Rosie Malek-Yonan Rosie Malek-Yonan (b. July 4, 1965) is an Assyrian-American actress, author, director, public figure and activist. Malek-Yonan became a noted pianist at an early age. Having graduated from the University of Cambridge, she settled in the United ...

– actress, author, director, public figure and human rights activist *

Hurmiz Malik Chikko Hurmiz Malik Chikko ( syr, ܗܘܪܡܘܙ ܡܵܠܸܟ ܟ̰ܝܟܘ), also sometimes spelled Hormiz Malek Chikko, (1934 - December 2, 1963) was an Assyrian advocate and army leader. He led the Assyrian armed struggle against the ruling Ba'ath Party in ...

– martyr and leader of the Assyrian armed struggle against the Ba'ath regime in Iraq in the late 1950s – early 1960s *

Farid Nazha Farid Elias Nazha ( syr, ܦܪܝܕ ܐܠܝܐܣ ܢܙܗܝ, ; 10 January 1894 in Hama, Syria – 19 October 1970)Juliana Taimoorazy Juliana Taimoorazy ( syr, ܓ̰ܘܠܝܢܐ ܬܡܪ̈ܙܐ; born 1973) is an Assyrian American activist from Iran. She is the founder and current president of the Iraqi Christian Relief Council, a position that she's held since its inception in 2007. ...

– founder and president of the

Iraqi Christian Relief Council The Iraqi Christian Relief Council (ICRC) is an Assyrian-based Christian nonprofit organization founded in 2007 by Assyrian activist Juliana Taimoorazy. The ICRC describes its primary purpose as being to advance the humanitarian and political p ...

, senior fellow at the Philos Project

Actors, directors and entertainers

* F. Murray Abraham –

Academy Award The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment in ...

-winning actor * Brian Awadis – YouTuber *

Henri Charr Henri Charr, also credited as H. Charr, is an Assyrian filmmaker born in Iran and living in Southern California Southern California (commonly shortened to SoCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises the southern portio ...

– director * Michael Denkha – actor *

Naguib el-Rihani Naguib el-Rihani ( ar, نجيب الريحاني; January 21, 1889 in Cairo – June 8, 1949 in Alexandria) was an Egyptian film and stage actor. Biography Born in Bab El Shereya, Cairo to a middle class family. His father, a Christian who ...

– actor *

Fares Fares Fares Fares (; born 29 April 1973) is a Swedish-Lebanese actor of Assyrian descent. Early life Fares was born in Beirut, Lebanon. His younger brother is director Josef Fares, and he has four sisters. In 1987, when Fares was 14 years old, hi ...

– Swedish-Lebanese actor *

Andre Khabbazi Andre Khabbazi (born January 15, 1975, in Sacramento, California), a son of Assyrian American parents. Based in Los Angeles, California, he started his artistic career as an actor in several television series and soap operas and later on sta ...

– actor * Iloosh Khoshabe - actor; bodybuilder *

– journalist; filmmaker *

Terrence Malick Terrence Frederick Malick (born November 30, 1943) is an American filmmaker. His films include '' Days of Heaven'' (1978), '' The Thin Red Line'' (1998), for which he received Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenpl ...

– Academy Award-nominated director

Artists and designers

* Eser Afacan – painter, and sculptor * Hannibal Alkhas – sculptor, painter and author * Issa Benyamin – calligrapher *

Raad Ghantous Raad Ghantous (born in Baghdad, Iraq) is an interior designer who was involved in the redesigning of the Cultural Center in San Clemente. Early life His mother was half Lebanese and half Assyrian, of the Chaldean Catholic church. His father ...

– interior designer *

Thea Halo Thea Halo (born 1941) is an American writer and painter of Assyrian and Pontic Greek heritage. Born in New York City, she is the 8th child of Abraham and Sano Halo (original name Euthemia "Themia", Pontic Greek: Ευθυμία). Thea began writin ...

– painter and writer * Farouk Kaspaules – artist * Paulus Khofri – painter, lyricist and composer * Jim Marshall – photographer * Bishara Morad – artist * Fred Parhad – sculptor

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 ;Boxing * Mustafa Hamsho – Syrian Assyrian/Syriac Boxer, Middleweight *

George Issabeg George Issabeg (born 9 November 1930; date of death unknown) was an Iranian former boxer of Assyrian ethnicity who represented Iran at both the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics. In 1948, Issabeg competed in the welterweight classification. He lost in ...

– Iranian Assyrian Boxer; represented Iran in

1948 Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The Constitution of New Jersey (later subject to amendment) goes into effect. ** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British ...

and 1952 Summer Olympics * Anwar Oshana – Syrian Assyrian Boxer, Super Middleweight in USA. Illinois State Champion *

Shoura Osipov Eskandar (Alexander) Shura Ossipoff is a former Assyrian boxer who represented Iran at the 1948 Summer Olympics Iran competed at the Summer Olympic Games for the first time at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, England. 36 competitors, all men ...

– Iranian Assyrian Boxer 1948 Summer Olympics representing Iran ;Football (soccer) *

Douglas Aziz Douglas Aziz Shamasha Eshaya (; born 1 January 1942) is an Iraqi former football player and caretaker coach. He represented the Iraq national team, and is ethnically Assyrian. Club career He was a pillar for club and country during the late 1 ...

– Iraqi Assyrian Footballer *

Ammo Baba Emmanuel Baba Dawud (27 November 1934 – 27 May 2009), better known as Ammo Baba ( ar, عمو بابا, syr, ܥܡܘ ܒܒܐ), was an Iraqi Assyrian football player and coach of the Iraq national football team. He scored the first international ...

– Iraqi Assyrian footballer and Manager of Iraq – Iraq International. Voted best Iraqi Athlete of All Time *

Saad Benyamin Saad Abdul-Hameed (born 21 October 1968) is an Iraqi former international football player. An ethnic Assyrian, Benyamin played for Al-Zawraa, Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya, Al-Shorta, and Club Africain. In 1988, Saad was called up to play for the Iraqi U-19 ...

– Iraqi Assyrian Footballer – Iraq International *

Edison David Edison Eshay David (; 5 December 1933 – 24 July 2020) was an Iraqi football player who played for the Iraq national team and Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya in the 1950s and 1960s. Born in Iraq, David was of Assyrian descent. Career After starting his so ...

– Iraqi Assyrian footballer * Youra Eshaya – Iraqi Assyrian footballer, first Iraqi to play professionally in the west, for

Bristol Rovers Bristol Rovers Football Club are a professional football club in Bristol, England. They compete in League One, the third tier of the English football league system. They play home matches at the Memorial Stadium in Horfield, they have been ...

, England – Iraq International *

Basil Gorgis Hanna Basil Gewargis Hanna or Basil Korkis ( ar, باسل كوركيس ) (born 8 January 1961) is a former Iraqi international football player of Assyrian descent. Despite having a short career, he is considered to be one of the best players of all ...

– Iraqi Assyrian footballer – World Cup Player 1986 *

Aram Karam Aram Karam (; born 1926) was one of the first great Iraqi footballers, who earned a reputation for scoring goals from apparently impossible long-range situations. He was an ethnic Assyrian and Christian Christians () are people who follow ...

– Iraqi Assyrian Footballer – Iraq International * Ayoub Odisho – Iraqi Assyrian Footballer and Club Manager (in Lebanon) * Thamer Yousif – Iraqi Assyrian Footballer – Iraq International ;Tennis *Andrew Simon – Iraqi Assyrian Tennis Champion

Diaspora

;American football *

Alex Agase Alexander Arrasi Agase (March 27, 1922 – May 3, 2007) was an American football guard and linebacker who was named an All-American three times in college and played on three Cleveland Browns championship teams before becoming head football coa ...

– Assyrian American – top level American Football (Gridiron) player *

Lou Agase Lou Agase (August 2, 1924 – June 26, 2006) was an American gridiron football player and coach of Assyrian ancestry. Agase played tight end and offensive tackle for the Illinois Fighting Illini football team from 1944 to 1947. He was a memb ...

– Assyrian American – top level American Football (Gridiron) player ;Boxing * Mustafa Hamsho *Sammy Merza – USA based Middleweight * Anwar Oshana – Assyrian American Super Middleweight boxer, Illinois State Champion * Isho Shiba – Assyrian Canadian Boxer – Canadian Champion ;Fencing (sabre) * George Yako - Assyrian/Australian sabre fencer - Australian based ;Football (soccer) * Alexander Alkhazov – Assyrian Russian footballer – plays for

FC Krylia Sovetov Samara PFC Krylia Sovetov Samara (russian: Профессиональный футбольный клуб «Крылья Советов» Самара) is a football club from Russia based in Samara. It returned to the Russian Premier League for the 2 ...

Zaya Avdysh Zaya Avdysh ( uk, Зая Зедович Авдиш) was a Soviet football player and Ukrainian football coach of Assyrian people, Assyrian ethnic origin and the president of FC Polissya Zhytomyr in 1999–2004. Zaya was a brother of another foot ...

– Assyrian Ukrainian footballer – Ukrainian based *

Kennedy Bakircioglu Kennedy Bakircioglu (born 2 November 1980) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is best remembered for his time with Hammarby IF, with whom he won the 2001 Allsvenskan and 2014 Superettan titles. He also re ...

– Assyrian Swedish International Footballer – Sweden based – Swedish International player *

Abgar Barsom Abgar Barsom (born 4 September 1977) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Club career He made his first spell at Djurgårdens IF from 2000 to 2002, after having joined Djurgårdens IF from BK Forward. He was ...

– Assyrian Swedish footballer *

Stefan Batan Stefan Batan ( ;born 20 March 1985) is a Swedish footballer who plays for Assyriska FF as a defender. Career Batan began his career at Assyriska Föreningen. He made his first appearance in the first-team squad in Superettan during the 2003 ...

– Assyrian Swedish footballer – plays for Assyriska *

Steven Beitashour Steven Mehrdad Beitashour ( ; fa, استیون مهرداد بیت‌آشور , ; born February 1, 1987) is a professional soccer player who currently plays as a right-back for Colorado Rapids. Born in the United States, he represented the I ...

– currently plays for

Los Angeles FC Los Angeles Football Club, commonly referred to as LAFC, is an American professional Association football team based in Los Angeles. The club competes in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member club of the league's Western Conference. The club ...

Major League Soccer Major League Soccer (MLS) is a men's professional soccer league sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation, which represents the sport's highest level in the United States. The league comprises 29 teams—26 in the U.S. and 3 in Cana ...

international * Louay Chanko – Assyrian Syrian footballer – Denmark based – Syrian International player *

Imad Chhadeh Imad Chhadeh (born 12 October 1979 in Damascus) is a Swedish-Assyrian footballer who currently plays under contract for Swedish side Assyriska The following is a List of Assyrian-Syriac football teams in Sweden. The Swedish football league ...

– Assyrian Swedish Footballer – plays for Assyriska * Daniyel Cimen – Assyrian German footballer * Christian Demirtas – Assyrian German footballer – German based *

Sargon Duran Sargon Duran (born 31 January 1987) is an Austrian former professional association football, footballer who played as a centre-back. He is the assistant manager of FK Austria Wien, Austria Wien. Coaching career In July 2018, Duran was appointed ...

– Assyrian Austrian footballer – plays for FC Sollenau * Jimmy Durmaz – Assyrian Swedish Footballer *

David Durmaz David Durmaz (born 21 December 1981) is a Swedish-Assyrian- Turkish footballer who plays as a defender for Assyriska FF. Durmaz, of Assyrian origin from southeastern Turkey, also holds Turkish citizenship. He is a relative of Jimmy Durmaz. ...

– Assyrian Swedish Footballer – plays for

Syrianska FC Syrianska Football Club, also known as Syrianska FC or simply Syrianska, is a Swedish professional football club based in Södertälje in Stockholm County. The club was founded by Syriac-Aramean immigrants in 1977 as Suryoyo Sportklubb, or Sury ...

Ninos Gouriye Ninos Gouriye (born 14 January 1991) is a Dutch footballer who currently plays as a winger. He formerly played for the Dutch Eerste Divisie club Cambuur as a forward. Personal life Gouriye's brothers, Sargon and Teglat, and his cousin Arthu ...

– Assyrian Dutch footballer *

Andreas Haddad Andreas Daniel Gabriel Haddad ( ar, أندرياس دانييل غابرييل حداد), formerly Andreas Daniel Gabriel Turander ( ar, أندرياس دانييل غابرييل توراندير; born on 5 May 1982) is a Swedish-Assyrian reti ...

– Assyrian Swedish footballer – plays for Assyriska * Dani Hamzo – Assyrian Swedish Footballer – plays for Assyriska * Zurab Ionanidze – Assyrian Georgian International footballer – Georgian International player *

Mikael Ishak Mikael Ishak (born 31 March 1993) is a Swedish professional footballer of Assyrian descent who plays as a striker for Ekstraklasa club Lech Poznań. Beginning his career with Assyriska FF in 2010, he has gone on to play professionally in German ...

– Assyrian Swedish Footballer – plays for Assyriska *

Leena Khamis Leena Khamis (born 19 June 1986) is an Australian soccer player who plays for Perth Glory in the A-League Women. Biography Khamis was born in the Sydney suburb of Camden and is of Assyrian heritage. Her family is heavily involved in football, ...

– Assyrian Australian Female footballer – Australian Women's Football International * Sanharib Malki – Assyrian Syrian footballer – Dutch based (

Roda JC Sportvereniging Roda Juliana Combinatie Kerkrade (; Ripuarian: ), also known as Roda JC Kerkrade () or commonly Roda JC or Roda, is a Dutch professional football club based in Kerkrade, Netherlands. Roda JC Kerkrade plays in the Eerste Divisie ...

) – Syrian International player * Justin Meram – Assyrian USA based Soccer player *

Ilyas Merkes Ilyas Merkes (born January 8, 1987, in Al-Hasakah) is a retired Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al- ...

– Assyrian Syrian footballer – Syrian International player, plays for Assyriska *

George Mourad George Mourad ( ar, جورج مراد; born 18 September 1982) is a former professional footballer who played as a striker. Mourad represented both Sweden and Syria internationally. Club career After playing for Västra Frölunda IF, he joine ...

– Assyrian Syrian footballer – Iran based – Syrian International player *

Eddie Moussa Eddie Moussa ( ar, إدي موسى; 20 March 1984 – 1 July 2010) was a professional football player. He carried both Swedish and Lebanese citizenship, and was of Assyrian descent. Club career He played in Sweden for Assyriska Föreningen dur ...

– Assyrian Swedish Footballer – plays for Assyriska *

Michel Noyan Michel may refer to: * Michel (name), a given name or surname of French origin (and list of people with the name) * Míchel (nickname), a nickname (a list of people with the nickname, mainly Spanish footballers) * Míchel (footballer, born 1963), ...

– Assyrian Swedish Footballer – plays for Assyriska *

Gabriel Özkan Gabriel Özkan (; born May 23, 1986, in Stockholm) is a Swedish-Assyrian-Turkish football player who last played for IF Brommapojkarna. Gabriel joined AIK in the summer of 2006 from Brommapojkarna, after coming through the youth academy before ...

– Assyrian Swedish Footballer – plays for

AIK Fotboll AIK Fotboll (), more commonly known simply as AIK (), an abbreviation for Allmänna Idrottsklubben (meaning ''the public'' or ''general sports club''), is a Swedish football club competing in Allsvenskan, the top flight of Swedish football. The ...

* Frans Dhia Putros – Assyrian Danish footballer – plays for

Hobro IK Hobro Idræts Klub () is a professional association football club based in the town of Hobro, Denmark, that competes in the 1st Division, the second tier of the Danish football league system. Founded in 1913, it is known by the short names 'Hob ...

Denmark ) , song = ( en, "King Christian stood by the lofty mast") , song_type = National and royal anthem , image_map = EU-Denmark.svg , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of Denmark , establishe ...

Mario Shabow Mario Shabow (born 5 May 1998) is an Australian professional football player. He currently plays for Blacktown City FC. Early life Shabow was born in Baghdad, Iraq. At the age of six, his family moved to Australia in 2004, due to the unsettled ...

– Assyrian Australian footballer – plays for

Central Coast Mariners Central Coast Mariners Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Gosford, on the Central Coast of New South Wales. It competes in the A-League Men, under licence from the Australian Professional Leagues (APL). The ...

in the Australian

A-League A-League Men (known as the Isuzu UTE A-League for sponsorship reasons) is the highest-level professional men's soccer league in Australia and New Zealand. At the top of the Australian league system, it is the country's premier men's competit ...

Suleyman Sleyman Suleyman Sleyman (born 28 December 1979) is a Swedish former professional association football, footballer who played as a Defender (football), defender. Club career Sleyman joined Hammarby Fotboll, Hammarby IF from Syrianska FC in 1998. He s ...

– Assyrian Swedish Footballer – plays for

* Rebin Sulaka – Assyrian Swedish footballer – Iraq International *

Jasar Takak Jasar Takak (born 4 March 1982) is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Career Early career Born in 's-Hertogenbosch by Aramean parents from Turkey, Takak started his career with local side RKVV Sint-Michielsges ...

– Dutch based Assyrian footballer, formerly of

Vitesse Arnhem Vitesse may refer to: * Vitesse Models, a diecast model car company * Vitesse (band), Dutch rock band * Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse, a car * Rover 216 Vitesse, a car * Rover 3500 Vitesse, a car * Rover 800 Vitesse, a car * Triumph Vit ...

Sharbel Touma Sharbel Touma (; born 25 March 1979) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a winger. Beginning his career with Syrianska in the mid-1990s, he went on to represent Djurgårdens IF, AIK, Halmstad, Twente, Borussia Mönchen ...

– Assyrian Swedish Footballer – plays for

Gabriel Ucar Gabriel Ucar (born 12 March 1982) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a defender. Ucar grew up in Landskrona, a town in Scania, Sweden and became an own product for Landskrona BoIS. He was among the players who in 2001 g ...

– Assyrian Swedish Footballer – plays for

Ängelholms FF Ängelholms FF is a football club based in Ängelholm, Sweden. The club is affiliated to Skånes Fotbollförbund and play their home games at Ängelholms IP. The club was formed in 1976 as a merger between Ängelholms IF and Skörpinge GIF. T ...

, and previously for

Irish Irish may refer to: Common meanings * Someone or something of, from, or related to: ** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe ***Éire, Irish language name for the isle ** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit ...

team Derry City *

Daniel Unal Daniel Unal (born 18 January 1990, in Locarno) is a Swiss former footballer of Aramean origin who played as a midfielder. Club career Unal played his youth football with FC Locarno and in 2005 he moved to AC Bellinzona. In 2006 he advanced to t ...

– Assyrian Turkish footballer – plays for FC Basle in Switzerland *

Andreas Yacoub-Haddad Andreas Daniel Gabriel Haddad ( ar, أندرياس دانييل غابرييل حداد), formerly Andreas Daniel Gabriel Turander ( ar, أندرياس دانييل غابرييل توراندير; born on 5 May 1982) is a Swedish-Assyrian reti ...

– Assyrian Swedish Footballer – played for Assyriska * Christer Youssef – Assyrian Swedish Footballer – plays for

Djurgårdens IF Djurgårdens Idrottsförening, commonly known simply as Djurgårdens IF, Djurgården (), and (especially locally) Djurgår'n (), Dif or DIF – is a Swedish sports association with several sections, located in Stockholm. Name The club is nam ...

;Martial Arts *

Beneil Dariush Beneil Khobier Dariush (born May 6, 1989) is an Assyrian-American professional mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Lightweight division in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). As of October 24, 2022, he is #4 in the UFC lightw ...

– Assyrian American

Mixed martial arts Mixed martial arts (MMA), sometimes referred to as cage fighting, no holds barred (NHB), and ultimate fighting, and originally referred to as Vale Tudo is a full-contact combat sport based on strike (attack), striking, grappling and ground f ...

(MMA) *

Randa Markos Randa Cemil Markos-Thomas (born August 10, 1985) is an Iraqi-born Canadian professional mixed martial artist who competes in the strawweight division. She most notably fought in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Personal life Markos wa ...

– Assyrian Canadian

(MMA) *

Tiras Odisho Tiras Odisho is an ethnic Assyrian former Martial Arts practitioner and expert who has served as the Director General of the National Olympic Committee of Iraq. He currently resides in Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The U ...

– Assyrian Iraqi

Karate (; ; Okinawan pronunciation: ) is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Kingdom. It developed from the indigenous Ryukyuan martial arts (called , "hand"; ''tii'' in Okinawan) under the influence of Chinese martial arts, particularly Fuj ...

champion, currently Director General of

National Olympic Committee of Iraq The National Olympic Committee of Iraq (NOCI) ( ar, اللجنة الاولمبية الوطنية العراقية) is the National Olympic Committee (NOC) for Iraq. It was established in 1948 and recognized by the International Olympic Committ ...

Mikhail Sado Mikhail Yukhanovich Sado ( Russian: ''Михаил Юханович Садо'', Syriac: ''ܡܝܟ݂ܐܝܠ ܒܝܬ ܣܗܕܐ Mixael bit Sahda''), (June 9, 1934 – August 30, 2010 ) was an Assyrian Russian linguist, scholar, Professor of Semitic lan ...

– Assyrian Russian

Wrestling Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat ...

champion * David Teymur – Assyrian Swedish

(MMA) ;Poker *

Daniel Alaei Daniel Christopher Alaei (born 1982) is a professional poker player from Santa Fe Springs, California. He is of Assyrian descent. Primarily a $50–100 no-limit Texas hold 'em cash game player, Alaei won his first World Series of Poker bra ...

;Tennis *

Andre Agassi Andre Kirk Agassi ( ; born April 29, 1970) is an American former world No. 1 tennis player. He is an eight-time major champion and an Olympic gold medalist, as well as a runner-up in seven other majors. Agassi is the second of five men to ac ...

– former world number one American tennis player of Assyrian and Armenian descent *

– American actor and semi-pro tennis player *

Michael Shabaz Michael Shabaz (born August 20, 1987) is an Assyrian-American tennis player who won the 2005 Wimbledon boys' doubles championship with Jesse Levine. He is an NCAA tennis player for the University of Virginia The University of Virginia ...

– American tennis player

Educators and explorers

Aba I Aba I (or, with his Syriac honorific, Mar Aba I) or Mar Abba the Great was the Patriarch of the Church of the East at Seleucia-Ctesiphon from 540 to 552. He introduced to the church the anaphoras of Theodore of Mopsuestia and Nestorius beside t ...

– philosopher, astronomer *

Aphrahat Aphrahat (c. 280–c. 345; syr, ܐܦܪܗܛ ''Ap̄rahaṭ'', ar, أفراهاط الحكيم, , grc, Ἀφραάτης, and Latin ''Aphraates'') was a Syriac Christian author of the third century from the Persian / Sasanian Empire who composed ...

– 3rd century theologian *

Toma Audo Mar Toma Audo ( syr, ܬܐܘܡܐ ܐܘܕܘ), also spelled Thomas Audo (October 10, 1854 - July 27, 1918) was Archbishop of the Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Urmia (1890-1918), within the Chaldean Catholic Church.Babai (Nestorian Patriarch) Babai, also Babaeus, was Catholicos of Seleucia-Ctesiphon and Patriarch of the Church of the East from 497 to 503. Under his leadership, the Church in Sasanian Empire (Persia) became increasingly aligned with the Nestorian movement, declared he ...

– bishop *

Babai the Great Babai the Great ( , c. 551 – 628) was an early church father of the Church of the East. He set several of the foundational pillars of the Church, revived the monastic movement, and formulated its Christology in a systematic way. He served as a ...

– philosopher, theologian *

Bardaisan Bardaisan (11 July 154 – 222 AD; syr, ܒܪ ܕܝܨܢ, ''Bardaiṣān''), known in Arabic as Ibn Daisan (ابن ديصان) and in Latin as Bardesanes, was a Syriac-speaking Assyrian or ParthianProds Oktor Skjaervo. ''Bardesanes''. Encyclopædi ...

– philosopher *

Paul Bedjan Paul Bedjan (27 November 1838 – 9 June 1920) was an Assyrian priest of the Chaldean Catholic Church and a Syriacist and orientalist. Born in Khosrova, Persia, an ethnic Assyrian, he was born into a Chaldean Catholic family, and enrolled as ...

Bukhtishu The Bukhtīshūʿ (or Boḵtīšūʿ) were a family of either Persian or Nestorian Christian physicians from the 7th, 8th, and 9th centuries, spanning six generations and 250 years. The Middle Persian- Syriac name which can be found as early as ...

- were a family of

Assyria Assyria (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: , romanized: ''māt Aššur''; syc, ܐܬܘܪ, ʾāthor) was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization which existed as a city-state at times controlling regional territories in the indigenous lands of the As ...

Nestorian Christian Nestorianism is a term used in Christian theology and Church history to refer to several mutually related but doctrinarily distinct sets of teachings. The first meaning of the term is related to the original teachings of Christian theologian ...

physician A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through th ...

s from the 7th, 8th, and 9th centuries, spanning six generations and 250 years. * Louis Cheikhô – Assyrian Orientalist *

Hind Rassam Culhane Hind Rassam Culhane is an Iraqi-born American educator and former journalist. Early life and education Rassam Culhane was born in Mosul, Iraq, to an Iraqi-Assyrian father and a Lebanese mother. As a child, she and her family moved to the Unite ...

– lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies and behavioural scientist *

Fuat Deniz Fuat Deniz ( syr, ܦܘܐܕ ܕܢܝܙ; 24 July 1967 – 13 December 2007) was a Swedish sociologist and writer of Assyrian descent. Until his murder in 2007, he worked as a lecturer in sociology at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at ...

– writer and professor of sociology at Örebro University *

Mor Philoxenos Yuhanon Dolabani Mor Philexinos Yuhanon Dolabani ( syr, ܦܝܠܘܟܣܝܢܘܣ ܝܘܚܢܢ ܕܘܠܒܐܢܝ); (1885–1969) was the Syriac Orthodox Metropolitan of Mardin, Turkey and its Environs. Biography Dolabani was born in 1885 and was ordained Metropolitan in 19 ...

– scholar, poet, editor, and translator *

Eprime Eshag Eprime Eshag ( fa, اپريم اسحاق , born Urmia, Iran, 6 November 1918 – died Oxford, England, 24 November 1998) was an Assyrian-Iranian-born Keynesian socialist economist.Golestan, Ebrahim and Andrew Roth (1998) Keynes's Iranian pupil, ...

– academic, professor *

Hunayn ibn Ishaq Hunayn ibn Ishaq al-Ibadi (also Hunain or Hunein) ( ar, أبو زيد حنين بن إسحاق العبادي; (809–873) was an influential Nestorian Christian translator, scholar, physician, and scientist. During the apex of the Islamic ...

– scholar, physician, scientist, and translator * Emanuel Kamber *

George Kiraz George Anton Kiraz ( syr, ܓܘܪܓܝ ܒܪ ܐܢܛܘܢ ܕܒܝܬ ܟܝܪܐܙ; born 1965) is a Syriac engineer and entrepreneur, best known for his contribution to modern Syriac studies. Biography George Kiraz was born in Bethlehem to a Syriac Ortho ...

– computational linguist *

Kanan Makiya Kanan Makiya (born 1949) is an Iraqi-American academic and professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University. He gained international attention with ''Republic of Fear'' (1989), a best-selling book, after Saddam Hussein's in ...

– academic, professor *

Masawaiyh Yuhanna ibn Masawaih (circa 777–857), ( ar, يوحنا بن ماسويه), also written Ibn Masawaih, Masawaiyh, and in Latin Janus Damascenus, or Mesue, Masuya, Mesue Major, Msuya, and Mesuë the Elder was a Persian or Assyrian East Syriac C ...

– physician *

Eden Naby Eden Naby (born 1942) is an Assyrian-Iranian cultural historian of Central Asia and the Middle East. She was born in the once important Assyrian village of Golpashan, located outside Urmia in Iran. Eden Naby has conducted research, taught and publ ...

* Estiphan Panoussi – philosopher and oriental philologist * Philoxenos – theologian *

Hormuzd Rassam Hormuzd Rassam ( ar, هرمز رسام; syr, ܗܪܡܙܕ ܪܣܐܡ; 182616 September 1910), was an Assyriologist and author. He is known for making a number of important archaeological discoveries from 1877 to 1882, including the clay tablets th ...

– Assyriologist, and first-known

Middle Eastern The Middle East ( ar, الشرق الأوسط, ISO 233: ) is a geopolitical region commonly encompassing Arabia (including the Arabian Peninsula and Bahrain), Asia Minor (Asian part of Turkey except Hatay Province), East Thrace (Europea ...

archaeologist *Sandra Chimon Rogers – Dean, academic leader, doctor, professor, researcher, chemist, Alzheimer's preventative specialist, solid state NMR specialist, TEDx speaker, and award-winning innovator for education *Thomas L. Saaty – Iraqi born Assyrian American mathematician *

– Russian linguist, scholar, professor of Semitic languages, orientalist, politician, former paratrooper, and wrestling champion *Toma bar Yacoub – 9th Century theological historian *Donny George Youkhanna *Ashur Yousif

Entrepreneurs

*Narsai David – American restaurateur, chef, wine-maker, and author *Daniel Hadad – Argentine businessman involved in telecommunications and Broadcast media, media *Sue Ismiel – founder of Nad's, a multimillion-dollar wax and beauty company in Australia with distributions worldwide. *Milton Malek-Yonan – American inventor of Malekized Rice *Bob Miner – American businessman, co-founder of Oracle Corporation *Jeff Moorad – American businessman and investor, CEO of Major League Baseball, MLB's Arizona Diamondbacks, and Vice-Chairman and CEO of MLB's San Diego Padres *Victor Nacif – Mexian businessman, Vice President of Design at Nissan Design Europe *Tony Rezko – American businessman, political fundraiser, restaurateur, and real estate developer.

Leaders

*Malik Khoshaba – Assyrian Military leader World War I *Agha Petros – World War I Assyrian General *Ashur Yousif – professor and Assyrian nationalist

Media

*Ramona Amiri – Miss World Canada 2005 *John Batchelor – author; radio host *Jack Douglas (television host), Jack Douglas – television host *Claudia Hanna – Miss Iraq 2006 *Craig Morgan – sports journalist *Jennifer Aydin — reality television personality *Larsa Pippen — reality television personality *Cindy Sargon – Australian TV chef *Nancy Oshana Wehbe – body builder and model *Obelit Yadgar – American radio personality *Alfred Yaghobzadeh – Iranian photojournalist

Musicians and composers

* Evin Agassi * Mousey Alexander * Joseph Arabbo * Gabriel Asaad * Jamil Bashir * Munir Bashir * Ashur Bet Sargis * Aril Brikha * Sargon Gabriel * Linda George (Assyrian singer), Linda George * Nouri Iskandar * Juliana Jendo * Elias Karam *Sargon Kenoun * Paulus Khofri *Adwar Mousa *Habib Mousa *Hanna Petros *Janan Sawa *Timz *Marganita Vogt-Khofri *Elias Zazi

Politicians

*Dala Ashur – Assyrian Iraqi Army General of Saddam Hussein's Armed Forces *Tariq Aziz – Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq 1979–2003 (Real name Michael Youkhana) *Basim Bello – Mayor of Tel Kaif, Iraq *Yonathan Betkolia – Secretary General of the Assyrian Universal Alliance and Iranian Parliament, Iran Parliament Representative *Bahnam Zaya Bulos – Iraq Minister of Transport (2003–2004) *Basimah Yusuf Butrus – Iraq Minister of Science and Technology 2005–2006 *Kamel Hana Gegeo – chief bodyguard to Saddam Hussein *Franso Hariri – Mayor of Erbil *Fawzi Franso Hariri – Iraqi Council of Representatives, Iraq Parliament Representative, Current Minister of Industry in Iraq *Yonadam Kanna – Secretary General of the Assyrian Democratic Movement and Iraqi Council of Representatives, Iraq Parliament Representative *Sarkis Aghajan Mamendo – current Minister of Finance and Economy in Kurdistan Regional Government *Wijdan Michael – current Minister of Human Rights in Iraq *

– Director General of

– head of the Iraqi Olympic Committee *Ablahad Afraim Sawa – Iraqi Council of Representatives, Iraq Parliament Representative *Lady Surma D'Bait Mar Shimun (Surma Khanum) *Pascal Esho Warda – Iraq Minister of Immigration and Refugees 2003–2004 *Albert Edward Ismail Yelda – Iraq Ambassador to the Holy See, Vatican *Yusuf Salman Yusuf – Secretary General of Iraqi Communist Party 1941–1949

Iran

– co-founder of the Assyrian Socialist Party

Turkey

*Erol Dora – Deputy of Grand National Assembly of Turkey *

– Assyrian nationalist

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

United States

*Mark Arabo – politician based in San Diego, California *Adam Benjamin, Jr. – Indiana US Congress, Congressman *Wadie Deddeh - Former California State Senator *Anna Eshoo – California US Congress, Congresswoman *John Nimrod – Illinois Senator *Atour Sargon – Lincolnwood, Illinois, Lincolnwood Trustee#Local government in the United States, Trustee

Australia

*Ninos Khoshaba – former Member of the Parliament of New South Wales, New South Wales Parliament Sydney Australia *Andrew Rohan – current State Member for Smithfield New South Wales Parliament, and Fairfield City Council Councillor for the Liberal Party of Australia

Sweden

*Metin Ataseven – Parliament of Sweden, Sweden Parliament Representative *Ibrahim Baylan – Sweden Minister of Education 2004–2006 and Parliament of Sweden, Sweden Parliament Representative *Yilmaz Kerimo – Parliament of Sweden, Sweden Parliament Representative

Canada

*Helena Guergis – former Canadians, Canadian House of Commons of Canada, Member of Parliament and Minister of State (Canada), Minister of State (Status of Women)

Netherlands

*Attiya Gamri – Netherlands Parliament Representative, president of the Assyrian Confederation of Europe

Other countries

*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 *Sargon Dadesho – activist, author and leader of Assyrian National Congress *Eugene Dooman *Emmanuel Kamber – Assyrian Universal Alliance Secretary General

Religious figures

*Addagoppe of Harran *

, 551–628 *Bar Daisan *Bar-Hebraeus *Bar Sauma *Basile Georges Casmoussa *David Benjamin Keldani *Diodorus of Tarsus *Dinkha IV, 1935–2015 *Elias Mellus *Emil Shimoun Nona *Emmanuel III Delly *Ephrem the Syrian *George Garmo *Heliodorus of Bet Zabdai, Heliodorus – 4th Century Assyrian martyr *Henana of Adiabene *Ignatius Isaac Azar *Isaac of Nineveh *Isa Kelemechi *Jacob of Nisibis *Josephus Adjutus – 17th century theologian *Louis Cheikho *Nestorius *Paulos Faraj Rahho *Pkidha, 104–114 – first Bishop of Adiabene *Ragheed Aziz Ganni *Raphael I Bidawid *Sargis Bkheera, 633 AD *Shimun XXI Eshai *Shimun XIX Benyamin, 1903–1918 *Shlemon Warduni *Tatian, 120–180 *Theodore of Mopsuestia *Toma bar Yacoub *Mar Youhannan Semaan Issayi, Youhannan Semaan Issayi *Mar Yousip Khnanisho, Yousip Khnanisho, 1893–1977 *Yusuf Akbulut

Writers and poets

Ancient

Listed here are authors associated with Syriac Christianity regardless of whether they wrote in the Syriac language. *

*Bar Daysan *Iamblichus of Chalcis *John bar Penkaye *John of Ephesus *Lucian of Samosata, 125–after 180 – Assyrian rhetorician, writer and satirist who wrote in the Greek language *Moses Bar-Kepha *Philoxenus of Mabbog *Stephen Bar Sudhaile *Tatian

Modern

*Maria Theresa Asmar *Yosip Bet Yosip *Sargon Boulus *Nina Burleigh *William D. S. Daniel *

*Samuel John Hazo *Ivan Kakovitch * Paulus Khofri *George Lamsa *

*Dunya Mikhail *Alphonse Mingana *Murathan Mungan *Leilah Nadir *Heather Raffo *Mikhael K. Pius *Yuhanon Qashisho *Jacob of Serugh *Ishaya Shamasha Dawid Bet-Zia

References

External links

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Activists

Actors, directors and entertainers

Artists and designers

Athletes

In the Middle East

Diaspora

Educators and explorers

Entrepreneurs

Leaders

Media

Musicians and composers

Politicians

Iran

Turkey

United Nations

In the Assyrian diaspora

United States

Australia

Sweden

Canada

Netherlands

Other countries

Religious figures

Writers and poets

Ancient

Modern

See also

References

External links