:''This is a list of modern individuals. For early Christian authors, see List of Syriac writers. 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, north western Iran, north eastern

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

and south eastern Turkey.

Activists

Ninos Aho Ninos Aho ( syc, ܢܝܢܘܣ ܐܚܐ; April 24, 1945 – July 15, 2013), was an Assyrian poet and activist. He is recognized one of the pioneers of the modern Assyrian nationalistic movement. Biography Malfono Ninos Aho was born to an Assyrian fa ...

– poet and founding father of modern Assyrian nationalism * Freydun Atturaya – physician, poet and founder of the first Assyrian political party, the

Assyrian Socialist Party The Assyrian Socialist Party (Syriac: ''Gaba Shawtapaya Atouraya''), abbreviated as ASP or GSA, is an Assyrian political party primarily active in Iraq. Its original incarnation, founded by Freydun Atturaya, Benjamin Arsanis and Baba Parhad in Fe ...

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 Assyrian nationalism * Lado Davidov – Soviet soldier during the Second World War and Hero of the Soviet Union * Naum Faiq – writer, poet and founding father of modern Assyrian nationalism *

Jumana Hanna Jumana Michael/Mikhail Hanna ( ar, جُمانة ميخائيل حنّا; born c. 1962) is an Iraqi woman of Assyrian background who was imprisoned at the facility known as Al Kelab Al Sayba, or ''Loose Dogs'', during the rule of Saddam Hussein. ...

– involved in anti Baath war propaganda, torture victim * Reine Hanna – Director of the ''Assyrian Policy Institute'' * Nuri Kino – award-winning journalist, documentary filmmaker, author, human rights expert, and founder o
A Demand for Action
* Rosie Malek-Yonan – actress, author, director, public figure and human rights activist * Hurmiz Malik Chikko – martyr and leader of the Assyrian armed struggle against the Ba'ath regime in Iraq in the late 1950s – early 1960s * Farid Nazha – journalist and founding father of modern Assyrian nationalism * Juliana Taimoorazy – founder and president of the Iraqi Christian Relief Council, senior fellow at the Philos Project

Actors, directors and entertainers

* F. Murray Abraham – Academy Award-winning actor *

Brian Awadis Brian Awadis (born November 19, 1996), better known as FaZe Rug, is an American YouTuber who produces vlogs, challenges, gaming videos, and pranks on YouTube. He is a co-owner of FaZe Clan. He also is the most subscribed gamer in FaZe Clan on You ...

– YouTuber * Henri Charr – 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 wor ...

– actor * Fares Fares – 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 Ilush Khoshabe (1932–2012) was an Iranian bodybuilder and actor who was born to Assyrian parents in Geogtapa, Iran. In Assyrian, the name Khoshabe (or Khoshaba) means 'Sunday.' He appeared in a number of films produced across the Middle East a ...

- actor; bodybuilder * Nuri Kino – journalist; filmmaker * Terrence Malick – Academy Award-nominated director

Artists and designers

Eser Afacan Eser Afacan (born August 8, 1953) is a Turkish artist, painter, and sculptor of Assyrian people, Assyrian ethnicity. His father, also an artist, is Assyrian people, Assyrian, while his mother is of Greeks, Greek origin. Afacan began drawing at a ...

– painter, and sculptor *

Hannibal Alkhas Hannibal Alkhas (Persian: هانیبال الخاص; June 16, 1930 – September 13, 2010) was an artist of Assyrian descent from Iran. Alkhas was among the contemporary Iranian modernist painters and pioneered figurative design in modernist ...

– 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 – painter and writer *

Farouk Kaspaules Farouk Kaspaules is an Iraqi-born Canadian artist of Assyrian origin, noted for his engravings and silk-screen photography. Life and career Born in Baghdad, Kaspaules left Iraq in the mid-1970s for political reasons. After a brief stay in the Unit ...

– artist * Paulus Khofri – painter, lyricist and composer * Jim Marshall – photographer * Bishara Morad – artist *

Fred Parhad Fred Parhad (born 1947) is an Iraqi-Assyrian sculptor who is best known for his monument of Ashurbanipal, which stands in San Francisco in front of that city's Asian Art Museum. Parhad is a self-taught sculptor, who, at the beginning of his car ...

– sculptor

Athletes

In the Middle East

;Athletics (Track and field) *

George Malek-Yonan George Malek-Yonan (1924-2014) was an Iranian Assyrian international attorney, politician and athlete, and father of actress Rosie Malek-Yonan. Biography The Assyrian Malek family claims to trace its roots back eleven centuries. During the Assyr ...

– 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 The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ...

* Anwar Oshana – Syrian Assyrian Boxer, Super Middleweight in USA. Illinois State Champion * Shoura Osipov – Iranian Assyrian Boxer

1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and also known as London 1948) were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, England, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus ca ...

representing Iran ;Football (soccer) * Douglas Aziz – Iraqi Assyrian Footballer * Ammo Baba – 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, 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 – 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 – Assyrian American – top level American Football (Gridiron) player * Lou Agase – 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 Aleksandr Nikolayevich Alkhazov (russian: Александр Николаевич Алхазов; born 27 May 1984) is a Russian former professional football player of Assyrian ethnic origin. Career He made his debut in the Russian Premier League ...

– Assyrian Russian footballer – plays for FC Krylia Sovetov Samara *

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 – Assyrian Swedish footballer – plays for Assyriska * Steven Beitashour – 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 ...

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, Iran 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 Daniyel Cimen (; born 19 January 1985 in Hanau) is a German football manager and footballer who plays for SpVgg Groß-Umstadt. He is currently the head coach of FC Gießen.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 – 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 – 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 Association football, footballer of Assyrian people, Assyrian descent who plays as a Forward (association football)#Striker, striker for Ekstraklasa club Lech Poznań. Beginning his car ...

– Assyrian Swedish Footballer – plays for Assyriska * Leena Khamis – Assyrian Australian Female footballer – Australian Women's Football International *

Sanharib Malki Sanharib Malki Sabah ( syr, ܣܢܚܪܝܒ ܡܠܟܝ; ar, سنحاريب ملكي صباح; born 1 March 1984) is a retired Syrian footballer of Arameans, Aramean ethnicity who played as a Forward (association football), striker. Besides his Syri ...

– Assyrian Syrian footballer – Dutch based ( Roda JC) – Syrian International player * Justin Meram – Assyrian USA based Soccer player * Ilyas Merkes – Assyrian Syrian footballer – Syrian International player, plays for Assyriska * George Mourad – Assyrian Syrian footballer – Iran based – Syrian International player * Eddie Moussa – 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 *

Frans Dhia Putros Frans Dhia Jirjis Haddad (born 14 July 1993), known as Frans Putros ( ar, فرانس بطرس), is a professional footballer who plays as a right back or a centre back for Thai club Port and the Iraq national team. Born in Denmark, Putros is of ...

– Assyrian Danish footballer – plays for Hobro IK in Denmark *

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 in the Australian

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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 association football, footballer who played as a midfielder. Career Early career Born in 's-Hertogenbosch by Assyrians in the Netherlands, Aramean parents from Turkey, Takak star ...

– 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 Vites ...

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, and previously for Irish team

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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 – Assyrian Swedish Footballer – played for Assyriska *

Christer Youssef Christer Youssef ( ar, كريستر يوسف; born 1 December 1987) is a Swedish former professional association football, footballer who played as a midfielder. References External links Christer Youssef
at Fotbolltransfers * * * 19 ...

– Assyrian Swedish Footballer – plays for Djurgårdens IF ;Martial Arts * Beneil Dariush – Assyrian American Mixed martial arts (MMA) * Randa Markos – Assyrian Canadian Mixed martial arts (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 The National Olympic Committee of Iraq (NOCI) ( ar, اللجنة الاولمبية ا ...

– Assyrian Iraqi

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champion, currently Director General of National Olympic Committee of Iraq * Mikhail Sado – Assyrian Russian Wrestling champion *

David Teymur David Teymur (born May 1, 1989) is a Swedish professional mixed martial artist who competes in the lightweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Kickboxing and Muay Thai career David and his older brother Daniel started ou ...

– Assyrian Swedish Mixed martial arts (MMA) ;Poker * Daniel Alaei ;Tennis * Andre Agassi – former world number one American tennis player of Assyrian and Armenian descent *

– American actor and semi-pro tennis player * Michael Shabaz – American tennis player

Educators and explorers

* Aba I – philosopher, astronomer * Aphrahat – 3rd century theologian * Toma Audo – bishop, writer * Babai (Nestorian Patriarch) – 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 – philosopher * Paul Bedjan * Bukhtishu - were a family of Assyrian

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 N ...

physicians from the 7th, 8th, and 9th centuries, spanning six generations and 250 years. *

Louis Cheikhô Louis Cheikho, ar, لويس شيخو, born Rizqallâh Cheikho (1859–1927) was a Jesuit Chaldean Catholic priest, Orientalist and Theologian. He pioneered Eastern Christian and Assyrian Chaldean literary research and made major contributions ...

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

Emanuel Kamber Emanuel Yousif Kamber is an Assyrian physics professor at Western Michigan University and was the Secretary General of the Assyrian Universal Alliance. He was born in the small Assyrian village of Darbandokeh in Iraq. Biography In 1983, Emanuel Ka ...

* George Kiraz – computational linguist * Kanan Makiya – academic, professor * Masawaiyh – physician * Eden Naby *

Estiphan Panoussi Estiphan Panoussi (born September 11, 1935 in Sanandaj, Iran) is an Iranian philologist, philosopher, orientalist, and international scholar of Iranian Assyrian (Aramaic) origin. He is professor emeritus of the University of Gothenburg and native s ...

– philosopher and oriental philologist * Philoxenos – theologian * Hormuzd Rassam – 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 (European ...

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

*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 Thomas L. Saaty (July 18, 1926 – August 14, 2017) was a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, where he taught in the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business. He is the inventor, architect, and primary theoreticia ...

– Iraqi born Assyrian American mathematician * Mikhail Sado – Russian linguist, scholar, professor of Semitic languages, orientalist, politician, former paratrooper, and wrestling champion *

Toma bar Yacoub Thomas of Marga, ( syc, ܬܐܘܡܐ ܒܪ ܝܥܩܘܒ, ') was an East Syriac bishop and author of an important monastic history in Syriac, who flourished in the 9th century CE. He was born early in the century in the region of Salakh to the north-east ...

– 9th Century theological historian *

Donny George Youkhanna Donny George Youkhanna (Arabic: , syr, ܕܘܢܝ ܓܘܪܓ ܝܘܚܢܢ) (October 23, 1950 – March 11, 2011) was an Iraqi-Assyrian archaeologist, anthropologist, author, curator, and scholar, and a visiting professor at Stony Brook Universi ...

Ashur Yousif Ashur Yousif (Syriac: ܐܫܘܪ ܝܘܣܦ ܐܦܢܕܝ, Ašur Yousep Afendi) born Abraham Yusef; (1858 Harput, Ottoman Empire - June 23, 1915 Diyarbekir, Ottoman Empire) was a professor and an ethnic Assyrian intellectual prior to World War I and the ...

Entrepreneurs

Narsai David Narsai Michael David (born June 26, 1936) is a chef, author, host of a radio show on food, and a winery owner in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, United States. He is a former food writer, restaurant and market owner, and the owner of a c ...

– American restaurateur, chef, wine-maker, and author * Daniel Hadad – Argentine businessman involved in telecommunications and media *

Sue Ismiel Sue or SUE may refer to: Music * Sue Records, an American record label * ''Sue'' (album), an album by Frazier Chorus * "Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)", a song by David Bowie Places * Sue Islet (Queensland), one of the Torres Straits islan ...

– founder of Nad's, a multimillion-dollar wax and beauty company in

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with distributions worldwide. *

Milton Malek-Yonan Milton Malek-Yonan (1904–2002) was an Assyrian entrepreneur and inventor. Biography Milton Malek-Yonan was born to Assyrian parents in Urmia, Iran in 1904. He was a descendant of one of the oldest and most prominent Assyrian families, the Malek ...

– American inventor of Malekized Rice * Bob Miner – American businessman, co-founder of

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Jeff Moorad Jeffrey S. Moorad is an American businessman and investor. He began his career as a sports agent, before serving as General Partner and CEO of MLB's Arizona Diamondbacks, and Vice-Chairman and CEO of MLB's San Diego Padres. Player representati ...

– American businessman and investor, CEO of 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 *

– professor and Assyrian nationalist

Media

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Canada 2005 * John Batchelor – author; radio host * Jack Douglas – television host *

Claudia Hanna There are a number of Iraqi beauty pageants. Miss Iraq is one of the national beauty pageants in Iraq. Others include miss World Iraq and Miss Earth Iraq. History In 2015 the first season after 43 years absence, the official national beaut ...

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Miss Iraq There are a number of Iraqi beauty pageants. Miss Iraq is one of the national beauty pageants in Iraq. Others include miss World Iraq and Miss Earth Iraq. History In 2015 the first season after 43 years absence, the official national beauty ...

2006 * Craig Morgan – sports journalist *

Jennifer Aydin Jennifer or Jenifer may refer to: People * Jennifer (given name) * Jenifer (singer), French pop singer * Jennifer Warnes, American singer who formerly used the stage name Jennifer * Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer * Daniel Jenifer Film and telev ...

— reality television personality * Larsa Pippen — reality television personality * Cindy Sargon – Australian TV chef * Nancy Oshana Wehbe – body builder and model *

Obelit Yadgar Obelit Yadgar (born 1945), aka Obie Yadgar, is an Assyrian-American radio personality from Glendale, Wisconsin. Yadgar was born in Baghdad, Iraq. Raised in Tehran, he moved to the United States in 1957. He was drafted into the US Army's 4th Infa ...

– American radio personality *

Alfred Yaghobzadeh Alfred Yaghobzadeh ( fa, آلفرد يعقوب زاده), is an Iranian photographer of Assyrian descent who is noted for his war photography. Early life and career Yaghobzadeh was born in Tehran, to an Armenian-Assyrian family. His photographs ...

– Iranian photojournalist

Musicians and composers

Evin Agassi Evin Agassi, also written as Evin Aghassi (Syriac: ܐܝܒ̣ܢ ܐܓܣܝ, born September 1945), is an Assyrian-American singer who has released over 20 albums during his career.Mousey Alexander * Joseph Arabbo *

Gabriel Asaad Gabriel Asaad (Syriac: ܓܒܪܐܝܠ ܐܣܥܕ) (March 18, 1907, Midyat – July 6, 1997 Stockholm) was an Assyrian composer and musician. Among the classical songs of Gabriel Asaad there are ''Ho Donho Shemsho'' (ܗܐ ܕܢܚܐ ܫܡܫܐ The sun ...

* Jamil Bashir * Munir Bashir * Ashur Bet Sargis *

Aril Brikha Aril Brikha (born 1976 in Tehran, Iran) is one of the world's leading Assyrian techno Techno is a Music genre, genre of electronic dance music (EDM) which is generally music production, produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempo ofte ...

Sargon Gabriel Sargon Gabriel (Syriac: ܣܪܓܘܢ ܓܒܪܐܝܠ) is an Assyrian musician born in Habbaniyah, Iraq, whose music style usually involves traditional Assyrian folk music with the instruments, '' zurna'' and '' dawoola''. The singer currently resides ...

* Linda George * Nouri Iskandar *

Juliana Jendo Juliana Jendo (born November 30, 1962 in Tel Tamer, Syria, Syriac: ܓܘܠܝܢܐ ܓܢܕܐ) is an Assyrian singer and actress who, unlike many other Assyrian Neo-Aramaic-speaking artists, has occasionally recorded songs in Turoyo, Chaldean Neo-Arama ...

Elias Karam Elias Karam ( ar, الياس كرم) (born 1960) is an Assyrian singer from Syria, born in the city of Al-Hasakah in the Northeastern governorate of Al-Hasakah. Biography Elias was born Syria in the Northeastern governorate of Al-Hasakah. He learn ...

Sargon Kenoun Sargon (Akkadian: ''Šar-ru-gi'', later ''Šarru-kīn'', meaning "the faithful king" or "the legitimate king") was the name of three kings in ancient Mesopotamia, sometimes adopted in modern times as both a given name and a surname. Mesopotamia ...

* Paulus Khofri *

Adwar Mousa Adwar Mousa ( syr, ܐܕܘܪ ܡܘܣܐ; ar, أدوار موسى, born 10 April 1950), also known as Edwar Mousa and Edward Mousa, is an Assyrian singer-songwriter and poet who mainly writes folk dance music. Mousa is famed for writing a dozen nota ...

*Habib Mousa * Hanna Petros *

Janan Sawa Janan Sawa (born 1956 in Dohuk, Iraq) ( syr, ܔܢܐܢ ܒܒܐ ܣܒ݂ܐ) is an Assyrian musician who is noted for making Assyrian folk dance. Janan started singing in 1972, at the age of 17. Janan has performed throughout the world, and has visited ...

Timz Thomas Hanna, known by his stage name Timz, is an Iraqi- American rapper of Assyrian descent best known for his song "Iraq". His debut album is entitled ''Open for Business''. Born in San Diego, California to Iraqi parents from Baghdad, Iraq, ...

Marganita Vogt-Khofri Marganita "Maggie" Vogt-Khofri ( fa, مارگانیتا خفری; born 1952) is an Assyrian pianist, classical musician and vocalist. Biography Vogt-Khofri was born in Kermanshah, Iran in 1952 to Jeni and Paulus Khofri, both from Iraq. Her fat ...

* 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 Basim Bello is the longest serving mayor of Tel Keppe District, Iraq. An adherent of the Chaldean Catholic Church, Bello was a member of the Assyrian Democratic Movement, until he split from the party in 2014. In August 2017, he was deposed as may ...

– Mayor of Tel Kaif, Iraq *

Yonathan Betkolia Yonathan Betkolia ( syr, ܝܘܢܬܢ ܒܝܬܟܘܠܝܐ) is an Assyrian politician and former member of the Iranian Parliament The Islamic Consultative Assembly ( fa, مجلس شورای اسلامی, Majles-e Showrā-ye Eslāmī), also called th ...

– Secretary General of the Assyrian Universal Alliance and Iran Parliament Representative *

Bahnam Zaya Bulos Bahnam Zaya Bulos (Arabic: بهنام زيا بولص; born 1944) was Minister of Transport in the cabinet appointed by the Interim Iraq Governing Council in September 2003. A member of Iraq's Assyrian Christian minority, Bulos is originally from ...

– Iraq Minister of Transport (2003–2004) *

Basimah Yusuf Butrus Professor Basimah Yusuf Butrus ( syr, ܒܐܣܡܐ ܝܘܣܦ ܦܛܪܘܣ) (or Basmah Yousif Putros; born 1963 in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan) is an Iraqi Assyrian politician who was Minister of Science and Technology in the Iraqi Transitional Government fro ...

– Iraq Minister of Science and Technology 2005–2006 * Kamel Hana Gegeo – chief bodyguard to Saddam Hussein * Franso Hariri – Mayor of

Erbil Erbil, also called Hawler (, ar, أربيل, Arbīl; syr, ܐܲܪܒܹܝܠ, Arbel), is the capital and most populated city in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. It lies in the Erbil Governorate. It has an estimated population of around 1,600,000. Hu ...

* 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 *

Sarkis Aghajan Mamendo Sarkis Aghajan Mamendo ( syr, ܣܪܟܝܣ ܐܓܓܢ ܡܡܢܕܘ), (born 1962) is an Iraqi Assyrian politician who was appointed Minister for Finance and Economy in the cabinet of Iraqi Kurdistan on 7 May 2006. Early life Sarkis was born in Diyana, ...

– current Minister of Finance and Economy in Kurdistan Regional Government *

Wijdan Michael Wijdan Michael Salim ( ar, وجدان ميخائيل سليم; born 1962) is a former Minister of Human Rights in Iraq and currently advisor for development and service for the Prime Minister's Office. She made history by being a woman involved ...

– current Minister of Human Rights in Iraq *

– Director General of National Olympic Committee of Iraq *

– head of the Iraqi Olympic Committee *

Ablahad Afraim Sawa Ablahad Afraim Sawa was a member of the National Assembly of Iraq who was elected on the Kurdistani Alliance slate. A member of the Chaldean Democratic Union, he was also elected in January 2005 Iraqi legislative election, January 2005 References< ...

– 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 Albert Edward Ismail Yelda ( syr, ܐܠܒܪܬ ܐܕܘܪܕ ܐܝܣܡܥܝܠ ܝܠܕܐ) (born 1959 Ramadi, Iraq) was Iraq's ambassador to the Vatican. Yelda, an ethnic Assyrian, belongs to the Ancient Church of the East. Prior to the United States-le ...

– Iraq Ambassador to the Vatican * Yusuf Salman Yusuf – Secretary General of

Iraqi Communist Party The Iraqi Communist Party ( ar, الحزب الشيوعي العراقي '; ku, Partiya Komunista Iraqê حزبی شیوعی عێراق) is a communist party and the oldest active party in Iraq. Since its foundation in 1934, it has dominated the ...

1941–1949

Iran

* Freydun Atturaya – co-founder of the Assyrian Socialist Party

Turkey

Erol Dora Erol Dora (born 2 February 1964, in Hassana near Silopi) is a lawyer and a politician of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). A member of the Assyrian people community in Turkey, he is a well-known advocate for minority rights, Assyrian particu ...

– Deputy of Grand National Assembly of Turkey * Naum Faiq – Assyrian nationalist

United Nations

Dr. William Ishaya Dr. William Ishaya is an Iraqi diplomat and is currently the Deputy Permanent Representative - Mission of the Republic of Iraq to the United Nations in New York. Ishaya was born to Assyrian parents Ishaya Odisho and Ester Odisho (daughter of t ...

– 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 Mark Paul Arabo (born February 17, 1983) is a Assyrian Americans, Chaldean-American businessman, San Diego community leader, and global humanitarian. He is a human rights activist for the Chaldean community and speaks to the national US media, ad ...

– politician based in San Diego, California *

Adam Benjamin, Jr. Adam Benjamin Jr. (August 6, 1935 – September 7, 1982) was an American politician and a United States Representative from Indiana's 1st congressional district, serving from 1977 until his death from a heart attack in Washington, D.C. in 1982. ...

– Indiana

Congressman A Member of Congress (MOC) is a person who has been appointed or elected and inducted into an official body called a congress, typically to represent a particular constituency in a legislature. The term member of parliament (MP) is an equivalen ...

* Wadie Deddeh - Former California State Senator *

Anna Eshoo Anna A. Eshoo ( ; née Georges; born December 13, 1942) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative from . She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district, numbered as the 14th district from 1993 to 2013, is based in Silico ...

– California Congresswoman *

John Nimrod John J. Nimrod (May 1, 1922 – January 4, 2009) was an Assyrian American minority rights activist and Illinois state senator. Career Born in Chicago to Assyrian parents who had emigrated from Iran's northwest Urmiah region, John Nimrod was for ...

– Illinois Senator *

Atour Sargon Atour Toma Sargon, ( syr, ܐܵܬܘܿܪ ܬܐܘܿܡܵܐ ܣܲܪܓܘܿܢ) also referred to as Atour Sargon, ( syr, ܐܵܬܘܿܪ ܣܲܪܓܘܿܢ) is an Assyrian American activist. She is the first ethnic Assyrian to be elected to the Lincolnwood Boa ...

–

Lincolnwood Lincolnwood (formerly Tessville) is a village in Niles Township, Cook County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 13,463. An inner suburb of Chicago, it shares its southern, eastern, and a small section of its west ...

Trustee

Australia

* Ninos Khoshaba – former Member of the New South Wales Parliament

Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ...

* 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 Metin Ataseven (born 1972) is a Swedish politician, representing the Moderate Party in the Swedish Riksdag.Sveriges Riksdag. Metin Ataseven' Ataseven was substitute for Mikael Sandström (2010–12) and for Ewa Björling Ewa Helena Björling ...

– Sweden Parliament Representative * Ibrahim Baylan – Sweden Minister of Education 2004–2006 and Sweden Parliament Representative *

Yilmaz Kerimo Yilmaz Kerimo (born 1963) is a Swedish-Assyrian and a member of the Riksdag (the Swedish Parliament) and a member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party The Swedish Social Democratic Party, formally the Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Par ...

– Sweden Parliament Representative

Canada

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

Netherlands

Attiya Gamri Attiya Gamri (born 1972, syr, ܥܜܝܐ ܓܡܪܝ) is a Dutch-Assyrian member of the province council of Overijssel in The Netherlands. Gamri is originally from Arbo Arbo may refer to: Places * Arbo, Pontevedra, a municipality in Galicia, Spai ...

– Netherlands Parliament Representative, president of the

Assyrian Confederation of Europe The Assyrian Confederation of Europe (ACE) is a European umbrella organisation for Assyrian national federations and organisations in Europe. It was formed on 22 April 2016 in Brussels, Belgium. The Brussels office was opened in April 2018. ACE ...

Other countries

Iskender Alptekin Iskender Alptekin ( syr, ܐܣܟܢܕܪ ܐܠܦܬܟܢ; 29 August 1961 – 18 May 2010), also known as Matay Rabo, was an Aramaic politician, musician and the President of the European Syriac Union (ESU). Biography Iskender Alptekin was born on 29 A ...

– politician, singer and former President of the

European Syriac Union European Syriac Union is an alliance between different Assyrian/Syriac political and cultural organizations in Europe that was established in May 2004. The group emerged from the Bethnahrin National Council or Mawtbo Umthoyo d'Bethnahrin (MUB) ...

José Murat Casab Nelson José Murat Casab (; born October 18, 1947) is a Mexican politician and a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He was Governor of Oaxaca and is a Diputado Federal elected from the ranks of Alliance for Mexico of Institutional ...

– (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 Emanuel Yousif Kamber is an Assyrian physics professor at Western Michigan University and was the Secretary General of the Assyrian Universal Alliance. He was born in the small Assyrian village of Darbandokeh in Iraq. Biography In 1983, Emanue ...

– Assyrian Universal Alliance Secretary General

Religious figures

* Addagoppe of Harran *

, 551–628 *

Bar Daisan 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 language, Syriac-speaking Assyrian people, Assyrian or ParthianProds Oktor Skjaer ...

* Bar-Hebraeus *

Bar Sauma Barsauma ( syr, ܒܪܨܘܡܐ, ''Barṣaumâ''), nicknamed ''Bar Sawma'', "son of the Lent" in Syriac, was Metropolitan of Nisibis in the 5th century, and a major figure in the history of the Church of the East. Under his leadership the church mo ...

* Basile Georges Casmoussa * David Benjamin Keldani * Diodorus of Tarsus * Dinkha IV, 1935–2015 * Elias Mellus *

Emil Shimoun Nona Emil Shimoun Nona (born November 1, 1967) is the Archbishop of the Chaldean Catholic Diocese of Australia and New Zealand, prior to this he has been the Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Mosul in the northern part of Iraq since the consent of Pope ...

Emmanuel III Delly Mar Emmanuel III Delly ( syr, , ar, مار عمانوئيل الثالث دلّي) (27 September 1927 – 8 April 2014) was the Catholic Chaldean Patriarchs of Babylon, Patriarch Emeritus of Babylon of the Chaldeans and former primate (bishop), ...

Ephrem the Syrian Ephrem the Syrian ( syc, ܡܪܝ ܐܦܪܝܡ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ, Mār ʾAp̄rêm Sūryāyā, ; grc-koi, Ἐφραὶμ ὁ Σῦρος, Efrém o Sýros; la, Ephraem Syrus; am, ቅዱስ ኤፍሬም ሶርያዊ; ), also known as Saint Ephrem, Saint ...

George Garmo Mar George Garmo (8 December 1921 – 9 September 1999) was the Archbishop of the Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Mosul (''Mausiliensis Chaldaeorum'') in Iraq from 14 September 1980 until his death on 9 September 1999. Biography He was born Ge ...

Heliodorus Heliodorus is a Greek name meaning "Gift of the Sun". Several persons named Heliodorus are known to us from ancient times, the best known of which are: *Heliodorus (minister) a minister of Seleucus IV Philopator c. 175 BC * Heliodorus of Athen ...

– 4th Century Assyrian martyr *

Henana of Adiabene Henana of Adiabene (died 610) was a Christian theologian, and headmaster of the School of Nisibis, the main theological center of the Church of the East (571–610). Biography Before he became headmaster, Henana of Adiabene had occupied the c ...

Ignatius Isaac Azar Ignatius Isaac II ( syr, ܐܝܣܚܩ ܥܐܙܐܪ, ar, اسحق بطريارك انطاكية) was the Patriarch of Antioch and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church from 1709 until his resignation in 1723. Biography Isaac ʿAzar was born at Mosul i ...

* Isaac of Nineveh *

Isa Kelemechi Isa Tarsah Kelemechi ( Mongolian: Isa Khelmerchi (Isa the Interpreter); Chinese: Ai-hsüeh) was an Assyrian Nestorian Christian scientist, and official at the Yuan court of Kublai Khan's Mongol Empire in the 13th century. Foltz, Richard, ''Relig ...

* Jacob of Nisibis *

Josephus Adjutus Josephus Adjutus ( ar, يوسيفوس أجستوس, Yusayfus 'Ajsatus), (c.1602 - May 21, 1668) was a famous Chaldean theologian. He advanced some fundamental theories on religion during the Reformation, and criticized corruption in the Catholic ...

– 17th century theologian * Louis Cheikho * Nestorius * Paulos Faraj Rahho *

Pkidha Pkidha was the first Christian bishop of Adiabene, a kingdom in northern Mesopotamia Mesopotamia ''Mesopotamíā''; ar, بِلَاد ٱلرَّافِدَيْن or ; syc, ܐܪܡ ܢܗܪ̈ܝܢ, or , ) is a historical region of Western As ...

, 104–114 – first Bishop of Adiabene *

Ragheed Aziz Ganni Ragheed Aziz Ganni, Syriac: ܪܓܝܕ ܥܙܝܙ ܓܢܝ (January 20, 1972 – 3 June 2007) was an Iraqi Chaldean Catholic priest. On 3 June 2007, Trinity Sunday, the Sunday after Pentecost, he was killed along with three subdeacons including his c ...

* Raphael I Bidawid *

Sargis Bkheera Bahira ( ar, بَحِيرَىٰ, syc, ܒܚܝܪܐ) was an Assyrian, likely Nestorian monk from the tribe of Abd al-Qays who, according to Islamic religion, foretold to the adolescent Muhammad his future as a prophet.Abel, A.Baḥīrā. ''En ...

, 633 AD * Shimun XXI Eshai * Shimun XIX Benyamin, 1903–1918 *

Shlemon Warduni Bishop Mar Shlemon Warduni (born April 24, 1943) is Auxiliary Bishop of the Patriarchate of Babylon, Iraq, of the Chaldean Catholic Church. In 2003 he was the Locum tenens of the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans. Life Shlemon Warduni was b ...

* Tatian, 120–180 * Theodore of Mopsuestia *

* Youhannan Semaan Issayi * Yousip Khnanisho, 1893–1977 * Yusuf Akbulut

Writers and poets

Ancient

Listed here are authors associated with

Syriac Christianity Syriac Christianity ( syr, ܡܫܝܚܝܘܬܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܬܐ / ''Mšiḥoyuṯo Suryoyto'' or ''Mšiḥāyūṯā Suryāytā'') is a distinctive branch of Eastern Christianity, whose formative theological writings and traditional liturgies are expr ...

regardless of whether they wrote in the

Syriac language The Syriac language (; syc, / '), also known as Syriac Aramaic (''Syrian Aramaic'', ''Syro-Aramaic'') and Classical Syriac ܠܫܢܐ ܥܬܝܩܐ (in its literary and liturgical form), is an Aramaic language, Aramaic dialect that emerged during ...

. * Aphrahat * 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 Moses bar Kepha or Moses bar Cephas ( Syriac ''Mushe bar Kipho''; born in Balad in Nineveh, now in Iraq, about the year 813; died at the age of ninety, in 903) was a writer and one of the most celebrated bishops of the Syriac Orthodox Church of t ...

* Philoxenus of Mabbog *

Stephen Bar Sudhaile Stephen Bar Sudhaile was a Syrian Christian mystical writer established in Jerusalem who flourished as thinker about the end of the 5th century AD. Life The earlier part of his career was passed at Edessa, of which he may have been a native. ...

* Tatian

Modern

Maria Theresa Asmar Maria Theresa Asmar (1804–c. 1870) was a Chaldean author, foremost known for her book ''Memoirs of a Babylonian Princess'', which consists of two volumes and 720 pages. This book was composed some time in the early nineteenth–century, describi ...

Yosip Bet Yosip Rabi Yosip Bet Yosip (Assyrian: ܝܵܘܣܸܦ ܒܹܝܬܼ ܝܵܘܣܸܦ ) is an Assyrian poet. He was born in 1942 in the village of Zoomalan in Urmia, Iran. He is known for writing the Assyrian national anthem, Roomrama. Organizations He joined ...

Sargon Boulus Sargon Boulus ( syr, ܣܪܓܘܢ ܦܘܠܘܨ; ar, سركون بولص) was an Iraqi poet, journalist and writer. Born in 1944, he died on 22 October 2007. Biography Boulus was born on 10 March, 1944 in Habbaniyah, Iraq, to Assyrian parents. ...

* Nina Burleigh *

William D. S. Daniel William D. S. Daniel, ( aii, ܘܠܝܡ ܕܢܝܐܝܠ; March 17, 1903 – 1988) was an Assyrian writer, poet and musician. He was born in Urmia, Iran, and emigrated to the United States in the 1950s. He played a pivotal role in preserving and enri ...

* Thea Halo * Samuel John Hazo *

Ivan Kakovitch Ivan Kakovitch (December 9, 1933, in Kiev, USSR – December 22, 2006, in Paris, France) was an Assyrian people, Assyrian author, journalist, professor, and a nationalist leader. He wrote the ''Assyrian manifesto'' and the novel ''Mount Semele''. A ...

* Paulus Khofri * George Lamsa * Rosie Malek-Yonan * Terrence Malick *

Dunya Mikhail Dunya Mikhail (born 1965 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an Iraqi-American poet based in the United States. Life She was born and raised in Iraq to a Chaldean-Catholic family. She graduated with a BA from the University of Baghdad. Mikhail worked as a jo ...

* Alphonse Mingana * Murathan Mungan *

Leilah Nadir Leilah Nadir is a Canadian novelist and writer. Biography She was born to an Iraqi father and an English mother, and she was raised in Britain and Canada. Nadir holds a master's degree in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh, and ...

* Heather Raffo *

Mikhael K. Pius Mikhael K. Pius (19 March 1927 – 9 January 2011) was an author and Assyrian historian, principally on the Assyrian community on the old British Royal Air Force (RAF) base in Habbaniya, where the author had lived. Biography Born Minashi Khamm ...

* Yuhanon Qashisho * Jacob of Serugh *

Ishaya Shamasha Dawid Bet-Zia Ishaya Shamasha David Bet-Zia (also known as Ishaya Shamasha Dawid) (1906December 20, 1985) was an Assyrian author, writer, and poet. He wrote a number of books as well as for various Assyrian publications. His most prominent work was a 900-page to ...

References

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