List of ethnic Assyrians/Chaldeans/Syriacs

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

This is a list of modern individuals. For early Christian authors, see List of Syriac writers. For ancient Assyrians, see Category:Ancient Assyrians.

Activists

Ninos Aho – poet and founding father of modern Assyrian nationalism
Freydun Atturaya – physician, poet and founder of the first Assyrian political party, the Assyrian Socialist Party
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 – involved in anti Baath war propaganda, torture victim
Nuri Kino – award-winning journalist, documentary filmmaker, author, human rights expert, and founder of A Demand for Action
Rosie Malek-Yonan – actress, author, director, public figure and human rights activist
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[1]
Hurmiz Malik Chikko - Assyrian martyr and leader of the Assyrian armed struggle against the Ba'ath regime in Iraq in the late 1950's - early 1960's[2][3]

Actors, directors, and entertainers

F. Murray Abraham – Academy Award-winning actor
Henri Charr – director
Michael Denkha – actor
Fares Fares – Swedish-Lebanese actor
Naguib el-Rihani – actor
Andre Khabbazi – actor
Nuri Kino – journalist; filmmaker
Rosie Malek-Yonan – actress; author; director; human rights activist
Terrence Malick – Academy Award-nominated director

Artists and designers

Eser Afacan – painter, and sculptor
Hannibal Alkhas – sculptor, painter and author
Issa Benyamin – calligrapher
Raad Ghantous – interior designer
Thea Halo – painter and writer
Farouk Kaspaules – artist
Paulus Khofri – painter, lyricist and composer
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 – Iranian Assyrian Boxer; represented Iran in 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics
Anwar Oshana – Syrian Assyrian Boxer, Super Middleweight in USA. Illinois State Champion
Shoura Osipov – Iranian Assyrian Boxer 1948 Summer Olympics representing Iran

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 – Iraqi Assyrian Footballer – Iraq International
Edison David – Iraqi Assyrian footballer
Youra Eshaya – Iraqi Assyrian footballer, first Iraqi to play professionally in the west, for Bristol Rovers, England – Iraq International
Basil Gorgis Hanna – Iraqi Assyrian footballer – World Cup Player 1986
Aram Karam – Iraqi Assyrian Footballer – Iraq International[4]
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[5]
Anwar Oshana – Assyrian American Super Middleweight boxer, Illinois State Champion
Isho Shiba – Assyrian Canadian Boxer – Canadian Champion

Football (soccer)

Alexander Alkhazov – Assyrian Russian footballer – plays for FC Krylia Sovetov Samara
Zaya Avdysh – Assyrian Ukrainian footballer – Ukrainian based
Kennedy Bakircioglu – Assyrian Swedish International Footballer – Sweden based – Swedish International player
Abgar Barsom – Assyrian Swedish footballer
Stefan Batan – Assyrian Swedish footballer – plays for Assyriska[6]
Steven Beitashour – currently plays for Los Angeles FC in Major League Soccer, Iran international
Louay Chanko – Assyrian Syrian footballer – Denmark based – Syrian International player
Imad Chhadeh – Assyrian Swedish Footballer – plays for Assyriska[6]
Sargon Cicek – Assyrian Swedish Footballer – plays for Assyriska
Daniyel Cimen – Assyrian German footballer
Christian Demirtas – Assyrian German footballer – German based
Sargon Duran – Assyrian Austrian footballer – plays for FC Sollenau
Jimmy Durmaz – Assyrian Swedish Footballer
David Durmaz – Assyrian Swedish Footballer – plays for Syrianska FC
Ninos Gouriye – Assyrian Dutch footballer
Andreas Haddad – Assyrian Swedish footballer – plays for Assyriska[6]
Dani Hamzo – Assyrian Swedish Footballer – plays for Assyriska
Zurab Ionanidze – Assyrian Georgian International footballer – Georgian International player
Mikael Ishak – Assyrian Swedish Footballer – plays for Assyriska
Leena Khamis – Assyrian Australian Female footballer – Australian Women's Football International
Sanharib Malki – Assyrian Syrian footballer – Dutch based (Roda JC) – Syrian International player
Justin Meram – Assyrian USA based Soccer player[7]
Ilyas Merkes – Assyrian Syrian footballer – Syrian International player, plays for Assyriska[6]
George Mourad – Assyrian Syrian footballer – Iran based – Syrian International player
Eddie Moussa – Assyrian Swedish Footballer – plays for Assyriska[6]
Michel Noyan – Assyrian Swedish Footballer – plays for Assyriska
Gabriel Özkan – Assyrian Swedish Footballer – plays for AIK Fotboll
Frans Dhia Putros – Assyrian Danish footballer – plays for Hobro IK in Denmark[8]
Mario Shabow – Assyrian Australian footballer – plays for Central Coast Mariners in the Australian A-League[9]
Suleyman Sleyman – Assyrian Swedish Footballer – plays for Syrianska FC
Rebin Sulaka – Assyrian Swedish footballer – Iraq International[10]
Jasar Takak – Dutch based Assyrian footballer, formerly of Vitesse Arnhem[11]
Sharbel Touma – Assyrian Swedish Footballer – plays for Syrianska FC
Gabriel Ucar – Assyrian Swedish Footballer – plays for Ängelholms FF, and previously for Irish team Derry City
Daniel Unal – Assyrian Turkish footballer – plays for FC Basle in Switzerland
Andreas Yacoub-Haddad – Assyrian Swedish Footballer – played for Assyriska
Christer Youssef – Assyrian Swedish Footballer – plays for Djurgårdens IF

Martial Arts

Beneil Dariush – Assyrian American Mixed martial arts (MMA)
Tiras Odisho – Assyrian Iraqi Karate champion, currently Director General of National Olympic Committee of Iraq
Mikhail Sado – Assyrian Russian Wrestling champion
David Teymur – Assyrian Swedish Mixed martial arts (MMA)

Poker

Daniel Alaei

Tennis

Andre Agassi – former world number one American tennis player of Assyrian and Armenian descent
Andre Khabbazi – 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 – philosopher, theologian
Bardaisan – philosopher
Paul Bedjan
Louis Cheikhô – Assyrian Orientalist
Hind Rassam Culhane – lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies and behavioural scientist
Fuat Deniz – writer and professor of sociology at Örebro University
Mor Philoxenos Yuhanon Dolabani – scholar, poet, editor, and translator
Eprime Eshag – academic, professor
Hunayn ibn Ishaq – scholar, physician, scientist, and translator
Emanuel Kamber
George Kiraz – computational linguist
Kanan Makiya – academic, professor
Masawaiyh – physician
Eden Naby
Estiphan Panoussi- philosopher and oriental philologist
Philoxenos – theologian
Hormuzd Rassam – Assyriologist, and first-known Middle Eastern 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
Mikhail Sado – 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 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 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.
Carlos Slim – Mexican business magnate, investor and philanthropist, CEO of Telmex, América Móvil, and Grupo Carso, and Forbes' World's richest person (2010–13)

Leaders

Belshazzar – Regent of Babylon, son of Nabonidus
Izates I (c. 15 AD) – first King of Adiabene
Shamoun Hanna Haydo
Malik Khoshaba – Assyrian Military leader World War I
Izates bar Monobaz – King of Adiabene
Nabonidus (Nabo Naid) – Assyrian born King of Babylon
Agha Petros – World War I Assyrian General
Munir Redfa – Iraqi fighter pilot
Georges Sada – former Commander of the Iraqi Air Force, and author
Ashur Yousif – professor and Assyrian nationalist

Media

Ramona Amiri – Miss World Canada 2005
John Batchelor – author; radio host
Nineveh Dinha – Fox News anchorwoman and reporter; founder of HER Magazine
Claudia Hanna – Miss Iraq 2006
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

Politicians

Dala Ashur – Assyrian Iraqi Army General of Saddam Hussein's Armed Forces[12]
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 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 – 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 – current Minister of Finance and Economy in Kurdistan Regional Government
Wijdan Michael – current Minister of Human Rights in Iraq
Tiras Odisho – Director General of National Olympic Committee of Iraq
Tiras Odisho – head of the Iraqi Olympic Committee
Georges Sada – general served under Saddam in the Iraqi Air force
Ablahad Afraim Sawa – 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 Vatican
Yusuf Salman Yusuf – Secretary General of Iraqi Communist Party 1941–1949

Iran

Freydun Atturaya – co-founder of the Assyrian Socialist Party

Turkey

Erol Dora – Deputy of Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Naum Faiq – 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

USA

Adam Benjamin, Jr. – Indiana Congressman
Anna Eshoo – California Congressman
John Nimrod – Illinois Senator

Australia

Ninos Khoshaba – former Member of the 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 – Sweden Parliament Representative
Ibrahim Baylan – Sweden Minister of Education 2004–2006 and Sweden Parliament Representative
Yilmaz Kerimo – Sweden Parliament Representative

Canada

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

Netherlands

Attiya Gamri – Netherlands Parliament Representative

Other countries

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
Babai the Great, 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 – 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
Mani, 216–276 – founder of the Manichaean religion
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
Youhannan Semaan Issayi
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.

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
Philoxenus of Mabbog
Stephen Bar Sudhaile
Tatian[13]

Modern

References

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"Leaders and Heroes". 2014. Retrieved June 23, 2020.
Donabed, Sargon (2015). Reforging a Forgotten History: Iraq and the Assyrians in the Twentieth Century.
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https://www.a-league.com.au/news/match-preview-central-coast-mariners-vs-melbourne-city
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[2] "Leaders and Heroes". 2014. Retrieved June 23, 2020.

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[5] "Assyrian boxer – Sammy Merza". assyrianvoice.net.

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[12] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-26. Retrieved 2011-07-06.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[13] The Origins and Emergence of the Church in Edessa during the First Two Centuries A.D. Author(s): L. W. Barnard Source: Vigiliae Christianae, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Sep., 1968), pp. 161-175.