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.
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
- Wilson Bet-Mansour – 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 – 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 of 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
- David B. Perley - philosopher and nationalist
- Juliana Taimoorazy – founder and president of the Iraqi Christian Relief Council, senior fellow at the Philos Project
Actors, directors and entertainers
Artists and designers
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
- 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
- Ayoub Odisho – Iraqi Assyrian footballer and club manager (in Lebanon)
- Thamer Yousif – Iraqi Assyrian footballer – Iraq International
- Andrew Simon – Iraqi Assyrian Tennis Champion
Diaspora
- Alex Agase – Assyrian American – top level American Football (Gridiron) player
- Lou Agase – Assyrian American – top level American Football (Gridiron) player
- Mustafa Hamsho
- Sammy Merza – USA based middleweight
- Anwar Oshana – Assyrian American super middleweight boxer, Illinois State Champion
- Isho Shiba – Assyrian Canadian boxer – Canadian champion
- George Yako – Assyrian/Australian sabre fencer - Australian based
- David Avdysh – Assyrian/Ukrainian figure skating choreographer
- Erin Moorad - Assyrian/American Pacific Coast Sectional Figure Skating Medalist
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
- Bukhtishu – were a family of Assyrian Nestorian Christian physicians from the 7th, 8th, and 9th centuries, spanning six generations and 250 years.
- 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
- 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 – Mexican businessman, Vice President of Design at Nissan Design Europe
- Tony Rezko – American businessman, political fundraiser, restaurateur, and real estate developer.
Leaders
Musicians and composers
Politicians
Iraq
Iran
Turkey
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
Australia
Sweden
Canada
Netherlands
Other countries
Writers and poets
See also
References
External links
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