List of British Iraqis

This is a list of notable British Iraqis, ordered by surname within section.

Academia

• M E H Rasheed - Chartered Scientist
• Nisreen Alwan - public health researcher
• Elie Kedourie - historian
• Jim Al-Khalili OBE - professor of theoretical physics at Surrey University and BBC presenter; born in Baghdad to an Iraqi father and English mother
• Alphonse Mingana
• Hormuzd Rassam
• Sami Timimi - psychiatrist

Actors/actresses

• Zaraah Abrahams - actress
• Yasmin Al-Khudhairi - actress
• Charlotte Lewis - actor; Chilean-Iraqi father
• Muzz - musician
• Yasmin Paige - actress
• Andy Serkis - actor (Iraqi father of Armenian descent)

Artists

• Reem Alasadi - fashion designer
• Suad al-Attar - painter
• Lowkey - UK rapper, born Kareem Dennis; his mother is of Iraqi descent
• Bashar Lulua - conductor; Iraqi father

Business

• Nadhmi Auchi
• Hassan Damluji
• Samuel Hayek - millionaire real-estate tycoon; chairman of the KKL Charitable Trust
• Naim Dangoor - entrepreneur and philanthropist
• Eamon Jubbawy - co-founder of technology company Onfido
• Nemir Kirdar - Iraqi-born billionaire; President and CEO of Investcorp
• Charles Saatchi - co-founder of the advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi; born in Baghdad and is of Iraqi Jewish descent; owner of the Saatchi Gallery
• Maurice Saatchi - brother of Charles Saatchi; co-founder of Saatchi & Saatchi; born in Baghdad and is of Iraqi Jewish descent

Film people

• Tala Hadid - film director and producer; Iraqi father
• Amrou Al-Kadhi - writer, performer, and director

Politicians

• Sadik Al-Hassan - Labour Party politician and pharmacist
• Anood Al-Samerai - Southwark based councillor for British political party, the Liberal Democrats and leader of Southwark's Liberal Democrat Group (Iraqi father, English mother)
• Nadhim Zahawi - born in Baghdad to Kurdish parents; co-founded YouGov with Stephan Shakespeare and was YouGov's CEO from 2005 to 2010; elected as a Conservative councillor in Putney in the London Borough of Wandsworth, and served from 1994 to 2006

Sport

• Botan Ameen - footballer
• Alexander Aoraha - footballer
• Riyadh Al-Azzawi - kickboxer
• Youra Eshaya - Assyrian footballer, first Iraqi to play professionally in England
• Zidane Iqbal - footballer

Writers

• Tina Brown - journalist, magazine editor, columnist, talk-show host and author of The Diana Chronicles; part Iraqi on her mother's side
• Mona Chalabi - data journalist; Iraqi parents
• Dalia Al-Dujaili - writer and editor; Iraqi parents
• Saleem Haddad - author; Iraqi-German mother
• Foulath Hadid - writer
• Ruqaya Izzidien - novelist and journalist
• Salah Niazi - poet
• Nussaibah Younis - novelist and screenwriter, former political scientist and humanitarian

Other

• Huda Ammori - activist

See also

• British Iraqis
• List of Iraqis
• List of Iraqi Americans

References