The following is a list of notable 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
  • 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 Nuzha – 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

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  • Brian Awadis – YouTuber
  • Paul Elia – Chaldean-Assyrian comedian from Detroit
  • Dustin Kahia – Assyrian film director
  • Henri Charr – director
  • Michael Denkha – actor
  • Naguib el-Rihani – actor
  • F. Murray Abraham – Academy award-winning actor
  • Josef Fares – film director and video game designer
  • Ryan Bernier – Former Second City Artistic Director and Writer/Director of Gilgamesh! The Assyrian Epic...sorta
  • Fares Fares – Swedish-Lebanese actor
  • Iloosh Khoshabe – actor; bodybuilder
  • Nuri Kino – journalist; filmmaker
  • Winter Jones – actor

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
  • Jim Marshall – photographer
  • Bishara Morad – artist
  • Fred Parhad – sculptor

;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
  • Thomas Younan – Assyrian boxer from Chicago

;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
  • Ayoub Odisho – Iraqi Assyrian footballer and club manager (in Lebanon)
  • Thamer Yousif – Iraqi Assyrian footballer – Iraq International

;Tennis

Andrew Simon – Iraqi Assyrian tennis champion

Andre Agassi American Assyrian-Armenian tennis champion

Diaspora

;Basketball

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  • Scotty Pippen Jr.

;American football

  • Alex Agase – Assyrian American – top level American Football (Gridiron) player
  • Lou Agase – Assyrian American – top level American Football (Gridiron) player
  • Abgar Barsom – Assyrian Swedish footballer
  • Stefan Batan – Assyrian Swedish footballer – plays for Assyriska
  • 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
  • Mario Shabow – Assyrian Australian footballer – plays for Central Coast Mariners in the Australian A-League
  • Suleyman Sleyman – Assyrian Swedish footballer – plays for Syrianska FC
  • Rebin Sulaka – Assyrian Swedish footballer – Iraq International
  • Jasar Takak – Dutch based Assyrian footballer, formerly of Vitesse Arnhem
  • 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)
  • Randa Markos – Assyrian Canadian Mixed martial arts (MMA)
  • Tiras Odisho – Assyrian Iraqi Karate champion, 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

  • Susanne Celik – Assyrian Swedish tennis player
  • Andre Khabbazi – American actor and semi-pro tennis player
  • Michael Shabaz – American tennis player
  • Andre Agassi - American tennis player

Educators and explorers

  • Toma Audo – bishop, writer
  • 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
  • Emanuel Kamber
  • George Kiraz – computational linguist
  • Kanan Makiya – academic, professor
  • Eden Naby
  • Estiphan Panoussi – philosopher and oriental philologist
  • Hormuzd Rassam – Assyriologist, and first-known Middle Eastern archaeologist
  • Thomas L. Saaty – Iraqi born Assyrian American mathematician
  • Mikhail Sado – Russian linguist, scholar, professor of Semitic languages, orientalist, politician, former paratrooper, and wrestling champion
  • 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

  • Malik Khoshaba – Assyrian military leader during World War I
  • Agha Petros – World War I Assyrian General
  • Ashur Yousif – professor and Assyrian nationalist
  • Shamoun Hanne Haydo – Village leader and defender of Assyrians during Seyfo
  • Melke Hanne Haydo – brother of Shamoun Hanne Haydo
  • Malik Yaqo – Assyrian malik from Hakkari
  • Malik Ismail II – one of the most powerful Assyrian malik’s
  • Dawid Mar Shimun – Assyrian military general
  • Surma D'Bait Mar Shimun – Assyrian military leader and sister of Shimun XIX Benyamin
  • Toma Tomas - Iraqi Assyrian guerilla fighter

Media

  • Ramona Amiri – Miss World Canada 2005
  • John Batchelor – author; radio host
  • Jack Douglas – television host
  • Claudia Hanna – Miss Iraq 2006
  • Craig Morgan – sports journalist
  • Diane Pathieu – news anchor based in Chicago
  • Larsa Pippen – reality television personality
  • Younan Nowzaradan – reality television personality
  • Cindy Sargon – Australian TV chef
  • Nancy Oshana Wehbe – body builder and model
  • Patrick Bet-David – American entrepreneur and TV personality of Assyrian-Armenian origin
  • Obelit Yadgar – American radio personality
  • Alfred Yaghobzadeh – Iranian photojournalist

Musicians and composers

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  • Fairuz
  • Evin Agassi
  • Mousey Alexander
  • Ricky Rich
  • Gabriel Asaad
  • Jamil Bashir
  • Munir Bashir
  • Ashur Bet Sargis
  • Aril Brikha
  • Sargon Gabriel
  • Linda George
  • Nouri Iskandar
  • Juliana Jendo
  • Elias Karam
  • Joseph Malke
  • Paulus Khofri
  • Adwar Mousa
  • Habib Mousa
  • Hanna Petros
  • Janan Sawa
  • Gaboro
  • Ant Wan
  • Ricky Rich
  • Timz
  • Marganita Vogt-Khofri
  • Haitham Yousif
  • Elias Zazi
  • Santa Dimopulos

Politicians

Iraq

  • Tariq Aziz – Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq 1979–2003 (Real name Michael Youkhana)
  • Basim Bello – Mayor of Tel Kaif, Iraq
  • Lara Yussif Zara – Mayor of Alqosh
  • 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
  • Elizabeth Gawrie – Deputy Prime Minister of Rojava
  • 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
  • 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
  • George Aslan – 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

United States

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  • Alina Habba – Counselor to Donald Trump (45th and 47th U.S. President)
  • Mark Arabo – politician based in San Diego, California
  • Adam Benjamin, Jr. – Indiana Congressman
  • Wadie Deddeh – former California State Senator
  • Anna Eshoo – California Congresswoman
  • John Nimrod – Illinois Senator
  • Atour Sargon – Lincolnwood Trustee

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
  • Ilan De Basso – Former member of the European Parliament 2021-2024

Canada

  • Helena Guergis – former Canadian Member of Parliament and 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 Assyrian 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

  • Basile Georges Casmoussa
  • David Benjamin Keldani
  • Dinkha IV, 1935–2015
  • Elias Mellus
  • Emil Shimoun Nona
  • Emmanuel III Delly
  • George Garmo
  • Ignatius Isaac Azar
  • Josephus Adjutus – 17th century theologian
  • Louis Cheikho
  • Mar Mari Emmanuel – bishop and influencer
  • Paulos Faraj Rahho
  • Pkidha, 104–114 – first Bishop of Adiabene
  • Ragheed Aziz Ganni
  • Raphael I Bidawid
  • Shimun XXI Eshai
  • Shimun XIX Benyamin, 1903–1918
  • Shlemon Warduni
  • Tatian, 120–180
  • Youhannan Semaan Issayi
  • Yosip Khnanisho, 1893–1977
  • Yusuf Akbulut

Writers and poets

  • Ilyas Mawsili
  • Maria Theresa Asmar
  • Yosip Bet Yosip
  • Sargon Boulus
  • Nina Burleigh
  • William D. S. Daniel
  • Fuat Deniz
  • Thea Halo
  • Samuel John Hazo
  • Ivan Kakovitch
  • Paulus Khofri
  • George Lamsa
  • Rosie Malek-Yonan
  • Terrence Malick
  • Dunya Mikhail
  • Alphonse Mingana
  • Leilah Nadir
  • Heather Raffo
  • Mikhael K. Pius
  • Yuhanon Qashisho
  • Ishaya Shamasha Dawid Bet-Zia

Other

  • Lado Davydov – Soviet soldier during the Second World War and Hero of the Soviet Union
  • Sergey Sarkhoshev – Soviet soldier during the Second World War and Hero of the Soviet Union