Notable Iraqi-Lebanese Figures
- Haidar al-Abbadi, Iraqi politician
- Hussain Mohammed Al-Amily, author
- Suzanne Alaywan, poet and painting artist (Born in Beirut to a Lebanese father and Iraqi mother)
- Omran Al-Kaysi, artist and historian (Iraqi father/Lebanese mother).
- Iyad Allawi, former Prime Minister of Iraq
- Ahmad al-Safi al-Najafi, poet
- Salah al-Din al-Sabbagh, (1889 - 1945) Iraqi Army officer (Lebanese father/Iraqi mother)
- Muqtada al-Sadr, Iraqi Shi'a cleric of Lebanese ancestry
- Ismail as-Sadr, Ayatollah
- Safia Taleb Ali al-Suhail, Iraqi politician (Lebanese mother)
- Rola Bahnam, television presenter
- Leila Barclay, American journalist and storyteller (Born in Beirut to an Iraqi mother and Palestinian father).
- Claudia Basrawi, German actress (Born in Beirut to an Iraqi father)
- Nahla Chahal, writer, journalist, researcher and activist
- Randa Chahal, film director (Iraqi mother/Lebanese father)
- Péri Cochin, television host
- Hind Rassam Culhane, professor
- Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Iraqi-born Lebanese Ayatollah
- Raad Ghantous, interior designer
- Bahaa Hariri, billionaire and brother of Saad Hariri
- Saad Hariri, politician (Iraqi mother)
- Jana El Horr, activist
- Remy Munasifi, comedian also known as GoRemy
- Victor Nacif, Vice President of Design Business Aspects for Nissan Design America
- Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi co-founder and chairman of Arab Media Watch
- Sheila Savar, founder of Savar & Associates
- Aida Schlaepfer, filmmaker
- Sahar Taha, Iraqi artist, married to a Lebanese now living in Lebanon.
- Jalal Toufic, artist
- Karen El Zein, a senior programme specialist at the eGovernment Authority in Bahrain. (English-Iraqi mother and Lebanese father).
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