Sports Personalities
- Bassim Abbas, footballer
- Fareed Lafta (Arabic:, فريد لفتة), Iraqi pilot and athlete, the first qualified cosmonaut from Iraq, and has appeared in Guinness World Records for participating in the first skydive above Mount Everest.
- Haidar Abdul-Razzaq, footballer
- Haidar Aboodi, footballer
- Nashat Akram, footballer
- Najah Ali, Iraqi boxer who qualified for the 2004 Olympics in Athens
- Adnan Al-Kaissie, professional wrestler
- Abdul Wahid Aziz, Iraqi weightlifter, who won a bronze medal in the lightweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
- Ammo Baba, former Iraqi international football player and coach of the Iraq national football team.
- Youra Eshaya, footballer
- Faisal Faisal, footballer
- Ghanim Ghudayer, footballer
- Basil Gorgis, footballer
- Jassim Muhammad Haji, footballer
- Falah Hassan, footballer
- Louay Salah Hassan, footballer
- Khaldoun Ibrahim, footballer
- Salih Jaber, footballer
- Abbas Obeid Jassim, footballer
- Ihab Kareem, footballer
- Mahdi Karim, footballer
- Younis Mahmoud, Iraqi football striker and captain of the Iraq national football team. In 2007 he captained the Iraq football team to the Asian Cup glory. He currently plays for Al-Gharafa Sports Club in Qatar.
- Ahmad Mnajed, Iraqi national soccer team player, who plays for Al-Ansar in Lebanon.
- Emad Mohammed, footballer
- Karrar Jassim Mohammed, footballer
- Hawar Mulla Mohammed, Iraqi footballer, known to be one of the best players in Iraqi national team, currently plays for Anorthosis FC in Cyprus.
- Sarhang Muhsin, footballer
- Samal Saeed Mujbel, footballer
- Qusay Munir, Iraqi national soccer team player, midfielder for Qatar SC in Qatar.
- Mohammad Nasser, Iraqi national soccer team player. Plays for Esteghlal Ahvaz in Iran.
- Yassir Raad, footballer
- Ahmed Radhi, footballer
- Ali Rehema, footballer
- Noor Sabri, footballer
- Saleh Sader, footballer
- Hussein Saeed, footballer
- Edison David, born in Iraq, Iraqi Assyrian football player who played for Iraq and Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya in the 1950s and 1960s
- Kadhem Sharif, Iraqi world-class wrestler and weightlifter
- Abdul-Razzaq Ahmed Taha, was an Iraqi chess player and former president of Iraqi Chess Federation.
- Thamer Yousif, footballer
- Saadi Toma (born 25 April 1955 in Baghdad, Iraq), Iraqi Assyrian former football player and coach.
- Peter Murad, a former football player of Al-Minaa, Manchester United and Iraq national team.
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