The following is a list of notable ethnic Assyrians. 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.
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- This is a list of modern individuals. For early Christian authors, see List of Syriac writers. For ancient Assyrians, see Category:Ancient Assyrians.
- Ninos Aho – poet and founding father of modern Assyrian nationalism[1][2]
- Freydun Atturaya – physician, poet and founder of the first Assyrian political party, the Assyrian Socialist Party[3]
- 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[4][5][6][7]
- Lado Davidov – Soviet soldier during the Second World War and Hero of the Soviet Union[8]
- Naum Faiq – writer, poet and founding father of modern Assyrian nationalism[9][10]
- Jumana Hanna – involved in anti Baath war propaganda, torture victim[11]
- Reine Hanna – Director of the Assyrian Policy Institute[12][13]
- Nuri Kino – award-winning journalist, documentary filmmaker, author, human rights expert, and founder of A Demand for Action[14]
- Rosie Malek-Yonan – actress, author, director, public figure and human rights activist[15][16][17][18]
- Hurmiz Malik Chikko – martyr and leader of the Assyrian armed struggle against the Ba'ath regime in Iraq in the late 1950s – early 1960s[19][20]
- Farid Nazha – journalist and founding father of modern Assyrian nationalism[21]
- David B. Perley – philosopher and nationalist[22]
- Juliana Taimoorazy – founder and president of the Iraqi Christian Relief Council, senior fellow at the Philos Project[23]
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[43][44]
- Boxing
- Football (soccer)
- Tennis
- Andrew Simon – Iraqi Assyrian Tennis Champion
Diaspora
- American football
- Alex Agase – Assyrian American – top level American Football (Gridiron) player[52][53]
- Lou Agase – Assyrian American – top level American Football (Gridiron) player[53]
- Boxing
- Fencing (sabre)
- George Yako – Assyrian/Australian sabre fencer - Australian based
- Figure Skating
- David Avdysh – Assyrian/Ukrainian figure skating choreographer[56]
- Erin Moorad – Assyrian/American Pacific Coast Sectional Figure Skating Medalist[57]
- Football (soccer)
- Martial Arts
- Poker
- Tennis
- Aba I – philosopher, astronomer
- Aphrahat – 3rd century theologian
- Toma Audo – bishop, writer[70]
- Babai (Nestorian Patriarch) – bishop
- Babai the Great – philosopher, theologian
- Bardaisan – philosopher[71]
- Paul Bedjan[72]
- Bukhtishu – were a family of Assyrian Nestorian Christian[73][74] 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[75]
- 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[76]
- Toma bar Yacoub – 9th Century theological historian
- Donny George Youkhanna
- Ashur Yousif[77][78][79]
- 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.
United Nations
- Dr. William Ishaya – Deputy Permanent Representative – Mission of the Republic of Iraq to the United Nations in New York, USA.[119]
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"A Brief Study in the Palak Nationalism", by Dr. David Barsoum Perley LL.B.
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"Zinda". Zinda Magazine. October 16, 2006. Retrieved September 15, 2020. The internationally acclaimed Assyrian-Turkish artist, Eser Afacan was born in Mardin, Turkey in 1953. He was born to an Assyrian father, also an artist, and a Greek Orthodox mother.
Marshall, Jim (2004). Jim Marshall: Proof. San Francisco, California: Chronicle Books. ISBN 9780811843188. Noor-e Alam: Protestant Monthly in Iran (in Persian) (9): 11–13. February 1963.
"Iran's 1948 (1327) Track and Field Championship". Niroo-Va-Rasti Weekly Magazine (in Persian) (216): 17. 26 October 1948.
"Zenda". Zinda Magazine. July 1, 1996. Retrieved September 15, 2020. Emmanuel won several boxing championship in Iran under the directions of former Assyrian boxing champions George Issabeg and Andre Gvolowich.
Prods Oktor Skjaervo. Bardesanes. Encyclopædia Iranica. Volume III. Fasc. 7-8. ISBN 0-7100-9121-4. "Obie Yadgar: 1945". Assyrian Information Medium Exchange - Source: Lita Grier, WNIB Public Relations Director. 1997. Retrieved September 3, 2020. "Elmer Alexander", United States census, 1930; Chicago, Cook, Illinois; roll 486, page 7B, line 58, enumeration district 1638, Family History film 1254075, National Archives film number T626. Retrieved on 2022-02-14. "Famous Assyrian Drumer Appearing at 1960 Chicago Convention". Assyrian Star. vol.9, no.7-8: 5. July–August 1960.
World Music: The Rough Guide, by Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham, Richard Trillo, 1999.
Zeitoune, Abboud (2007). Music Pearls of Beth-Nahrin: an Assyrian/Syriac Discography (in German and English). Wiesbaden, Germany: Abboud Zeitoune. ISBN 9783931358099. "Anna Eshoo: Biography". Congresswoman Anna Eshoo - California's 18th Congressional District. 13 December 2019. Retrieved August 2, 2020. Rep. Eshoo was born in New Britain, Connecticut, of Assyrian and Armenian heritage. She is the proud mother of two children, Karen and Paul.
The Origins and Emergence of the Church in Edessa during the First Two Centuries A.D. Author(s): L. W. Barnard Source: Vigiliae Christianae, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Sep., 1968), pp. 161-175.
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