List of Assyrian-Iranians

This is a list of famous Assyrian-Iranians.

Art

 * Sooren Alexander 1939-2007 born in Hamadan, Iran -musical composer & musician (younger brother of Sargon Mayelian)
 * Evin Agassi - singer
 * Ashurbanipal Babilla (1944 Tehran - New York City) - actor, theatre director, playwright and visual artist
 * Issa Benyamin (born 1924 Tabriz) - calligraphist
 * Aril Brikha (born 1976 Tehran) - musician
 * George Chaharbakhshi (born 1952 Tehran) - singer
 * Henri Charr - film director
 * William D. S. Daniel, author, poet, and musician
 * Jack Douglas (1921 Kermanshah - 1994 Los Angeles) - television personality
 * Andre Khabbazi (born 1975 Sacramento) - actor
 * Paulus Khofri (1923 Baghdad-2000 Tehran) - composer and painter
 * Terrence Malick (born 1943 Ottawa) - film director and producer
 * Sargon Mayelian 1934-2006 born in Kermanshah, Iran -musical composer & musician (older brother of Sooren Alexander)
 * Shamiram Urshan (1938 Tehran-2011 Los Angeles) - singer
 * Marganita Vogt-Khofri (born 1952 Kermanshah) - musician

Literature

 * John Batchelor (born 1948 Bryn Mawr) - journalist
 * Ivan Kakovitch (1933 Kiev-2006 Paris) journalist and author
 * Eden Naby (born 1942 Gulpashan) - historian
 * Mikhael Pius (1927 Baghdad-2011 Modesto) - historian

Politics

 * Freydun Atturaya (1891 Urmia-1926 Tbilisi) - physician and politician
 * Yonathan Betkolia (born 1951 Urmia) - politician
 * Eugene Dooman (1890 Osaka - 1969) - diplomat
 * George Malek-Yonan - politician
 * John Nimrod (1922 Chicago - 2009) - politician

Religion

 * Aphrahat (3rd and 4th centuries) - Christian author
 * Toma Audo (1854 Alqosh - 1918 Urmia) - Catholic archbishop
 * Paul Bedjan (1838 Khosrowabad - 1920 Cologne) - Catholic priest and orientalist
 * David Benjamin Keldani (1867 rmia-1940) - Catholic priest
 * Yohannan Gabriel (1758 Khosrowabad - 1833 Khosrowabad) - Catholic bishop of Salmas
 * Jacob David (1873 Sir - 1967 Chicago) pastor and relief worker
 * Andrew David Urshan (1884 near Urmia - 1967 United States) - evangelist and author
 * Ramzi Garmou (born 1945 Zakho) - Catholic Metropolitan Archbishop of Tehran
 * Ishodad of Merv (9th century) - bishop
 * Youhannan Semaan Issayi (1914 Sanandaj - 1999 Tehran) - Catholic Metropolitan Archbishop of Tehran
 * Nicholas I Zaya (born Khosrowabad - died 1855 Khosrowabad) - Catholic Patriarch of Babylon

Sciences

 * Bukhtishu family - famous medieval physicians
 * Eprime Eshag (1918 Urmia-1998 Oxford) - economist
 * Alexander George (1920 Chicago-2006 Seattle) - scholar in political sciences

Sports

 * Alex Agase (1922 Chicago-2007 Tarpon Springs) - American football player
 * Andre Agassi (born 1970 Las Vegas) - American tennis player
 * Emmanuel Agassi (1930 Salmas - 2021 Las Vegas) - boxer
 * Daniel Alaei (born 1983) - poker player
 * Steven Beitashour (born 1987 San Jose) - football player
 * Youra Eshaya (1933-1992 Sweden) - football player
 * George Issabeg (born 1930) - boxer
 * Benny Koochoie (born 1986) - basketballer
 * Jeff Moorad - baseball executive
 * Shoura Osipov boxer
 * Michael Shabaz (born 1987 Fairfax County) - tennis player
 * Eskandar Shora - boxer
 * Henrik Tamraz (1935 Urmia - 1996) - weightlifter
 * Gela Youhanna - football player
 * Edmond Yunanpour (born 1963 Ahvaz) - football manager and former player

Others

 * Ramona Amiri (born 1980 Montreal) - Miss Canada 2005
 * Patrick Bet-David (1978-) - Podcaster and businessman
 * Milton Malek-Yonan (1904 Urmia-2002 Carmel) - entrepreneur and inventor
 * Bob Miner (1941 Cicero-1994 San Francisco) - businessman
 * Estiphan Panoussi (born 1935 Sanandaj) - philosopher and oriental philologist (Persian, Arabic and Neo-Aramaic)
 * Juliana Taimoorazy (born 1973 in Tehran) - Assyrian activist and humanitarian