List of British Iraqis

This is a list of notable British Iraqis, ordered by surname within section.

Academia

 * Nisreen Alwan - public health researcher
 * Elie Kedourie - historian
 * Jim Al-Khalili OBE - professor of theoretical physics at Surrey University and BBC presenter; born in Baghdad to an Iraqi father and English mother
 * Alphonse Mingana
 * Hormuzd Rassam
 * Sami Timimi - psychiatrist

Actors/actresses

 * Charlotte Lewis - actor; Chilean-Iraqi father
 * Yasmin Paige - actress
 * Andy Serkis - actor (Iraqi father of Armenian descent)

Artists

 * Lowkey - UK rapper, born Kareem Dennis; his mother is of Iraqi descent
 * Bashar Lulua - conductor; Iraqi father

Business

 * Nadhmi Auchi
 * Samuel Hayek - millionaire real-estate tycoon; chairman of the KKL Charitable Trust
 * Naim Dangoor - entrepreneur and philanthropist
 * Eamon Jubbawy - co-founder of technology company Onfido
 * Nemir Kirdar - Iraqi-born billionaire; President and CEO of Investcorp
 * Charles Saatchi - co-founder of the advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi; born in Baghdad and is of Iraqi Jewish descent; owner of the Saatchi Gallery
 * Maurice Saatchi - brother of Charles Saatchi; co-founder of Saatchi & Saatchi; born in Baghdad and is of Iraqi Jewish descent

Film people

 * Kasim Abid - cameraman, director and producer
 * Tala Hadid - film director and producer; Iraqi father
 * Amrou Al-Kadhi - writer, performer, and director

Politicians

 * Anood Al-Samerai - Southwark based councillor for British political party, the Liberal Democrats and leader of Southwark's Liberal Democrat Group (Iraqi father, English mother)
 * Nadhim Zahawi - born in Baghdad to Kurdish parents; co-founded YouGov with Stephan Shakespeare and was YouGov's CEO from 2005 to 2010; elected as a Conservative councillor in Putney in the London Borough of Wandsworth, and served from 1994 to 2006

Sport

 * Riyadh Al-Azzawi - kickboxer
 * Youra Eshaya - Assyrian footballer, first Iraqi to play professionally in England
 * Zidane Iqbal - footballer

Writers

 * Tina Brown - journalist, magazine editor, columnist, talk-show host and author of The Diana Chronicles; part Iraqi on her mother's side
 * Mona Chalabi - data journalist; Iraqi parents
 * Saleem Haddad - author; Iraqi-German mother
 * Foulath Hadid - writer