List of British Iraqis

Academia

• 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

  Actors/actresses

• Andy Serkis - actor

  Artists

• Lowkey - UK rapper, born Kareem Dennis; his mother is of Iraqi descent

  Business

• Nadhmi Auchi
• Samuel Hayek - millionaire real-estate tycoon; chairman of the KKL Charitable Trust
• 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 directors

• Kasim Abid - cameraman, director and producer

  Politicians

• Anood Al-Samerai - Southwark based councillor for British political party, the Liberal Democrats and leader of Southwark's Liberal Democrat Group
• 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

• Youra Eshaya - Assyrian footballer, first Iraqi to play professionally in England

  Writers

• Tina Brown - journalist, magazine editor, columnist, talk-show host and author of The Diana Chronicles; part Iraqi on her mother's side