The Most Famous
ATHLETES from Iraq
This page contains a list of the greatest Iraqi Athletes. The pantheon dataset contains 6,025 Athletes, 1 of which were born in Iraq. This makes Iraq the birth place of the 119th most number of Athletes behind Peru, and Mozambique.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Iraqi Athletes of all time. This list of famous Iraqi Athletes is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Jafar Salmasi (1918 - 2000)
With an HPI of 42.95, Jafar Salmasi is the most famous Iraqi Athlete. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Mohammad-Jafar Salmasi (Persian: محمدجعفر سلماسی, 22 September 1918 – 31 January 2000) was an Iranian weightlifter who won Iran's first Olympic medal at 1948 Summer Olympics.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Iraqi athletes born between 1918 and 1918. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Iraqi athletes include Jafar Salmasi.
