The Most Famous
BUSINESSPEOPLE from Iraq
This page contains a list of the greatest Iraqi Businesspeople. The pantheon dataset contains 601 Businesspeople, 1 of which were born in Iraq. This makes Iraq the birth place of the 61st most number of Businesspeople behind Indonesia and Kazakhstan.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Iraqi Businesspeople of all time. This list of famous Iraqi Businesspeople is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Charles Saatchi (1943 - )
With an HPI of 42.89, Charles Saatchi is the most famous Iraqi Businessperson. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Charles Saatchi ( SAH-chee; Arabic: تشارلز ساعتجي, romanized: Tšārliz Sā‘atjī; born 9 June 1943) is an Iraqi-British businessman and the co-founder, with his brother Maurice, of advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi. The brothers led the business – the world's largest advertising agency in the 1980s – until they were forced out in 1995. In the same year, the brothers formed a new agency called M&C Saatchi. Saatchi is also known for his art collection and for owning Saatchi Gallery, and in particular for his sponsorship of the Young British Artists (YBAs), including Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin. In 2013, he received a police caution for assaulting his wife, Nigella Lawson.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as businesspeople born between 1943 and 1943. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living businesspeople include Charles Saatchi.
