The Most Famous
COMPANIONS from Iraq
This page contains a list of the greatest Iraqi Companions. The pantheon dataset contains 673 Companions, 3 of which were born in Iraq. This makes Iraq the birth place of the 31st most number of Companions behind Norway, and Argentina.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Iraqi Companions of all time. This list of famous Iraqi Companions is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Al-Muqtadi (1056 - 1094)
With an HPI of 58.90, Al-Muqtadi is the most famous Iraqi Companion. His biography has been translated into 25 different languages on wikipedia.
Abū'l-Qasim ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muhammad ibn al-Qa'im (Arabic: أبو القاسم عبد الله بن محمد بن القائم) better known by his regnal name al-Muqtadi (Arabic: المقتدي 'the follower'; 1056 – February 1094) was the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad from 1075 to 1094. He succeeded his grandfather caliph al-Qa'im in 1075 as the twenty-seventh Abbasid caliph.
2. Rana Hussein (b. 1969)
With an HPI of 46.08, Rana Hussein is the 2nd most famous Iraqi Companion. Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Rana Saddam Hussein (Arabic: رنا صدام حسين) (born July 25, 1969) is the second-eldest daughter of the former President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein and his first wife, Sajida Talfah. Her older sister is Raghad and younger sister is Hala Hussein.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Iraqi companions born between 1056 and 1969. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Iraqi companions include Rana Hussein. The most famous deceased Iraqi companions include Al-Muqtadi.
