13 Notable alumni of University of Mosul

Layla Salih is an Iraqi archaeologist. As head of the Nineveh Antiquities section in the Iraq State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, she has been responsible for the monitoring, rescue, and documentation of Ancient Near Eastern art and architecture following its destruction by ISIS. She is known for her discovery of one of Esarhaddon's palaces in Nineveh.

Souad Naji Al-Azzawi is an Iraqi environmentalist and academic researcher in various engineering disciplines, in addition to having established and assisted in the establishment of multiple research & academic institutions in Iraq. With more than 50 published scientific papers on topics ranging from water desalination, nuclear waste management, and Depleted Uranium contamination among others, she is a distinguished member of...

Hajim Mahdi Saleh al-Hassani to a prominent family is an Iraqi politician and was the speaker of the Iraqi National Assembly under the Iraqi Transitional Government. A moderate Sunni Arab and relative outsider, having spent much of his life in the United States, al-Hassani was tapped as a compromise candidate for the speaker's post after weeks of deadlock between Iraqi...

Karim Findi is an author and Kurdish writer. In 1974 he graduated at University of Mosul – College of Arts English Dept.

Ibrahim Abdul Karim al-Eshaiker, better known as Ibrahim al-Jaafari, is an Iraqi politician who was Prime Minister of Iraq in the Iraqi Transitional Government from 2005 to 2006, following the January 2005 election. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2014 to 2018.

Abdul-Wahab al-Saadi is an Iraqi general who served as the head of the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service from 2020 to 2023. Al-Saadi rose to fame during the war against ISIS when his contributions as an Iraqi Special Operations Forces commander received much media coverage. He played a critical role in the defeat of ISIS in Iraq, and in 2022 he received...

Osama Abdul Aziz al-Nujaifi is an Iraqi politician and served as one of the three vice presidents of the country, from 2014 to 2015 and 2016 to 2018. As the speaker of the Council of Representatives, the informal leader of the moderate Sunni al-Hadba party was the highest ranking Sunni politician of Iraq.

Atheel al-Nujaifi is an Iraqi politician. He served as the Governor of Nineveh Governorate from April 2009 until May 2015.

Roj Nouri Shaweis was a Kurdish politician who served as the first Prime Minister of the KDP-controlled part of Kurdistan. After the invasion of Iraq that overthrew the Saddam Hussein regime, he served as one of Iraq's two vice presidents in the interim government established in 2004. Subsequently, he was a Deputy Prime Minister in the government headed by Ibrahim...

Najmiddin Karim, also known as Najmadin Karim, was an Iraqi Kurdish politician who was governor of Kirkuk Governorate from 2011 to 2017. Prior to the invasion of Iraq, Karim had served in numerous Kurdish and Iraqi opposition groups.

Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi; born Amir Mohammed Abdul Rahman al-Mawli al-Salbi (Arabic: أمير محمد عبد الرحمن المولى الصلبي, romanized: Amīr Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Mawlā al-Ṣalibi);‎ 1 or 5 October 1976 – 3 February 2022) was an Iraqi militant and the second caliph of the Islamic State from 2019 until his suicide in 2022. His appointment by a shura council was...

Falah Mustafa Bakir is a Kurdish politician from Kurdistan Region, Iraq serving as Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to President Nechirvan Barzani with a ministerial rank.