The Most Famous People in Iraq
Top 1 of 1 ranked · August 2026 · See today's live standing →
First issue under methodology v5.62. Movement begins with the next issue frozen under the same version.
Kadim Al Sahir is Iraq's entire list, and the score beside him reads zero
iFAMOUS Editorial Desk · 1 min read
The Caesar of Arabic music is the only person measured in the Iraqi scope for August 2026.
Iraq's list for August 2026 has one line. Kadim Al Sahir, the singer, composer and songwriter known across the Arab world as The Caesar, is first because there is no one else, and the score recorded against him is 0, the floor of the scale. The Alive reading is the same line again, since he is living.
The entry itself is not a surprise. Al Sahir is Iraqi by birth and career and among the most recognised voices in Arabic music, so if a single Iraqi name were to be found first, his is a reasonable one. The country tag attached to him in the data is Qatar, which reflects where the engine currently locates his public life rather than his origin, and the scope still counts him as connected to Iraq.
What the table cannot yet do is describe the country. A full Iraqi reading would be expected to carry heads of state past and present, poets, footballers and the historical rulers whose fame has outlasted their empires, and it would be one of the more era-spanning national tables in the journal. None of that has been measured this month, and the evidence coverage for the scope is graded medium.
The zero score should be read as an absence of measured worldwide attention inside the Iraqi scope in August, not as a judgement on the singer. The ranking measures fame and nothing else. For now the useful statement is simple: the scope exists, it has its first name, and that name is the one many Iraqis would have chosen to open it.
| Rank | Name | Score | Live |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Kadim Al Sahir  celebrityAlive | 0.0 | iFANN → |
About this list
This list ranks the most famous people connected to Iraq as of August 2026, by overall fame rather than one month's attention: the top 1 of 1 names the rankings measured for Iraq, frozen as the permanent record of that edition. This is the standard reading: everyone, living or dead, on one scale. 1 of the 1 listed are living; the Alive reading restricts the same ranking to living people.
Kadim Al Sahir is No. 1 on this list for August 2026. Evidence coverage for this list is medium; positions near the bottom of the table may shift as coverage improves.
What famous means here
Fame, in iFAMOUS, is how widely the world knows a name: how recognisable a person's name, face or work is, and how well people know who they are. It is assessed from extensive historical and current public data, some of it reaching back more than twenty years, and it is not merit, talent, importance or popularity on iFANN. The rankings model real-world global fame, not internet fame; the data is the instrument, not the subject. Activity on iFANN itself is excluded.
The month in the title is the date of this edition, not the period measured. The list is a snapshot of overall fame as it stood when the issue was frozen: a name does not lose its place because one month was quiet, and a trending moment alone does not put a name here. Trending attention is published separately on ifann.net.
How the list was ranked
The iFANN Global Fame Rankings combine worldwide Wikipedia readership across languages, worldwide news coverage and search interest anchored against stable reference names, with search history reaching back to 2004. A twelve-month baseline sits behind the current reading and short-lived surges are capped, so the list reflects durable recognition rather than one week of headlines. Rankings are computed daily on ifann.net and frozen on the second day of the following month as that month's issue; a published issue never changes.
About Iraq
Iraq is one of the countries and regions the journal ranks every month. Country lists use the same rankings and the same scale as The 100, so a name can be compared with its neighbours and against the world.
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iFAMOUS is published by iFANN and powered by the iFANN Global Fame Rankings v5.62. Today's live standing for this list is on ifann.net; the journal freezes it once a month so it can be cited permanently.
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"Kadim Al Sahir, No. 1 on The Most Famous People in Iraq", iFAMOUS No. 1 (August 2026), ifamous.org