came from Baghdad to settle in the already established Baghdadi Jewish community in India and Burma. Architects Hisham N. Ashkouri Rifat Chadirji (born December 6, 1926, in Baghdad), Iraqi architect and author Zaha Hadid, winner of numerous awards including Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture (2007) Hussain Ali Abbass Harba, Iraqi architect and designer Kanan Makiya (born 1949), architect, academic and critic Mohamed Makiya (1914–2015), architect, urban planner and author Manhal Al-Habbobi (born 1970), Iraqi architect and former Mayor of Baghdad Basil Bayati - architect and designer Fashion designers Misha Nonoo, American-based fashion designer, best known for her eponymous line of women's ready-to-wear. Reem Alasadi, Iraqi-born British fashion designer Salim al-Shimiri Hana Sadiq Amir Slama, fashion designer, stylist and owner of the most famous beach fashion brand Rosa Chá in Brazil. Zeena Zaki, fashion designer Business people and entrepreneurs Nadhmi Auchi, British-Iraqi businessman, founder and chairman of General Mediterranean Holding (GMH), a conglomerate of 120 companies worldwide. In the Sunday Times Rich List 2008 ranking of the wealthiest people in the UK he was placed 27th with estimated fortune of £2,150 million. Zadik Bino (born 1943), Iraqi-born Israeli billionaire businessman. Shlomo Eliahu (born 1936), Baghdad-born Israeli businessman, billionaire, and former member of the Knesset Calouste Gulbenkian (23 March 1869 – 20 July 1955), Armenian businessman and philanthropist. Huda Kattan, Iraqi-American, founder and CEO of Huda Beauty Nemir Kirdar, Iraqi-born businessman (President, founder and CEO of Investcorp) Khalid Muhmood, director of Apollo Education and Training Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi, co-founder and chairman of Arab Media Watch Samuel Nalo, businessman, hijacker, and burglar Selim Zilkha, entrepreneur, founder of Mothercare, one of the United Kingdom's largest retail chains. Awn Hussain Al Khashlok, Iraqi businessman, CEO of Al Khashlok Group. Founder of Al Baghdadia Media Group. Business people and entrepreneurs of Iraqi descent Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted (5 November 1853 – 17 January 1927), founder of the Shell Transport and Trading Company, which later took the name Royal Dutch Shell. Samuel was born into a Baghdadi Jewish family in Whitechapel, London. Samuel Samuel (7 April 1855 – 23 October 1934), businessman and Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1913 to 1934. Samuel, born into a Baghdadi Jewish family. He founded Samuel Samuel & Co in Yokohama, Japan, in partnership with his elder brother Marcus Samuel. Walter Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted, Colonel Walter Horace Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted MC (13 March