Lista de Personas Famosas nacidas en Basora

Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis fue un comandante militar iraquí que lideraba la alianza paramilitar iraquí Fuerzas de Movilización Popular. Participó en la segunda batalla de Tikrit en marzo de 2015.

Abu Tahsin al-Salihi; was an Iraqi veteran sniper. A volunteer in the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces, he is credited with killing over 384 ISIS members during the War in Iraq (2013–2017), receiving the nicknames “The Sheikh of Snipers” and “Hawk Eye.”

Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Hayṯam, llamado en Occidente Alhazen o Alhacén, fue un físico árabe musulmán experto en astronomía. Está considerado el creador del método científico, realizó importantes contribuciones a los principios de la óptica y a la concepción de los experimentos científicos.

Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari fue un teólogo musulmán iraquí.

Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Duraid al-Azdī al-Baṣrī ad-Dawsī Al-Zahrani, or Ibn Duraid, a leading grammarian of Baṣrah, was described as "the most accomplished scholar, ablest philologer and first poet of the age", was from Baṣrah (Iraq) in the Abbasid era. Ibn Duraid is best known today as the lexicographer of the influential dictionary, the Jamhara fi 'l-lugha. The fame of this comprehensive dictionary of the Arabic language is second only to its predecessor, the Kitab al-'Ayn. In his biographical dictionary Ibn Khallikān gives his full name as:

Abū Bakr M. b. al-Hasan b. Duraid b. Atāhiya b. Hantam b. Hasan b. Hamāmi b. Jarw Wāsī b. Wahb b. Salama b. Hādir b. Asad b. Adi b. Amr b. Mālik b. Fahm b. Ghānim b. Daus b. Udthān b. Abd Allāh b. Zahrān b. Kaab b. al-Hārith b. Kaab b. Abd Allāh b. Mālik b. Nasr b. al-Azd b. al-Gauth b. Nabt b. Mālik b. Zaid b. Kahlān b. Saba b. Yashjub b. Yārub b. Kahtān, of the Azd tribe, native of Baṣrah.

Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Sa‘d ibn Manī‘ al-Baṣrī al-Hāshimī or simply Ibn Saʿ'd and nicknamed "Scribe of Waqidi", was a scholar and Arabian biographer. Ibn Sa'd was born in 784/785 CE and died on 16 February 845 CE. Ibn Sa'd was from Basra, but lived mostly in Baghdad, hence the nisba al-Basri and al-Baghdadi respectively. He is said to have died at the age of 62 in Baghdad and was buried in the cemetery of the Syrian gate.

al-Muḥāsibī, Abū ‛Abdallāh b. al-Ḥārit, latinizado como Al-Muhasibi, teólogo y místico musulmán, iniciado en el sufismo. Es conocido principalmente por su obra K. al-Ri’āya li-ḥuqūq Allāh,. Fue maestro de al-Sarī al-Saqātī, tío y maestro de Ŷunayd.

Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Rifāʿī was a Sunni Muslim preacher, ascetic, mystic, jurist, and theologian, known for being the eponymous founder of the Rifaʽi tariqa of Islam. He gave courses in Hadith, Fiqh, and Tafsir everyday except for Monday and Thursday. He sat in his pulpit afternoons on Monday and Thursday and preached to intellectuals and the public. The Rifaʽi order had its greatest following until it was overtaken by the Qadiri order. The Rifaʽi order is most commonly found in the Arab Middle East but also in Turkey, the Balkans and South Asia.

Abu al-Hasan Ali Ibn Muhammad Ibn Habib al-Mawardi, conocido en latín como Alboacen (972-1058), fue un jurista musulmán de la escuela Shafi'i, recordado por sus trabajos sobre religión, gobierno del califato y derecho público y constitucional durante una época de agitación política. Fue nombrado como juez principal de varios distritos jorasaníes cercanos a Nishapur y Bagdad; también sirvió como diplomático para los califas Abasidas Al-Qa'im y al-Qadir en negociaciones con los emires Buyíes. Un símbolo de sus contribuciones en este campo es recordado en su tratado de Las ordenanzas de gobierno, que proporcionan una definición detallada de las funciones del gobierno califal, que bajo los buyíes era más bien indefinidas y ambiguas.

Abu Kalijar Marzuban was the Buyid amir of Fars (1024–1048), Kerman (1028–1048) and Iraq (1044–1048). He was the eldest son of Sultan al-Dawla.