Lista de Personas Famosas nacidas en Gobernación de Nínive

Mirza Dinnayi — Iraqi writer and Yazidi social activist, Aurora Humanitarian Award 2019 laureate.

Yousif Behnam Habash is an Iraqi-born bishop of the Syriac Catholic Church. Since 2010, he has been the Eparch of Our Lady of Deliverance of Newark.

Mahmud Dhiyab al-Ahmad is a former Iraqi diplomat, who held several cabinet-level positions.

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

Osama Abdul Aziz al-Nujaifi or Najifi is an Iraqi politician and served as one of the three Vice Presidents of the country, from 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.