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Beatrice Ohanessian
Beatrice Ohanessian (March 15, 1927 – July 17, 2008) was an Iraqi Armenian pianist, notable for being Iraq's first concert pianist and first female composer.
Biography.
Biography Early life and education.
Ohanessian was born in Baghdad in 1927 to a well-to-do Armenian family. Her father, born in Persia, had settled in Baghdad after a time in India working with the British. Her mother and two uncles were orphaned survivors of the Armenian Genocide. Both parents encouraged her
Basra
- Simor Jalal, Iraqi singer
- Beatrice Ohanessian, Iraqi-Armenian pianist
- Yusuf Salman Yusuf, also referred to as "Comrade Fahd", one of the founders and most influential figures of the Iraqi Communist Party
- Albert Edward Ismail Yelda, Iraqi activist and Iraq's Ambassador to the Vatican (2004)
- Hormuzd Rassam, Iraqi-Assyrian Assyriologist
- Georges Sada
- Linda George, Iraqi-Assyrian Syriac singer
- Youra Eshaya, Iraqi footballer
- Nahren Anweya, Assyrian