No.
|
Portrait
|
Name (Birth–Death)
|
Elected
|
Term of office
|
Political party
|
Took office
|
Left office
|
Time in office
|
→ • Iraqi Republic (pre–Ba'ath Party) (1958–1968) • →
|
1
|
|
Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i محمد نجيب الربيعي (1904–1965)
|
—
|
14 July 1958
|
8 February 1963 (deposed)[1]
|
4 years, 209 days
|
Military
|
2
|
|
Abdul Salam Arif عبد السلام عارف (1921–1966)
|
—
|
8 February 1963
|
13 April 1966 (died in office)[2]
|
3 years, 64 days
|
Military / Arab Socialist Union
|
—
|
|
Abd al-Rahman al-Bazzaz عبد الرحمن البزاز (1913–1973) Acting President
|
—
|
13 April 1966
|
16 April 1966
|
3 days
|
Arab Socialist Union
|
3
|
|
Abdul Rahman Arif عبد الرحمن عارف (1916–2007)
|
—
|
16 April 1966
|
17 July 1968 (deposed)[3]
|
2 years, 92 days
|
Military / Arab Socialist Union
|
→ • Iraqi Republic (under Ba'ath Party) (1968–2003) • →
|
4
|
|
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr أحمد حسن البكر (1914–1982)
|
—
|
17 July 1968
|
16 July 1979 (resigned)[4]
|
10 years, 364 days
|
Military / Iraqi Ba'ath Party (Iraq Region)
|
5
|
|
Saddam Hussein صدام حسين (1937–2006)
|
1995 2002
|
16 July 1979
|
9 April 2003 (deposed)[5]
|
23 years, 267 days
|
Iraqi Ba'ath Party (Iraq Region)
|
• Iraqi Governing Council (2003–2004) •
|
—
|
|
Jay Garner جاي غارنر (born 1938) Director of the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance of Iraq
|
—
|
21 April 2003
|
12 May 2003
|
21 days
|
Democratic
|
—
|
|
Paul Bremer بول بريمر (born 1941) Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority of Iraq
|
—
|
12 May 2003
|
28 June 2004
|
1 year, 47 days
|
Republican
|
→ • Republic of Iraq (2004–present) • →
|
—
|
|
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer غازي مشعل عجيل الياور (born 1958) Interim President
|
2004
|
28 June 2004
|
7 April 2005
|
283 days
|
The Iraqis
|
6
|
|
Jalal Talabani جلال طالباني جەلال تاڵەبانی (1933–2017)
|
2005 2006 2010
|
7 April 2005
|
24 July 2014
|
9 years, 108 days
|
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
|
7
|
|
Fuad Masum فؤاد معصوم فواد مەعسووم (born 1938)
|
2014
|
24 July 2014
|
2 October 2018
|
4 years, 70 days
|
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
|
8
|
|
Barham Salih برهم صالح بەرهەم ساڵح (born 1960)
|
2018
|
2 October 2018
|
17 October 2022
|
4 years, 15 days
|
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
|
9
|
|
Abdul Latif Rashid لطيف رشيد لەتیف ڕەشید (born 1944)
|
2022
|
17 October 2022
|
Incumbent
|
2 years, 56 days
|
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
|