Sami Saeed al-Ahmad (1930–2006) was an Iraqi historian in Ancient history of the Middle East. He was born in 1930 in Hillah Iraq, where he had received primary and secondary education. In 1953 received a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Baghdad, then he received a master's degree from the University of Chicago in 1957 and doctorate from the University of Michigan in 1962. he was appointed professor at the University of Denver in Colorado in America in 1963 -1967. He returned to Iraq in the late 1960s and was appointed professor at Baghdad University, has more than thirty books printed in Arabic and English, including the south of Iraq in time of the UNESCO King Banipal, Yazidis, and the history of the Persian Gulf in the oldest times, the island languages.