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List of people associated with the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.

Australia

• John Howard, Prime Minister
• Andrew Wilkie — intelligence officer, resigned in protest at misuse of intelligence reports

France

• Jacques Chirac, President
• Dominique de Villepin, Foreign Minister

Iraq

• Rafid Ahmed Alwan, aka "Curveball"
• Tariq Aziz
• Ahmed Chalabi - Iraqi National Congress
• Qusay Hussein
• Saddam Hussein
• Uday Hussein
• Taha Yassin Ramadan - Vice President
• Amir Hamudi Hasan al-Sadi - Liaison to UNSCOM who insisted there were no WMDs
• Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf - Information Minister
• Abdul Razak al-Hashimi - coordinated with human shields

Saudi Arabia

• King Ibn Saud

Spain

• José María Aznar

UK

Government

• Tony Blair
  • Prime Minister
• Lord Goldsmith
  • Attorney General, who secretly advised the cabinet that the war may be illegal
• Jeremy Greenstock
  • UK ambassador to the UN during the buildup, and then UK representative in Iraq post-invasion.
• Geoff Hoon
  • Secretary of State for Defence
• Clare Short
  • International Development Secretary, threatened to resign then didn't
• Jack Straw
  • Foreign Secretary
• Elizabeth Wilmshurst
  • Deputy chief legal adviser to the Foreign Office, who resigned on the eve of war, protesting its illegality.

Military

• Major-General Tim Cross
  • Most senior British officer involved in preparations for reconstruction
• Johnson Beharry
  • Awarded a rare Victoria Cross for two separate acts of bravery. First living recipient of the award since 1969.
• Air Marshal Brian Burridge
  • In charge of UK invasion, Operation Telic

Other

• Robin Cook
  • Leader of the House of Commons, resigned from cabinet in protest at the war
• Katharine Gun
  • Interpreter at GCHQ who was tried for breach of the Official Secrets Act for whistle-blowing on a U.S. dirty tricks campaign against UN Security Councils. The trial collapsed when the prosecution declined to offer evidence.
• David Kelly
  • Weapons expert whose revelations stirred controversy over the case for war

United Nations

• Hans Blix, head of UNSCOM
• Mohamed ElBaradei - Director General of the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency

US

CFA

• L. Paul Bremer - former head of the CPA
• Jay Garner - former head of ORHA

Government

• George W. Bush, President
• Dick Cheney, Vice President
• I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby – Former Chief of Staff to the Vice President and his Assistant for Security Affairs; founding member of the Project for the New American Century; former student and close associate of Paul Wolfowitz
• Richard Perle - former Assistant Secretary of Defense
• Colin Powell - Secretary of State
• Condoleezza Rice - National Security Advisor
• Donald Rumsfeld - Defense Secretary
• George Tenet - CIA Director
• Paul Wolfowitz - Deputy Secretary of Defense

Military

• Joe D. Dowdy, U.S. Marine RCT-1 Commander
• Lynndie England
• General Tommy Franks
• PFC Jessica Lynch
• Lieutenant General David D. McKiernan, CFLCC Commander
• General David Petraeus-Commander, Multi-National Force-Iraq
• General Ricardo Sanchez
• Gunnery Sergeant Justin LeHew USMC, RCT-2 Task Force Tarawa, Hero of Nasiriya

Theorists

• Bruce P. Jackson - Chairman of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) and current chair of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq
• Bernard Lewis
• Michael Rubin - A specialist on Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Randy Scheunemann - President of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, which was created by the Project for the New American Century
• Harlan K. Ullman - Military theorist responsible for the shock and awe strategy
• James Woolsey - former CIA Director

Other

• Peter Arnett - journalist
• Joseph C. Wilson - Former diplomat whose criticism of the claim Saddam sought uranium from Niger led to the Plame affair

See also

• U.S. list of most-wanted Iraqis