Some of the leading thinkers who grew up around Nasiriyah were Aziz al‑Syed Jasim, Aziz Abdul Sahab, Sadiq Atemish, Mohamed Ali al-Nasiri, along with many poets (e.g., Ayniah al‑Husewani, Aryan Syed Khalif), singers (e.g., Hazery Abu Aziz, Taleb al‑Qayraqwli, Hussein Nameh) and artists (Huessien al‑Halali, Majed al‑Najar).
Muhammad Ali | Hyder Ali | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Ali | Muhammad Ali of Egypt | Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | Ali Akbar Khan | Tariq Ali | Saif Ali Khan | Mohamed Atta | Asif Ali Zardari | Ali Shariati | Ali Abdullah Saleh | Ali Mohammed Ghedi | Ali Khamenei | Sultan bin Mohamed Al-Qasimi | Ali Pasha | Ali G Indahouse | Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan | Mohamed Morsi | Husayn ibn Ali | Hasan ibn Ali | Ali Imam | Michael Nazir-Ali | Laila Ali | Jebel Ali | Ali Baba | Zine El Abidine Ben Ali | Wajid Ali Shah | Shakir Ali |
Al-Shaaban’s ambitions pushed him to be nominated as the stations correspondent at the GCC Summit in 2008 and 2009, in the Sultanate of Oman and State of Kuwait respectively.