Fred Parhad (born 1947) is an Iraqi-Assyrian sculptor who is best known for his monument of Ashurbanipal, which stands in San Francisco in front of that city's Asian Art Museum.

[1][2] The statue of the Assyrian King, Ashurbanipal, looks across Fulton Street towards the San Francisco Public Library.

Peace unto the dwellers in all lands"Ashurbanipal, son of Esarhaddon, was the last great king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (668 BC–c.

Due to the Assyrian genocide just before World War I, his grandfather Dr. Baba Parhad moved four generations of his family abroad.

[3] Parhad had a keen interest in sculpture from his early days and pursued this through high school and further, while studying at University of California, Berkeley.