Yohannan VIII Hormizd
According to his autobiography, Yohannan Hormizd was born in 1760 in Alqosh to an Assyrian family. His father, the deacon Hanna (Yohannan), was the brother of the Mosul patriarch Eliya XII Denha (1722–78).
Juan de Homedes y Coscon
He is also portrayed as an ineffectual and spiteful leader in Marthese Fenech's 2011 novel "Eight Pointed Cross", set in Malta and the Ottoman Empire in 1542 through 1551. "Eight Pointed Cross" depicts the loss of Gozo and Tripoli to Dragut Raïs and Sinan Pasha, and the Order's failure to help the over five thousand civilians captured in the sieges.