This list of Copts includes notable

Copts Copts ( cop, ⲛⲓⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ ; ar, الْقِبْط ) are a Christian ethnoreligious group indigenous to North Africa who have primarily inhabited the area of modern Egypt and Sudan since antiquity. Most ethnic Copts are ...

figures who are notable in their areas of expertise. For saints, please refer to ''

Coptic Saints Early church historians, writers, and fathers testified to the numerous Copt martyrs. Tertullian, 3rd century North African lawyer wrote "If the martyrs of the whole world were put on one arm of the balance and the martyrs of Egypt on the other, ...

''.

Performing arts

Rami Malek Rami Said Malek (; , ; born May 12, 1981) is an American actor. He is known for portraying computer hacker Elliot Alderson in the USA Network television series '' Mr. Robot'' (2015–2019), for which he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Ou ...

, actor *

Mena Massoud Mena Mansour Massoud ( ar, مينا منصور مسعود; born September 17, 1991) is an Egyptian-born Canadian actor known for starring as the title character in the Disney fantasy film ''Aladdin'' (2019). He also starred as Jared Malik in the C ...

, actor *

Ash Atalla Ash Atalla (born 18 June 1972) is an Egyptian-born British television producer. He has produced several British TV series such as ''The Office'', ''The IT Crowd'', '' Man Stroke Woman'' and '' People Just Do Nothing''. He has also made cameo app ...

, British television producer *

Henry Barakat Henry Antoun Barakat ( ar, هنري أنطون بركات, 11 June 1914, Cairo – 27 May 1997, Cairo) was a well known Egyptian film director. He was born in Shubra to a Melkite Greek Catholic father of Syro-Lebanese descent, and a Syro-Leb ...

, director *

Khairy Beshara Khairy Beshara ( ar, خيري بشارة ; born June 30, 1947 in Tanta, Egypt) is an Egyptian film director active in the Egyptian film industry since the 1970s. He is considered one of the Egyptian directors who re-defined Realism in Egy ...

, director *

Youssef Dawoud Youssef Dawoud ( ar, يوسف داود; 10 March 1933 – 24 June 2012) was a Coptic Egyptian actor, who worked in theatre, cinema and television. Dawoud started acting when studying at Alexandria University. After graduating from the Facul ...

, actor *

Sanaa Gamil Sanaa Gamil ( ar, سناء جميل), born Thoraya Youssef Atallah ( ar, ثريا يوسف عطالله) (April 27, 1930 – December 22, 2002), was an Egyptian actress. Born to a Coptic Orthodox family in Minya Governorate, she moved to ...

, actress *

Maged El Kedwany Maged El-Kedwany aka Maged Nabil Elkedwani اى ماجد نبيل الكدوانى( ar, ماجد الكدواني: born: 10 December 1967) is an Egyptian actor. He began acting in the 1990s, playing supporting roles. He won the Muhr Arab - Feat ...

, actor *

Asaad Kelada Asaad Kelada ( ar, أسعد قلادة; born May 11, 1940) is an American television director of many American television sitcoms. Early life Kelada was born in Cairo, Egypt and he studied drama under Youssef Chahine at the American University ...

, Hollywood director *

Sandra Nashaat Sandra Nashaat Bassal ( ar, ساندرا نشأت بصال; born February 2, 1970) is an Egyptian film director. Biography Nashaat is a Coptic Catholic Church, Coptic Catholic. She was born to a Lebanese mother and a Syrian father. Nashaat att ...

, director *

Yousry Nasrallah Yousry Nasrallah ( ar, يسرى نصر الله ) (born 26 July 1952) is an Egyptian film director. Biography Nasrallah was born to a Coptic Christian family in Cairo. He graduated in economics and political science at Cairo University. F ...

, director *

Hany Ramzy Hany Guda Ramzy ( ar, هانى جودة رمزى ) (born 10 March 1969) is an Egyptian football coach and former defender. Early life Ramzy was born in Abdeen region of Cairo to Coptic Orthodox parents. He has one sister, Miriam. Ramzy b ...

, actor *

Daoud Abdel Sayed Daoud Abdel Sayed ( ar, داود عبد السيد ) is an Egyptian director and screenwriter. He was born in Cairo in 1946. He started as the assistant of Youssef Chahine in The Land. He made several critically acclaimed films, and won s ...

, film director *

Hala Sedki Hala Sedki George Younan ( ar, هالة صدقى جورج يونان; born June 15, 1961, in Cairo) is an Egyptian actress. She began her career with the director Nour Al Demirdash in ''Rehlet Al Melion'' and has worked in more than 30 films. Sh ...

, actress *

George Sidhom George Sidhom ( ar, جورج سيدهم; 28 May 1938 – 27 March 2020), was a veteran Egyptian comedian. Early life George Sidhom was born in Sohag, Egypt on 28 May 1938 and married Linda Makram, who is a pharmacist with whom he remained unti ...

, actor *

Nabila Erian Nabila M. Erian (Arabic: نبيلة عريان, born 1941) is a professor of vocal sciences at the Cairo Conservatoire, Academy of Arts. Her career as a leading soprano opera singer debuted in 1960. She is also an expert on the history of Copti ...

, Opera singer

Businessmen

Nader Anise Nader Anise is an American lawyer and marketer based in Florida, known best as the founder and CEO of Nader Anise Lawyer Marketing. He is the founder of the ''American Lawyers Public Image Association'' where he currently serves as national dire ...

, founder of Coptic American Chamber of Commerce (Coptic Chamber) and attorney *

Tharwat Bassily Tharwat Bassily ('') Ph.D.'', (14 September 1940 – 5 December 2017) was an Egyptian businessman. Bassily graduated from the Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University in 1967. He was founder and chairman of the board of Amoun Pharmaceutical Co ...

Michael Ebeid Michael Ebeid is an Australian business executive. He was CEO and managing director of the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) between June 2011 and October 2018. Ebeid has nearly three decades of experience in media, technology and telecommuni ...

Monir Fakhri Abdel Nour Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour ( ar, منير فخري عبد النور; cop, ⲙⲟⲩⲛⲓⲣ ⲫⲉϧⲣⲓ ⲁⲃⲇⲉⲗⲛⲟⲩⲣ; born 21 August 1945) is an Egyptian businessman and politician. Early life and education Abdel Nour was bor ...

, banker and businessman *

Fayez Sarofim Fayez Sarofim (, arz, فايز صاروفيم‎; 1929 – 27 May 2022) was an Egyptian Coptic-American heir to the Sarofim family fortune, fund manager for a number of Dreyfus family stock funds, largest shareholder of Kinder Morgan (NYSE: ...

, billionaire, Houston financier *

Onsi Sawiris Onsi Sawiris (also written Sawires; ar, أنسى ساويرس; ) (August 14, 1930 – June 29, 2021) was an Egyptian businessman. He was the patriarchal head of the Sawiris family and founder of the Orascom Group conglomerate. Early life Sa ...

, founder of Orascom Group, Patrick of Sawiris Family *

Naguib Sawiris Naguib Onsi Sawiris (or Sawires; ar, نجيب اُنسى ساويرس ; ; born 15 June 1954) is an Egyptian billionaire businessman. Sawiris is chairman of Weather Investments's parent company, and the former chairman and CEO of Orascom Tel ...

, one of the wealthiest 100 people worldwide *

Samih Sawiris Samih Onsi Sawiris ( ar, سميح أنسي ساويرس, ; born in 1957) is an Egyptian- Montenegrin businessman and billionaire and the second of three sons of Onsi Sawiris, the other two being Naguib Sawiris and Nassef Sawiris. He is the for ...

, Orascom Tourism *

Nassef Sawiris Nassef Onsi Sawiris ( ar, ناصف أنسي ساويرس; born January 19, 1961) is an Egyptian billionaire businessman, and the youngest of Onsi Sawiris' three sons (his brothers are Naguib and Samih). As of October 2021, his net worth was es ...

, Orascom Construction & Industrial. The richest man in Egypt *

Farid Stino Dr. Farid Kamal Ramzi Stino is an Egyptian scientist, scholar, and entrepreneur who was born in Cairo, Egypt on September 1, 1943. He is the son of Dr. Kamal Ramzi Stino, the late Deputy Prime Minister of Egypt under Nasser's regime, and Lady Far ...

* Youssry Henien, Windsor Family Office. Banker and Businessman. * Ayad B. Saad, Morgan Stanley, Senior Vice President, Financial Advisor.

Clergy and theologians

Anthony the Great Anthony the Great ( grc-gre, Ἀντώνιος ''Antṓnios''; ar, القديس أنطونيوس الكبير; la, Antonius; ; c. 12 January 251 – 17 January 356), was a Christian monk from Egypt, revered since his death as a saint. He is d ...

, founder and pioneer of

Christian monasticism Christian monasticism is the devotional practice of Christians who live ascetic and typically cloistered lives that are dedicated to Christian worship. It began to develop early in the history of the Christian Church, modeled upon scriptural e ...

* Athanasius the Apostolic, 20th Pope of Alexandria * Cyril I, 24th Pope of Alexandria * Dioscorus the Great, 25th Pope of Alexandria *

Pope Cyril VI ''This article uses dates and years written in the Coptic calendar, using the A.M. (Anno Martyrum) calendar era, in addition to the Gregorian calendar, using the A.D. (Anno Domini) calendar era.'' Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria also called Abba Ky ...

, 116th Pope of Alexandria *

Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria Pope Shenouda III (; cop, Ⲡⲁⲡⲁ Ⲁⲃⲃⲁ Ϣⲉⲛⲟⲩϯ ⲅ̅ '; ar, بابا الإسكندرية شنودة الثالث '; 3 August 1923 – 17 March 2012) was the 117th Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See ...

, 117th Pope of Alexandria *

Mother Irini St. Mother Irini ( cop, ⲧⲉⲛⲙⲁⲩ Ⲓⲣⲏⲛⲏ, lit ='Tenmav (Coptic for “Our Mother”) Irene'; ar, امنا ايريني , lit ='Umina (Our Mother in Arabic) Irini'; 9 February 1936 Girga – 31 October 2006 Cairo) was the Copti ...

Father Matta El Meskeen Father Matta El Meskeen (English: Matthew the Poor; 20 September 1919 – 8 June 2006), born Youssef Iskandar, was a Coptic Orthodox monk. He was the key figure in the revival of Coptic monasticism which began in 1969 when he was appointed to ...

* Father Makary Younan * Father Bishoy Kamel *

Origen Origen of Alexandria, ''Ōrigénēs''; Origen's Greek name ''Ōrigénēs'' () probably means "child of Horus" (from , "Horus", and , "born"). ( 185 – 253), also known as Origen Adamantius, was an early Christian scholar, ascetic, and the ...

, Christian scholar * George Habib Bebawi, Patrologist and Biblical scholar *

Metropolitan Mikhail of Asyut Metropolitan Mikhail ( ar, نيافة الأنبا ميخائيل مطران أسيوط) (4 July 1921 – 23 November 2014), was the Elder Metropolitan of the Holy Metropolis of Asyut ( Lycopolis), (Hieracon, ( Hierakonopolis) and ( Apollonopoli ...

* Metropolitan Athanasius of Beni Suef * Bishop Serapion *

Bishop Missael Bishop Missael (born 1940) is a diocesan bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria consecrated by Pope Shenouda III on 26 May 1991 to oversee the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Midlands, U.K. In this capacity, he is a member of The ...

Bishop Angaelos Archbishop Anba Angaelos is the Coptic Orthodox Archbishop of London and Papal Legate to the UK and to Sydney and its Affiliated Regions. Early Life Angaelos was born in Cairo, Egypt and emigrated with his family to Australia when he spe ...

Pope Tawadros II Pope Tawadros II or Theodore II ( cop, Ⲡⲁⲡⲁ Ⲁⲃⲃⲁ Ⲑⲉⲟ́ⲇⲱⲣⲟⲥ ⲡⲓⲙⲁϩ ⲃ̅', translit=Papa Abba Theódōros II ; ar, البابا تواضروس الثاني, translit=al-Bābā Tawāḍurūs al-Th ānī, ...

Lawyers and judges

* Adel Bestavros, late lawyer and member of Coptic Lay and Endowment Councils *

Sami Farag Sami Farag Youssef (; September 1, 1935 – February 21, 2015) was an Egyptian lawyer, judge, prosecutor and Vice-President of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt. He was viewed by many as one of the most influential Copts in modern histor ...

* Nabil Mounir Habib, represented

Naguib Mahfouz Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha ( arz, نجيب محفوظ عبد العزيز ابراهيم احمد الباشا, ; 11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. M ...

, George Habib Bebawi, and is prominent in Egyptian law * Sherrie Mikhail Miday

Social activists

Ester Fanous Ester Akhnoukh Fanous or Esther Fanous (), also known as Ester Wissa (February 19, 1895, Assiut, Egypt – August 1990) was an Egyptians, Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, Christian feminism, feminist. From a prominent Copts in Egypt, ...

Alber Saber Alber Saber Ayad ( ar, ألبير صابر عياد,‎ , also spelled ''Albert''; born c. 1985) is an Egyptian computer science student and blogger who was arrested on 13 September 2012 on allegations of having shared the YouTube trailer for t ...

Akram Habib Akram Habib is a Coptic Egyptian-British biblical scholar, pracademic, social activist and human rights advocate. He is best known for his biblical exegesis Arabic TV programme ''Words of Prophecy'' on Alhorreya channel which is concerned with li ...

Engineers

Hani Azer Hani Azer (, ar, هاني عازر; born 1948) is an Egyptian civil engineer and a naturalized German citizen. He was born in Tanta, Egypt to a Coptic family and moved to Cairo for high school and university. In 1973, after earning a BSc(Engg) d ...

Michel Bakhoum Michel Bakhoum (, , '; 1913–1981) was an Egyptian consulting civil engineer, university professor, and a researcher in concrete structures. Education and early years Michel Bakhoum was born in June 1913 in Cairo. He graduated from the Civ ...

* William Selim Hanna *

Nabih Youssef Nabih Youssef, S.E., F.A.S.C.E is an American structural engineer, most recognized for his work in earthquake engineering. Education and working life In 1967, Youssef received a B.S. in Structural Engineering from Cairo University. After emigr ...

Adel Sedra Adel S. Sedra is an Egyptian Canadian electrical engineer and professor. Career Born in Egypt in 1943, Sedra received his B.Sc. from Cairo University in 1964 and his M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, in 1968 and 1969, respectivel ...

Scientists

Azer Bestavros Azer Bestavros ( cop, Ⲁⲍⲉⲣ Ⲡⲓⲥⲧⲁⲩⲣⲟⲥ) (born May 2, 1961), is the Inaugural Associate Provost for Computing and Data Sciences and the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Boston Universi ...

Rushdi Said Rushdi Said ( ar, رشدي سعيد) (May 12, 1920 – February 8, 2013) was an Egyptian scientist. He was educated at Cairo, Zurich, and Harvard Universities. A professor of geology, he was the chairman of the board of the Egyptian Mining ...

Edward Tawadros Edward is an English given name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements '' ēad'' "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and '' weard'' "guardian, protector”. History The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-Sa ...

Architects

Ramses Wissa Wassef Ramses Wissa Wassef (1911–1974) was an Egyptian Coptic architect and professor of art and architecture at the College of Fine Arts in Cairo and founder of the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Centre. Biography Ramses Wissa Wassef was born in Cairo. H ...

Historians and
Coptologist Coptology is the science of Coptic studies, the study of the Coptic language and Coptic literature.What is Cop ...
s

Aziz Suryal Atiya Aziz Suryal Atiya ( ar, عزيز سوريال عطية, ; July 5, 1898 – September 24, 1988) was an Egyptian Coptologist who was a Coptic historian and scholar and an expert in Islamic and Crusades studies. Atiya was the founder of the Ins ...

Iris Habib Elmasry Iris Habib Elmasry (إيريس حبيب المصري) was a prominent Coptic Historian (1910–1994). Biography Iris Habib Elmasry was born into a Coptic family in 1910. Her family name ''Elmasry'' in the Arabic language means The Egyptian. Her ...

Gawdat Gabra Dr. Gawdat Gabra (born 1947) ( ar, جودت جبرا, Coptic: Ⲅⲁⲩⲇⲁⲧ Ⲅⲁⲃⲣⲁ) is a Coptologist; he finished his bachelor's degree in Egyptian Antiquities – Cairo University 1967 and PhD in Coptic Antiquities University of M ...

Habib Girgis Archdeacon Habib Qozman Mankarious Girgis (Habib Girgis : ar, القديس حبيب جرجس for ''"Beloved" George'' ; 1876 – 21 August 1951) was a modern-day dean of the Catechetical School of Alexandria. He was the very first stude ...

Labib Habachi Labib Habachi (لبيب حبشي) (April 18, 1906 – February 18, 1984) was an influential Coptic Egyptian Egyptologist. Dr Habachi spent 30 years in the Antiquities Department of the Egyptian Government, ending his career as Chief inspector ...

Pahor Labib Pahor Labib (; Arabic: باهور لبيب ''Bahur Labib''; born 19 September 1905 at Ain Shams, Cairo; died 7 May 1994) was Director of the Coptic Museum, Cairo, Egypt, from 1951 to 1965 and one of the world leaders in Egyptology and Coptology ...

Severus Ibn al-Muqaffa Severus ibn al-Muqaffaʿ ( ar, ساويرس بن المقفع) or Severus of El Ashmunein () (died 987) was a Coptic Orthodox Bishop, author and historian. In Arabic, his name is spelled Sawires ساويرس. Severus is sometimes confused with ...

* Younan Labib Rizk * Father Menassa Youhanna * Bishop Isidoros

Journalists and writers

Anouar Abdel-Malek Anouar Abdel-Malek (Arabic: أنور عبد الملك), (23 October 1924 – 15 June 2012) was an Egyptian-French political scientist of Coptic descent. He was a pan-Arabist and Marxist.Sayed MahmoudAnouar Abdel-Malek, champion of pan-Arabism, ...

Louis Awad Louis Awad ( ar, لويس عوض, el-Minya; 5 January 1915 – 9 September 1990) was an Egyptian intellectual and a writer. Born in the upper Egypt, in Sharuna village, in Minya, Egypt, Awad studied at the literature department of Cairo ...

* Alfred Farag *

Mofeed Fawzy Mofeed or Mufid Fawzy ( ar, مفيد فوزي; 19 June 1933 – 4 December 2022) was an Egyptian television presenter, interviewer and journalist. He produced and presented on Egyptian "Talk of the Town" ( ar, حديث المدينة ''Hadeeth Al ...

Waguih Ghali Waguih Ghali (25 February 1927/1928/1929 – 5 January 1969) was an Egyptian writer, best known for his novel ''Beer in the Snooker Club'' (André Deutsch, 1964). Fearing political persecution, Ghali spent his adult years impoverished, living in e ...

Adel Iskandar Adel Iskandar (aka Adel Iskandar Farag) (born 15 March 1977) is a British-born Middle East media scholar, postcolonial theorist, analyst, and academic. He is the author and co-author of several works on Arab media, most prominently an analysis of ...

Magdi Khalil Magdi Khalil is an Egyptian-American Coptic political analyst, researcher, author and executive editor of the Egyptian weekly ''Watani International''. He is also a columnist for ''Asharq Al-Awsat'' newspaper, London, a freelance writer for sev ...

Kamal el-Mallakh Kamal el-Mallakh ( ar, كمال الملاخ) was a famous Egyptian archaeologist who was among the Egyptian antiquities inspectors who discovered the ''King Khufu Solar ship'' in 1954. Life El Mallakh was born to a Coptic Christian Orthodox ...

Raouf Salama Moussa Dr Raouf Salama Moussa (1929–2006, Arabic: رؤوف سلامة موسى) was a notable Egyptian bacteriologist and editor. He was the first and eldest son of Salama Moussa, a famous Coptic Egyptian journalist and reformer in the 1920s. After h ...

Salama Moussa Salama Moussa (or Musa; 1887 – 4 August 1958) ( ar, سلامه موسى , ) was an Egyptian journalist, writer and political theorist. Salama Moussa was an avowed secularist, he introduced the writings of Darwin, Nietzsche, and Freud to E ...

Ra'ouf Mus'ad Ra’ouf Mus'ad (sometimes known as Raouf Moussad-Basta) is a playwright, journalist and novelist who was born in Sudan to Coptic parents from Egypt. He moved to Egypt as a teenager and lived in various countries, both in the Middle East and in ...

* Younan Labib Rizk *

Youssef Sidhom Youssef Sidhom is the editor-in-chief of the Egyptian weekly newspaper ''Watany'', the only Christianity, Christian newspaper in Egypt. He is the son of ''Watani's'' founder, Anton Sidhom. Youssef Sidhom is a prominent advocate of Copts, Coptic ...

* Said Sonbol *

Magdi Wahba Magdi Wahba (1925–1991) was an Egyptian university professor, Johnsonian scholar, and lexicographer. He was born in Alexandria in 1925, the son of a high court judge (Mourad Wahba Pasha) and later cabinet minister. His mother had been educate ...

Musicians

Wagih Aziz Wagih Aziz ( ar, وجيه عزيز) (born 1961) is an Egyptian Egyptian describes something of, from, or related to Egypt. Egyptian or Egyptians may refer to: Nations and ethnic groups * Egyptians, a national group in North Africa ** Egyptia ...

Mikhail Girgis El Batanouny Cantor Mikhail Girgis El Batanouny ( ''Mikhail Georgios Phrembatanon'') (also title ''Mu'allim'', which is Arabic for "teacher") (14 September 1873 - 18 April 1957) was an expert in Coptic music, and knowledgeable in church rites, in addition to b ...

Halim El-Dabh Halim Abdul Messieh El-Dabh ( ar, حليم عبد المسيح الضبع, ''Ḥalīm ʻAbd al-Masīḥ al-Ḍab''ʻ; March 4, 1921 – September 2, 2017) was an Egyptian-American composer, musician, ethnomusicologist, and educator, who had ...

Youssef Elsisi Youssef Elsisi (19 March 1935 – 9 November 2000, last name also spelled El-Sisi or El Sisi) was an Egyptian conductor and music educator. Biography Elsisi was born in Shebin Al-Kom, Egypt. Both his father and mother encouraged him to listen t ...

Yusef Greiss Yusef Greiss ( ar, يوسف جريس; (December 13, 1899 in Cairo, Egypt – April 7, 1961 in Venice, Italy) was an Egyptian composer of classical music, part of that nation's first generation of such composers. Greiss was of Coptic heritage. ...

Adel Kamel Adel Kamel (1942–2003) عادل كامل was a music critic, musicologist and composer. He was one of the writers in ''Watani'' newspaper, the founder of “Panorama” section, a lecturer in Universities in Egypt and abroad, a member of j ...

Ragheb Moftah Dr. Ragheb Moftah (1898–2001) was an Egyptian musicologist and scholar of the Coptic music heritage. He co-authored the article on "Coptic Music" for the ''Coptic Encyclopedia''. He spent much of his life studying the recording and notation o ...

Osama Mounir Osama Mounir ( ar, أسامة منير ; born 25 February 1970) is an Egyptian radio personality and singer, he is current CEO of Express Media groups. He hosts a radio program on Nogoom FM radio channel called "I, the stars and your l ...

Aziz El-Shawan Aziz El-Shawan (b. Cairo, May 6, 1916; d. Cairo, May 14, 1993) was one of the most prominent Egyptian composers of the twentieth century. He completed his primary and secondary education at the St. Joseph – La Salle College in Khoronfish, Cairo ...

Joseph Tawadros Joseph Tawadros (born 6 October 1983) is an Egyptian-born Coptic Australian multi-instrumentalist and oud virtuoso. Tawadros has won the ARIA Award for Best World Music Album five times: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2020. and 2021. Biography His fami ...

Ramzi Yassa Ramzi Yassa ( ar, رمزى يسى; born 1948) is an Egyptian pianist. Born in Cairo, Yassa is an outstanding member of the first batch of musicians trained at the Cairo Conservatory. Yassa then joined the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow in the c ...

* Lara Scandar

Painters and artists

* Kamal Amin *

Hany Armanious Hany Armanious (born 1962) is an Australian artist who lives and works in Sydney. Armanious produces installations and sculptural forms, as well as paintings and drawings. Life and work Hany Armanious was born in Ismailia, Egypt and migrated t ...

Evelyn Ashamallah Evelyn Ashamallah ( ar, إيفيلين عشم الله) is a female Coptic painter, born in Desouk, Kafr el-Sheikh, Egypt in 1948 to Ashamallah Eskandar Hanna and Elaine Mikhail Hanna. She graduated from the faculty of fine arts at Alexandria U ...

George Bahgoury George Abdel Masih Al Bahgoury or George Bahgoury (جورج البهجورى) is an Egyptian-French artist. An accomplished painter and sculptor, he is most famous as a caricaturist and political cartoonist. Life and career Bahgoury was born i ...

Chafik Charobim Chafik Charobim (November 4, 1894 in Cairo – 1975), is a well known impressionist and natural history, naturalist Egyptians, Egyptian artist who painted the "Peaceful and Tranquil Egypt of the last Century He loved nature in any form and his pai ...

Isaac Fanous Isaac Fanous (; December 19, 1919 – January 15, 2007) was an Egyptian Copt artist and scholar, who specialized in Coptic art and founded its contemporary school. Early life and teaching Fanous was born in Al-Minya and moved to Cairo to gai ...

Margaret Nakhla Marguerite Nakhla ( ar, مرجريت نخلة) was a modern Egyptian painter (1908–1977), born on December 10, 1908, in Alexandria, Egypt. Early life and education Because of her gender, Nakhla was not allowed to attend the newly establish ...

Adel Nassief Adel Nassief ( ar, عادل نصيف; 20 October 1962 – 19 March 2021) was a Coptic painter specializing in Coptic art. He has some work on display on the external wall of a Coptic church in Paris and some work in the Cairo modern art museum ...

Adam Henein Adam Henein ( ar, آدم حنين; 31 March 1929 – 22 May 2020) was an Egyptian sculptor. Early life Samuel Henein was born into a family, originally from Asyut, of gold metalworkers in Cairo in 1929. He was trained as a sculptor at the Acade ...

Politicians

Stephan Bassily Stephan Bassily Bey (1900-1990) (اسطفان باسيلى بك) born 1900 Member of the Egyptian Parliament in the forties and a member of the Wafd Party's supreme authority, he was an eminent lawyer and vice chairman of the Egyptian Bar Associ ...

Boutros Boutros Ghali Boutros Boutros-Ghali (; , ar, بطرس بطرس غالي ', ; 14 November 1922 – 16 February 2016) was an Egyptian politician and diplomat who served as the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) from 1992 to 1996. An academi ...

Youssef Boutros Ghali Youssef Raouf Boutros-Ghali or YBG ( ar, يوسف رؤوف بطرس غالي; born 20 August 1952) is an Egyptian economist who served in the government of Egypt as Minister of Finance from 2004 to 2011. He was succeeded by Samir Radwan on 31 ...

Makram Ebeid Makram Ebeid Pasha ( ar, مكرم عبيد باشا; 25 October 1889 – 5 June 1961) was an Egyptian Coptic politician. Ebeid was the Wafd Party secretary-general between 1936 and 1942. He was also the Minister of Finance 1930, 1936–1937, 19 ...

Akhnoukh Fanous Akhnoukh Fanous (; 1856–1946) was a prominent Egyptians, Egyptian political figure of the early twentieth century. Fanous is best known for founding the Egyptian Party in 1908, which consisted mainly of wealthy Copts, who were "Egyptians of Chr ...

Boutros Ghali , image = Boutros Ghali Pasha.jpg , order = 9th Prime Minister of Egypt , monarch = Abbas II , birth_date = , birth_place = Kiman-al-'Arus, Beni Suef, Ottoman Empire , death_date = , death_place = Cairo, Khedivate o ...

Jirjis al-Jawhari Jirjis al-Jawhari (, ) was an Egyptian Coptic minister of finance and chief archon of the Copts in 1795-1801 during the reign of the Mamluk Murad Bey and a General Steward of Egypt () during the French administration. Biography Jirjis inherit ...

Ibrahim El-Gohary Ibrahim El-Gohary (, ar, إبراهيم الجوهري, died 31 May 1795) was Egypt's chief scribe and prime minister during the second half of the 18th century. Biography Ibrahim El-Gohary was born to poor Coptic Christian parents in Qalyub. His ...

Rafik Habib Rafik Habib ( ar, رفيق حبيب; born in 1959) is an Egyptian political researcher, and analyst, sometimes described as a Coptic intellectual. He serves as Senior Director for IT & Decision Support of CEOSS, an Egyptian, development organiza ...

, Egyptian researcher, activist, author, and politician *

Wassef Hinein Wassef Hinein was the only Coptic Christian member of the Egyptian Free Officers group which took power in a military coup against the Egyptian monarchy in 1952. In the period leading up to the coup, Copts were heavily involved in Egypt's nationali ...

* George Isaac (politician) * Georgette Kellini *

Dina Powell Dina Powell, also known as Dina Powell McCormick (née Habib , ar, دينا حبيب; June 12, 1973) is an American financial executive, philanthropist, and political advisor, best known for having been the United States Deputy National Securit ...

Hala Shukrallah Hala Shukrallah ( ar, هالة شكر الله; born in 1954) is the former president of the Egyptian Constitution Party, having succeeded Sayed Kassem as the party's leader. She is the first Coptic woman to head an Egyptian political party. As ...

Kamal Stino Kamal Ramzi Stino ( ar: كمال رمزي استينو) (July 10, 1910 – 1987) was born in Mansoura, Egypt. His father, Ramzi Beik Stino Hanna was the first Egyptian irrigation engineer to take over supervision duties for the entire Egyptian ...

Moheb Stino Dr. Moheb Ramzi Stino was the Minister of Tourism and Aviation for Egypt under Anwar Sadat.Winship, Frederick M. (UPI) (7 May 1978Egypt in Throes of Huge Tourist Boom ''Sarasota Herald-Tribune'', Retrieved November 11, 2010 (identifying Stino as m ...

Mourad Wahba Mourad Wahba Pasha (1879-1972) was an Egyptian politician and high court judge. He served as Vice President of the Court of Cassation, then Egypt's highest court from 1931-1937 after which he was appointed as Minister of Agriculture in 1937 and M ...

Youssef Wahba Youssef Wahba Pasha (1852-1934) (, ) was an Egyptian Prime Minister and jurist. Biography Youssef Wahba was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1852 of a prominent Coptic family. His father, Wahba Bey had been a founder of the first Coptic charitable society ...

Peter Khalil Peter Khalil (born 23 March 1973) is an Australian politician and the Labor Member for Wills in the Australian House of Representatives. Prior to entering parliament, Khalil worked as a consultant, the Victorian Multicultural Commissioner, the ...

, Labor MP, Australia

Physicians

Nagy Habib Nagy Habib (born 1952), is professor of hepato-biliary surgery at Imperial College, London, and is known for devising radio-frequency based liver resection devices which remove liver tumour with minimal blood loss. His work has also focused on ...

Magdy Ishak Magdy A Ishak MD, FRCS, CCIM (born 1947 in Suez, Egypt), is an orthopedic surgeon and the President of the Egyptian Medical Society UK. He is also Chairman of the Scottish-Egyptian Association and Vice Chairman of the British Egyptian Society. he ...

Naguib Pasha Mahfouz Naguib Pasha Mahfouz ( ar, نجيب باشا محفوظ / ALA-LC: ''Nagīb Bāshā Maḥfūẓ''; 5 January 1882 – 25 July 1974) is known as the father of obstetrics and gynaecology in Egypt and was a pioneer in obstetric fistula. Early lif ...

* Marty Makary *

Hilana Sedarous Dr. Hilana Sedarous (1904-1998) was a Coptic Egyptian physician. She was the first woman to become a doctor in Egypt. Education After finishing her primary education, Hilana Sedarous enrolled at "Madraset Al Saneyah" (a girls' boarding school ...

Gorgi Sobhi Professor Gorgi Sobhi (1884–1964) جورجى صبحى Professor of General Medicine, Professor of the History of Medicine and Professor of Egyptology. Early life He was born in Mimon of Beni Suef, Egypt, where he lived with his father, wh ...

Sir Magdi Yacoub Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub ( ar, د/مجدى حبيب يعقوب ; born 16 November 1935), is an Egyptian retired professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Imperial College London, best known for his early work in repairing heart valves with surge ...

Paul Ghalioungui Paul Ghalioungui or Ghalioungi (1908–1987) ( ar, بول غليونجي), MD (Cairo), MRCP (Lond), Professor of Medicine and former Chairman of Internal Medicine department, Ain Shams University Faculty of Medicine. An Egyptian endocrinologist, ...

Moawad GadElrab Moawad GadElrab ( ar, معوض جاد الرب; 15 September 1929 – 23 August 1983) was an Egyptians, Egyptian physician. He was also an artist, writer, author and professor of artistic anatomy in the Faculty of Art Education, Zamalek (Helwan ...

Athletes

Nagui Asaad Nagui Asaad Youssef (a.k.a. Nagy Assaad Youssef) ناجى أسعد, (born September 12, 1945), is a retired Egyptians, Egyptian athlete (track and field) who represented Egypt in international athletics events in the 1970s and early 1980s in sh ...

Hisham Greiss Hisham Fouad Greiss ( ar, هشام فؤاد جريس) is a retired male track and field athlete from Egypt who competed in the hammer throw. He is one of only a few Egyptian athletes to have won gold medals at the African athletic events. Along ...

* Farid Simaika *

Sam Soliman Sam Soliman (born 13 November 1973) is an Australian professional boxer, and former kickboxer and mixed martial artist. In boxing, he held the IBF middleweight title in 2014. Kickboxing career Soliman is a former world champion in kickboxing ...

Celebrity chefs

* Karine Bakhoum *

Christopher Maher Christopher Maher (born as Maher Boutros; born 1955) is an American film and television actor, as well as a chef. Background Born in Alexandria, Egypt, Maher's family moved to Toronto in the 1960s. He started pre-med studies but changed to actin ...

Michael Mina Michael Mina ( ar, مايكل مينا; born 1969) is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author. He is the founder of the Mina Group, a restaurant management company operating over 40 restaurants worldwide. He is the execut ...

Others

Charlotte Wassef Charlotte Wassef ( ar, شارلوت واصف; ; 15 July 1912 - 17 January 1988) was an Egyptian beauty queen and Miss World 1935, born in Alexandria to an Egyptian Christian family. She was crowned Miss Egypt Miss Egypt ( ar, ملكة جم� ...

, Miss Egypt 1934 and Miss Universe 1935 *

Meriam George Meriam George (, arz, مريم چورچ, ; born 30 May 1987 in Cairo, Egypt) is an Egyptian beauty pageant titleholder and first runner-up at Miss Supertalent. Career At the age of eighteen, she was the official Pantene Miss Egypt 2005 winn ...

, Miss Egypt 2005 *

Nick Kaldas Naguib "Nick" Kaldas APM (born 1958) is a former Australian police officer and former deputy commissioner of the New South Wales Police Force. Though considered to be a possible future Commissioner, in March 2016 Kaldas announced his decision ...

, retired Deputy Commissioner *

Fathia Nkrumah Helena Ritz Fathia Nkrumah ( ) (22 February 1932 – 31 May 2007), born Fathia Halim Rizk ( ar, فتحية حليم رزق), was a Coptic Egyptian and the First Lady of the newly independent Ghana as the wife of Kwame Nkrumah, its first preside ...

, wife of

Kwame Nkrumah Kwame Nkrumah (born 21 September 190927 April 1972) was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He was the first Prime Minister and President of Ghana, having led the Gold Coast to independence from Britain in 1957. ...

Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in Ghana–Ivory Coast border, the west, Burkina ...

's first president, born Fathia Rizk *

Mohammed Hegazy Mohammed Hegazy ( ar, محمد حجازي, ) (born 1982) was the first Egyptian Muslim convert to Christianity to seek official recognition of his conversion from the Egyptian government. Conversion and legal case Hegazy grew up in Port Said on t ...

, Egyptian Muslim convert to Christianity *

Lara Debbane Lara Debbane (born 1994) is an Egyptian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Egypt 2014 and represented her country at Miss Universe 2014 and Miss World 2015 Pageantry Miss Egypt 2014 Debanne was crowned as Miss Egypt 201 ...

, Miss Egypt 2014 *

Daniel Wassef Daniel is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge"Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 68. (cf. Gabriel—"God is my strength ...

, Guinness World Record holder

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