The following is a list of some of the notable Egyptians inside and outside of

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Med ...

Actors

Male actors

Abdel Moneim Madbouly Abdel Moneim Madbouly ( ar, عبد المنعم مدبولي, December 28, 1921 – July 9, 2006) was an Egyptian actor, comedian and playwright. Biography Madbouly was born in Cairo and started acting at seven years old following the dea ...

Adel Emam Adel Emam ( ar, عادل إمام; born 17 May 1940 is an Egyptian film, television, and stage actor. He is primarily a comedian, but he has starred in more serious works and, combined comedy with romance especially in his earlier films, whic ...

* Ahmed Zaki * Ahmed El Sakka * Ahmed Ezz *

Ahmed Helmy Ahmed Muhammad Helmy Abdel Rahman Awwad ( ar, أحمد محمد حلمي عبد الرحمن عواد; born November 19, 1969) is an Egyptian actor, comedian, film producer, TV host and diplomat. He started his career in 1993 on the Egyptian sat ...

Ahmed Mekky Ahmed Mekky ( ar, أحمد مكي; born June 19, 1980) is an Egyptian actor, writer, director and rapper. Personal life Ahmed Mekky was born in Oran, Algeria as a son of an Egyptian mother and an Algerian father. He was raised as a boy in the ...

* Ahmed Ramzy * Ali Mansur * Amr Waked *

Anwar Wagdy Anwar Wagdi or Wagdy ( ar, أنور وجدي, ; 11 October 1904 – 14 May 1955), born Anwar Wagdi Yehia El Fattal, was an Egyptian actor, screenwriter, director and producer. Life Anwar was born in the Cairo district of El Daher, Cairo. His ...

Emad Hamdy Emad Hamdy ( ar, عماد حمدي, ; November 25, 1909 – January 28, 1984) was an Egyptian actor. He was married to the Egyptian actress Shadia between 1953 and 1956. And between 1962 and 1975 he was married to the Egyptian actress Nadia E ...

* Ezzat Abou Aouf *

Fareed Shawky Farid Shawqi Mohammad Abdou Shawqi ( ar, فريد شوقي محمد عبده شوقي) (July 30, 1920 in El Sayyeda Zainab – July 27, 1998 in Maadi); known as Farid Shawqi ( ar, فريد شوقي) was an Egyptian actor, screenwriter and fi ...

* George Sidhom * Hassan Youssef *

Hussein Fahmy Hussein Fahmy ( ar, حسين فهمي; born 22 March 1940) is an Egyptian actor. He worked in the film and television industry for more than 50 years, specializing in film directing and appearing in over 100 film, television, and theatre productio ...

Ismail Yaseen Ismail Yassine (also credited as ''Ismail Yasseen''; ar, إسماعيل ياسين ; 15 September 1912 - 24 May 1972) was an Egyptian comedian actor, and is considered as one of the greatest comedians in Egypt. Personal life Ismail Yassine ha ...

* Kamal El Shennawy * Kal Naga * Mostafa Amar * Mena Massoud *

Mohamed Emam Mohamed Adel Mohamed Emam ( ar, محمد عادل محمد إمام; born 16 September 1984) is an Egyptian actor. He comes from an artistic family as his father is actor Adel Emam. His brother is the director Ramy Imam. Career Mohamed went to J ...

* Mohamed Ramadan *

Nour El-Sherif Nour El-Sherif ( ar, نور الشريف; 28 April 1946 – 11 August 2015), born Mohamad Geber Mohamad Abd Allah ( ar, محمد جابر محمد عبد الله) was a prominent Egyptian actor. He has 6 films in the Top 100 Egyptian films list. ...

Omar Sharif Omar Sharif ( ar, عمر الشريف ; born Michel Yusef Dimitri Chalhoub , 10 April 193210 July 2015) was an Egyptian actor, generally regarded as one of his country's greatest male film stars. He began his career in his native country in the ...

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nominee * Rushdy Abaza *

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 ...

* Ramy Youssef * Saeed Saleh *

Salah Zulfikar Salah El Din Ahmed Mourad Zulfikar ( ar, صلاح ذو الفقار; ; 18 January 1926 – 22 December 1993) was an Egyptian actor and film producer. He started his career as a police officer in the Egyptian National Police, before becoming an ac ...

* Samir Ghanem * Shoukry Sarhan * Stephan Rosti * Yehia Chahine

Actresses

* Amena Rizk * Assia Dagher *

Asmaa Abulyazeid Asmaa Abulyazeid ( ar, أسماء أبو اليزيد) is an Egyptian actress and singer. Abulyazeid drew attention in 2017 through her performance of the character Toka in the TV series "This Evening," participated in many series and film ...

* Bushra *

Faten Hamama Faten Ahmed Hamama ( ar, فاتن حمامه ; 27 May 1931 – 17 January 2015) was an Egyptian film and television actress and film producer. She was the first wife of Ezz El-Dine Zulficar. She made her screen debut in 1939, when she was o ...

Hanan Tork Hanan Tork ( ar, حنان ترك; born 7 March 1975 is a retired Egyptian actress and ballerina. She was born as Hanan Hasan Abdelkrim Tork ( ar, حنان حسن عبد الكريم ترك), and is credited as Hanan Tork. She is a sister to t ...

Hend Rostom Hind Hussain Mohammed or Nariman Hussein Murad, more commonly known by her stage name Hind Rostom, ( ar, هند رستم ; November 12, 1929 – August 8, 2011) was an Egyptian actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a Ch ...

* Laila Elwi * Lebleba * Leila Mourad *

Lobna Abdel Aziz Lobna Abdel Aziz, aka Lobna Abdelaziz or Lobna Abd- el-aziz ( arz, لبنى عبد العزيز; born August 1, 1935) is an Egyptian actress. Family Her father was Egyptian author Hamed Abdelaziz. In her early life she was married outside Egy ...

Mariam Fakhr Eddine Mariam Mohamed Fakhr Eddine ( ar, مريم محمد فخر الدين , 8 September 1933 – 3 November 2014) was an Egyptian film and television actress, and was the second wife of prominent filmmaker Mahmoud Zulfikar (1914-1970). She was nickn ...

* Mary Queeny * May Calamawy * Mona Zaki *

Nermin Al-Fiqy Nermin Al-Fiqy ( ar, نرمين الفقي, also rendered Nermine Al-Feki and Nermeen El-Fekki or Al-Fekki) (born June 21, 1972) is an Egyptian actress. Biography Al-Fiqy is from the Egyptian city of Alexandria, graduated from El-Nasr Girls' ...

* Nelly Karim *

Shadia Fatma Ahmed Kamal Shaker ( ar, فاطمة أحمد كمال شاكر; 8 February 193128 November 2017), better known by her stage name Shadia ( ar, شادية, ''Shādiyya''), was an Egyptian actress and singer. She was famous for her roles in ...

* Sherihan * Shwikar *

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* Yasmin Abdulaziz *

Yasmin Ali Yasmin Ali ( ar, ياسمين علي; born 13 January 1990) is an Egyptian singer, who works as a Soloist in the Egyptian Opera House and is an actress in the actor Muhammad Sobhi's acting squad. Early life Yasmin was born in Mahmudiya, Beh ...

* Yousra

Dancers and choreographers

* Dina * Fifi Abdou * Mahmoud Reda *

Nagua Fouad Nagwa Fouad ( arz, نجوى فؤاد, Arabic: ; born Awatef Mohamed Agami ( arz, عواطف محمد) on 17 January 1939) is an Egyptian belly dancer and actress. She has appeared in around fifty Egyptian films. Family Nagwa was born as Awatef ...

* Nelly Mazloum *

Samia Gamal Samia Gamal ( ar, سامية جمال, born as Zaynab Khalil Ibrahim Mahfuz, 5 March 1924 – 1 December 1994) was an Egyptian belly dancer and film actress. Biography Born in the small Egyptian town of Wana in March 1924, Samia's family move ...

Tahiya Karioka Taheyya Kariokka ( ar, تحية كاريوكا) also Tahiya Carioca (born Badaweya Mohamed Kareem Ali Elnedany), (February 22, 1915 – September 20, 1999) was an Egyptian belly dancer and film actress. Early life Born in the Egyptia ...

* Zeinat Olwi

Filmmakers and television directors

Ahmed El-Nahass Ahmed El-Nahass ( ar, احمد النحاس, born in 1950) is an Egyptian movie director. El-Nahass worked for many year with the biggest names in the Egyptian cinema field, like Kamal El Sheikh Kamal El Sheikh ( ar, كمال الشيخ; 2 ...

* André Hakim * Asaad Kelada * Ash Atalla * Assia Dagher *

Atef AlTayyeb Atef El-Tayeb ( ar, عاطف الطيب ) (26 December 1947 – 23 June 1995) was an Egyptian film director. Alternative transliterations of his name are: ''Atef Al-Tayeb'' and ''Attef El Taieb''. His films often depicted the struggles o ...

* Daoud Abdel Sayed *

Ezz El-Dine Zulficar Ezz El-Dine Ahmed Mourad Zulficar (Egyptian Arabic: عز الدين ذو الفقار, ; October 28, 1919 – July 1, 1963) was an Egyptians, Egyptian film director, screenwriter, actor and producer known for his distinctive style, which blends r ...

* Fadwa El Guindi *

Frank Agrama Farouk "Frank" Agrama (Arabic: فرنك عجرمة) (born January 1, 1930, in Arish, Egypt) is an Egyptian-born American film director and producer, writer and businessman. He is founder and former chief executive officer" (CEO) of Harmony Gol ...

* Hassan Al Imam * Helmy Halim * Henry Barakat * Hussein Kamal *

Ibrahim El Batout Ibrahim El Batout ( ar, إبراهيم البطوط) is an Egyptian filmmaker, based in Cairo, Egypt. Born in Port Said on 20 September 1963. He has worked as a director, producer and cameraman capturing stories mainly about human loss, suffer ...

* Jehane Noujaim * Kamla Abou Zekry * Khairy Beshara * Khaled Youssef *

Maher Sabry Maher Sabry ( ar, ماهر صبري; born 11 April 1967) is an Egyptian theater director, playwright, film director, producer and screenwriter, poet, writer and cartoonist. Biography A gay activist, he was the first director to portray gay and ...

* Mahmoud Zulfikar * Mary Queeny * Mohamed Khan * Mohammed Karim *

Mohamed Said Mahfouz Mohamed Said Mahfouz ( ar, محمد سعيد محفوظ is an Egyptian writer and filmmaker who has worked for the BBC since 2006. He was the presenter and scriptwriter of the widely popular, daring show 'Maqass El-Raqeeb' (Scissors of Censorsh ...

Raymond Hakim Robert Hakim (19 December 1907 – 9 February 1992) and Raymond Hakim (23 August 1909 – 14 August 1980) were Egyptian-born brothers who usually worked in collaboration as film producers in France and other European countries. Their brother ...

Robert Hakim Robert Hakim (19 December 1907 – 9 February 1992) and Raymond Hakim (23 August 1909 – 14 August 1980) were Egyptian-born brothers who usually worked in collaboration as film producers in France and other European countries. Their brother ...

Salah Abu Seif Salah Abu Seif ( ar, صلاح أبو سيف, ) (May 10, 1915 – June 23, 1996) was one of the most famous Egyptian film directors, and is considered to be the godfather of Neorealist cinema in Egyptian cinema. Many of the 41 films he direc ...

* Sam Esmail * Tamer El Said *

Tamer Shaaban Tamer Shaaban (born November 2, 1988, in Buffalo, New York) is an American film director, writer, and producer of Egyptian descent. He was named one of the "25 Most influential and powerful young people in the world" by YSA which was sponsored ...

Tarek El-Telmissany Tarek El-Telmissany ( ar, طارق التلمساني; April 22, 1950) is an Egyptian actor and cinematographer, who is known in the Middle East and Africa. Worked as a Director of Photography for documentary films since 1980. A Director of Phot ...

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 ...

Youssef Chahine Youssef Chahine ( ar, يوسف شاهين, Yūsuf Shāhīn ; 25 January 1926 – 27 July 2008) was an Egyptian film director. He was active in the Egyptian film industry from 1950 until his death. He directed twelve films that were listed i ...

Theater actors, directors, producers and playwrights

Abo El Seoud El Ebiary Abo El Seoud El Ebiary (also credited as ''Aboul Soud Ibiary'', ''Abu Seoud El-Ibiary''; ar, أبو السعود الإبياري) (November 9, 1910 – March 17, 1969) was an Egyptian comic screenwriter, playwright, lyricist, and journalist. ...

* Alfred Farag *

Naguib Al Rehani Naguib el-Rihani ( ar, نجيب الريحاني; January 21, 1889 in Cairo – June 8, 1949 in Alexandria) was an Egyptian film and stage actor. Biography Born in Bab El Shereya, Cairo to a middle class family. His father, a Christian who ...

* Sam Esmail *

Tawfiq al-Hakeem Tawfiq al-Hakim or Tawfik el-Hakim ( arz, توفيق الحكيم, ; October 9, 1898 – July 26, 1987) was a prominent Egyptian writer and visionary. He is one of the pioneers of the Arabic novel and drama. The triumphs and failures that are ...

Film critics

Iris Nazmy Iris Nazmy ( arz, ايريس نظمى; died March 4, 2018) was an Egyptian writer, journalist and film critic. She was the President of the Alexandria Film Festival. Biography Nazmy was born in Cairo and graduated from Cairo University's Faculty ...

Samir Farid Samir Farid ( ar, سمير فريد, ) (December 1, 1943 – April 4, 2017) was an Egyptian writer and a world renowned film critic, journalist and film historian based in Cairo. He authored and/or translated over 60 books since 1966 on Egyptian, ...

Tarek El Shennawi Tarek El Shinnawi (sometimes spelled El Shennawi or Shennawy) ( ar, طارق الشناوي) is an internationally recognised and renowned film critic and writer of Arab cinema. He is one of the most influential film critics of Arab cinema in the ...

Radio and television personalities

Ahmed El Esseily Ahmad El Esseily ( ar, أحمد العسيلي), born 1976, is an Egyptian film and television editor/director, and host of radio and television shows. He graduated from the German Department of the Faculty of Alsun (Linguistics) in 1997. F ...

* Ahmed Mussa *

Akmal Saleh Akmal Saleh ( ar, أكمل صالح Coptic: AKMAΛ CAΛΕϨ) (born 21 July 1964) is an Egyptian-Australian comedian and actor. He was born in Egypt and arrived in Sydney with his family in 1975 at the age of 11. He has been performing comedy sin ...

Ali Faik Zaghloul Ali Faik Zaghloul ( ar, علي فايق زغلول; 3 March 1924 – 13 October 1995) was an Egyptian radio presenter.Amr Ellissy Amr el-Leithy, 2010 UNESCO laureate, is an Egyptian television and radio celebrity. Graduated from the Faculty of Law at Cairo University, he was also attached to the Higher Institute of Arts, where he attained his bachelor's degree at the Direct ...

* Bassem Youssef * Bob Francis (radio) *

Hamdi Qandil Hamdi Qandil ( ar, حمدي قنديل ''Ḥamdī Qandīl'', also Romanized ''Qandeel'' or ''Kandil''; 1936 – 31 October 2018) was a prominent Egyptian journalist, news anchor, talk show host and activist.Said, RaniaA Few Good Men: Hamdi Qand ...

Hamed Gohar Hamed Abdel Fattah Goher (15 November 1907 – 17 June 1992) ( ar, حامد عبد الفتاح جوهر) was an Egyptian oceanographer, scientist and TV presenter. He appeared for over 18 years in his program ''The World of the Seas''. He w ...

* Lamis Elhadidy * Mahmoud Saad *

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 ...

Mona El-Saghir Mona El Saghir ( ar, منى الصغير) is the former head of the Egyptian television Script Review and Material Classification Department, previously known as the Egyptian television Censorship Department, (رقابة التليفزيون ال ...

Mona El-Shazly Mona El Shazly ( ar, منى الشاذلي, ) is an Egyptian talk show host. She is known for her talk show ''Al Ashira Masa'an'' (''10 O'Clock'') where she discussed news of the day and interviewed Egyptian and foreign politicians and scientist ...

* Nagui *

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 ...

Tamer Amin Tamer Amin ( ar, تامر أمين; born 10 September 1971) is a former Egyptian television presenter and interviewer for '' Masr El-Nahrda'' (Egypt Today), a popular Egyptian live television talk show from Cairo, which airs on the Egyptian ...

* Youssef El Deeb * Youssef Hussein

Music

Musicians and composers

* Abdu al-Hamuli *

Abu Bakr Khayrat Abu Bakr Khairat (10 April 1910 – 1963) ( ar, أبو بكر خيرت); also spelled Abu Bakr Khayrat) was an Egyptian composer of classical music, part of that nation's first generation of such composers. An architect by profession, Khairat st ...

* Ammar El Sherei * Amr Diab * Aziz El-Shawan *

Baligh Hamdi Baligh Hamdi ( arz, بليغ حمدى ; 7 October 1931 – 12 September 1993) was an Egyptian composer who created and composed many hit songs for several Middle Eastern singers, especially during the 1960s and 1970s. He composed Warda's mos ...

Dawood Hussnei Dawood Hosni (born David Haim Levi, 26 February 1870 – 10 December 1937) was an Egyptian music composer. Biography Dawood's father, Khidr Hossnei, was a jeweler. Dawood's family were Karaite Jews. Dawood was apprenticed to a bookbinder, Sukkar ...

* Gamal Abdel-Rahim *

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 ...

Hasan Rashid Hasan Ahmad Rashid ( ar, حسن أحمد رشيد: also spelled Hassan Rasheed; July 10, 1896 – May 25, 1969) was an Egyptian composer and operatic baritone. He was part of Egypt's first generation of classical composers. Biography As a you ...

Kamal Al Taweel Kamal Al Taweel or Kamal El-Tawil ( arz, كمال الطويل) (11 October 1922 – 9 July 2003) was a distinguished Egyptian composer and music author. Born as Kamal Zaki Al Taweel in 1922 in Cairo, Egypt, Kamal graduated from the school of ...

* Kamel al-Khola'ie * Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah * Mohamed El Qasabgi *

Mohamed Fawzi Mohamed Fawzi may refer to: *Mohamed Fawzi (general) (1915–2000), Egyptian general * Mohamed Fawzi (artist) (1918–1966), Egyptian composer and singer * Mohamed Fawzi (footballer) (born 1990), Emirati football player See also *Mahmoud Fawzi (190 ...

* Mohammed Abdel Wahab *

Mounir Mourad Mounir Mourad or Monir Morad ( ar, منير مراد, 13 January 1922 - 17 October 1981), born Maurice Zaki Mourad Mordechai, was an Egyptian singer, actor and composer of popular songs. His compositions included film songs for famous stars such ...

* Moustafa Amar *

Omar Khairat Omar Khairat (born November 11, 1948) ( ar, عمر خيرت) is an Egyptian musician. Early life Born in Cairo, Omar was raised in a family of musicians. His uncle, Abu Bakr Khairat, a composer and architect, established the Cairo Conservatoir ...

Rageh Daoud Rageh Sami Daoud ( ar, راجح داود; born November 23, 1954; first name also spelled Ragueh and last name also spelled Dawood) is an Egyptian composer of contemporary classical music. He is a member of that nation's third generation of such ...

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 ...

* Riad Al Sunbati * Rifaat Garrana * Saleh Abdel Hai * Sayed Darwish *

Sayed Mekawy Sayed Mekawy (May 8, 1927 – April 21, 1997) (Egyptian Arabic: سيد مكاوي ) was an Egyptian singer and composer, popular in Egypt and throughout the Arabic speaking world. Throughout his life, he remained undaunted by modern innovations an ...

Sheikh Imam Imam Mohammad Ahmad Eissa ( ar, إمام محمد أحمد عيسى) or Sheikh Imam ( ar, الشيخ إمام) (July 2, 1918 – June 6, 1995 ) was a famous Egyptian composer and singer. For most of his life, he formed a duo with the famous Egyp ...

* Soliman Gamil * Tarek Ali Hassan * Yusef Greiss *

Zakaria Ahmed Zakariyya Ahmad ( ar, زكريا أحمد; born 1896 in Faiyum, Egypt –1961) was an Egyptian musician and composer. He mainly sang religious songs as a member of several groups from 1919 to 1929, having studied recitation of the Qur'an u ...

Music directors and conductors

Ratiba El-Hefny Ratiba Hefny ( ar, رتيبة الحفني; 2 December 1931 – 16 September 2013) was an Egyptian and an international Opera singer (Soprano) who has performed in more than 500 opera performances. She was the dean of the Higher Institute of Ara ...

* Nabila Erian * Selim Sahab * Sherif Mohie El Din *

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 ...

Songwriters

* Abdel Rahman el-Abnudi * Abdel latif Moubarak

Singers and pop stars

Abdel Halim Hafez Abdel Halim Ali Shabana ( ar, عبد الحليم علي شبانة), commonly known as Abdel Halim Hafez ( ar, عبد الحليم حافظ,) (June 21, 1929 – March 30, 1977), was an Egyptian singer, actor, conductor, businessman, music teache ...

* Ahmed Adaweyah * Amal Maher * Amr Diab * Angham *

Dalida Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti (; 17 January 1933 – 3 May 1987), professionally known as Dalida, was an Italian-French singer and actress born in Egypt. She sang in eleven languages and sold millions of records internationally. Her best known son ...

Demis Roussos Artemios "Demis" Ventouris-Roussos ( ; el, Αρτέμιος "Ντέμης" Βεντούρης-Ρούσσος, ; 15 June 1946 – 25 January 2015) was a Greek singer, songwriter and musician. As a band member he is best remembered for his work in ...

Ehab Tawfik Ehab Tawfik ( ar, إيهاب توفيق is an Egyptian singer and actor. He performs mostly in the '' shababi'' genre of Egyptian popular music. He has also recorded songs in the '' watani'' (nationalistic) tradition, among them "Set saʿat" ('S ...

* Farid al-Atrash *

Fayza Ahmed Fayza Ahmed ( ar, فايزة أحمد; December 5, 1934 – September 24, 1983) was a Syrian-Egyptian-Lebanese singer and actress. During her career, she appeared in six films. Early life Fayza Ahmed was born in 1934 in Damascus to a Syria ...

* Hakim * Hamada Helal * Hani Shaker *

Kamal Hosni Kamal Hosni (1929–2005; Arabic:كمال حسني) was the stage name for Kamall Eldin Mohammed, an Egyptian singer and actor. Growing up he thought that the theater was his calling. He decided to leave the industry after his only film (''Rabe ...

* Kareem Salama * Karem Mahmoud * Laila Mourad *

Mohamed Abdel Wahab ''Mohamed Abdel Wahab'' ( ar, محمد عبد الوهاب), also transliterated ''Mohamed Abd El-Wahhab'' (March 13, 1902 – May 4, 1991), was a prominent 20th-century Egyptian singer, actor, and composer. He is best known for his Romantic an ...

* Mohamed Hamaki * Mohamed Mounir *

Mohammad Fouad Mohamed Fouad Abd El Hamid Hassan ( ar, محمد فؤاد عبد الحميد حسن; born December 20, 1961) is an Egyptian singer, actor and songwriter. He filmed his first television series "Agla Min Hayaty" in 2010, and hosted the television ...

Mounira El Mahdeya Monirah El-Mahdiyyah (born Zakiyyah Hesin Mansur, ar, منيرة المهدية) was an Egyptian singer born in 1885 (she is said to have come from Zagazig, but other sources say Alexandria); she died in 1965. The singer, better known under the n ...

* Moustafa Amar *

Rami Sabry Ramy Sabry ( ar, رامي صبري; also spelt Rami Sabry; born 15 March 1978) is an Egyptian singer and actor. Career And Personal Life After graduating from the music academy in Egypt, he had already started his musical career by composing s ...

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* Shaaban Abdel Rahim *

* Sherine Wagdy *

Sherine Sherine Sayed Mohamed Abdel-Wahab ( ar, شيرين سيد محمد عبد الوهاب; born October 8, 1980), known professionally by the mononym Sherine ( ar, شيرين), is an Egyptian singer, actress, TV host and personality, and a former ju ...

* Tamer Hosny *

Tony Kaldas Antoine Kaldas ( ar, طوني قلدس; born January 20, 1984), also known as Tony Kaldas, is an Egyptian-Greek singer, composer, performer, and healer who spent his first 25 years in Egypt. He blends several genres, notably jazz, classical, p ...

Umm Kulthum Umm Kulthum ( ar, أم كلثوم, , also spelled ''Oum Kalthoum'' in English; born Fatima Ibrahim es-Sayyid el-Beltagi, ar, فاطمة إبراهيم السيد البلتاجي, Fāṭima ʾIbrāhīm es-Sayyid el-Beltāǧī, link=no; 31 Dece ...

Arts

Architects

* Hani Azer * Hassan Fathy *

Michel Bakhoum Michel Bakhoum (, , '; 1913–1981) was an Egyptians, 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 fr ...

* Naoum Shebib * Ramses Wissa Wassef

Cartoonists and comic artists

Ahmad Nady Ahmad Mohammad Nady ( ar, أحمد محمد نادي) is an Egyptian political cartoonist, comic artist and activist. Belonging to a family of artists, Nady began his career early on, steadily rising to become one of the best known comic artists ...

* Ahmed Ragab *

Ahmed Toughan Ahmed S. Toughan (1926–2014) was an Egyptian cartoonist and artist. Career Toughan was born in Egypt in 1926 and raised in Cairo. In 1946, he began his career as a journalist and cartoonist in many of the Egyptian newspapers, journals and mag ...

Alexander Sarukhan Alexander Saroukhan ( hy, Ալեքսանդր Յակոբի Սարուխան, ar, إسكندر صاروخان ; October 1, 1898 – 1977) was an Armenian- Egyptian cartoonist and caricaturist whose drawings have appeared in a number of Arabic a ...

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 ...

* Gomaa *

Hussein Bikar Hussein Amin Bicar ( arz, حسين أمين بيكار) (2 January 1913 in Alexandria – 16 November 2002) was one of Egypt's most prominent artists of the 20th century. After graduating from the Cairo's School of Fine Arts in 1934, he spen ...

* Mustafa Hussein *

Salah Jahin Muhammad Salah Eldin Bahgat Ahmad Helmy (, ), known as "Salah Jaheen" or "Salah Jahin" ( ar, صلاح جاهين, ; December 25, 1930 – April 21, 1986) was a leading Egyptian people, Egyptian poet, lyricist, playwright and cartoonist. Life ...

Tarek Shahin Tarek Shahin (born 1982) is an Egyptian cartoonist and author. He is best known as the author and illustrator of the comic strip 'Al Khan', which first appeared on the pages of The Daily News Egypt newspaper in 2008, and continues to run independ ...

Painters

* Abdel Hadi Al Gazzar *

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 ...

Adham Wanly Adham Wanly ( ar, إبراهيم أدهم إسماعيل محمد وانلي) (25 February 1908 in Alexandria, Egypt – 20 December 1959) was an Alexandrian painter who learnt in the atelier of the Italian Otorino Becchi 1932, then set up ...

* Chafik Charobim * Evelyn Ashamallah * Farouk Hosny *

Fathi Hassan Fathi Hassan ( ar, فتحي حسن, born 10 May 1957) is an Egyptian-born, Italian-based artist known for his installations involving the written word. Life Fathi Hassan was born in Cairo in 1957 as the second son to a Nubian family. His f ...

Gazbia Sirry Gazbia Sirry ( ar, جاذبية سري) (11 October 1925 – 10 November 2021) was an Egyptian painter. Born in Cairo, Gazbia Sirry studied fine arts at the Higher Institute of Art Education for Women Teachers in 1950 (currently known as the Fa ...

Georges Hanna Sabbagh Georges Hanna Sabbagh (1877–1951) was a France, French artist. Biography Georges Hanna Sabbagh was born at Alexandria.Georges Hanna https://books.google.com/books?id=OeROAAAAYAAJ&q=georges+hanna+books&dq=george+sabbagh+books&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahU ...

* Ghada Amer *

Hassan Mohamed Hassan Hassan Mohamed Hassan (1906–1990) (full name is Hassan Mohamed Hassan el-Feky, ar, حسن محمد حسن الفقى) was one of the pioneers of Egyptian modern art from the second-wave such as Saeed elSadr (1909–1986) and Ahmed Osman. Hassa ...

* Hussein El Gebaly *

Injy Aflatoun Inji Aflatoun ( ar, إنجي أفلاطون; 16 April 1924 – 17 April 1989) was an Egyptian painter and activist in the women's movement. She was a "leading spokeswoman for the Marxist-progressive-nationalist-feminist movement in the late 194 ...

* Isaac Fanous * Kamal Amin *

Mahmoud Mokhtar Mahmoud Mukhtar ( ar, محمود مختار) (May 10, 1891 – March 28, 1934) was an Egyptian sculptor. He attended the College of Fine Arts in Cairo upon its opening in 1908 by Prince Yusuf Kamal, and was part of the original "Pioneers" of the ...

* Margaret Nakhla * Salah Taher * Diane Tuckman * Seif Wanly

Sculptors

* Adam Henein * Hassan Heshmat *

Literature

Authors

* Abbass AlAqqad * Abdel Hakim Qasem * Abdel Wahab el-Miseiri *

* Adel Darwish * Adel Iskandar * Ahdaf Soueif * Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed * Ahmed Mourad * Alaa Al Aswany * Albert Cossery * Alfred Farag * Ayman Zohry * Bahaa Taher * Edmond Jabès * Edwar al-Kharrat * Ezzat el Kamhawi * Farag Foda * Fekry Pasha Abaza * Gamal al-Banna * Gamal Al-Ghitani * Gilbert Sinoué * Hasan Hanafi]
Hussein Abdelfatah
* Ihsan Abdel Quddous * Iris Habib Elmasry * Khalil Abdel-Karim * Kamal el-Mallakh * Leila Ahmed * Louis Awad * Masri Feki * Mansoura Ez Eldin * Mo Gawdat * Mohammad Elsannour * Mohammad Hassanein Heykal * Mohammad Moustafa Haddara * Mostafa Amin * Mostafa Mahmoud * Muhammad Aladdin * Muhammad Husayn Haykal * Muhammad Sa'id al-'Ashmawi * Muhammad Jalal Kishk * Mustafa Lutfi al-Manfaluti * Nabil Farouk * Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel Prize in Literature winner * Nasr Abu Zayd * Nawal El Saadawi * Said El Kemny * Salama Moussa * Sonallah Ibrahim * Taha Hussein * Tarek Heggy *

* Yasser Thabet * Yehia Hakki * Yusuf Idris * Zaki Naguib Mahmoud

Historians

* Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti * Abd al-Rahman al-Rafai * Al-Maqrizi * Al-Mufaddal ibn Abi al-Fada'il, Al-Mufaddal * Al-Sakhawi * Gawdat Gabra * George Antonius * George Elmacin * Ibn Abd-el-Hakem * Imam Al-Suyuti * Iris Habib Elmasry * John of Nikiû * Manetho * Menassa Youhanna * Raouf Abbas * Rifa'a el-Tahtawi * Severus Ibn al-Muqaffa

Poets

* Abdel Rahman el-Abnudi * Abdel latif Moubarak * Abdul Rahman Yusuf * Ahmed Abdel Muti Hijazi * Ahmed Fouad Negm * Ahmed Rami (poet), Ahmed Rami * Ahmed Shawqi * Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi * Hafez Ibrahim * Ibrahim Nagi * Iman Mersal * Mahmoud Sami al-Baroudi * Mahmud Bayram el-Tunsi * Mohammad Ibrahim Abu Senna *

* Gaston Zananiri

Journalists

* Adel Darwish * Ahmad Al-Khamisi *

Amr Ellissy Amr el-Leithy, 2010 UNESCO laureate, is an Egyptian television and radio celebrity. Graduated from the Faculty of Law at Cairo University, he was also attached to the Higher Institute of Arts, where he attained his bachelor's degree at the Direct ...

* Assaad Taha * Ayman Mohyeldin * Ethar El-Katatney * Ezzat el Kamhawi * Farag Foda * Farouk Abdul-Aziz * Gamal Nkrumah * Hala El Badry * Ibrahim al-Mazini *

* Khalil Mutran * Khouloud Al-Gamal * Mansoura Ez-Eldin * Mohamed El-Tabii * Mohamed Hassanein Heikal *

* Momtaz Al Ket * Mona Eltahawy * Mostafa Amin * Muhammad Husayn Haykal * Muhammad Jalal Kishk * Nawara Negm * Ola Naguib * Osama Anwar Okasha * Rawya Ateya * Reda Helal * Rifa'a el-Tahtawi * Sabah Hamamou * Safinaz Kazem * Said Sonbol * Salama Ahmed Salama * Shahira Amin * Soliman Kenawy * Tarek Heggy * Tawfiq al-Hakim * Wael Abbas * Yaqub Sanu * Yasser Abdel Hafez * Yasser Khalil * Yasser Thabet * Yosri Fouda * Younan Labib Rizk * Yousef Gamal El-Din * Zain Abdul Hady

Intellectuals

* Abdelmegid Moustafa Farrag * Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed * Akram Habib * Bayoumi Andil * Magdi Youssef * Rifa'a el-Tahtawi * Salama Moussa * Tarek Heggy * Zaki Naguib Mahmoud

Lawyers

* Ahmad Najib al-Hilali * Ahmed Gamal El-Din Moussa * Ali Sadek Abou-Heif * Farouk Sultan * Khalil Abdel-Karim * Mohamed Kamel Leilah * Stephan Bassily * Taher Helmy * Youssef Darwish

Business, finance & banking

* Abbud Pasha * Ahmed Zayat * Ahmed Zulfikar * Ashraf Marwan * Dodi Fayed * Gamal Aziz, also known as Gamal Mohammed Abdelaziz * Hassan Allam * Khairat el-Shater * Mohamed Al-Fayed * Mohamed A. El-Erian * Mahmoud Mohieldin * Naguib Sawiris * Nassef Sawiris * Osman Ahmed Osman * Raymond Lakah * Rachid Mohamed Rachid * Samih Sawiris * Talaat Moustafa * Talaat Pasha Harb * Tharwat Bassily * Youssef Boutros Ghali * Youssry Henien

Government

Activists

* Ahdaf Soueif * Alaa Abd El-Fattah * Hossam el-Hamalawy * Israa Abdel Fattah * Kamal Khalil * Kareem Amer * Maikel Nabil Sanad * Mona Eltahawy * Mona Seif * Nawara Negm * Rehab Bassam * Sameh Naguib * Wael Abbas * Wael Ghonim * Wael Khalil * Yasser Thabet * Abdelsalam Elkhadrawy

Diplomats

* Abdel Hamid Badawi * Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam * Ahmed Aboul Gheit * Ahmed Asmat Abdel-Meguid * Ahmad Maher (diplomat), Ahmed Maher * Ali Maher (diplomat), Ali Maher * Amr Moussa * Ashraf Ghorbal * Aziz Ezzat Pasha * Boutros Boutros Ghali * F. D. Amr Bey * Helmy Bahgat Badawi * Ihab el-Sherif * Ismail Chirine * Jean-Sélim Kanaan * Kamil Abdul Rahim * Maged A. Abdelaziz * Mohammed Bassiouni * Mohamed ElBaradei * Mohammed Hassan El-Zayyat * Mohammed Murad Ghaleb * Mahmoud Riad * Muhammad Ibrahim Kamel * Muhammad Shaaban * Nabil Fahmi * Nadia Younes * Omar Sharaf * Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy * Sameh Shoukry * Tahseen Bashir

Caliphs

* Al-'Āḍid, al-Adid * Al-Amir bi-Ahkami l-Lah, Al-Amir * Al-Faiz * Al-Hafiz * Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah * Al-Musta'li * Al-Zafir * Ali az-Zahir * Ma'ad al-Mustansir Billah, al-Mustansir

Monarchs

* Abbas I of Egypt, Abbas I * Abbas II of Egypt, Abbas Hilmi Pasha * Cleopatra VII of Egypt, Cleopatra VII * Farouk of Egypt * Fuad I of Egypt * Fuad II of Egypt * Hatshepsut * Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, Ibrahim Pasha * Muhammad Ali of Egypt * Ptolemy I of Egypt * Ptolemy II of Egypt * Ptolemy III of Egypt * Ptolemy IV of Egypt * Ptolemy V of Egypt * Ptolemy VI of Egypt * Ptolemy VII of Egypt * Ptolemy XII of Egypt * Ptolemy XIII of Egypt

Queens of Egypt

* Farida of Egypt * Narriman Sadek * Nazli Sabri * Nefertiti * Queen Karomama * Shajar al-Durr * Sitt al-Mulk

Politicians

* Abaza Family * Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam * Ahmad Esmat Abdel Meguid * Ahmad Fathi Sorour * Ahmad Mahir Pasha * Ahmad Najib al-Hilali * Ahmed Aboul Gheit * Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed * Ahmed Nazif * Ahmed Shafiq * Ahmed Urabi * Ali Pasha Mubarak * Amr Moussa * Atef Ebeid * Ayman Nour * Bahey El Din Barakat Pasha * Boutros Boutros Ghali * Boutros Ghali * Fouad Serageddin * Hussein Al Shafei * Isma'il Sidqi * Joseph de Picciotto Bey * Kamal Ramzi Stino * Mahmoud Ezzat * Makram Ebeid * Mohamed AlBaradei * Mohamed Anwar Esmat Sadat * Mohammad Farid * Mohammed Tayea * Mokhtar Khattab * Mostafa Elwi Saif * Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha * Mustafa Kamil Pasha * Mustafa an-Nahhas Pasha * Numan Gumaa * Rafik Habib * Saad Zaghloul * Stephan Bassily * Wafik Moustafa * Youssef Darwish * Zakaria Mohieddin

Presidents

* Abdel Fattah el-Sisi * Anwar Sadat, Muhammad Anwar Al Sadat * Gamal Abdel Nasser * Hosni Mubarak, Muhammad Hosni Mubarak * Mohamed Morsi * Muhammad Naguib

Scholars

Egyptologists

* Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi (medieval writer), Abdul Latif al-Baghdadi * Ahmad Fakhri * Ahmed Kamal (Egyptologist), Ahmed Kamal * Alexander Badawy * Aziz Suryal Atiya * Dhul-Nun al-Misri * Kamal el-Mallakh * Labib Habachi * Mahmoud Maher Taha * Naguib Kanawati * Pahor Labib * Selim Hassan * Zahi Hawass

Explorers

* Ahmed Hassanein * Hannu * Ibn Selim el-Aswani * Nehsi

Philosophers and Legal Scholars

* Abdel Rahman Badawi * Abdel Wahab Elmessiri * Arnouphis * Hassan Hanafi * Ihab Hassan * Mustafa Mahmoud * Plotinus * Rifa'a el-Tahtawi * Zaki Naguib Mahmoud

Scientists

* Abbas El Gamal * Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam * Ahmad al-Qalqashandi * Ahmad ibn Yusuf * Ahmed Zewail * Ahmes * Caleb Gattegno * Ctesibius * Diophantus * Djer * Elsayed Elsayed Wagih * Eman Ghoneim * Euclid * Farouk El-Baz * Farkhonda Hassan * Gamal Hemdan *

* Hero of Alexandria * Hypatia of Alexandria * Ibn al-Majdi * Ibn Yunus * Imhotep * Mahmoud Samir Fayed * Mahmoud El Manhaly * Mohamed Atalla * Mostafa El-Sayed * Moustafa Mousharafa * Nabil Hegazi * Ptolemy * Rana el Kaliouby * Rashad Khalifa *Reda R. Mankbadi * Riad Higazy * Rushdi Said * Sameera Moussa * Sharif Basyouni * Taher ElGamal * Tarek Ali Hassan * Theon of Alexandria * Wafik El-Deiry * Yehia El-Mashad * Zosimos of Panopolis

Physicians and surgeons

* Ahmed Shafik (sexologist), Ahmed Shafik * Ali ibn Ridwan * Da'ud Abu al-Fadl * Emin Pasha * Gorgi Sobhi * Hilana Sedarous * Ibrahim Nagi * Imhotep * Isaac Israeli ben Solomon * Magdi Yacoub * Magdy Ishak * Mohammed Aboul-Fotouh Hassab * Muhammed Taher Pasha * Naguib Pasha Mahfouz * Nagy Habib * Nawal El Saadawi * Paul Ghalioungui * Samy Azer * Tarek Ali Hassan * Yahya of Antioch * Yasser Elbatrawy

Pioneering women

* Doria Shafik * Ester Fanous * Farkhonda Hassan * Hoda Sharawy * Jihan Sadat * Lotfia ElNadi * Magda Iskander * Safeya Zaghloul * Mona Zulficar * Maya Morsy * Rania Al-Mashat

Religion

Prophets

* Moses * Joseph * Aaron * Amram

Saints

* Abdel Messih El-Makari * Abraam Bishop of Fayoum * Anianus of Alexandria * Anthony the Great * Athanasius of Alexandria * Catherine of Alexandria * Cyril of Alexandria * Cyrus and John * Demiana * Dioscorus of Alexandria * Dorothea of Alexandria, Dorothea * Euphrosyne of Alexandria * Felix and Regula * Hilarion * Hyacinth and Protus * John the Short * Macarius of Alexandria * Macarius of Egypt * Mar Awgin * Mary of Egypt * Moses the Black * Nilus of Sinai, Saint Nilus * Onuphrius * Pakhom * Parsoma * Paul of Tammah * Paul the Simple * Pavly the Anchorite * Pishoy * Pope Abraham of Alexandria * Pope Alexander I of Alexandria, Alexander of Alexandria * Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Cyril VI * Pope Demetrius I of Alexandria, Demetrius of Alexandria * Pope Matthew I of Alexandria * Pope Peter I of Alexandria, Peter of Alexandria * Saint Amun * Saint Apollonia * Saint Maurice * Saint Menas * St. Nilammon * Saint Pambo * Saint Sarah * Saint Shenouda the Archimandrite * Saints Chrysanthus and Daria * Samuel the Confessor * Serapion Bishop of Thmuis * Simon the Tanner * Verena

Preachers

* Abadiu of Antinoe * Abassad * Abd al-Hamid Kishk * Abdel-Halim Mahmoud * Abraam, Bishop of Faiyum * Ahmed Shaker * Amr Khaled * Anba Mikhail * Athanasius, Metropolitan of Beni Suef * Bishop Angaelos * Habib Girgis * Hassan Al-Banna * John of Nikiû * Matta El Meskeen * Meletius of Lycopolis * Menassa Youhanna * Muhammad Abduh * Muhammad Hussein Yacoub * Muhammad Metwally Al Shaarawy * Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi * Origen of Alexandria * Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Pope Cyril VI * Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria * Saint Paphnutius the Bishop * Sayyed Qutb * Serapion (Coptic bishop of Los Angeles), Bishop Serapion * Severus Ibn al-Muqaffa * Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

Sports personalities

Athletes

* Ahmed Mohamed Ashoush * Alaa Abdelnaby * Dionysios Kasdaglis * Hanan Ahmed Khaled * Hassan Ahmed Hamad * Hatem Mersal * Hisham Greiss * Khadr El Touni * Mohamed Naguib Hamed * Nagui Asaad * Mohamed Salah

Basketball players

*Zaki Harari (born 1936), basketball player * Abdel Nader, basketball player

Fencers

* Alaaeldin Abouelkassem (born 1990), fencer, Olympic medalist * Salvator Cicurel (1893–1975), Olympic fencer and Jewish community leader * Mauro Hamza, fencing coach * Saul Moyal, Olympic fencer

Soccer & handball players

* Ahmed Fathi * Ahmed Hassan (footballer, born 1975), Ahmed Hassan * Ahmed Hegazi (footballer), Ahmed Hegazi * Amr Zaki * Emad Moteab * Essam El Hadary * Gamal Abdel Hamid * Gamal Hamza * Hany Ramzy * Hassan Shehata * Hazem Emam * Hossam Ghaly * Hossam Hassan * Ibrahim Said * Islam Abou Ouffa * Mahmoud El-Gohary * Mahmoud El-Khateeb * Mahmoud Trezeguet * Mido (footballer), Mido * Mohamed Aboutreika * Mohamed Elneny * Mohamed Salah * Mohamed Zidan * Saleh Seleem * Shikabala * Taher Abouzaid

Tennis players

*Karim Hossam (born 1994), tennis player banned from tennis for life *Youssef Hossam (born 1998), tennis player banned from tennis for life * Issam Haitham Taweel (born 1989), tennis player

Wrestlers

*Kamal Ibrahim (wrestler), Kamal Ibrahim * Karam Gaber * Mohamed Abdelfatah

Other sports

* Ramy Ashour, squash player * Lamia Bahnasawy, archer * Ahmed Barada, squash player * Abla Khairy, swimmer * Ōsunaarashi Kintarō, sumo wrestler * Esmat Mansour * Mahmoud Mersal *Yoav Raanan (born 1928), Israeli Olympic diver * Amr Shabana, squash player * Sam Soliman, boxer * Ibrahim Hamadtou * Ismail Essam * Lucy Rokach * Mark Seif, poker player * Nasser El Sonbaty * Hossam Youssef, volleyball player

Pharaohs

Prime Ministers of Egypt

* Abd El Aziz Muhammad Hejazi * Abdel Fattah Yahya Ibrahim Pasha * Abdel Khaliq Sarwat Pasha * Adli Yakan Pasha * Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin * Ahmad Mahir Pasha * Ahmad Ziwar Pasha * Ahmed Nazif * Ali Lutfi Mahmud * Ali Mahir Pasha * Ali Sabri * Anwar El Sadat * Atef Ebeid * Atef Sedki * Aziz Sedki * Boutros Ghali * Essam Sharaf * Gamal Abdel Nasser * Hassan Sabry Pasha * Hosni Mubarak * Hussein Rushdi Pasha * Hussein Sirri Pasha * Isma'il Pasha * Kamal Ganzouri * Kamal Hassan Ali * Mahmoud Fawzi * Mahmoud Sami el-Baroudi * Mahmoud an-Nukrashi Pasha * Mamdouh Salem * Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha * Muhammad Naguib * Muhammad Said Pasha * Muhammad Sharif Pasha * Muhammad Tawfiq Nasim Pasha * Mustafa Khalil * Mustafa el-Nahhas * Nubar Pasha * Raghib Pasha * Riyad Pasha * Saad Zaghloul * Tewfik Pasha * Youssef Wahba * Zakaria Mohieddin

Military leaders

* Abd-Al-Minaam Khaleel * Abdel Ghani el-Gamasy * Abdel Hakim Amer * Abdul Munim Riad * Abdul Munim Wassel * Abu Zikry * Ahmad Ismail Ali * Ahmed Ali al-Mwawi * Aibik * Ali Mohamed (double agent), Ali Mohamed * Atef Sadat * Frederick Peake * Hussein Refki Pasha * Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, Ibrahim Pasha * James F. M. Prinsep * Kamal Hassan Ali * Magdy Galal Sharawi * Mahmoud el-Sisi * Mahmoud Abdel Rahman Fahmy * Mahmoud Fehmy * Mahmoud Kabil * Mohammed Aly Fahmy * Murad Bey * Rashad Mehanna * Reda Seireg * Saad El Shazly * Suleiman Khater * Youssef Sabri Abu Taleb * Zakaria Mohieddin

Celebrity chefs

* Christopher Maher * Karine Bakhoum * Michael Mina * Essam Sayed

References

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