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Actors

Male actors

* Abdel Moneim Madbouly * Adel Emam * Ahmed Zaki * Ahmed El-Fishawy * Ahmed El Sakka * Ahmed Ezz * Ahmed Helmy * Ahmed Malek * Ahmed Mekky *

Ahmed Ramzy Ahmad Ramzy (; 23 March 1930 – 28 September 2012) was an Egyptians, Egyptian actor who played leading roles in many Cinema of Egypt, Egyptian films in 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. Early life Ramzy was born Ramzy Mahoud Bayoumi'' in 1930 to Dr Ma ...

* Ali Mansur * Amr Waked * Anwar Wagdy * Ashraf Abdel Baqi * Emad Hamdy * Ezzat Abou Aouf * Fareed Shawky * George Sidhom * Hassan Youssef * Hussein Fahmy * Ismail Yaseen * Kamal El Shennawy * Kal Naga * Karim Abdel Aziz * Karim Mahmoud Abdel Aziz * Maged el-Kedwany * Mostafa Amar * Mena Massoud * Mohamed Emam * Mohamed Ramadan * Nour El-Sherif * Omar Sharif,

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nominee * Rushdy Abaza * Rami Malek, Academy Award winner * Ramy Youssef * Saeed Saleh *

Salah Zulfikar Salah El-Din Ahmed Mourad Zulfikar (, ; 18 January 1926 – 22 December 1993) was an Egyptian actor and film producer. He started his career as a Egyptian National Police, police officer, before becoming an actor in 1956. He is regarded as one o ...

* Samir Ghanem * Shoukry Sarhan * Stephan Rosti * Yehia Chahine * Youssef El Sherif

Actresses

* Amena Rizk * Amina Khalil * Assia Dagher * Asmaa Abulyazeid *

Aziza Amir Aziza Amir (; 17 December 1901 – 28 February 1952) was an Egyptian actress, producer, and screenwriter. She has legendary status in Cinema of Egypt, Egyptian film. She was the first wife of Mahmoud Zulfikar. Early life Aziza Amir was born Mofi ...

* Bahiga Hafez * Bushra * Donia Samir Ghanem * Eman El-Asy *

Faten Hamama Faten Ahmed Hamama (, ; 27 May 1931 – 17 January 2015) was an Egyptian film and television actress and film producer. She made her screen debut in 1939, when she was only seven years old. Her earliest roles were minor, but her activity an ...

* Ghada Adel * Hana El Zahed * Hanan Tork * Hind Rostom * Huda El-Mufti * Laila Elwi * Lebleba * Leila Mourad * Lobna Abdel Aziz * Mariam Fakhr Eddine * Mary Queeny * May Calamawy * Menna Shalabi * Mona Zaki * Naima Akef * Nermin Al-Fiqy * Nelly Karim *

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* Shadia * Sherihan *

Shwikar Shwikar Ibrahim ( ; 4 November 1938 – 14 August 2020) was an Egyptian actress. She started her career in Alexandria in some tragedic roles before she was discovered by the Egyptian film director A film director or filmmaker is a person ...

* Soad Hosny * Tara Emad * Yasmin Abdulaziz * Yasmin Ali * Yasmin Raeis * Yasmine Sabri * Yosra El Lozy * Yousra

Dancers and choreographers

* Dina * Fifi Abdou * Mahmoud Reda * Magda Saleh * Nagwa Fouad * Nelly Mazloum *

Samia Gamal Zeinab Ali Khalil Ibrahim Mahfouz (; 5 March 1924 – 1 December 1994), known professionally as Samia Gamal (), was an Egyptian belly dancer and film actress. Gamal performed in more than 50 movies during her career. She is regarded as one of t ...

* Soheir Zaki * Taheyya Kariokka * Zeinat Olwi

Filmmakers and television directors

* Ahmed El-Nahass * Amr Salama * André Hakim * Asaad Kelada * Ash Atalla * Assia Dagher * Atef El Tayeb * Ayten Amin * Daoud Abdel Sayed * Ezz El-Dine Zulficar * Fadwa El Guindi * Frank Agrama * Hala Khalil * Hassan el-Imam * Helmy Halim * Henry Barakat * Hussein Kamal * Ibrahim El Batout * Jehane Noujaim * Kamla Abou Zekry * Khairy Beshara * Khaled Youssef * Maher Sabry * Mahmoud Zulfikar * Marwan Hamed * Mary Queeny * Mohamed Diab * Mohamed Khan * Mohammed Karim * Mohamed Said Mahfouz * Raymond Hakim * Robert Hakim *

Salah Abu Seif Salah Abu Seif (, ) (May 10, 1915 – June 23, 1996) was a prominent Egyptian film director and screenwriter. He is considered to be the godfather of Neorealism (art), Neorealist cinema in Cinema of Egypt, Egyptian cinema. Many of the 41 fil ...

* Sherif Arafa * Sam Esmail * Tamer El Said * Tamer Shaaban *

Tarek El-Telmissany Tarek El-Telmissany (; 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 Photography at the National Cinema C ...

Yousry Nasrallah Yousry Nasrallah ( ) (born 26 July 1952) is an Egyptian film director. Biography Nasrallah was born to a Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, Coptic Christian family in Cairo. He grew up in Zamalek, in central Cairo. He graduated in econo ...

* Youssef Chahine

Theater actors, directors, producers and playwrights

* Abdel Moneim Madbouly * Abo El Seoud El Ebiary * Alfred Farag * Naguib Al Rehani * Sam Esmail * Tawfiq al-Hakeem

Film critics

* Iris Nazmy *

Samir Farid Samir Farid (, ) (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, Arab and World cinema ...

* Salwa Bakr * Tarek El Shennawi

Radio and television personalities

* Ahmed El Esseily * Ahmed Mussa * Akmal Saleh * Ali Faik Zaghloul * Amr Ellissy * Bassem Youssef * Bob Francis (radio) * Hamdi Qandil * Hamed Gohar * Lamis Elhadidy * Mahmoud Saad * Mofeed Fawzy * Mona El-Saghir * Mona El-Shazly * Nagui * Osama Mounir * Salwa Hegazy * Shahira Amin * Tamer Amin * Youssef Hussein

Music

Musicians and composers

* Abdu al-Hamuli * Abu Bakr Khayrat * Ammar El Sherei * Amr Diab * Aziz El-Shawan * Baligh Hamdi * Dawood Hussnei * Gamal Abdel-Rahim * Halim El-Dabh * Hasan Rashid * Kamal Al Taweel * Kamel al-Khola'ie * Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah * Mohamed El Qasabgi * Mohamed Fawzi * Mohammed Abdel Wahab * Mounir Mourad * Moustafa Amar * Omar Khairat * Rageh Daoud * Ramzi Yassa *

Riad Al Sunbati Riad Mohamed El Sunbati (), also written as Riad Sonbati or Riadh Sonbati (30 November 1906 – 10 September 1981) was a 20th-century Egyptians, Egyptian composer and musician who was considered an icon of Egyptian Music. He composed 539 works ...

* Rifaat Garrana * Saleh Abdel Hai * Sayed Darwish * Sayed Mekawy * Sheikh Imam * Soliman Gamil *

Tarek Ali Hassan Tarek Ali Hassan (, 19 October 1937 – 8 September 2024) was an Egyptian endocrinologist who was a professor of medicine and chief of endocrinology at Al-Azhar University in Cairo. He was also a composer, musician, writer, painter, and philosoph ...

* Yusef Greiss * Zakaria Ahmed

Music directors and conductors

* Ratiba El-Hefny * Nabila Erian * Selim Sahab * Sherif Mohie El Din * Youssef Elsisi

Songwriters

* Abo El Seoud El Ebiary * Abdel Rahman el-Abnudi * Abdel latif Moubarak

Singers and pop stars

* Abdel Halim Hafez * Ahmed Adaweyah * Amal Maher * Amira Selim * Amr Diab * Angham * Carmen Suleiman *

Dalida Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti (; 17 January 1933 – 3 May 1987), professionally known as Dalida (, ; ), was an Italian naturalized French singer and actress. Leading an international career, Dalida has sold over 140 million records worldwide. Some ...

Demis Roussos Artemios "Demis" Ventouris-Roussos ( ; , ; 15 June 1946 – 25 January 2015) was a Greek-Egyptian singer, songwriter and musician. As a band member, he is best remembered for his work in the progressive rock music act Aphrodite's Child, but as a ...

* Dina El Wedidi * Ehab Tawfik * Farid al-Atrash * Fayza Ahmed * Haidy Moussa * Hakim * Hamada Helal * Hani Shaker * Kamal Hosni * Kareem Salama * Karem Mahmoud * Laila Mourad * Lara Scandar * Mohamed Abdel Wahab *

Mohamed Hamaki Mohamed Ibrahim Mohamed El Hamaki ( ; born 4 November 1975) is an Egyptian singer. In 2010, he won the "Best Arabia Act" award from 2010 MTV Europe Music Awards, MTV Europe Music Awards and the Music Award in 2006, for ''"Ahla Haga Fiki"''. He wa ...

* Mohamed Hassan * Mohamed Mounir * Mohammad Fouad * Mounira El Mahdeya * Moustafa Amar * Nesma Mahgoub * Rami Sabry *

* Sandy * Shaaban Abdel Rahim * Shadia * Sherine Wagdy *

Sherine Sherine Sayed Mohamed Abdel Wahab (; born 8 October 1980), known professionally as simply Sherine, is an Egyptians, Egyptian Singing, singer, Actor, actress and music judge who is dubbed ''"The Voice of Egypt"''. Sherine was formerly a judge on ...

Tamer Hosny Tamer Hosny Sherif Abbas Farghaly (; born 16 August 1977), known by his stage name Tamer Hosny (), is an Egyptian singer and actor. He first came to public attention when he appeared on mixed tapes with other Egyptian artists. Hosny launched his ...

* Tony Kaldas *

Umm Kulthum Umm Kulthum (; 31 December 1898 – 3 February 1975) was an Egyptians, Egyptian singer and film actress active from the 1920s to the 1970s. She was given the honorific title (). Immensely popular throughout the Middle East and beyond, Umm Kul ...

Architects, planners and engineers

Architects

* Ali Labib Gabr * Mahmoud Riad * Mohamed Kamal Ismail * Naoum Shebib * Sayed Karim * Charles Ayrout

Engineers

* Mohamed M. Atalla * Taher Elgamal * Mootaz Elnozahy * Hassan K. Khalil * Yahya El Mashad * Salah Obaya * Adel Sedra * Ahmed Tewfik * Mona Zaghloul * Kawthar Zaki

Arts

Cartoonists and comic artists

* Ahmad Nady * Ahmed Ragab * Ahmed Toughan * Alexander Sarukhan * George Bahgoury * Gomaa * Hussein Bikar * Mustafa Hussein * Salah Jahin * Tarek Shahin

Painters

* Abdel Hadi Al Gazzar * Adel Nassief * Adham Wanly * Armen Agop * Chafik Charobim * Evelyn Ashamallah * Farouk Hosny * Fathi Hassan * Gazbia Sirry * George Bahgoury * Georges Hanna Sabbagh * Ghada Amer * Hassan Mohamed Hassan * Hussein Bikar *

Hussein El Gebaly Hussein El Gebaly (Arabic: حسين الجبالي) (18 May 1934 – 18 January 2014) was an Egyptian artist. Artist Biography He received his diploma from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo in 1958, and his diploma of the Higher Institute fo ...

* Injy Aflatoun * Isaac Fanous * Kamal Amin * Mahmoud Mokhtar * Margaret Nakhla * Salah Taher * Diane Tuckman * Seif Wanly Mohamed Taha Hussein

Sculptors

* Adam Henein * Armen Agop * Hassan Heshmat * Mahmoud Mokhtar Laila Hassan Soliman Dawood

Literature

Authors

* Duaa Abdelrahman * Intissar Abdulmomen * Abbass AlAqqad * Abd Al Rasheed Al Sadiq Mahmmudi * Abdel Hakim Qasem * Abdel Wahab el-Miseiri * Abo El Seoud El Ebiary * 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 * Ihsan Abdel Quddous * Iris Habib Elmasry * Khalil Abdel-Karim * Kamal el-Mallakh * Leila Ahmed * Louis Awad * Lutis Abd Al Karim * 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 The Nobel Prize in Literature, here meaning ''for'' Literature (), is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in ...

winner * Nasr Abu Zayd * Nawal El Saadawi * Out el Kouloub * Said El Kemny * Salama Moussa *

Sonallah Ibrahim Son'allah Ibrahim ( ''Ṣunʻ Allāh Ibrāhīm'') (born 1937) is an Egyptian novelist and short story writer and one of the " Sixties Generation" who is known for his leftist views which are expressed rather directly in his work. His novels, es ...

* Taha Hussein *

Tarek Heggy Tarek Heggy (, ; born October 12, 1950) is an Egyptian liberal author, political thinker and international petroleum strategist. Heggy is one of Egypt’s more prominent authors on the subject of Egypt’s need for political reform. His extens ...

* Tawfiq al-Hakeem * Yasser Thabet * Yehia Hakki * Yusuf Idris * Zaki Naguib Mahmoud

Historians

* Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti * Abd al-Rahman al-Rafai * Ibn Duqmaq * Shafi' bin Ali el-Masry * Al-Maqrizi * Al-Mufaddal * Al-Sakhawi *

Gawdat Gabra Dr. Gawdat Gabra (born 1947) (, Coptic language, 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 Münster ...

George Antonius George Habib Antonius, Order of the British Empire, CBE (hon.) (; October 19, 1891May 21, 1942) was a Lebanese people, Lebanese author and diplomat who settled in Jerusalem. He was one of the first historians of Arab nationalism. Born in Deir a ...

* George Elmacin * Ibn Abd-el-Hakem * Imam Al-Suyuti * Iris Habib Elmasry * John of Nikiû *

Manetho Manetho (; ''Manéthōn'', ''gen''.: Μανέθωνος, ''fl''. 290–260 BCE) was an Egyptian priest of the Ptolemaic Kingdom who lived in the early third century BCE, at the very beginning of the Hellenistic period. Little is certain about his ...

* Menassa Youhanna * Raouf Abbas * Rifa'a el-Tahtawi * Severus Ibn al-Muqaffa

Poets

* Abdel Rahman el-Abnudi * Abdel Latif Moubarak * Abdul Rahman Yusuf * Abduallah El Sharif * Ahmed Abdel Muti Hijazi * Ahmed Fouad Negm * 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 * Salah Jahin * Gaston Zananiri

Journalists

* Abo El Seoud El Ebiary * Adel Darwish * Ahmad Al-Khamisi * Ahmed Toughan * Amr Ellissy * Assaad Taha * Ayman Mohyeldin * Ethar El-Katatney * Ezzat el Kamhawi * Farag Foda * Farouk Abdul-Aziz * Gamal Nkrumah * Hala El Badry * Ibrahim al-Mazini * Ibrahim Hegazi * Iris Nazmy * Khalil Mutran * Khouloud Al-Gamal * Mansoura Ez-Eldin * Mohamed El-Tabii * Mohamed Hassanein Heikal * Mohamed Said Mahfouz * 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 *

* Tawfiq al-Hakim * Wael Abbas *

Yaqub Sanu Yaqub Sanu (, , anglicized as James Sanua), also known by his pen name "Abu Naddara" ( ''Abū Naẓẓārah'' "the man with glasses"; January 9, 1839 – 1912), was an Egyptian scriptwriter writing in Egyptian Arabic. He was a pioneer of political ...

* Yasser Abdel Hafez * Yasser Khalil * Yasser Thabet *

Yosri Fouda Yosri Fouda ( ', ), is an Egyptian investigative reporter, author, and television host. He established Al Jazeera Media Network, Al Jazeera's office in London and was one of the star figures in the channel until he resigned in 2009. Fouda also wo ...

* 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 *

* Zaki Naguib Mahmoud

Lawyers

* Ahmad Najib al-Hilali * Ahmed Gamal El-Din Moussa * Ali Abu el-Fotoh * Ali Sadek Abou-Heif * Bahaa El-Din Abu Shoka * Farouk Sultan * Khaled Ali * Khalil Abdel-Karim * Mohamed Kamel Leilah * Stephan Bassily * Sameh Ashour * Taher Helmy * Youssef Darwish

Business

19th — mid-20th Century Feudalists

* Abbud Pasha

Nationalists (1923 — 1952)

* Talaat Pasha Harb

Post Infitah (1974 — )

* Ahmed Zayat *

Ahmed Zulfikar Ahmed Mourad Salah El-Din Zulfikar (, ; 15 August 1952 – 1 May 2010), was an Egyptians, Egyptian mechanical engineer and entrepreneur. He worked for three decades in the field of infrastructure. Zulfikar was one of the first founders of the mod ...

* Dodi Fayed * Gamal Aziz, also known as Gamal Mohammed Abdelaziz * Hassan Allam * Mohamed Al-Fayed * Naguib Sawiris *

Nassef Sawiris Nassef Onsi Sawiris (; born 19 January 1961) is an Egyptian businessman, and the youngest of Onsi Sawiris' three sons (his brothers are Naguib and Samih). As of October 2021, his net worth was estimated at US$8.7 billion, making him the riche ...

* Raymond Lakah * Samih Sawiris * Tharwat Bassily * Ahmed El Maghrabi * Khairat el-Shater * Mohamed A. El-Erian * Mohamed Mansour * Osman Ahmed Osman * Rachid Mohamed Rachid * Talaat Moustafa

Activists

* Abdel Wahab El-Messiri * Ahmed Douma * Ahmed Seif El-Islam * Ahdaf Soueif * Alaa Abd El-Fattah * Dina Zulfikar * Gamal Eid * George Isaac * Hossam Bahgat * Hossam el-Hamalawy * Israa Abdel Fattah * Kamal Khalil *

Kareem Amer Kareem Nabil Suleiman Amer (, ) (born c. 1984) is an Egyptian Norwegian blogger and former law student. He was arrested by Egyptian authorities for posts on his blog that were considered to be anti-religious and insulting to Egyptian President Hos ...

* Khaled Ali * Laila Soueif * Mahienour El-Massry * Maikel Nabil Sanad * Mohamed Lotfy * Mona Eltahawy * Mona Seif * Nawara Negm * Nancy Okail * Rehab Bassam * Sameh Naguib * Wael Abbas * Wael Ghonim * Wael Khalil * Yasser Thabet * Abdelsalam Elkhadrawy

Government

Diplomats

* Abdel Hamid Badawi * Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam * Ahmed Aboul Gheit * Ahmed Asmat Abdel-Meguid * Ahmed Maher * Ali Maher *

Amr Moussa Amr Moussa (, , Amr Muhammad Moussa; born 3 October 1936) is an Egyptian politician and diplomat who was the Secretary General of the Arab League, Secretary-General of the Arab League, a 22-member forum representing Arab World, Arab states, from ...

* Ashraf Ghorbal * Aziz Ezzat Pasha * Boutros Boutros Ghali * Fathi Saleh * F. D. Amr Bey * Helmy Bahgat Badawi * Ihab el-Sherif * Ismail Chirine * Jean-Sélim Kanaan * Kamil Abdul Rahim * Maged A. Abdelaziz * Mahmoud Riad * Mohammed Bassiouni *

Mohamed ElBaradei Mohamed Mostafa ElBaradei (, ; born 17 June 1942) is an Egyptian law scholar and diplomat who served as the vice president of Egypt on an interim basis from 14 July 2013 until his resignation on 14 August 2013. He was the Director General of ...

* Mohamed Hafez Ismail * Mohammed Hassan El-Zayyat * Mohammed Murad Ghaleb * Muhammad Ibrahim Kamel * Muhammad Shaaban * Nabil Fahmi * Nadia Younes * Omar Sharaf * Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy * Sameh Shoukry * Tahseen Bashir

Caliphs

* al-Adid * Al-Amir * Al-Faiz * Al-Hafiz * Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah * Al-Musta'li * Al-Zafir * Ali az-Zahir * al-Mustansir

Monarchs

* Abbas I * Abbas Hilmi Pasha *

Cleopatra VII Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (; The name Cleopatra is pronounced , or sometimes in both British and American English, see and respectively. Her name was pronounced in the Greek dialect of Egypt (see Koine Greek phonology). She was ...

* Farouk of Egypt *

Fuad I of Egypt Fuad I ( ''Fu’ād al-Awwal''; 26 March 1868 – 28 April 1936) was the Sultan and later King of Egypt and the Sudan. The ninth ruler of Egypt and Sudan from the Muhammad Ali dynasty, he became Sultan in 1917, succeeding his elder brother Hu ...

* Fuad II of Egypt *

Hatshepsut Hatshepsut ( ; BC) was the sixth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, Egypt, ruling first as regent, then as queen regnant from until (Low Chronology) and the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Thutmose II. She was Egypt's second c ...

* Ibrahim Pasha *

Muhammad Ali of Egypt Muhammad Ali (4 March 1769 – 2 August 1849) was the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Albanians, Albanian viceroy and governor who became the ''de facto'' ruler of History of Egypt under the Muhammad Ali dynasty, Egypt from 1805 to 1848, widely consi ...

* Ptolemy I of Egypt *

Ptolemy II of Egypt Ptolemy II Philadelphus (, ''Ptolemaîos Philádelphos'', "Ptolemy, sibling-lover"; 309 – 28 January 246 BC) was the pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt from 284 to 246 BC. He was the son of Ptolemy I, the Ancient Macedonians, Macedonian Greek general ...

* 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 Shajar al-Durr (), also Shajarat al-Durr (), whose royal name was al-Malika ʿAṣmat ad-Dīn ʾUmm-Khalīl Shajar ad-Durr (; died 28 April 1257), was a ruler of Egypt. She was the wife of As-Salih Ayyub, and later of Izz al-Din Aybak, the first ...

* Sitt al-Mulk * Hoshiyar Qadin

Politicians

Abaza Family The Abaza family (; , or , ; ) is an Egyptians, Egyptian aristocratic family of maternal Abazin, Circassians, Circassian, and paternal Egyptians, Egyptian origins whose historical stronghold is in the Nile Delta. It has been described as "deep ...

* Abdel-Moneim Imam * 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 * Ahmed Medhat Yeghen Pasha * Ali Pasha Mubarak *

* Abdel Rahim Sabri Pasha * Atef Ebeid * Ayman Nour * Bahey El Din Barakat Pasha * Boutros Boutros Ghali * Boutros Ghali * El-Emam family * Fouad Serageddin * Heshmat Fahmi * Hussein Sabri Pasha * Hussein Al Shafei * Ismail al-Din * Isma'il Sidqi * Joseph de Picciotto Bey * Kamal Ramzi Stino * Mahmoud Esmat * Mahmoud Ezzat * Makram Ebeid * Mohamed AlBaradei * Mohamed Anwar Esmat Sadat * Mohammad Farid * Mokhtar Khattab * Mostafa Elwi Saif * Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha *

Mustafa Kamil Pasha Mustafa Kamil Pasha (, ) (August 14, 1874 ⁠– February 10, 1908) was an Egyptian lawyer, journalist, and nationalist activist. Early life and education Kamil was born in Cairo in 1874. His father was an engineer who first worked for the Eg ...

* Mustafa an-Nahhas Pasha * Numan Gumaa * Rafik Habib * Saad Zaghloul * Stephan Bassily * Wafik Moustafa * Youssef Darwish * Zakaria Mohieddin * Zulfikar family

Presidents

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil El-Sisi (born 19 November 1954) is an Egyptian politician and retired military officer who has been serving as the sixth and current president of Egypt since 2014. After the 2011 Egyptian revolution and 201 ...

* Adly Mansour * Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat *

Gamal Abdel Nasser Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein (15 January 1918 – 28 September 1970) was an Egyptian military officer and revolutionary who served as the second president of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970. Nasser led the Egyptian revolution of 1952 a ...

* Muhammad Hosni Mubarak * Mohamed Morsi * Muhammad Naguib * Sufi Abu Taleb

Scholars

Egyptologists

* Abdul Latif al-Baghdadi * Ahmad Fakhri * Ahmed Kamal * Alexander Badawy * Aziz Suryal Atiya *

Dhul-Nun al-Misri Dhūl-Nūn Abū l-Fayḍ Thawbān b. Ibrāhīm al-Miṣrī (; d. Giza, in 245/859 or 248/862), often referred to as Dhūl-Nūn al-Miṣrī or Zūl-Nūn al-Miṣrī for short, was an early Egyptian Muslim mysticism, mystic and ascetic.Mojaddedi, ...

* Kamal el-Mallakh * Labib Habachi * Mahmoud Maher Taha *

Naguib Kanawati Naguib Kanawati (born 1941) is an Egyptian Australian Egyptologist and Professor of Egyptology at Macquarie University in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Early life Kanawati was born in Alexandria, Egypt to a Melkite Greek Catholic Churc ...

* Pahor Labib * Selim Hassan *

Zahi Hawass Zahi Abass Hawass (; born May 28, 1947) is an Egyptians, Egyptian archaeology, archaeologist, Egyptology, Egyptologist, and former Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities (Egypt), Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, a position he held twice. He has ...

Explorers

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

Mathematicians

* Mohamed M. Atalla * Alaa A. Abdel Bary * Hanan Mohamed Abdelrahman * Elsayed M. Abo-Dahab * Attia Ashour * Caleb Gattegno * Ali S. Hadi * Alfaisal A. Hasan * Michael Hasofer * Mourad Ismail * Khaleed S. Mekheimer * Ali Moustafa Mosharafa * Al-Qalqashandi * Roshdi Rashed * Samir Saker * Shoukry Hassan Sayed * Obada Abdel Shafy * Laila Soueif * Nasser Sweilam

Philosophers and Legal Scholars

* Abd Al Rasheed Al Sadiq Mahmmudi * Abd El-Razzak El-Sanhuri * Abdel Rahman Badawi * Abdel Wahab Elmessiri * Arnouphis * Hassan Hanafi * Ihab Hassan * Mustafa Mahmoud *

Plotinus Plotinus (; , ''Plōtînos''; – 270 CE) was a Greek Platonist philosopher, born and raised in Roman Egypt. Plotinus is regarded by modern scholarship as the founder of Neoplatonism. His teacher was the self-taught philosopher Ammonius ...

* Rifa'a el-Tahtawi * Zaki Naguib Mahmoud

Scientists

* Abbas El Gamal * Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam * Ahmad al-Qalqashandi * Ahmad ibn Yusuf * Ahmed Zewail * Al-Kum al-Rishi *

Ahmes Ahmes ( “, a common Egyptian name also transliterated Ahmose (disambiguation), Ahmose) was an ancient Egyptian scribe who lived towards the end of the 15th Dynasty, Fifteenth Dynasty (and of the Second Intermediate Period) and the beginning of t ...

* Caleb Gattegno * Ctesibius *

Diophantus Diophantus of Alexandria () (; ) was a Greek mathematician who was the author of the '' Arithmetica'' in thirteen books, ten of which are still extant, made up of arithmetical problems that are solved through algebraic equations. Although Jose ...

* Djer * Elsayed Elsayed Wagih * Eman Ghoneim *

Euclid Euclid (; ; BC) was an ancient Greek mathematician active as a geometer and logician. Considered the "father of geometry", he is chiefly known for the '' Elements'' treatise, which established the foundations of geometry that largely domina ...

Farouk El-Baz Farouk El-Baz (, ''Pronunciation'': ) (born January 2, 1938) is an Egyptian American space scientist and geologist, who worked with NASA in the scientific exploration of the Moon and the planning of the Apollo program. He was a leading geologist ...

* Farkhonda Hassan * Gamal Hemdan * Hamed Gohar *

Hero of Alexandria Hero of Alexandria (; , , also known as Heron of Alexandria ; probably 1st or 2nd century AD) was a Greek mathematician and engineer who was active in Alexandria in Egypt during the Roman era. He has been described as the greatest experimental ...

* Hypatia of Alexandria * Ibn al-Majdi *

Ibn Yunus Abu al-Hasan 'Ali ibn Abi al-Said 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Ahmad ibn Yunus ibn Abd al-'Ala al-Sadafi al-Misri (Egyptian Arabic: ابن يونس; c. 950 – 1009) was an important Arabs, Arab Egyptians, Egyptian astronomer and Islamic mathematics, math ...

* Imhotep * Mahmoud Samir Fayed * Mahmoud El Manhaly * Mohamed Atalla * Mostafa El-Sayed * Moustafa Mousharafa * Nabil Hegazi *

Ptolemy Claudius Ptolemy (; , ; ; – 160s/170s AD) was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine science, Byzant ...

* Rana el Kaliouby * Rashad Khalifa * Reda R. Mankbadi * Riad Higazy * Rushdi Said * Sameera Moussa * Sharif Basyouni * Taher ElGamal *

* Theon of Alexandria * Wafik El-Deiry * Yehia El-Mashad * Zosimos of Panopolis

Physicians and surgeons

* 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 Samy A. Azer is an Egyptian-born Australian physician, author and medical education, medical educator who has contributed to medical education internationally. Academic career Professor Azer has contributed to medical education at the Universi ...

* Yahya of Antioch * Yasser Elbatrawy

Pioneering women

* Doria Shafik * Mowafaqia al-Masria * Nashwan bint al-Gamal * Hikmat Abu Zayd * Ester Fanous * Farkhonda Hassan * Hoda Sharawy * Jihan Sadat * Lotfia ElNadi * Magda Iskander * Safeya Zaghloul * Mona Zulficar * Maya Morsy * Rania Al-Mashat * Amani Al Tawil

Religion

Prophets

Moses In Abrahamic religions, Moses was the Hebrews, Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites out of slavery in the The Exodus, Exodus from ancient Egypt, Egypt. He is considered the most important Prophets in Judaism, prophet in Judaism and Samaritani ...

* Joseph *

Aaron According to the Old Testament of the Bible, Aaron ( or ) was an Israelite prophet, a high priest, and the elder brother of Moses. Information about Aaron comes exclusively from religious texts, such as the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament ...

Amram In the Book of Exodus, Amram (; ) is the husband of Jochebed and father of Aaron, Moses and Miriam. In the Holy Scriptures In addition to being married to Jochebed, Amram is also described in the Bible as having been related to Jochebed ...

Saints

* Abdel Messih El-Makari * Abraam Bishop of Fayoum * Anianus of Alexandria *

Anthony the Great Anthony the Great (; ; ; ; – 17 January 356) was a Christian monk from Egypt, revered since his death as a saint. He is distinguished from other saints named Anthony, such as , by various epithets: , , , , , and . For his importance among t ...

Athanasius of Alexandria Athanasius I of Alexandria ( – 2 May 373), also called Athanasius the Great, Athanasius the Confessor, or, among Coptic Christians, Athanasius the Apostolic, was a Christian theologian and the 20th patriarch of Alexandria (as Athanasius ...

Catherine of Alexandria Catherine of Alexandria, also spelled Katherine, was, according to tradition, a Christian saint and Virginity, virgin, who was martyred in the early 4th century at the hands of the emperor Maxentius. According to her hagiography, she was both a ...

Cyril of Alexandria Cyril of Alexandria (; or ⲡⲓ̀ⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ Ⲕⲓⲣⲓⲗⲗⲟⲥ; 376–444) was the Patriarch of Alexandria from 412 to 444. He was enthroned when the city was at the height of its influence and power within the Roman Empire ...

* Cyrus and John * Demiana * Dioscorus of Alexandria * Dorothea * Euphrosyne of Alexandria * Felix and Regula *

Hilarion Hilarion (291–371), also known by the bynames of Thavata, of Gaza, and in the Orthodox Church as the Great was a Christian anchorite who spent most of his life in the desert according to the example of Anthony the Great (c. 251–356). While ...

* Hyacinth and Protus * John the Short *

Macarius of Alexandria Saint Macarius of Alexandria ( Greek: Μακάριος; died 395) was a monk in the Nitrian Desert. He was a slightly younger contemporary of Macarius of Egypt, and is thus also known as Macarius the Younger. Life Macarius was born about the ...

Macarius of Egypt Macarius of Egypt (c. 300 – 391) was a Christian monk and Grazers (Christianity), grazer hermit. He is also known as Macarius the Elder or Macarius the Great. Life Macarius was born in Lower Egypt. A late tradition places his birthplace in th ...

* Mar Awgin *

Mary of Egypt Mary of Egypt (; ; ; Amharic/Geʽez, Geez: ቅድስት ማርያም ግብፃዊት) was an Egyptians, Egyptian Grazers (Christianity), grazer saint dwelling in Palestine (region), Palestine during late antiquity or the Early Middle Ages. She is ...

* Moses the Black * Saint Nilus * Onuphrius * Pakhom * Parsoma * Paul of Tammah * Paul the Simple * Pavly the Anchorite * Pishoy * Pope Abraham of Alexandria * Alexander of Alexandria * Cyril VI * Demetrius of Alexandria * Pope Matthew I of Alexandria * Peter of Alexandria * Saint Amun *

Saint Apollonia Saint Apollonia (; , ) was one of a group of virgin martyrs who suffered in Alexandria during a local uprising against the Christians prior to the persecution of Decius. According to church tradition, her torture included having all of her tee ...

* 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 * Abu Uday el-Masry bin el-Emam * El-Mohib bin el-Emam * 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 * Michael Hage

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 (born 1965 or 1966), fencing coach * Saul Moyal, Olympic fencer

Soccer & handball players

* Abdel-Karim Sakr * Abdulrahman Fawzi * Ahmed El-Ahmar * Ahmed Fathi * Ahmed Hassan (footballer, born 1975), Ahmed Hassan * Ahmed Hegazi (footballer), Ahmed Hegazi * Ali Khalil * Ali Riadh * Amr Zaki * Emad Moteab * Essam Baheeg * Essam El Hadary * Farouk Gaafar * Gamal Abdel-Hamid * Gamal Hamza * Hamada Emam * Hanafy Bastan * Hany Ramzy * Hassan Shehata * Hazem Emam * Mohammed Hassan Helmy, Helmy Zamora * Hossam Ghaly * Hossam Hassan * Hussein El-Sayed * Hussein Hegazi * Hussein Labib * Hussein Zaky * Ibrahim Youssef * Karim Handawy * Mahmoud El-Gohary * Mahmoud El-Khateeb * Mahmoud Mokhtar El Tetsh * Mahmoud Trezeguet * Mido (footballer), Mido * Mohamed Aboutreika * Mohamed Elneny * Mohamed Latif * Mohamed Salah * Mohamed Zidan * Mostafa Taha * Saleh Seleem * Shikabala * Taha Basry * Taher Abouzaid * Tewfik Abdullah * Yehia Emam

Tennis players

* Issam Haitham Taweel * Karim Maamoun * Mayar Sherif * Sandra Samir

Wrestlers

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

Other sports

* Ramy Ashour, squash player * Lamia Bahnasawy, archer * Ahmed Barada, squash player * Ismail Essam * Magdy Gheriani, gymnast * Ibrahim Hamadtou * Abla Khairy, swimmer * Ōsunaarashi Kintarō, sumo wrestler * Esmat Mansour * Mahmoud Mersal * Amr Shabana, squash player * Sam Soliman, boxer * Lucy Rokach * Abdelrahman Sameh, swimmer * Mark Seif, poker player * Rami Serry, racing driver * 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 *

* 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 * Alaa el-Din bin el-Emam * Ahmad Pasha al-Munkali * Abu Zikry * Ahmad Ismail Ali * Ahmed Ali al-Mwawi * Aybak * Ali Mohamed (double agent), Ali Mohamed * Atef Sadat * Baybars * Frederick Peake * Hussein Refki Pasha * Izz al-Din al-Kawrani * Ibrahim Pasha * Isma'il Pasha Abu Jabal * James F. M. Prinsep * Kamal Hassan Ali * Mohammed Haidar Pasha * Mahammad Rustum Bey * Magdy Galal Sharawi * Mahmoud el-Sisi * Mahmoud Abdel Rahman Fahmy * Mahmoud Fehmy * Mahmoud Kabil * Mohammed Aly Fahmy * Murad Bey * Osama El-Gendy * Qutuz * Rashad Mehanna * Reda Seireg * Selim Fathi Pasha * 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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