List of Egyptians

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The following is a list of notable Egyptians inside and outside of Egypt:

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by with reliable sources.

Actors[]

Male actors[]

  • Abdel Moneim Madbouly
  • Adel Emam
  • Ahmed Zaki
  • Ahmed Ezz
  • Ahmed Helmy
  • Ahmed Mekky
  • Ahmed Ramzy
  • Amr Waked
  • Anwar Wagdy
  • Emad Hamdy
  • Ezzat Abou Aouf
  • Fareed Shawky
  • George Sidhom
  • Hassan Youssef
  • Hussein Fahmy
  • Ismail Yaseen
  • Kamal El Shennawy
  • Kal Naga
  • Mostafa Amar
  • Mena Massoud
  • Mohamed Emam
  • Mohamed Ramadan
  • Nour El-Sherif
  • Omar Sharif, Academy Award nominee[1]
  • Rushdy Abaza
  • Rami Malek
  • Ramy Youssef
  • Saeed Saleh
  • Salah Zulfikar
  • Samir Ghanem
  • Shoukry Sarhan
  • Stephan Rosti
  • Yehia Chahine

Actresses[]

®Ahmed Saeed Abdel Hamid

Dancers and choreographers[]

  • Dina
  • Fifi Abdou
  • Mahmoud Reda
  • Nagua Fouad
  • Nelly Mazloum
  • Samia Gamal
  • Tahiya Karioka
  • Zeinat Olwi
  • Safinaz

Filmmakers and television directors[]

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[]

Radio and television personalities[]

Music[]

Musicians and composers[]

See also: List of Egyptian musicians and List of Egyptian 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
  • Rifaat Garrana
  • Saleh Abdel Hai
  • Sayed Darwish
  • Sayed Mekawy
  • Sheikh Imam
  • Soliman Gamil
  • Tarek Ali Hassan
  • Yusef Greiss
  • Zakaria Ahmed

Music directors and conductors[]

Songwriters[]

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

Singers and pop stars[]

  • Abdel Halim Hafez
  • Ahmed Adaweyah
  • Amal Maher
  • Amr Diab
  • Angham
  • Dalida
  • Demis Roussos
  • Ehab Tawfik
  • Farid al-Atrash
  • Fayza Ahmed
  • Hakim
  • Hamada Helal
  • Hani Shaker
  • Kamal Hosni
  • Kareem Salama
  • Karem Mahmoud
  • Laila Mourad
  • Mohamed Abdel Wahab
  • Mohamed Hamaki
  • Mohamed Mounir
  • Mohammad Fouad
  • Mounira El Mahdeya
  • Moustafa Amar
  • Rami Sabry
  • Ruby
  • Shaaban Abdel Rahim
  • Shadia
  • Sherine Wagdy
  • Sherine
  • Tamer Hosny
  • Tony Kaldas
  • Umm Kulthum

Arts[]

Architects[]

Main article: List of Egyptian architects
  • Hani Azer
  • Hassan Fathy
  • Michel Bakhoum
  • Naoum Shebib
  • Ramses Wissa Wassef

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
  • 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
  • Injy Aflatoun
  • Isaac Fanous
  • Kamal Amin
  • Mahmoud Mokhtar
  • Margaret Nakhla
  • Salah Taher
  • Diane Tuckman
  • Seif Wanly

Sculptors[]

  • Adam Henein
  • Hassan Heshmat
  • Mahmoud Mokhtar

Literature[]

Main article: List of Egyptian authors

Authors[]

  • Abbass AlAqqad
  • 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
  • Masri Feki
  • Mansoura Ez Eldin
  • Mo Gawdat
  • Mohammad Hassanein Heykal
  • Mohammad Moustafa Haddara
  • Mostafa Amin
  • Mostafa Mahmoud
  • Muhammad Aladdin
  • Muhammad Husayn Haykal
  • Muhammad Sa'id al-'Ashmawi
  • Mustafa Lutfi al-Manfaluti
  • Nabil Farouk
  • Naguib Mahfouz,[3][4] Nobel Prize in Literature winner[5]
  • Nasr Abu Zayd
  • Nawal El Saadawi
  • Said El Kemny
  • Salama Moussa
  • Sonallah Ibrahim
  • Taha Hussein[4]
  • Tarek Heggy
  • Tawfiq al-Hakeem
  • Yasser Thabet
  • Yehia Hakki
  • Yusuf Idris
  • Zaki Naguib Mahmoud

Historians[]

  • Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti
  • Abd al-Rahman al-Rafai
  • Al-Maqrizi
  • 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
  • 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[]

Intellectuals[]

Lawyers[]

Business, finance & banking[]

Government[]

Activists[]

Diplomats[]

Caliphs[]

Monarchs[]

  • Abbas I
  • Abbas Hilmi Pasha
  • Cleopatra VII
  • Farouk of Egypt
  • Fuad I of Egypt
  • Fuad II of Egypt
  • Hatshepsut
  • 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[]

Presidents[]

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

Scholars[]

Egyptologists[]

  • Abdul Latif al-Baghdadi
  • Ahmad Fakhri
  • 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 ibn Yusuf
  • Ahmed Zewail
  • Ahmes
  • Caleb Gattegno
  • Ctesibius
  • Diophantus
  • Djer
  • Elsayed Elsayed Wagih
  • Eman Ghoneim
  • Euclid
  • Farouk El-Baz
  • Farkhonda Hassan
  • Gamal Hemdan
  • Hamed Gohar
  • Hero of Alexandria
  • Hypatia of Alexandria
  • Ibn al-Majdi
  • Ibn Yunus
  • Imhotep
  • Mahmoud El Manhaly
  • Mohamed Atalla
  • Mostafa El-Sayed
  • Moustafa Mousharafa
  • Nabil Hegazi
  • Ptolemy
  • Rashad Khalifa
  • 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[]

Pioneering women[]

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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria
  • Saint Paphnutius the Bishop
  • Sayyed Qutb
  • Bishop Serapion
  • Severus Ibn al-Muqaffa
  • Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

Sports personalities[]

Athletes[]

Main article: List of Egyptian athletes

Basketball players[]

Fencers[]

Soccer & handball players[]

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[]

Other sports[]

Pharaohs[]

Main article: List of pharaohs
See also: Pharaoh

Prime Ministers of Egypt[]

Main article: List of 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[]

Celebrity chefs[]

See also[]

References[]

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