List of Egyptians
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- Rushdy AbazaRushdy AbazaRushdy Said Bughdady Abaza was an Egyptian actor. He died of cancer at the age of 53.-Family:...
- Khalid AbdallaKhalid AbdallaKhalid Abdalla is a Egyptian-British actor. He came to international prominence after starring in the 2006 Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA-winning film, United 93. Written and directed by Paul Greengrass, it chronicles events aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked as part of the...
- Adel AdhamAdel AdhamAdel Adham was one of Egypt's most famous actors. He was known for his portrayal of evil and ambiguous characters. His mother was half Turkish.In his most recent film before his death, his character was told by another character that he will go to hell...
- El Deif AhmedEl Deif AhmedEl Deif Ahmed, was an Egyptian actor. He was part of the stand-up comedy trio Tholathy Adwa'a El Masrah alongside George Sidhom and Samir Ghanem.-Biography:Born in 1936 in El Dakahleya, Ahmed attended the Mansoura School For Boys...
- Kamal Al-Shennawi
- Karim Abdel AzizKarim Abdel AzizKarim Abdel Aziz is an Egyptian actor. He is the son of director Mohammad Abdul Aziz and nephew of film director Omar Abdel Aziz, while his aunt is the actress Samira Muhsin...
- Yehia ChahineYehia ChahineYehia Chahine was an Egyptian film producer and an actor of film and theater. He is most notable for his role in the film adaptations of the Cairo Trilogy, a trilogy written by the Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz.- Life and career :Yehia Chahine was born in Imbaba, Giza. His...
- Youssef DawoudYoussef DawoudYoussef Dawoud is an Egyptian actor, who has worked in theatre, cinema and television.Dawoud started acting when studying at Alexandria University. After graduating from the Faculty of Engineering Department of Electricity, Alexandria University, in 1960, he worked for Alexandria Oils and Soap...
- Youssef Fakhr EddineYoussef Fakhr EddineYoussef Fakhr Eddine was an Egyptian actor and the brother of actress Mariam Fakhr Eddine.*Born 1 January 1935, Heliopolis , Egypt to Egyptian father and Hungarian mother* Date of Death : 27 December 2002, Athens, Greece...
- Mahmoud el-MeliguyMahmoud el-MeliguyMahmoud el-Meliguy was an Egyptian screenwriter and an actor of film, theatre, and television. He started his career playing minor roles, but achieved stardom in the late 1930s. A popular and award-winning actor, he has acted in hundreds of films and was famous for his evil, villain roles...
- Nour El-SherifNour El-SherifNour El-Sherif is a contemporary Egyptian actor. His birth name is Mohamad Geber Mohamad ِAbd Allah .El-Sherif was born in the working-class neighbourhood of Sayeda Zainab in Cairo ....
- Adel EmamAdel EmamAdel Imam , , born May 17, 1940 in El Mansoura , is a popular Egyptian movie and stage actor. He is primarily a comedian, but he has starred in more serious works and, especially in his earlier films, has combined comedy with romance.Emam earned a Bachelor's Degree in Agriculture from Cairo...
- Hussein FahmyHussein FahmyHussein Fahmy, is an Egyptian actor born in 1940 in Cairo. He is the brother of actor Mustafa Fahmy.A leading movie star and the first UNDP Goodwill Ambassador for the Arab States in 1998 and since then has worked hard to convey to his audience in the Middle East important human development messages...
- Samir GhanemSamir GhanemSamir Ghanem is a veteran Egyptian comedian, singer, and entertainer. He was a member of the stand-up comedy trio Tholathy Adwa'a El Masrah alongside George Sidhom and El Deif Ahmed....
- Emad Hamdi
- Emad HamdyEmad HamdyEmad Hamdy was an Egyptian actor. He was married to the Egyptian actress Shadia and between 1962 and 1975 he was married to the Egyptian actress Nadia El Guindy, and they had one son.- Filmography :* Al Souk Al Sawdaa 1945....
- Ahmed HelmyAhmed HelmyAhmed Helmy is an Egyptian comedian and drama actor. He is married to the Egyptian actress Mona Zaki and they have a daughter named Lily born in 2003.- Trivia :...
- Maged El KedwanyMaged El KedwanyMaged El Kedwany is an Egyptian actor. He began acting in the 1990s, playing supporting roles. He has won the Muhr Arab - Feature Best Actor Award for his role in 678 from Dubai International Film Festival...
- Abdel Moneim MadboulyAbdel Moneim MadboulyAbdel Moneim Madbouly was an Egyptian actor, comedian and playwright.Madbouly was born in Cairo and started acting at seven years old following the death of his father. His family needed the money...
- Rami MalekRami MalekRami Said Malek is an American actor. He is best known for his role as the gay teenage next-door-neighbor, "Kenny" on the FOX comedy series The War at Home; for his role as Merriell "Snafu" Shelton in the HBO miniseries The Pacific; and for his role as the pharaoh Ahkmenrah in the feature films...
- Mustafa MetwalliMustafa MetwalliMustafa Metwalli was a popular Egyptian movie and stage actor. He was primarily a comedian, but he played many different roles in Drama ....
- Elias MoadabElias MoadabIlya Mohadab Sasson commonly known as Elias Moadab is an Egyptian comedy actor, born to a Jewish Syrian father and Jewish Egyptian mother from the city of Tanta...
- Fuad Al Mohandes
- Abdel Salam Al NabulsyAbdel Salam Al NabulsyAbdel Salam Al Nabulsy was a Lebanese actor, born in Tripoli, Lebanon in 1899 and died 1968 in Beirut. He is famous for numerous Egyptian movies in which he co-starred with renowned actors like Ismail Yasin, Abdel Halim Hafez and Faten Hamama....
- Ahmed RamzyAhmed RamzyAhmed Ramzy is an Egyptian actor who played the leading roles in many Egyptian films in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.-Early life:Ramzy was born Ramzy Mahmoud Bayoumi in 1930 to an Egyptian orthopedist and university professor father, his mother was a young Scottish lady.Ramzy graduated from...
- Naguib Al Rehani
- Stephan RostiStephan RostiStephan Rosti إستفان روستي was an Egyptian actor and film director who lived and worked in Egypt.-Personal:...
- Zaki RostomZaki RostomZaki Rostom Zaki Moharram Mahmoud Rostom Egyptian actor belongs to a school of integration, and is one of the most important actor of the Egyptian cinema....
- Ahmed El SakkaAhmed El SakkaAhmed El-Sakka is an Egyptian Action actor. Early in his acting career he appeared in popular series like Nesf Rabeea El-Akhar. The role that introduced him to a large audience was a co-starring role with actor Mohamed Henedi in Sa'eedi fil gamaa el amrekeia...
- Shoukry SarhanShoukry SarhanMohammad Shoukry Al Husseini Sarhan , better known as Shoukry Sarhan was an Egyptian actor. He is regarded as on of the greatest Arab actors of all time.- Life and career :...
- Hisham SelimHisham SelimHesham Selim is an Egyptian actor and the son of Saleh Selim. He has made many movies and television series since his childhood. He has three daughters.- Filmography :* Bahethat an al horeya, Al * Kalam fel hob...
- Omar SharifOmar SharifOmar Sharif is an Egyptian actor who has starred in Hollywood films including Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and Funny Girl. He has been nominated for an Academy Award and has won two Golden Globe Awards.-Early life:...
- Farid ShawkiFarid ShawkiFarid Shawki Mohammad Abduh Badawi known as Farid Shawki was an Egyptian actor, screenwriter and film producer...
- George SidhomGeorge SidhomGeorge Sidhom is a veteran Egyptian comedian.He is famous for being part of the stand-up comedy trio Tholathy Adwa'a El Masrah, alongside Samir Ghanem and El Deif Ahmed....
- Mohamed Sobhi (actor)Mohamed Sobhi (actor)Mohamed Mahmoud Sobhi is an Egyptian film, television and stage actor.-Information:* Representative director, author and singer* Owns one of the largest media/production cities in Egypt...
- Anwar WagdiAnwar WagdiAnwar Wagdy was an Egyptian actor, writer, director and producer.-Life:Anwar was born in the Cairo district of El Daher, Cairo. He was of Syrian descent. His father, Yehia Wagdy El-Fattal, immigrated to Egypt from Syria with his family in the 19th century for economic reasons. Anwar's Egyptian...
- Youssef WahbiYoussef WahbiYoussef Wahbi was an Egyptian stage and film actor and director, a leading star of the 1930s and '40s and one of the most prominent Arab stage actors of any era. He was born to a high state official in Egypt but renounced his family's wealth and traveled to Rome in the 1920s to study theatre...
- Amr WakedAmr WakedAmr Waked is an Egyptian film, television, and stage actor, known for his roles portraying Middle Eastern and Mediterranean characters. He is best known to international audiences and in Hollywood as the terrorist leader in the 2005 film Syriana...
- Bishara WakimBishara WakimBishara Wakim Egyptian director and actor born in Faggala , Cairo in 1890.His real name is Bisharah Yoakim educated in Collège-des-Frères ,he was a Greek Catholic ,in 1917 graduated from the School of Law and he started his life as a lawyer.Began his acting career as a member of the Abdul...
- Ismail YasinIsmail YasinIsmail Yasin was an Egyptian comedian/actor. He is famous for a series of films with his name in the title. Ismail Yassin had a difficult childhood in Suez where he was born. His mother died at an early age and his father was jailed thus forcing him to leave school before completing his primary...
- Ahmad Zaki
Actresses
- Samira AhmedSamira AhmedSamira Ahmed is a British freelance journalist, writer and broadcaster at the BBC, where she has presented Radio 4's PM, The World Tonight and Sunday. She also presented two Proms for BBC Four in 2011. Ahmed's writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent and on The Spectator magazine Arts...
- Nermin Al-FiqyNermin Al-FiqyNermin Al-Fiqy is an Egyptian actress.- Biography :Sexy actress from the Egyptian city of Alexandria, graduated from Victoria School and then graduated at the Faculty of Commerce, Alexandria University. The meaning of Nermin soft white Persian kind...
- Lobna Abdel AzizLobna Abdel AzizLobna Abdel Aziz, aka Loubna Abd el Aziz or Lubna Abdel Aziz is an Egyptian actress. She was born in 1935 in Cairo, Egypt.-Family:She is married to Dr...
- Dalia El BeheryDalia El BeheryDalia El Behery , Egyptian actress. She won the 1990 title of Miss Egypt, also won 27 place the Miss Universe pageant in Los Angeles in the same year.-Biography:...
- BushraBushra (Egyptian actress)Bushra is an Egyptian actress. She earned the Best Actress award at the Dubai International Film Festival for her role in 678.-Quotes:* "Politicians alone do not create change. It is high time for us actors and filmmakers to also participate"...
- Ilham ChahineIlham ChahineIlham Chahine is an Egyptian actress who was born on the 3rd of January 1960.- Early life :Elham Shahin obtained a Bachelor degree in Dramatic Art in the year 1982...
- Mimi ChakibMimi ChakibMimi Chakib was an Egyptian actress who appeared in some 15 films mostly in the 1940s and 1950s.She entered film in 1934 and appeared in films such as Nahwa al-Majd in 1949. Her last film appearance was in Doa al karawan in 1959 in which she appeared alongside actors such as Faten Hamama and...
- Assia DagherAssia DagherAssia Dagher was a Lebanese actress and film producer. She lived in Egypt.-Biography:Dagher was born in Lebanon in 1912. She moved to Cairo with her sister Mary, and niece Mary Queeny. She stayed with Asaad Dagher, her cousin, who was a writer and journalist at the famous Al-Ahram newspaper. She...
- Nabila EbeidNabila EbeidNabila Ebeid , also spelled Nabila Obeid, is an Egyptian actress. In 1965, she starred with Omar Sharif in The Mamluks, a role which was described as her "first steps to fame"....
- Mariam Fakhr EddineMariam Fakhr EddineMariam Fakhr Eddine is an Egyptian actress from a Circassian origin and screen legend.She was Born in the city of Fayoum in Egypt, from an Egyptian Muslim Father and a Christian Hungarian Mother.-Filmography:...
- Reham Abd ElGhafour
- Laila Elwi
- FeyrouzFeyrouz (actress)Perouz Artin Kalfayan is a famous Egyptian film child actress of Armenian origin. She is the older sister of Nelly ....
- Sanaa GamilSanaa GamilSanaa Gamil , born Thoraya Youssef Atallah , was an Egyptian actress.Born to a Coptic Orthodox family in Upper Egypt, she moved to Cairo to pursue her acting career and changed her name to Sanaa Gamil....
- Faten HamamaFaten HamamaFaten Hamama is an Egyptian producer and an acclaimed actress of film, television, and theatre. She was regarded for her performances in a range of film genres, from melodramas to historical films and occasional comedies, though her chief successes were romantic dramas...
- Suad HusniSuad HusniSoad Mohamed Hosny was an Egyptian actress born in the Bulaq district of Cairo. Hosny was known as the "Cinderella of Egyptian cinema" and one of the most influential actresses in the artistic arena. She ascended to stardom in the end of the 1950s, performing in more than 83 films between 1959 and...
- Yosra El LozyYosra El LozyYosra El Lozy Yosra El Lozy Yosra El Lozy (Various spellings include Yousra Ellozi, Youssra El Lozy, and Yusra El Lawzi, is a film actress. she has received many awards from regional and international film festivals.- Early life :...
- Nadia LutfiNadia LutfiNadia Lutfi , the daughter of an Egyptian father who was an accountant and a Polish mother, was one of the most popular actresses during the final phase of Egyptian cinema's "Golden Age".-Life and career:...
- Ferdoos MohammedFerdoos MohammedFerdoos Mohammed was an Egyptian actress, famous for playing the role of a mother or a motherly figure lady in Egyptian films in the 1940s and 1950s.-Partial filmography:* The Leech* Ghazal Al Banat* Sira` Fi al-Mina...
- Leila MouradLeila MouradLeila Mourad was an Egyptian singer and actress. She is also credited as "Laila Mourad" and "Layla Mourad".- Life :Leila Mourad was born in Al Daher, Cairo on February 17, 1918 to an Egyptian of Iraqi Jewish descent father, Zaki Mourad, a respected singer and musician in the twenties, and to a...
- NadineNadineNadine may refer to:* Nadine * Nádine , a South African singer* Nadine, the title of a Chuck Berry song* Nadine, the title of a Frank Black and the Catholics song* Nadine , a George Thorogood album...
- Suad NasrSuad NasrSuad Nasr Abd El Aziz was an Egyptian stage, television, and film actress. She was born in Shoubra in Cairo, Egypt.- Filmography :* Emraah Bela Qalb.* Al Gheerah Al Katelah.* Haddoutah Masreyyah .* Al Bedayah....
- PoussiPoussiPoussi , real name Safinaz Qadry is an Egyptian actress. She was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1953. She was married to the Egyptian actor Nour El-Sherif in 1972 and gave birth to two daughters, but the two divorced in 2006.She is the sister of Noora Elweya Qadry...
- Mary QueenyMary QueenyMary Queeny was an Egyptian actress and film producer who was based in Egypt.She was Born Mary Boutros Younis to a Christian family in Lebanon in 1913 and she died on 25 November 2003 in Cairo She moved to Cairo with her Mother Mary, and Aunt Assia Dagher....
- Gehan RatebGehan RatebGehan Hassan Rateb is an Egyptian actress, singer and composer. Gehan Rateb is one of the most famous Middle Eastern artists of her time, as she was one of the leading artists to bring back acting & singing career in one, & became an idol to follow her steps by other female artists in Egypt.In...
- Amina Rizk
- Hend RostomHend RostomHind Rostom was one of the most popular Egyptian actresses.- Life and careers :Rostom was born in Alexandria, Egypt on November 11, 1929 to a middle-class Turkish father and an aristocratic mother. She started her career at the age of 16 with the film Azhaar wa Ashwak...
- Hala SedkiHala SedkiHala Sedki George Younan is an Egyptian actress. She was a swimmer playing for Zamalek SC. She has received a Bachelor of Arts in 1981.- Career :...
- ShadiaShadiaFatima Ahmad Kamal , better known by her stage name Shadia , is an Egyptian actress and singer. Now retired, she is famous for her roles in light comedies and drama in the 1950s and 1960s...
- SherihanSherihanSherihan or Sherihan Ahmed Abdul Fattah Al Shalaqany. , , is an Egyptian actress.- Family :Sherihan comes from the Shalakany family. She was a talented child by nature...
- ShwikarShwikarShwikar is a famous Egyptian actress. She started her career in Alexandria in some tragedic roles before she was discovered by the Egyptian film director Fateen Abdul Wahab to work as a comedian in TV, cinema and theatres...
- Hanan TorkHanan TorkHanan Tork is an Egyptian actress and former ballerina. She was born as: Hanan Hassan Mohamed Abd El Karim , and is sometimes credited as Hanane Turk and Hanan Turk. She is a sister to two brothers: Hussein and Hossam...
- Yousra
- Mona ZakiMona ZakiMona Zaki is an Egyptian actress. Although she had no interest at all on being an actress, Mona Zaki is now a remarkable leading star. Mona started her career in acting accidentally, when she met Mohamed Sobhi, the famous Egyptian Actor and Director. Mona is a Mass Communication student at the...
Female models
- Heba El-SisyHeba El-SisyHeba El-Sisy is an Egyptian beauty queen and television presenter. She was the official Pantene Miss Egypt 2004 titleholder. She represented Egypt in Miss Universe 2004 and then again at Miss World 2004. El-Sisy also won the title of Miss Supermodel of Egypt less than a year before becoming Miss...
- Meriam GeorgeMeriam GeorgeMeriam George is an Egyptian beauty pageant titleholder. At the age of eighteen, she was the official Pantene Miss Egypt 2005 winner. She represented Egypt in Miss Universe 2005, Miss Intercontinental 2005 and Miss Earth 2006...
- Ehsan HatemEhsan HatemEhsan Hatem El-Kirdany is a beauty pageant titleholder from Egypt who has competed in the Miss Universe pageant.Born on Sunday 5 January 1986 to an Egyptian father, Hatem El Kirdany. Ehsan has lived in Egypt all her life, contrary to popular understanding.Hatem was the Pantene Miss Egypt 2007...
- Fawzia MohamedFawzia MohamedFawzia Mohamed is an Egyptian beauty queen and model. She was the official Pantene Miss Egypt 2006 titleholder, at age 22. She represented Egypt in the Miss Universe 2006 pageant....
- Yara NaoumYara NaoumYara Naoum is an Egyptian beauty queen. She is married to the Egyptian footballer Emad Moteab.- Early life :Naoum was born and raised in Cairo, Egypt. She was raised by her mother and grandmother as her parents got divorced when she was young. Naoum's mother worked as a model for few years and...
Dancers and choreographers
- Fifi AbdouFifi AbdouFifi Abdou is an Egyptian belly dancer and actress. She has been described as "synonymous with belly dancing in the years she was performing." In her acting career, she is known as the woman-empowering type where, rarely in Egyptian culture and film, she beats up and overpowers men.-Early life...
- Naima AkefNaima AkefNaima Akef was a famous Egyptian belly dancer during the Egyptian cinema's golden age and starred in many films of the time. Naima Akef was born in Tanta on the Nile Delta. Her parents were acrobats in the Akef Circus , which was one of the best known circuses at the time...
- Nagua FouadNagua FouadNagwa Fouad is a famous Egyptian belly dancer.After her release she performed at the Abdeen Casino where she met Ahmad Fuad Hassan , a producer of stage shows that later became a famous conductor...
- Samia GamalSamia GamalSamia Gamal was an Egyptian belly dancer and film actress.Born in the small Egyptian town of Wana in 1924, Samia's family moved just months later to Cairo and settled near the Khan El-Khalili bazaar. It was many years later that Samia Gamal met Badia Masabni, the founder of modern Oriental dance....
- Tahiya KariokaTahiya KariokaTahiya Karioka also Tahiya Mohamed , was an Egyptian belly dancer and film actress. Born in the Egyptian town of Ismaileya in 1920 to Mohamed Kareem, Tahiya was discouraged from performing as a dancer by her family...
- Nelly MazloumNelly MazloumNelly Mazloum was an Egyptian actress, dancer and choreographer of Greek origin who taught ballet, modern dance, folkloric Egyptian dances and artistic oriental dance...
- Zeinat OlwiZeinat OlwiZeinat Olwi whose stage name was Zurah, was one of the leading belly dancers in Egypt in the middle of the twentieth century. She appeared in many movies from the Egyptian Golden Age of cinema...
TV directors & Filmmakers
- Frank AgramaFrank AgramaFrank Agrama , also known and credited by his birth name Farouk Agrama, is a director, producer and writer. He is the founder and chief executive officer of Harmony Gold USA, Inc...
- Atef AlTayyeb
- Ash AtallaAsh AtallaAsh Atalla is an Egyptian-born television producer responsible for producing several British TV series such as The IT Crowd , The Office and Man Stroke Woman. He has also made cameo appearances in productions such as Ricky Gervais' Politics...
- Henry Barakat
- Ibrahim El BatoutIbrahim El BatoutIbrahim El Batout 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, suffering, and displacement since 1987. He has directed numerous documentaries for international...
- Khairy BesharaKhairy BesharaKhairy Beshara 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 Egyptian cinema in the 1980s. In a recent book published by Bibliotheca Alexandrina in 2007 about the most important 100 films...
- Youssef ChahineYoussef ChahineYoussef Chahine was an Egyptian film director active in the Egyptian film industry since 1950. He was credited with launching the career of actor Omar Sharif...
- Assia DagherAssia DagherAssia Dagher was a Lebanese actress and film producer. She lived in Egypt.-Biography:Dagher was born in Lebanon in 1912. She moved to Cairo with her sister Mary, and niece Mary Queeny. She stayed with Asaad Dagher, her cousin, who was a writer and journalist at the famous Al-Ahram newspaper. She...
- Tarek El-TelmissanyTarek El-TelmissanyTarek El-Telmissany Tarek El-Telmissany Tarek El-Telmissany (April 22, 1950 is one of the most famous cinematographers in Egypt, the Middle East and Africa. Worked as a Director of Photography for documentary films since 1980...
- Fadwa El GuindiFadwa El GuindiFadwa El Guindi is an Egyptian-born in 1941 professor of anthropology with a PhD in anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin . At present she is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Qatar University in Doha, Qatar, as well as head of the department of social sciences.El Guindi...
- André HakimAndré HakimAndré Hakim was a film producer.André and his brothers were in the film industry from the time they were teenagers...
- Robert and Raymond HakimRobert and Raymond HakimRobert Hakim and Raymond Hakim were Egyptian-born brothers who usually worked in collaboration as film producers in France and other European countries...
- Helmy HalimHelmy HalimHelmy Halim was an Egyptian film director, screenwriter and film producer. He has worked with many stars like Omar Sharif, Ahmed Ramzy, Faten Hamama and Abdel Halim Hafez....
- Hassan Al Imam
- Hussein Kamal
- Mohammed KarimMohammed KarimMohammed Karim was an Egyptian film director, writer, and producer. Karim brought Faten Hamama to fame in the movie Yawm Said. His 1946 film Dunia was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. -External links:...
- Asaad KeladaAsaad KeladaAsaad Kelada is an American television director of many popular American television situation comedies.-Early life:Kelada was born in Cairo, Egypt where he studied drama under Youssef Chahine at the American University in Cairo...
- Mohamed KhanMohamed KhanMohamed Hamed Hassan Khan is an Egyptian-Pakistani film director, screenwriter and actor.-Biography:Born on October 26, 1942 to an Egyptian mother and a Pakistani father, He completed his high school in Egypt, then traveled to England where studied at the London School of Film Technique Mohamed...
- Nasr MahrousNasr MahrousNasr Mahrous Abdel Masih Tanious is a music maker, best known for his Free Music Art Production Company.He is known for being the best star maker in the middle East, he doesn't just produce musical albums, he works on them from A to Z, he involves himself in the compositions, lyrics, arrangement...
- Yousry NasrallahYousry NasrallahYousry Nasrallah is an Egyptian film director.Nasrallah was born to a Coptic Christian family in Cairo. He graduated in economics and political science at Cairo University. Following, he worked as a film critic and directing assistant in Beirut from 1978 to 1982...
- Jehane NoujaimJehane NoujaimJehane Noujaim is an Egyptian American documentary film director best known for her films Control Room, Startup.com and Pangea Day.- Career :Jehane Noujaim is a filmmaker, born in Washington DC and raised in Kuwait and Cairo....
- Mary QueenyMary QueenyMary Queeny was an Egyptian actress and film producer who was based in Egypt.She was Born Mary Boutros Younis to a Christian family in Lebanon in 1913 and she died on 25 November 2003 in Cairo She moved to Cairo with her Mother Mary, and Aunt Assia Dagher....
- Maher SabryMaher SabryMaher Sabry is an Egyptian theater director, playwright, film director, producer and screenwriter, poet, writer and cartoonist artist. A gay activist, he was the first director to portray gay and lesbian love in lyrical and sympathetic manner on Egyptian stage...
- Daoud Abdel SayedDaoud Abdel SayedDaoud Abdel Sayed is an Egyptian director and screenwriter. He was born in Cairo in 1946. He started as the assistant of Youssef Chahine in The Land...
- Salah Abu SeifSalah Abu SeifSalah Abu Seif was one of the most famous Egyptian film directors. He is considered to be the godfather of the realistic cinema in Egypt...
- Samir SeifSamir SeifFor the martial artist, see Samir Seif .Samir Seif born to a Coptic Christian family in Cairo, Egypt, is a prominent Egyptian film director active in the Egyptian film industry also in TV.- Filmography :...
- Tamer ShaabanTamer ShaabanTamer Shaaban is an Egyptian American film maker, writer, and actor who received a BS in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology May, 2011. On January 25, 2011 he created films showing the Egyptian people’s frustrations with the Egyptian regime when the revolution was sparked...
- Khaled YoussefKhaled YoussefKhaled Youssef , is an Egyptian director and film writer. His films are noted for their use of improvisation and a realistic cinéma vérité style. Khaled Youssef, who has established a solid reputation as a successful filmmaker who does not shy away from controversial issues such as rape, political...
- Ezzel Dine ZulficarEzzel Dine ZulficarEzzel Dine Zulficar was an Egyptian film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer.- Career :Zulficar was born in Cairo, Egypt. As a child, Zulficar was a prodigy. He received a scholarship and studied astronomy. He loved reading, which is what had helped him succeed. He graduated from the...
Theater authors, directors and actors
- Tawfiq al-HakeemTawfiq al-HakeemTawfiq al-Hakim or Tawfik el-Hakim was a prominent Egyptian writer. He was born in Alexandria, Egypt, the son of an Egyptian wealthy judge and a Turkish mother...
- Abo El Seoud El EbiaryAbo El Seoud El EbiaryAbo El Seoud El Ebiary was an Egyptian comic screenwriter, playwright, lyricist, and also journalist. He discovered the Egyptian comedian Ismail Yasin and wrote most of his movies, as an artistic duet...
- Alfred FaragAlfred FaragAlfred Farag – 4 December 2005 ) was one of the eminentEgyptian playwrights of the post 1952 Revolution period. He obtained his BA in English Literature from the Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University in 1949. He took up the teaching career till 1955 when he abandoned it for a post in the...
- Abdel Moneim MadboulyAbdel Moneim MadboulyAbdel Moneim Madbouly was an Egyptian actor, comedian and playwright.Madbouly was born in Cairo and started acting at seven years old following the death of his father. His family needed the money...
- Naguib Al Rehani
Musicians and Composers
- Gamal Abdel-RahimGamal Abdel-RahimGamal Abdel-Rahim , was an Egyptian classical music composer, educator, and pianist. His best-known work is the symphony Osiris.-Life and career:...
- Gamal Abdel-RahimGamal Abdel-RahimGamal Abdel-Rahim , was an Egyptian classical music composer, educator, and pianist. His best-known work is the symphony Osiris.-Life and career:...
- Mohamed Abdelwahab AbdelfattahMohamed Abdelwahab AbdelfattahMohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah is an Egyptian composer of contemporary classical music and educator. He is a member of Egypt's third generation of classical composers.-Biography:...
- Zakaria Ahmed
- Abdu al-HamuliAbdu al-HamuliAbdu al-Hamuli was an influential Egyptian musician.His early influences include Khedive Ismail. He married the singer Sokaina, who went by the name of Almaz. Hamuli was, like many other 19th century musicians influential in the music of the early 20th century.-References:*عبده الحامولي...
- Kamel al-Khola'ieKamel al-Khola'ieMuhammad Kamel al-Khola'i.e. Distinguished Egyptian Musician in the early 20th century has had a great interest in Arab music and its development, following the impact of the Turkish music....
- Rageh DaoudRageh DaoudRageh Samy Daoud is an Egyptian composer of contemporary classical music. He is a member of that nation's third generation of such composers....
- Sayed DarwishSayed DarwishSayed Darwish was an Egyptian singer and composer who was considered the father of Egyptian popular music and one of their greatest musicians and their single greatest composer. He was born in Alexandria on March 17, 1892. Darwish died of a heart attack in Alexandria on September 15, 1923 . The...
- Halim El-DabhHalim El-DabhHalim Abdul Messieh El-Dabh is an Egyptian-born American composer, performer, ethnomusicologist, and educator, who has had a career spanning six decades...
- Aziz El-ShawanAziz El-ShawanAziz El-Shawan was an Egyptian composer of classical music...
- Reyad ElsonbatyReyad ElsonbatyReyad Elsonbaty was an Egyptian musician. Most of his work was with Om Kalthom. He also wrote instrumental music, including a lounga....
- Mohamed FawziMohamed FawziMohamed Fawzi , was an Egyptian composer and singer.-Career:Fawzi had a beautiful voice which was inherited from his father ; he began singing at weddings and other events when he was twelve years old...
- Soliman GamilSoliman GamilSoliman Gamil was an Egyptian composer and qanun player. In 1963 he began to experiment with the use of Egyptian traditional musical instruments in his compositions for films and theater, in an effort to evoke the sounds of Ancient Egypt....
- Rifaat GarranaRifaat GarranaMohamed Garrana Rifaat is an Egyptian composer of classical music, a member of that nation's second generation of such composers.He began playing the trumpet at age 12, studying it later at the Institute for Dramatic Music. He later studied with Hans Hickmann and Menato in Cairo.His works feature...
- Yusef GreissYusef GreissYusef Greiss was an Egyptian composer of classical music, part of that nation's first generation of such composers.Greiss was of Coptic heritage. He composed orchestral works and chamber music...
- Saleh Abdel HaiSaleh Abdel HaiSaleh Abdel Hai A famous distinction classic Singer, sang the old type of oriental music.He belongs to the so-called ‘Sahbageya’; the company applauds the night concerts in Cairo....
- Baligh HamdiBaligh HamdiBaligh Hamdi ' was an Egyptian composer who created hit songs for many prominent Arabic singers, during the 1960s and 1970s especially.-Early years:...
- Tarek Ali HassanTarek Ali HassanDr. Tarek Ali Hassan , is a professor of Medicine and Chief of Endocrinology at Al-Azhar University in Cairo. He is also a composer, musician, writer, painter, and philosopher. His music, in a modern polyphonic style, has been performed in Egypt and in many countries.Hassan has published major...
- Dawood HussneiDawood HussneiDawood Hosni , also spelled Dawoud Housni,Dawood Hosny, was an Egyptian musician and composer born in 1870 in Cairo to a Karaite Jewish family. He composed the first Operetta in the Arabic language.-Biography:...
- Sheikh ImamSheikh ImamImam Mohammad Ahmad Eissa or Sheikh Imam was a famous Egyptian composer and singer. For most of his life, he formed a duo with the famous Egyptian colloquial poet Ahmed Fouad Negm...
- Abu Bakr Khayrat
- Tarek MadkourTarek MadkourTarek Adel Madkour, born in Cairo with a passion in music made his father bring a piano teacher to teach him the basics. In primary school, the music room was the place where you can usually find him all day long....
- Sayed MekawySayed MekawySayed Mekawy was an Egyptian singer and composer.Mekawy was born in Cairo Sayeda Zeinab district of Al-Nasriya on May 8, 1927.Mekawy became popular in Egypt and the Arab world; his music has become part of Arab heritage...
- Mounir MouradMounir MouradMounir Mourad was an Egyptian artist, singer, actor and distinguished composer of lighthearted songs. His compositions included duets for Shadia and Abdel Halim Hafez....
- Mohamed El QasabgiMohamed El QasabgiMohamed el-Qasabgi was an Egyptian musician and composer, and is regarded as one of the five leading composers of Egypt in the 20th century. Most of his credits went to Umm Kulthum, Asmahan, and Layla Murad who sang most of his great works and scores...
- Hasan RashidHasan RashidHasan Ahmad Rashid was an Egyptian composer and operatic baritone. He was part of Egypt's first generation of classical composers.-Biography:...
- Kamal Al TaweelKamal Al TaweelKamal Al Taweel Distinguish Egyptian composer and music author .Born as Kamal Zaki Al Taweel in 1922 in Cairo, Egypt.Kamal graduated from the school of applied arts, and work after graduating in 1942 at the Ministry of Social Affairs; however he joined the evening classes at the Higher Institute...
- Mohammed Abdel WahabMohammed Abdel WahabMohammed Abdel Wahab , also transliterated Mohammed Abd el-Wahaab was a prominent 20th-century Arab Egyptian singer and composer...
- Ramzi YassaRamzi YassaRamzi Yassa is an Egyptian pianist. An outstanding member of the first batch of musicians trained at the Cairo Conservatory, Yassa graduated in Moscow's Tchaikovsky Conservatory, taking part in the 1974 Tchaikovsky competition, where he earned an Honorary certificate. He then launched a concert...
Music directors and conductors
- Sherif Mohie El DinSherif Mohie El DinSherif Mohie El Din is an Egyptian conductor and composer. He is a member of Egypt's third generation of composers.He was formerly the Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Cairo Opera Orchestra...
- Ratiba El-HefnyRatiba El-HefnyRatiba Hefny born in 1931 in Cairo, Egypt, is an Egyptian and an international Opera singer who has performed in more than 500 opera performances. She was the dean of the Higher Institute of Arabic Music in Cairo...
- Youssef ElsisiYoussef ElsisiYoussef Elsisi was an Egyptian conductor and music educator.-Biography:...
- Selim SahabSelim SahabSelim Sahab contemporary prominent Conductor and Composer ,was born in Palestine in 1941 is now a citizen of Egypt.Maestro / Selim Sahab obtained a Bachelor of Choral Conducting in the 1971 from Institute of Jnesen ....
- Attia ShararaAttia ShararaAttia Sharara is an Egyptian composer, arranger, violinist, and conductor. He is a member of that nation's second generation of classical composers....
Singers and pop stars
- Ahmed AdaweyahAhmed AdaweyahAhmed Adaweyah is an Egyptian singer and he was the first big star of sha'abi music during its first wave of popularity in the 1970s. He has starred in 27 Egyptian films. Adaweyah started his career as a cafe waiter but in 1971, he began performing songs using the language of the streets of Cairo,...
- Fayza AhmedFayza AhmedFayza Ahmed was an Arab Egyptian singer and actress of Syrian and Lebanese ancestry. During her career, she appeared in six films.-Beginnings:...
- Farid al-AtrashFarid al-AtrashFarid al-Atrash, or in French spelling Farid El-Atrache, was a Syrian-Egyptian composer, singer, virtuoso oud player, and actor. Having immigrated to Egypt in childhood, Farid embarked on a highly successful career spanning more than four decades — recording 500 songs and starring in 31 movies...
- Moustafa AmarMoustafa AmarMoustafa Amar is an Egyptian musician and actor.- Early life :Moustafa Amar attended Al-Shaheed Abbas School where his talent and love for music and singing earned him the role of lead singer in the school concert. His father got him a guitar when he was ten and he began taking summer classes...
- Angham
- DalidaDalidaDalida , born with Italian name of Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti, was a world-famous singer and actress born in Egypt with Italian origins but naturalised French with the name Yolanda Gigliotti. She spent her early years in Egypt amongst the Italian Egyptian community, but she lived most of her adult...
- Amr DiabAmr DiabAmr Abdol-Basset Abdol-Azeez Diab is an Egyptian singer and composer of geel music; the contemporary face of Egyptian el-geel pop music, according to World Music. Diab is the best-selling Arab recording artist of all time, according to Let's Go Egypt...
- Mohammad FouadMohammad FouadMohamed Fouad Abd El Hamid Hassan is a popular Egyptian singer, actor and songwriter...
- Abdel Halim HafezAbdel Halim HafezAbdel Halim Ali Shabana commonly known as Abdel Halim Hafez , is among the most popular Egyptian and Arab singers and performers. In addition to singing, Halim was also an actor, conductor, business man, music teacher and movie producer...
- HakimHakim (Egyptian singer)Hakim is an Egyptian folk-singer. In addition to the number of albums he has put out, on December 11, 2006 he was the first person from an Arab country to perform at a Nobel Peace Prize event.-Biography:...
- Mohamed HamakiMohamed HamakiMohamed Hamaki is an Egyptian singer. In 2010 he won the award "Best Arabia Act" in the MTV Europe Music Awards and music award in 2006 for "Ahla Haga Fiki"- Biography :...
- Hamada HelalHamada HelalMohamed 'Hamada helel" Abdel Fatah Helal is an Egyptian singer born in Sharqia, Egypt. He now resides in Cairo. Hamada started his interest singing when he was 5 years old. He used to record his voice whilst singing on cassette tapes...
- Kamal HosniKamal HosniKamal Hosni Arabic:كمال حسني Egyptian singer and actor, born in 1929, whose real name is Kamal Eldin Mohammed.Despite his soft voice and, despite his success as the star of his first Film...
- Tamer HosnyTamer HosnyTamer Hosny is an Egyptian singer, actor, composer, director, producer and songwriter. Hosny first came to attention when he appeared on mix tapes with other Egyptian artists...
- Tony KaldasTony KaldasTony Kaldas is a young Egyptian singer, trained for both opera and Arabic, classical and light singing. He was featured in concerts in Egypt.- Biography :Early Years – 2004...
- Mostafa Kamel
- Umm Kulthum
- Mounira El MahdeyaMounira El MahdeyaMounira El Mahdeya was an Egyptian singer born in 1885 in Alexandria; she died in 1965. The singer, better known under the nickname of "Sultana of the song" or "The Sultana", was considered to be the leading Egyptian singer between the two wars.-Career:She studied in a French nuns’ school, after...
- Amal MaherAmal MaherAmal Maher is an Egyptian singer. Her powerful voice provided her license to the hearts of good listeners as she is quiet much influenced by Umm Kulthoum...
- Karem MahmoudKarem MahmoudKarem Mahmoud , also known as "the Melodious Knight", was a popular Egyptian singer and actor, also popular in the Arab world....
- Mohamed MounirMohamed MounirMohamed Mounir is a popular Egyptian singer and actor. He is one of the best-known musicians, both in Egypt and throughout the Middle East, with a musical career spanning more than three decades. He incorporates various genres into his music, including classical Arabic Music, Nubian music, blues,...
- Laila Mourad
- Ghada RagabGhada RagabGhada Ragab is an Egyptian singer.- External links :* *...
- Shaaban Abdel RahimShaaban Abdel RahimShaaban Abdel Rahim , also known as Sha'bola is an Egyptian pop singer, formerly working as makwagi and known for catchy songs with political lyrics.- Introduction :...
- Gehan RatebGehan RatebGehan Hassan Rateb is an Egyptian actress, singer and composer. Gehan Rateb is one of the most famous Middle Eastern artists of her time, as she was one of the leading artists to bring back acting & singing career in one, & became an idol to follow her steps by other female artists in Egypt.In...
- Demis RoussosDemis RoussosArtemios Ventouris Roussos is a Greek singer and performer, best known for being the main musical partner of movie soundtrack composer Vangelis and a string of international hit records as a solo performer in the 1960s and 1970s...
- RubyRuby (Egyptian singer)Rania Hussein Mohammed Tawfik Mohammed , known as Ruby , is an Egyptian singer, actress and occasional model who rose to fame with her debut single "Enta Aref Leih" in 2003.- Biography :...
- Rami SabryRami Sabry- External links :*...
- Kareem SalamaKareem SalamaKareem Salama is an Egyptian American musician. He is known as the first American Muslim country music singer. His music is a hybrid of country, pop and rock music...
- Medhat SalehMedhat Saleh- External links :*...
- ShadiaShadiaFatima Ahmad Kamal , better known by her stage name Shadia , is an Egyptian actress and singer. Now retired, she is famous for her roles in light comedies and drama in the 1950s and 1960s...
- Hani ShakerHani ShakerHany Shaker is an Egyptian singer, actor and composer. He has over 461 songs in the hearts of his lovers. His first public appearance was when he sang with Abd El Halim Hafez Choral Group in "Sora", then he showed up in the movie Sayed Darwish as Sayed darwish when he was young.-Biography:Hany...
- ShathaShathaShatha Mamdouh Ahmed Ghareeb is an Egyptian singer.- External links :*...
- SherineSherineSherine is an Egyptian singer and actress from Egypt, Cairo. Sherine began her career with the single Ah Ya Leil in 2002, and has since released several albums that include 2 EPs and 3 LPs.- Early life :...
- Ehab TawfikEhab TawfikEhab Tawfik is an Egyptian singer.- Biography :Ehab Tawfik was only a child when he learned how to play the lute, and his love for music started when he was only nine years old. His first single "Dany" was released in 1989. His first album "Ekminny" was released in 1990...
- Sherine WagdySherine WagdySherine Wagdy , born as Sherine Farouk Salem in Cairo, Egypt, is an Egyptian female singer.- Albums :* Romeo w Juliet* Enta El Nos El Helw* Saddaqny* Maqdarshy* Law Benna Eih* Wala Leila* Kol Da* Layaly Hayaty...
- Mohamed Abdel Wahab
Architects
- Hani AzerHani AzerHani Azer is a German engineer of Egyptian origin. He was born in Tanta, Egypt and moved to Cairo for high school and university. In 1973, after graduating from the Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, he moved to Germany to study civil engineering in Bochum.Hani Azer headed the...
- Michel BakhoumMichel BakhoumMichel Bakhoum was an Egyptian consulting civil engineer, university professor, and a researcher in concrete structures.-Education and early years:...
- Hassan FathyHassan FathyHassan Fathy was a noted Egyptian architect who pioneered appropriate technology for building in Egypt, especially by working to re-establish the use of mud brick and traditional as opposed to western building designs and lay-outs...
- Ramses Wissa WassefRamses Wissa WassefRamses Wissa Wassef was an Egyptian architect and professor of art and architecture at the College of Fine Arts in Cairo.-Biography:...
Cartoonists and comic artists
- George BahgouryGeorge BahgouryGeorge Abdel Masih Al Bahgoury or George Bahgoury جورج البهجورى is an Egyptian-French painter.-Life and career:Bahgoury was born into a Coptic Christian family in Luxor, Upper Egypt in 1932. In 1955, he studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Zamalek, Cairo, under the guidance of the...
- Hussein BikarHussein BikarHussein Amin Bikar , is one of the most famous Egyptian portrait painters. His career, however, spanned a number of disciplines, notably caricature, teaching, journalism and art criticism....
- GomaaGomaaGomaa Frahat is an Egyptian political cartoonist and satirist who publishes under the name Gomaa.-Biography:...
- Mustafa HusseinMustafa HusseinMustafa Hussein is a cartoonist artist, painter and journalist, who was born in 1935, Cairo, Egypt. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, department of photography in 1959.-Awards and honors:...
- Salah JahinSalah JahinMohammad Salah Eldin Bahgat Helmy , known as "Salah Jaheen" or "Salah Jahin" was a leading Egyptian poet, lyricist, playwright and cartoonist.-Life and career:...
- Ahmed RagabAhmed RagabAhmad Ragab is an Egyptian satirist whose writings appear in the newspaper Al-Akhbar. Ragab is known by writing "Nos Kelma" , usually a few lines of satire...
- Alexander Sarukhan
- Tarek ShahinTarek ShahinTarek Shahin is an Egyptian cartoonist. He has had works published in Egyptian mainstream media and in the United States. He is currently authoring 'Al Khan,' Egypt's first English-language comic strip, on the pages of The Daily News Egypt newspaper. He also authors Cairo Freeze! , an online...
- Ahmed ToughanAhmed ToughanAhmed S. Toughan is a renowned 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 magazines...
Painters
- Injy AflatounInjy AflatounInji Aflatoun was an Egyptian painter and activist in the women's movement. She was a "leading spokesman for the Marxist-progressive-nationalist-feminist spokeswoman in the late 1940s and 1950s", as well as a "pioneer of modern Egyptian art" and "one of the important Egyptian visual artists".-The...
- Ghada AmerGhada AmerGhada Amer is a contemporary artist living and working in New York City. She emigrated from her birth country at age 11 and was educated in Paris and Nice...
- Kamal AminKamal AminKamal Amin Awad was one of the most famous Egyptian artists of his time. He was one of the pioneers of graphic arts. The artist, whose masterpieces and unique techniques impressed Egyptian modern art, was born in Tanta in 1923. He was interested in teaching his students about the modern...
- Evelyn AshamallahEvelyn AshamallahEvelyn Ashamallah is a female Coptic painter, born in Desouk, Kafr el-Sheikh, Egypt in 1948 to Ashamallah Eskandar Hanna and Elaine Mikhail Hanna....
- George BahgouryGeorge BahgouryGeorge Abdel Masih Al Bahgoury or George Bahgoury جورج البهجورى is an Egyptian-French painter.-Life and career:Bahgoury was born into a Coptic Christian family in Luxor, Upper Egypt in 1932. In 1955, he studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Zamalek, Cairo, under the guidance of the...
- Hussein BikarHussein BikarHussein Amin Bikar , is one of the most famous Egyptian portrait painters. His career, however, spanned a number of disciplines, notably caricature, teaching, journalism and art criticism....
- Chafik CharobimChafik CharobimChafik Charobim , is a well known impressionist and naturalist Egyptian artist who painted the "Peaceful and Tranquil Egypt of the last Century". He loved nature in any form and his paintings show a great love for the sea, the desert and the people of Egypt. He has left a legacy of over 186...
- Isaac FanousIsaac FanousIsaac Fanous was an Egyptian artist and scholar, who specialized in Coptic art and founded its contemporary school.-Early life and teaching:...
- Abdel Hadi Al GazzarAbdel Hadi Al GazzarAbdel Hadi Al Gazzar was an Egyptian painter. He occupies a unique position among the artists of his generation...
- Hussein El GebalyHussein el gebaly- Artist Biography :Hussein El Gebaly , born in 1934 in Giza, Egypt.Diploma of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo in 1958.Diploma of the Higher Institute for Artistic Education in 1959....
- Tahia HalimTahia HalimTahia Mohammed Halim is an Egyptian painter. Painting was the first and foremost kind of love she did fall with.Tahia Halim is one of the pioneers of the Modern Expressive Movement in the Egyptian Art in the 1960s, where she excelled in expressing the Egyptian character’s idiosyncrasies in her works...
- Hassan Mohamed HassanHassan Mohamed HassanHassan Mohamed Hassan was one of the pioneers of Egyptian modern art from the second-wave such as Saeed elSadr and Ahmed Osman...
- Farouk HosnyFarouk HosnyFarouk Hosny , is an Egyptian abstract painter who was Minister of Culture from 1987 to 2011.-Early life and career:...
- Mahmoud MokhtarMahmoud MokhtarMahmoud Mukhtar was an Egyptian sculptor. Notwithstanding his prematurely early death, his impact on contemporary Egyptian art has been colossal...
- Margaret NakhlaMargaret Nakhla- Personal data :*Date of Birth:12 /10/1908*Place of Birth: Alexandria*Date of death: 30/9/1977 - Stages of study : * Studied art in France * Diploma educator 1939...
- Adel NassiefAdel NassiefAdel Nassief is 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 and in Coptic churches in Damanhour and Alexandria...
- Georges Hanna SabbaghGeorges Hanna Sabbagh-Biography:Georges Hanna Sabbagh was born at Alexandria in Egypt. He studied art in Paris, being the first Egyptian at the Louvre School. He was a pupil of Paul Sérusier, Félix Vallotton and the Symbolist painter Maurice Denis...
- Amru SalahuddienAmru SalahuddienAmru Salahuddien is an Egyptian painter, photojournalist and writer.-References:...
- Gazbia SirryGazbia SirryGazbia Sirry is an Egyptian painter.Born in Cairo, Gazbia Sirry studied fine arts and became a professor in the painting department of the Faculty of Art Education, Helwan University....
- Salah TaherSalah TaherSalah Taher was a prominent Egyptian painter. Born on May 12, 1911, in Cairo, he joined and Graduated from Faculty of Fine Arts, now part of Helwan University....
- Adham WanlyAdham WanlyAdham Wanly was a painter who learnt in the atelier of the Italian Otorino Becchi 1932, then set up his own atelier with his brother Seif Wanly, and participated in many local and international exhibition specially Venice, Sao-Paolo , Alexandria Biennale.The Museum of Modern Art in Alexandria...
- Seif WanlySeif WanlySeif Wanly Alexandria, Egypt was an Egyptian painter who introduced modern art to Egypt after studying at the studio of the Italian artist Otorino Becchi. In 1942 he set up his own studio with his brother Adham Wanly and together they participated in more than 17 exhibitions, notably in the...
Authors
- Fekry Pasha Abaza
- Muhammad Sa'id al-'AshmawiMuhammad Sa'id al-'AshmawiMuhammad Sa'id al-'Ashmawi is a retired Egyptian Supreme Court justice and former head of the Court of State Security and a specialist in comparative and Islamic law at Cairo University...
- Gamal Al-GhitaniGamal Al-GhitaniGamal el-Ghitani, is an Egyptian author of historical and political novels and cultural and political commentaries and was the editor-in-chief of the literary periodical Akhbar Al-Adab till 2011.-Biography:...
- Gamal Al-GhitaniGamal Al-GhitaniGamal el-Ghitani, is an Egyptian author of historical and political novels and cultural and political commentaries and was the editor-in-chief of the literary periodical Akhbar Al-Adab till 2011.-Biography:...
- Tawfiq al-HakeemTawfiq al-HakeemTawfiq al-Hakim or Tawfik el-Hakim was a prominent Egyptian writer. He was born in Alexandria, Egypt, the son of an Egyptian wealthy judge and a Turkish mother...
- Alaa Al AswanyAlaa Al AswanyAlaa al-Aswany is an Egyptian writer, and a founding member of the political movement Kefaya.-Biography:Alaa Al Aswany studied to be a dentist, first in Egypt, and then later Chicago....
- Louis AwadLouis AwadLouis Awad was an Egyptian intellectual and writer.Born in the upper Egypt town of Minya, Egypt, Awad studied at the literature department of Cairo University before setting off to England for further studies before the Second World War...
- Abo El Seoud El EbiaryAbo El Seoud El EbiaryAbo El Seoud El Ebiary was an Egyptian comic screenwriter, playwright, lyricist, and also journalist. He discovered the Egyptian comedian Ismail Yasin and wrote most of his movies, as an artistic duet...
- Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed
- Iris Habib ElmasryIris Habib ElmasryIris Habib Elmasry was a prominent Coptic Historian .-Biography:Iris Habib Elmasry was born into a righteous Coptic family 1910, Her family name Elmasry in Arabic language means The Egyptian....
- Alfred FaragAlfred FaragAlfred Farag – 4 December 2005 ) was one of the eminentEgyptian playwrights of the post 1952 Revolution period. He obtained his BA in English Literature from the Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University in 1949. He took up the teaching career till 1955 when he abandoned it for a post in the...
- Nabil Farouk
- Mohammad Moustafa HaddaraMohammad Moustafa HaddaraProfessor Dr. Mohammad Moustafa Haddara was a distinguished Arabic scholar.Dr. Haddara was Professor of Arabic Literature, at Alexandria University, Egypt, and a Professor at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia....
- Yehia Hakki
- Muhammad Husayn HaykalMuhammad Husayn HaykalMuhammad Hussein Haekal was an Egyptian writer, journalist, politician and Minister of Education in Egypt.- Life :...
- Sonallah IbrahimSonallah IbrahimSon'allah Ibrahim is an Egyptian novelist and short story writer and one of the "Sixties Generation" who is known for his leftist and nationalist views which are expressed rather directly in his work...
- Yusuf IdrisYusuf IdrisYusuf Idris, also Yusif Idris was an Egyptian writer of plays, short stories, and novels. Idris originally trained to be a doctor, studying at the University of Cairo...
- Edmond JabèsEdmond Jabes----Edmond Jabès was a Jewish writer and poet, and one of the best known literary figures to write in French after World War II.- Life :...
- Naguib MahfouzNaguib MahfouzNaguib Mahfouz was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature, along with Tawfiq el-Hakim, to explore themes of existentialism. He published over 50 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie...
- Mostafa MahmoudMostafa MahmoudMustafa Kamal Mahmoud Husayn commonly known as Mustafa Mahmud was an Egyptian scientist and a prolific author. Dr. Mustafa Mahmoud was born in Shibin el-Kom, Munufiyya province, Egypt...
- Zaki Naguib MahmoudZaki Naguib MahmoudZaki Naguib Mahmoud was an Egyptian intellectual and thinker, and is considered a pioneer in modern Arabic philosophical thought. Best known with "The philosopher of authors and author of philosophers" as Abbas Mahmoud al-Akkad called him...
- Salama MoussaSalama MoussaSalama Moussa Born into a wealthy, land owning Coptic family in the town of Zagazig located in the Nile delta. Salama Musa was a journalist, writer, advocator of secularism, and pioneer of Arab socialism. He wrote or translated 45 published books; his writings still influence Arab thought and he...
- Abdel Hakim QasemAbdel Hakim QasemAbdel Hakim Qasem is considered one of the most significant authors in Egyptian literature during the past thirty years. He was born in Al Bandara village, near Tanta. During the 1950s he moved to Cairo, and began writing until the 1960s when he was imprisoned for 4 years, for his political...
- Nawal El SaadawiNawal El SaadawiNawal El Saadawi , born October 27, 1931, is an Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician and psychiatrist. She has written many books on the subject of women in Islam, paying particular attention to the practice of female genital mutilation in her society....
- Gilbert SinouéGilbert SinouéGilbert Sinoué is a classically trained guitarist and author who has lived in France since the age of 19. He has won major French literary awards for his books, which are written in French...
- Ahdaf SoueifAhdaf SoueifAhdaf Soueif is an Anglo-Egyptian novelist and political and cultural commentator.-Life and career:Soueif was born in Cairo and educated in Egypt and England...
- Bahaa TaherBahaa TaherBahaa Taher , sometimes transliterated as Bahaa Tahir, Baha Taher, or Baha Tahir, is an Egyptian novelist who writes in Arabic. He was awarded the inaugural International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2008.-Life:...
Historians
- Raouf AbbasRaouf AbbasProfessor Raouf Abbas was a leading Egyptian historian and a professor of modern history at Cairo University and president of the Egyptian Society of Historical Studies.-Academic career:...
- Ibn Abd-el-HakemIbn Abd-el-HakemIbn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam was an Egyptian chronicler who wrote the History of the Conquest of Egypt and North Africa and Spain.His work is invaluable as the earliest Arab account of the Islamic conquests of those countries. This work was written about 150-200 years after the events it describes, and...
- Abd al-Rahman al-JabartiAbd al-Rahman al-JabartiAbd al-Rahman al-Jabarti or in Egyptian Arabic el Gabarti was a Somali–Egyptian Muslim scholar and chronicler who spent most of his life in Cairo.-Biography:While little is known of his life, according to Franz Steiner, al-Jabarti was...
- Al-MaqriziAl-MaqriziTaqi al-Din Ahmad ibn 'Ali ibn 'Abd al-Qadir ibn Muhammad al-Maqrizi ; Arabic: , was an Egyptian historian more commonly known as al-Maqrizi or Makrizi...
- Al-MufaddalAl-MufaddalAl-Mufaddal, also Moufazzal ibn Abi l-Fazil, was a 14th century Egyptian historian. He was a Coptic Christian.Al-Mufaddal wrote a book about the history of the Bahriyya Mamluks, entitled al-Nahdj al-sadîd wa-l-durr al-farîd fimâ ba'd Ta'rîkh Ibn al'Amîd, covering the period from 1260 to 1340. He...
- Severus Ibn al-MuqaffaSeverus Ibn al-MuqaffaSeverus ibn al-Muqaffaʿ or Severus of El Ashmunein was a Coptic Bishop, author and historian. In Arabic, his name is spelled Sawires ساويرس. Severus is sometimes confused with Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa.He was bishop of Hermopolis Magna , in Upper Egypt, around the end of the tenth century...
- Abdul al-Rahman al-RafaiAbdul al-Rahman al-RafaiAbdul al-Rahman al-Rafai was an Egyptian historian. He dedicated his life to the study of the roles of the national movement in the history of modern Egypt. His most prominent work was 15 volumes in which he documented the state of Egypt from the late 18th century to the mid 19th century...
- Al-SakhawiAl-SakhawiShams al-Din Muhammad ibn `Abd al-Rahman al-Sakhawi was a reputable Shafi'i Muslim hadith scholar and historian who was born in Cairo. "Al-Sakhawi" refers to the village of Sakha in Egypt, where his relatives belonged. He was a prolific writer that excelled in the knowledge of hadith, tafsir,...
- Imam Al-Suyuti
- George AntoniusGeorge AntoniusGeorge Habib Antonius, CBE was a Lebanese-Egyptian author and diplomat, settled in Palestine, one of the first historians of Arab nationalism. Born in Deir al Qamar in a Lebanese Orthodox Christian family, he served in the British Mandate of Palestine. His 1938 book The Arab Awakening was...
- Rifa'a el-TahtawiRifa'a el-TahtawiRifa'a al-Tahtawi was an Egyptian writer, teacher, translator, Egyptologist and renaissance intellectual...
- George ElmacinGeorge ElmacinGeorge Elmacin , also known as Ibn Amid, was an Arabic Christian historian.-Life:The details of his life come from passages at the end of his own history. He was born in Cairo in Egypt in 1205. His full name in Arabic was Ğirğis ibn Abī Ùl-Yāsir ibn Abī Ùl-Mukārīm ibn Abī Ùt.-T. ayyib al-ÿAmīd ...
- Iris Habib ElmasryIris Habib ElmasryIris Habib Elmasry was a prominent Coptic Historian .-Biography:Iris Habib Elmasry was born into a righteous Coptic family 1910, Her family name Elmasry in Arabic language means The Egyptian....
- Gawdat GabraGawdat GabraDr. Gawdat Gabra is a Coptologist; he finished his bachelor degree in Egyptian Antiquities – Cairo University 1967 and PhD in Coptic Antiquities University of Münster – Germany 1978....
- John of NikiûJohn of NikiûJohn of Nikiû was an Egyptian Coptic bishop of Nikiû/Pashati in the Nile Delta and appointed general administrator of the monasteries of Upper Egypt in 696...
- Menassa YouhannaMenassa YouhannaFather Menassa Youhanna was a Coptic priest, historian and theologian, most noted for his work on the history of the Coptic Orthodox Church.- Biography :...
Poets
- Mahmoud Sami al-BaroudiMahmoud Sami al-BaroudiMahmoud Sami el-Baroudi was a significant Egyptian political figure and a prominent poet. He served as Prime Minister of Egypt from February 4, 1882 until May 26, 1882. He was known as rab alseif wel qalam رب السيف و القلم .- References :...
- Abdel Rahman el-Abnudi
- Mahmud Bayram el-TunsiMahmud Bayram el-TunsiMahmud Bayram el-Tunsi was an Egyptian poet who was exiled from Egypt by the British for his nationalist poetry.Bayram el-Tunsi received his education at religious schools. However, he learned the art of poetry by listening to oral presentations in the form known as zajal...
- Ahmed Abdel Muti HijaziAhmed Abdel Muti HijaziAhmed Abdel Muti Hijazi is an Egyptian contemporary poet.Contributed to many literary conferences in many Arab capitals, and is one of the pioneers of the movement of renewal in contemporary Arabic poetry....
- Hafez IbrahimHafez IbrahimHafez Ibrahim was an Egyptian poet, called , means the Poet of the Nile. He was one of several poets that revived Arabic poetry during the latter half of the 19th Century. While still using the classical Arabic system of meter and rhyme, these poets wrote to express new ideas and feelings...
- Salah JahinSalah JahinMohammad Salah Eldin Bahgat Helmy , known as "Salah Jaheen" or "Salah Jahin" was a leading Egyptian poet, lyricist, playwright and cartoonist.-Life and career:...
- Ibrahim NagiIbrahim NagiIbrahim Nagi was an Egyptian poet. Nagi was also a doctor in internal medicine. Nagi's most famous poem is "El Atlal" or "The Ruins" which was eventually sang by famous Egyptian singer Om Kalthoom. He was a co founder of the Cairo Society for Romantic Poetry...
- Ahmed Fouad NegmAhmed Fouad NegmAhmed Fouad Negm -Background:Ahmed Fouad Negm was born to a family of fellahin the Egyptian countryside. His mother, Hanem Morsi Negm, was a housewife, and his father Mohammed Ezat Negm, a police officer. Negm was one of seventeen brothers, only six of whom are still living...
- Ahmad RamiAhmed Rami (poet)Ahmed Mohammed Rami was an Egyptian poet. He is best known for writing lyrics for the famous Egyptian singers Umm Kalthoum and Mohammed Abdel Wahab. Rami was also a translator. His famous works include translations of several of Shakespeare's plays and the famous quatrains of the Persian poet...
- Ahmed ShawqiAhmed ShawqiAhmed Shawqi was the great Arabic Poet-Laureate, an Egyptian poet and dramatist who pioneered the modern Egyptian literary movement, most notably introducing the genre of poetic epics to the Arabic literary tradition...
- Abdul Rahman YusufAbdul Rahman YusufAbdul Rahman Yusuf is an Egyptian Qatari poet who writes original poetry, maintaining the rules of poetry and dedicated to the issues of the Arab nation as well as aesthetics of Arabic poetry....
Writers
- Fekry Pasha Abaza
- Khalil Abdel-KarimKhalil Abdel-Karim- Biography :Khalil Abdel-Karim was born in Aswan City in Upper Egypt.Mr. Khalil Abdul-Karim joined the Muslim Brotherhood in his youth. After attaining his high school diploma he traveled to Cairo to study Law and he graduated from Cairo University . He then joined the Lawyers Syndicates...
- Leila AhmedLeila AhmedLeila Ahmed is an Egyptian American writer on Islam and Islamic feminism as well as being the first women's studies professor at Harvard Divinity School.- Background :...
- Gamal al-BannaGamal al-BannaGamal al-Banna is an Egyptian Islamic scholar, author, and trade unionist. He is the youngest brother of Hassan al-Banna , the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood...
- Mustafa Lutfi al-ManfalutiMustafa Lutfi al-ManfalutiMustafa Lutfi el-Manfaluti was an Egyptian writer and poet who was born in the Upper Egyptian city of Manfalut to an Arab father and a Turkish mother....
- Abbass AlAqqad
- Mostafa AminMostafa AminMustafa Amin was an Egyptian columnist and journalist who enjoyed a great deal of popularity in the Arab world. Known for his liberal perspective, Amin and his twin brother Ali Amin, are considered the fathers of modern Arab journalism...
- Adel DarwishAdel DarwishAdel Darwish is a British journalist, author, historian, broadcaster and political commentator, specialising on Middle Eastern politics.Darwish is a veteran Fleet Street foreign correspondent and has written for The Daily Telegraph and The Independent, as well as maintaining his online blog and...
- Abo El Seoud El EbiaryAbo El Seoud El EbiaryAbo El Seoud El Ebiary was an Egyptian comic screenwriter, playwright, lyricist, and also journalist. He discovered the Egyptian comedian Ismail Yasin and wrote most of his movies, as an artistic duet...
- Kamal el-MallakhKamal el-MallakhKamal el-Mallakh was a famous Egyptian archaeologist who discovered The King Khufu Solar ship in 1950.-Life:He was born to a Coptic family from Upper Egypt on 26 October 1918 and died on 29 October 1987....
- Abdel Wahab el-Miseiri
- Masri FekiMasri FekiMasri Feki is an Egyptian-born writer and a specialist of the Middle East who lives in Paris. He is Middle East Pact’s founding president and author of numerous articles published in newspapers of the Middle East and North Africa, including Al-Seyassah , Hürriyet , Turkish Daily News , The...
- Farag FodaFarag FodaFarag Foda , also Faraj Fawda, was an important Egyptian thinker, human rights activist, writer, and columnist.Based in Cairo, he was noted for his critical articles and sharp satires about Islamic fundamentalism in Egypt. In many newspaper articles, he demonstrated weak points in Islamic ideology...
- Mohammad Moustafa HaddaraMohammad Moustafa HaddaraProfessor Dr. Mohammad Moustafa Haddara was a distinguished Arabic scholar.Dr. Haddara was Professor of Arabic Literature, at Alexandria University, Egypt, and a Professor at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia....
- Hasan Hanafi
- Tarek HeggyTarek HeggyTarek Heggy is a liberal Egyptian author, political thinker and international petroleum strategist. His extensive writings advocate the values of modernity, democracy, tolerance, and women's rights in the Middle East – advancing them as universal values essential to the region's progress...
- Mohammad Hassanein Heykal
- Taha Hussein
- Adel IskandarAdel IskandarAdel Iskandar 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 the Arab satellite station Al Jazeera...
- Said El KemnySaid El KemnySayyid Al-Qemany is an Egyptian writer and thinker. Born on March 13, 1947 in the province of Beni Suef, he is a controversial writer. His works emphasize the importance of critical thinking, and he is an opponent of Islamic fundamentalism, supporting separation of religion and state, and tolerance...
- Naguib MahfouzNaguib MahfouzNaguib Mahfouz was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature, along with Tawfiq el-Hakim, to explore themes of existentialism. He published over 50 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie...
- Salama MoussaSalama MoussaSalama Moussa Born into a wealthy, land owning Coptic family in the town of Zagazig located in the Nile delta. Salama Musa was a journalist, writer, advocator of secularism, and pioneer of Arab socialism. He wrote or translated 45 published books; his writings still influence Arab thought and he...
- Ihsan Abdel QuddousIhsan Abdel QuddousIhsan Abdel Quddous was an Egyptian writer, novelist, and journalist and editor in the Al Akhbar and Al-Ahram newspapers. He is known to have written many novels that have been adapted in films....
- Ahmed ShawkiAhmed Shawki (socialist)Ahmed Shawki is an Arab American socialist activist and journalist, the editor of the International Socialist Review and a leader of the International Socialist Organization...
- Yasser ThabetYasser ThabetYasser Talaat Hafez Thabet is an acclaimed Egyptian journalist and liberal writer.-Biography:Born on May 7, 1964 in Cologne, Germany, Thabet gained a BA in Journalism from the Mass Communication Faculty at Cairo University, Egypt in May 1985 and a Masters degree in Journalism from the Centre for...
- Nasr Abu ZaydNasr Abu ZaydNasr Hamid Abu Zayd was an Egyptian Qur'anic thinker and one of the leading liberal theologians in Islam. He is famous for his project of a humanistic Qur'anic hermeneutics.- Biography :...
- Ayman ZohryAyman ZohryAyman Zohry is a demographer/geographer and expert on migration studies based in Cairo, Egypt. He was born in Souhag, Egypt in 1964. He is a leading researcher in the field of migration studies in Egypt with a special focus on illegal migration.Dr. Zohry has about 20 years of experience in the...
Journalists
- Wael Abbas
- Farouk Abdul-AzizFarouk Abdul-AzizFarouq Abul-Aziz is a well known TV presenter, interviewer, writer, producer and director in the Arab World.-Career:...
- Emad AdeebEmad Adeeb- Personal life :He Is also a Successful Businessman and Has 4 Kids Nevine Riad Jala Riad Mohamed Adeeb And Ahmed Adeeb. His Family Also includes Bassima El Fakharany, his Mother, Adel Adeeb and Amr Adeeb, his Brothers, And Abdelhay Adeeb , His Father...
- Khouloud Al-GamalKhouloud Al-GamalKhouloud Al-Gamal is an Egyptian journalist/TV producer Director based in London since 2001. She started as reporter for French speaking outlets like for Al-Ahram Hebdo and Radio Cairo. She is best known for her Grand Reportages and travel writing...
- Tawfiq al-Hakim
- Ahmad Al-KhamisiAhmad Al-KhamisiAhmad Abdel Rahman Al-Khamisi, is an Egyptian writer and journalist.-Early life:He was raised up in a middle class family. His mother was a teacher. His father, Abdel Rahman Al-Khamisi, was a famous Egyptian poet and journalist.-Career:Ahmas Al-Khamisi started working in journalism in 1964...
- Ibrahim al-MaziniIbrahim al-MaziniIbrahim 'Abd al-Qadir al-Mazini was an Egyptian poet, novelist, journalist, and translator.-Early life:...
- Mostafa AminMostafa AminMustafa Amin was an Egyptian columnist and journalist who enjoyed a great deal of popularity in the Arab world. Known for his liberal perspective, Amin and his twin brother Ali Amin, are considered the fathers of modern Arab journalism...
- Shahira AminShahira AminShahira Amin is an Egyptian journalist, the former deputy head of Egyptian state-owned Nile TV and one of its senior anchors. She resigned from the position on February 3, 2011, allegedly due to her disapproval of the channel's coverage of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011...
- Rawya AteyaRawya AteyaRawya Ateya was an Egyptian woman who became the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world in 1957.-Early life:Rawya Ateya was born in Giza Governorate on 19 April 1926. She grew up in a politically active family. Her father was the secretary-general of the liberal Wafd Party in Gharbia, and...
- Hala El BadryHala El BadryHala El Badry, born in Cairo in 1954, a graduate of Cairo University, is an Egyptian journalist and novelist. She is deputy editor of an Egyptian radio and television magazine....
- Adel DarwishAdel DarwishAdel Darwish is a British journalist, author, historian, broadcaster and political commentator, specialising on Middle Eastern politics.Darwish is a veteran Fleet Street foreign correspondent and has written for The Daily Telegraph and The Independent, as well as maintaining his online blog and...
- Abo El Seoud El EbiaryAbo El Seoud El EbiaryAbo El Seoud El Ebiary was an Egyptian comic screenwriter, playwright, lyricist, and also journalist. He discovered the Egyptian comedian Ismail Yasin and wrote most of his movies, as an artistic duet...
- Yousef Gamal El-DinYousef Gamal El-DinYousef Gamal El-Din is a Swiss-Egyptian journalist and television personality. He works for CNBC in the network's Middle East studios in Bahrain as a co-host of its global business programme Capital Connection and regularly contributes analysis on regional developments for CNBC.com...
- Ethar El-KatatneyEthar El-KatatneyEthar El-Katatney is an award-winning journalist, a blogger, and an author. She has worked as a staff writer at Egypt Today, the leading current affairs magazine in the Middle East, and at its sister magazine Business Today Egypt...
- Helal El-SaaedHelal El-SaaedHelal El-Saaed was an Egyptian journalist....
- Mohamed El-TabiiMohamed El-TabiiMohamed El-Tabii محمد التابعي in Arabic was a leading Egyptian political writer, journalist and a pioneer of modern press in Egypt and the Arab World, so much so that he was dubbed "Prince of Journalism"....
- Rifa'a el-TahtawiRifa'a el-TahtawiRifa'a al-Tahtawi was an Egyptian writer, teacher, translator, Egyptologist and renaissance intellectual...
- Amr Ellissy
- Mona Eltahawy
- Mansoura Ez-EldinMansoura Ez-EldinMansoura Ez-Eldin is an Egyptian novelist and journalist. Mansoura Ez Eldin was born in Delta Egypt in 1976....
- Farag FodaFarag FodaFarag Foda , also Faraj Fawda, was an important Egyptian thinker, human rights activist, writer, and columnist.Based in Cairo, he was noted for his critical articles and sharp satires about Islamic fundamentalism in Egypt. In many newspaper articles, he demonstrated weak points in Islamic ideology...
- Yosri FoudaYosri FoudaYosri Fouda , born in Egypt, is a journalist who initially worked for the BBC's short-lived Arabic-subsidiary covering the ongoing struggle in Bosnia with veteran reporter Martin Bell. He currently works for the independent Cairo-based ON TV, which is largely owned by Egyptian businessman Naguib...
- Zain Abdul HadyZain Abdul HadyZain al-Din Muhammad Abdul Hady born 1 December 1956, an Egyptian researcher and novelist. Abdul Hady is an accomplished writer, whose works have been published, both fiction, and non-fiction. Dr...
- Yasser Abdel HafezYasser Abdel HafezYasser Abdel Hafez is an Egyptian novelist and journalist. He was born in Cairo and studied law at Ain Shams University. He has worked as a journalist for the Arabic-language literary journal Akhbar al-Adab for more than 20 years. Abdel Hafez's most notable work is his novel On the Occasion of...
- Sabah HamamouSabah HamamouSabah Hamamou is an Egyptian journalist, and deputy business editor at .-Professional:Sabah Hamamou started her career, in 1994, as a general assignment trainee reporter at one of Al-Ahram publications, the monthly Al-Shabab magazine, while at the same time attending Cairo University .After...
- Muhammad Husayn HaykalMuhammad Husayn HaykalMuhammad Hussein Haekal was an Egyptian writer, journalist, politician and Minister of Education in Egypt.- Life :...
- Tarek HeggyTarek HeggyTarek Heggy is a liberal Egyptian author, political thinker and international petroleum strategist. His extensive writings advocate the values of modernity, democracy, tolerance, and women's rights in the Middle East – advancing them as universal values essential to the region's progress...
- Mohamed Hassanein HeikalMohamed Hassanein HeikalMohamed Hassanein Heikal is a leading Egyptian journalist. For 17 years he was editor-in-chief of the Cairo newspaper Al-Ahram and has been a respected commentator on Arab affairs for more than 50 years.-Background and Books:...
- Reda HelalReda HelalReda Helal is an Egyptian journalist. He was deputy editor of Al-Ahram newspaper until 11 August 2003 when he disappeared in a presumed kidnapping...
- Ezzat el KamhawiEzzat el KamhawiEzzat el Kamhawi is a novelist and a journalist. He is the Senior Editor of al-Doha Cultural Magazine, a monthly magazine dedicated to literature and cultural issues in the Arab World....
- Safinaz KazemSafinaz KazemSafinaz Kazem is an Egyptian author and literary critic.After obtaining her BA in journalism from Cairo University in 1959, she wrote many book articles....
- Soliman KenawySoliman KenawySoliman Kenawy, the first Editor in Chief of the First Auto magazine in Egypt, Akhbar El Sayarat, published by Akhbar El Yom press organization.-References:...
- Momtaz Al Ket
- Yasser KhalilYasser KhalilYasser Khalil is an Egyptian journalist and political activist.-Biography:Since 1996 Yasser Khalil has covered political and cultural affairs in Egypt. He is also a political activist, and the founder of the Kbret Network, the first bloggers' network in the Middle East.cit...
- Mohamed Said MahfouzMohamed Said MahfouzMohamed Said Mahfouz on Abu Dhabi TV , focusing on liberties and human rights in the Arab world. He produced a number of independent documentaries and won several awards, of which the last was from Al Jazeera International Documentary festival in April 2009...
- Ayman MohyeldinAyman MohyeldinAyman Mohyeldin is an Arab-American journalist based in Los Angeles for NBC. Previously he worked for Al Jazeera and CNN, Ayman was one of the first western journalists allowed to enter and report on the handing over and trial of the deposed President of Iraq Saddam Hussein by the Iraqi Interim...
- Khalil MutranKhalil MutranKhalil Mutran , also known by the sobriquet Sha’ir al Qutrayn was a noted Arabic poet and journalist.-Life:...
- Ola NaguibOla NaguibOla Naguib is an Egyptian TV producer of Middle East Business Report, a weekly business program on BBC World News. Naguib joined the BBC team in Dubai in 2007. Before that, she worked for the Saudi television network, MBC. She spent 3 years in publishing both in the UAE and in Egypt...
- Iris NazmyIris NazmyIris Nazmy is an Egyptian writer, journalist and film critic. She is currently the President of the Alexandria Film Festival.Nazmy was born in Cairo and graduated from Cairo University's Faculty of Arts. When she was a student, her first dialogue was with the then-Dean of the Faculty of Arts...
- Nawara NegmNawara NegmNawara Negm is an Egyptian journalist, blogger and human rights activist based in Cairo, Egypt. Daughter of the leftist poet Ahmed Fouad Negm and Islamist thinker and journalist Safinaz Kazem, she obtained her BA in English Language from the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University and has since...
- Gamal NkrumahGamal NkrumahGamal Gorkeh Nkrumah is a Ghanaian journalist, a Pan-Africanist and an editor of Al Ahram Weekly newspaper. He is the eldest son of the first president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, and his Egyptian wife Fathia Nkrumah....
- Osama Anwar OkashaOsama Anwar OkashaOsama Anwar Okasha was an Egyptian screenwriter and journalist, who wrote weekly for El-Ahram newspaper. He is famous for writing some of the most popular series on Egyptian television, such as Layali el Helmeyya and El Shahd wel Demou, which are popular in Egypt and all across the Middle East.His...
- Younan Labib RizkYounan Labib Rizkwas a prominent Egyptian historian and literary figure. He was a professor of history at Ain Shams University in Cairo; and was also appointed a member of the History Committee of the Supreme Council for Culture. He was formerly Director of Historical Studies at the Institute of Research and Arab...
- Salama Ahmed SalamaSalama Ahmed SalamaSalama Ahmed Salama is an Egyptian journalist and author. He served as the vice chief editor for Al-Ahram newspapers for 22 years. and is now the editor-in-chief of Al-Shourouk newspaper and the political magazine Points of View...
- Yaqub SanuYaqub SanuYaqub Sanu , also known as James Sanua, was an Egyptian Jew born to an Egyptian mother and an Italian father. He became famous as a journalist, an Egyptian nationalist and a playwright...
- Said SonbolSaid SonbolSaid Sonbol سعيد سنبل,Egyptian writer and editor,graduated from Fouad I University's Chemistry Department,he would eventually become a journalist starting at the Wafd mouthpiece Al-Misri, Sonbol became Al-Akhbar's first economic bureau chief in 1958, the paper's deputy editor-in-chief in 1961,...
- Assaad TahaAssaad TahaAssaad Taha is an Egyptian documentary-film producer.He established in 2001 Hot Spot Films, a broadcating media company based at Dubai Media City in Dubaiand he has been its General Manager since its ceation....
- Yasser ThabetYasser ThabetYasser Talaat Hafez Thabet is an acclaimed Egyptian journalist and liberal writer.-Biography:Born on May 7, 1964 in Cologne, Germany, Thabet gained a BA in Journalism from the Mass Communication Faculty at Cairo University, Egypt in May 1985 and a Masters degree in Journalism from the Centre for...
- Ahmed ToughanAhmed ToughanAhmed S. Toughan is a renowned 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 magazines...
Intellects
- Bayoumi AndilBayoumi AndilBayoumi Andil is an Egyptian linguist, thinker and writer who authored many books on Egyptian culture and Modern Egyptian language....
- Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed
- Rifa'a el-TahtawiRifa'a el-TahtawiRifa'a al-Tahtawi was an Egyptian writer, teacher, translator, Egyptologist and renaissance intellectual...
- Tarek HeggyTarek HeggyTarek Heggy is a liberal Egyptian author, political thinker and international petroleum strategist. His extensive writings advocate the values of modernity, democracy, tolerance, and women's rights in the Middle East – advancing them as universal values essential to the region's progress...
- Zaki Naguib MahmoudZaki Naguib MahmoudZaki Naguib Mahmoud was an Egyptian intellectual and thinker, and is considered a pioneer in modern Arabic philosophical thought. Best known with "The philosopher of authors and author of philosophers" as Abbas Mahmoud al-Akkad called him...
- Salama MoussaSalama MoussaSalama Moussa Born into a wealthy, land owning Coptic family in the town of Zagazig located in the Nile delta. Salama Musa was a journalist, writer, advocator of secularism, and pioneer of Arab socialism. He wrote or translated 45 published books; his writings still influence Arab thought and he...
- Ahmed Shafiq
Lawyers
- Khalil Abdel-KarimKhalil Abdel-Karim- Biography :Khalil Abdel-Karim was born in Aswan City in Upper Egypt.Mr. Khalil Abdul-Karim joined the Muslim Brotherhood in his youth. After attaining his high school diploma he traveled to Cairo to study Law and he graduated from Cairo University . He then joined the Lawyers Syndicates...
- Ali Sadek Abou-HeifAli Sadek Abou-HeifAli Sadek Abou-Heif is an Egyptian human rights scholar, described as one of the leading specialists in international public law and human rights in Egypt and more generally in the Arab world. He was Professor of International Public Law at the University of Alexandria. He was awarded the UNESCO...
- Ahmad Najib al-HilaliAhmad Najib al-HilaliAhmad Najib al-Hilali was an Egyptian lawyer and educator who served as Prime Minister of Egypt twice in 1952.-Life and career:...
- Stephan BassilyStephan BassilyStephan Bassily Bek 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 Association for many years until 1986 , also was a member of the International Bar Association and a...
- Youssef DarwishYoussef DarwishYoussef Darwish was an Egyptian labour lawyer, communist and activist. During his years of political activism, he was frequently accused of communist subversion and imprisoned, spending around 10 years of his life in jail. Of Jewish background, he converted to Islam in 1947...
- Mohamed Kamel LeilahMohamed Kamel LeilahDr. Mohamed Kamel Leilah was an Egyptian law professor, who served as the speaker of the Egyptian People's Assembly from November 5, 1983 to June 22, 1984....
- Ahmed Gamal El-Din Moussa
- Farouk SultanFarouk SultanFarouk Ahmed Sultan is the Chairman of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt, the highest judicial court in Egypt. He was appointed in 2009 by President Hosni Mubarak....
Economists
- Mohamed A. El-ErianMohamed A. El-ErianDr. Mohamed A. El-Erian is the CEO and co-CIO of PIMCO, a global investment management firm and one of the world’s largest bond investors with approximately US$1.34 trillion of assets under management as of June 30, 2011....
- Youssef Boutros GhaliYoussef Boutros GhaliYoussef Raouf Boutros Ghali is a former Minister of Finance of Egypt. He served from 2004 to 2011. He was succeeded by Samir Radwan on 31 January 2011.-Education:...
- Talaat Pasha HarbTalaat Pasha HarbTalaat Pasha Harb was a leading Egyptian economist and founder of Banque Misr , and its group of companies, in May 1920.- His works :...
- Mahmoud MohieldinMahmoud MohieldinMahmoud Mohieldin, born on 15 January 1965 in Egypt, was appointed in September 2010 to be one of the Managing Directors of the World Bank Group....
Diplomats
- Ahmed Asmat Abdel-MeguidAhmed Asmat Abdel-MeguidAhmed Asmat Abdel-Meguid is an Egyptian diplomat. He served as the Foreign Minister of Egypt between 1984 and 1991; and as the Secretary-General of the Arab League from 1991 until 2001....
- Maged A. AbdelazizMaged A. AbdelazizMaged A. Abdelaziz is an Egyptian diplomat who has been Egypt's Permanent Representative to the United Nations since January 2005. He is currently married and has one daughter.-References:...
- Abdul Rahman Hassan AzzamAbdul Rahman Hassan AzzamAbdul Rahman Hassan Azzam was an Egyptian diplomat, with family origins in Egypt. He served as the first secretary-general of the Arab League between 1945 and 1952.Azzam also had a long career as an ambassador and parliamentarian...
- Ihab el-Sherif
- Mohamed ElBaradei
- Mohamed ElBaradei
- Boutros Boutros Ghali
- Ahmed Aboul GheitAhmed Aboul GheitAhmed Aboul-Gheit is an Egyptian diplomat who was the Foreign Minister of Egypt from 11 July 2004 to 6 March 2011, since the government of Ahmed Nazif took office. Aboul-Gheit previously served as Egypt's ambassador to the United Nations. In December 2005 he began mediating the Chad-Sudan conflict...
- Jean-Sélim KanaanJean-Sélim KanaanJean-Sélim Kanaan was a United Nations diplomat, Egyptian, Italian and French national, who was killed in the Canal Hotel bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, along with Sérgio Vieira de Mello and other members of his staff...
- Ahmed MaherAhmad Maher (diplomat)Ahmad Maher was the foreign minister of Egypt from 2001 to 2004. He came from a family of diplomats and politicians...
- Aly MaherAly MaherAly Maher is a prominent Egyptian diplomat and intellectual figure. He is the grandson of Ahmad Mahir Pasha and brother of Ahmad Maher former minister of foreign affairs. He studied law at Cairo University. A skilled diplomat, Maher served his government in various diplomatic capacities...
- Amr MoussaAmr MoussaAmr Mohammed Moussa is an Egyptian politician and diplomat who was the Secretary-General of the Arab League, a 22-member forum representing Arab states, from 1 June 2001 until 1 June 2011. He is a candidate in the 2011 Egyptian presidential election....
- Aziz Ezzat Pasha
- Ramzy Ezzeldin RamzyRamzy Ezzeldin RamzyRamzy Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy is currently the Assistant Minister of Foreign Minister for Economic Affairs and International Cooperation...
- Mahmoud RiadMahmoud RiadMahmoud Riad was an Egyptian diplomat. He was Egyptian ambassador to United Nations from 1962 to 1964, Egyptian foreign minister from 1964 to 1972, and Secretary-General of the Arab League from 1972 to 1979....
- Muhammad ShaabanMuhammad ShaabanMuhammad Shaaban is a career Egyptian diplomat and currently serves as the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for General Assembly and Conference Management. He was appointed to the position by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in February 2007.Shaaban has acquired extensive...
- Nadia YounesNadia YounesNadia Younes was an Egyptian national who spent her entire career, for over 33 years, in the United Nations and the World Health Organization, rising to high-level posts in a variety of areas....
Monarchs
- MenesMenesMenes was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the early dynastic period, credited by classical tradition with having united Upper and Lower Egypt, and as the founder of the first dynasty ....
- Abbas Hilmi PashaAbbas II of EgyptHH Abbas II Hilmi Bey was the last Khedive of Egypt and Sudan .-Early life:...
- Abbas IAbbas I of EgyptAbbas I , , also known as Abbas Hilmi I Pasha Wāli of Egypt and Sudan, was a son of Tusun Pasha and grandson of Muhammad Ali, founder of the reigning dynasty of Egypt and Sudan at the time...
- Cleopatra VIICleopatra VII of EgyptCleopatra VII Philopator was the last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.She was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, a family of Greek origin that ruled Egypt after Alexander the Great's death during the Hellenistic period...
- Farouk of EgyptFarouk of EgyptFarouk I of Egypt , was the tenth ruler from the Muhammad Ali Dynasty and the penultimate King of Egypt and Sudan, succeeding his father, Fuad I, in 1936....
- Fuad I of EgyptFuad I of EgyptFuad I was the Sultan and later King of Egypt and Sudan, Sovereign of Nubia, Kordofan, and Darfur. The ninth ruler of Egypt and Sudan from the Muhammad Ali Dynasty, he became Sultan of Egypt and Sudan in 1917, succeeding his elder brother Sultan Hussein Kamel...
- Fuad II of EgyptFuad II of EgyptFuad II was the last King of Egypt and Sudan.- Biography :He ascended the throne on 26 July 1952 upon the abdication of his father King Farouk I following the Egyptian Revolution of 1952...
- Ibrahim Pasha
- Muhammad Ali of EgyptMuhammad Ali of EgyptMuhammad Ali Pasha al-Mas'ud ibn Agha was a commander in the Ottoman army, who became Wāli, and self-declared Khedive of Egypt and Sudan...
- 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
- Cleopatra VII
- HatshepsutHatshepsutHatshepsut also Hatchepsut; meaning Foremost of Noble Ladies;1508–1458 BC) was the fifth pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty of Ancient Egypt...
- NefertitiNefertitiNefertiti was the Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten. Nefertiti and her husband were known for a religious revolution, in which they started to worship one god only...
- Queen KaromamaQueen KaromamaQueen Karomama I was an Egyptian queen, married to Osorkon II. She was part of the 22nd dynasty of Ancient Egypt.-Family:Karomama was likely a daughter of Pharaoh Takelot I. She was one of three known wives of Osorkon II...
- Shajar al-Durr
- Farida of EgyptFarida of EgyptQueen Farida, born Safinaz Zulficar was the Queen consort of Egypt and the first wife of King Farouk.-Personal life:...
- Narriman SadekNarriman SadekNarriman Sadek was the daughter of Hussain Fahmi Sadiq Bey, a high-ranking official in the Egyptian government, and his wife Asila Kamil; she was the second wife of King Farouk and the last Queen of Egypt.-Meeting Farouk:Farouk divorced his first wife, Queen Farida, in 1948, after a ten-year...
- Nazli SabriNazli SabriNazli Sabri , was the Queen consort of Egypt, as the second wife of King Fuad.-Early life:...
Politicians
- Ahmad Najib al-HilaliAhmad Najib al-HilaliAhmad Najib al-Hilali was an Egyptian lawyer and educator who served as Prime Minister of Egypt twice in 1952.-Life and career:...
- Mohamed AlBaradei
- Abdul Rahman Hassan AzzamAbdul Rahman Hassan AzzamAbdul Rahman Hassan Azzam was an Egyptian diplomat, with family origins in Egypt. He served as the first secretary-general of the Arab League between 1945 and 1952.Azzam also had a long career as an ambassador and parliamentarian...
- Stephan BassilyStephan BassilyStephan Bassily Bek 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 Association for many years until 1986 , also was a member of the International Bar Association and a...
- Youssef DarwishYoussef DarwishYoussef Darwish was an Egyptian labour lawyer, communist and activist. During his years of political activism, he was frequently accused of communist subversion and imprisoned, spending around 10 years of his life in jail. Of Jewish background, he converted to Islam in 1947...
- Atef EbeidAtef EbeidAtef Muhammad Ebeid was the Prime Minister of Egypt from October 1999 to July 2004. President Hosni Mubarak invited him to form the new government after the parliamentary elections in 1999. Ebeid was sworn in on 5 October 1999, replacing Kamal Ganzouri.-Early career and Education:Dr...
- Makram EbeidMakram EbeidMakram Ebeid Pasha was an Egyptian Coptic politician. Ebeid was the Wafd Party secretary-general between 1936 and 1942. He was also a finance minister of Egypt. Ebeid left the Wafd Party after a dispute with his old friend and the then Prime Minister of Egypt and leader of the Wafd Party Mustafa...
- Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed
- Abaza FamilyAbaza familyThe Abaza clan, "deeply rooted in Egyptian society and... in the history of the country" is an Egyptian family that has played a powerful and long-standing role in Egyptian economic, intellectual and political life...
- Mohammad FaridMohammad FaridThis article is about the Egyptian political figure. For the former Afghan football coach, see Mohammad Farid Mohammad Farid or Muhammad Farîd was an influential Egyptian political figure of Turkish ancestry...
- Boutros GhaliBoutros GhaliBoutros Ghali was the Prime Minister of Egypt from 1908 to 1910. He was a Coptic Christian.Ghali was accused of favouring the British in the Denshawai incident and on February 20, 1910, was assassinated by Ibrahim Nassif al-Wardani, a young pharmacology graduate who had just returned from the...
- Boutros Boutros Ghali
- Ahmed Aboul GheitAhmed Aboul GheitAhmed Aboul-Gheit is an Egyptian diplomat who was the Foreign Minister of Egypt from 11 July 2004 to 6 March 2011, since the government of Ahmed Nazif took office. Aboul-Gheit previously served as Egypt's ambassador to the United Nations. In December 2005 he began mediating the Chad-Sudan conflict...
- Numan GumaaNuman GumaaNuman Gumaa an attorney in Cairo and is the former chairman of the liberal New Wafd Party. He was nominated in 2005 for presidential election and came in third place.- Sources :* [RED]numan...
- Mokhtar KhattabMokhtar KhattabMokhtar Khattab is the former Egyptian minister of public enterprise . He was appointed to the board of Telecom Egypt in 2004....
- Ahmad Esmat Abdel Meguid
- Zakaria MohieddinZakaria MohieddinZakaria Mohieddin was an Egyptian military officer, politician, Prime Minister of Egypt and head of the first Intelligence body in Egypt, the Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate.-Overview:...
- Amr MoussaAmr MoussaAmr Mohammed Moussa is an Egyptian politician and diplomat who was the Secretary-General of the Arab League, a 22-member forum representing Arab states, from 1 June 2001 until 1 June 2011. He is a candidate in the 2011 Egyptian presidential election....
- Ali Pasha MubarakAli Pasha MubarakAli Pasha Mubarak was an Egyptian public works and education minister during the second half of the nineteenth century. He is often considered one of the most influential and talented of Egypt's 19th century reformers...
- Ahmed NazifAhmed NazifAhmed Nazif served as the Prime Minister of Egypt from 14 July 2004 to 29 January 2011, when his cabinet was dismissed by President Hosni Mubarak in light of a popular uprising that led to the Egyptian Revolution of 2011...
- Ayman NourAyman NourAyman Abd El Aziz Nour is an Egyptian politician, a former member of the Egyptian Parliament and chairman of the El Ghad party.He was imprisoned in January 2005 by the government of President Hosni Mubarak. Nour was released on health grounds on February 18, 2009...
- Ahmad Mahir PashaAhmad Mahir PashaAhmed Maher Pasha was the Prime Minister of Egypt from October 10, 1944 to February 24, 1945. He was a member of the Saadist Institutional Party and was appointed Prime Minister following the removal of Mustafa an-Nahhas Pasha by King Farouk.After assuming power he called for new elections and...
- Bahey El Din Barakat Pasha
- Muhammad Mahmoud PashaMuhammad Mahmoud PashaMuhammad Mahmud Pasha was Prime Minister of Egypt twice.Mahmud first became Prime Minister from June 27, 1928 to October 4, 1929, running under the Liberal Constitutional Party. When he left office, Sir Percy Lyham Loraine led Egypt as Governor General for two months until a new Prime Minister...
- Mustafa an-Nahhas PashaMustafa an-Nahhas PashaMustafa el-Nahhas Pasha or Mustafa Nahhas was an Egyptian political figure.- Education, activism and exile :He was born in Samanud , where his father was a lumber merchant. He graduated from el-Nassereyya Elementary School in Cairo in 1891 and the Khedivial Secondary School in 1896...
- Mustafa Kamil Pasha
- Mostafa Elwi SaifMostafa Elwi SaifMostafa Elwi Mohamed Saif Mostafa Elwi Mohamed Saif Mostafa Elwi Mohamed Saif (Arabic: مصطفى علوى محمد سيف (born March 3, 1950) is an Egyptian Political Science Professor at Cairo University, a Politician and a former Member of Shura Council (Egypt)- Early life :...
- Fouad SerageddinFouad SerageddinFouad Serageddin , was a leader of Egypt's Wafd Party.A cigar perpetually hanging from his lips, the "Pasha", as Fouad Serageddin liked to be called, continued to refer to Egypt's 1952 Revolution as the "coup d'état" which aborted a programme of reform he had helped to mastermind as Wafd...
- Hussein Al Shafei
- Isma'il SidqiIsma'il SidqiIsma'il Sidqi was an Egyptian politician who served as Prime Minister of Egypt from 1930 to 1933 and again in 1946.-Life and career:...
- Ahmad Fathi SorourAhmad Fathi SorourAhmad Fathi Sorour is an Egyptian former politician who was the speaker of the People's Assembly since 1990, until the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. According to Article 84 of the Egyptian Constitution, Sorour, as speaker of the People's Assembly, was first in the order of succession to become...
- Kamal Ramzi Stino
- Mohammed TayeaMohammed TayeaMohammed Ali Tayea was one of the political leaders in Egypt during the Sadat and Mubarak era. He died on 1 May 2000.-Introduction:...
- Ahmed UrabiAhmed UrabiColonel Ahmed Orabi or Ahmed Urabi was an Egyptian army general, and nationalist who led a revolt in 1879 against Tewfik Pasha, the Khedive of Egypt and Sudan, and the increasing European domination of the country. The revolt was ultimately crushed in 1882 when the United Kingdom invaded at the...
- Saad Zaghloul
Presidents
- Muhammad Hosni MubarakHosni MubarakMuhammad Hosni Sayyid Mubarak is a former Egyptian politician and military commander. He served as the fourth President of Egypt from 1981 to 2011....
- Muhammad NaguibMuhammad NaguibMuhammad Naguib was the first President of Egypt, serving from the declaration of the Republic on June 18, 1953 to November 14, 1954. Along with Gamal Abdel Nasser, he was the primary leader of the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, which ended the rule of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty in Egypt and Sudan...
- Gamal Abdel NasserGamal Abdel NasserGamal Abdel Nasser Hussein was the second President of Egypt from 1956 until his death. A colonel in the Egyptian army, Nasser led the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 along with Muhammad Naguib, the first president, which overthrew the monarchy of Egypt and Sudan, and heralded a new period of...
- Muhammad Anwar Al Sadat
Egyptologists
- Abdul Latif al-Baghdadi
- Dhul-Nun al-MisriDhul-Nun al-MisriDhul-Nun al-Misri was an Egyptian Sufi saint. He was considered the Patron Saint of the Physicians in the early Islamic era of Egypt, and is credited with having specialized the concept of Gnosis in Islam...
- Aziz Suryal AtiyaAziz Suryal AtiyaProfessor Aziz Suryal Atiya was a prominent Coptologist who was a Coptic historian and scholar and an expert in Islamic and Crusades studies.Professor Atiya was the founder of the Institute of Coptic Studies in Cairo in 1950s, and was also the founder of the Middle East Center, University of...
- Alexander BadawyAlexander BadawyAlexander Badawy was an Egyptian Egyptologist. He was born in Egypt and taught Egyptology in the USA. He was professor emeritus of art history at UCLA, and when he retired he endowed a chair at Johns Hopkins University, currently held by Betsy Bryan.-Selected publications:* Coptic Art and...
- Kamal el-MallakhKamal el-MallakhKamal el-Mallakh was a famous Egyptian archaeologist who discovered The King Khufu Solar ship in 1950.-Life:He was born to a Coptic family from Upper Egypt on 26 October 1918 and died on 29 October 1987....
- Ahmad FakhriAhmad FakhriAhmad Fakhry – 1973) was an Egyptian archaeologist who worked in the Western desert of Egypt , and also in the necropolis at Dahshur.-Bibliography:...
- Labib HabachiLabib HabachiLabib Habachi was an influential Egyptian Egyptologist.Dr Habachi spent 30 years in the Antiquities Department of the Egyptian Government, ending his career as Chief inspector. During this period he spent an enormous amount of time in numerous dig sites in Egypt and the Sudan...
- Fayza Haikal
- Selim HassanSelim HassanSelim Hassan was an Egyptian Egyptologist. He wrote the 16-volume Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt in Arabic and supervised the excavation of many ancient Egyptian tombs under the auspices of Cairo University.-Giza:...
- Zahi HawassZahi HawassZahi Hawass is an Egyptian archaeologist, an Egyptologist, and former Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs. He has also worked at archaeological sites in the Nile Delta, the Western Desert, and the Upper Nile Valley....
- Ahmed KamalAhmed Kamal (Egyptologist)- Research :He trained under the German Egyptologist Heinrich Brugsch.He was a curator at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and a staff member of the Supreme Council of Antiquities...
- Naguib KanawatiNaguib KanawatiNaguib Kanawati is an Egyptian Australian Egyptologist and Professor of Egyptology at Macquarie University in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.-Career:...
- Pahor LabibPahor LabibPahor Labib wasDirector of the Coptic Museum, Cairo, Egypt, from 1951 to 1965 and one of the world leaders in Egyptology and Coptology....
- Mahmoud Maher TahaMahmoud Maher TahaMahmoud Maher Taha Mahmoud Maher Taha Mahmoud Maher Taha (Arabic: محمود ماهر طه (born 21 December 1942, in Cairo, Egypt) is an Egyptian Egyptologist.Taha obtained his B.A. in Egyptology from Cairo University (Department of Archeology) in 1963 and completed his Doctorate in the same field at the...
Philosophers
- ArnouphisArnouphisArnouphis was an Egyptian philosopher who reportedly saved the army of Marcus Aurelius by calling up a rainstorm....
- Abdel Rahman Badawi
- Rifa'a el-TahtawiRifa'a el-TahtawiRifa'a al-Tahtawi was an Egyptian writer, teacher, translator, Egyptologist and renaissance intellectual...
- Abdel Wahab ElmessiriAbdel Wahab ElmessiriAbdel-Wahab Elmessiri was an Egyptian scholar, author and general coordinator of the opposition organization Kefaya.Elmessiri was born in Damanhur, Egypt, graduated with a BA in English literature from Alexandria University in 1959. He received a MA in English and comparative literature from...
- Hassan HanafiHassan HanafiProf. Dr. Hassan Hanafi is a professor and chairs the philosophy department at Cairo University. He is a leading authority on modern Islam.Hanafi was born into an artistic family in Cairo...
- Ihab HassanIhab HassanIhab H. Hassan is an American literary theorist and writer born in Egypt.-Biography:He was born in Cairo Egypt, and emigrated to the United States in 1946. Currently he is Emeritus Vilas Research Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee...
- Zaki Naguib MahmoudZaki Naguib MahmoudZaki Naguib Mahmoud was an Egyptian intellectual and thinker, and is considered a pioneer in modern Arabic philosophical thought. Best known with "The philosopher of authors and author of philosophers" as Abbas Mahmoud al-Akkad called him...
- PlotinusPlotinusPlotinus was a major philosopher of the ancient world. In his system of theory there are the three principles: the One, the Intellect, and the Soul. His teacher was Ammonius Saccas and he is of the Platonic tradition...
- Ahmad Bilal YousafAhmad Bilal YousafAhmad Bilal Yousaf was an Egyptian philosopher, intellect and thinker.He is considered as a leading pathfinder in modern Arabic philosophy. He is known as "The philosopher of authors and author of philosophers" as Abbas el-Akkad called him...
Scientists
- AhmesAhmesAhmes was an ancient Egyptian scribe who lived during the Second Intermediate Period and the beginning of the Eighteenth Dynasty . He wrote the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, a work of Ancient Egyptian mathematics that dates to approximately 1650 BC; he is the earliest contributor to mathematics...
- Hero of AlexandriaHero of AlexandriaHero of Alexandria was an ancient Greek mathematician and engineerEnc. Britannica 2007, "Heron of Alexandria" who was active in his native city of Alexandria, Roman Egypt...
- Hypatia of AlexandriaHypatia of AlexandriaHypatia was an Egyptian Neoplatonist philosopher who was the first notable woman in mathematics. As head of the Platonist school at Alexandria, she also taught philosophy and astronomy...
- Theon of AlexandriaTheon of AlexandriaTheon was a Greek scholar and mathematician who lived in Alexandria, Egypt. He edited and arranged Euclid's Elements and Ptolemy's Handy Tables, as well as writing various commentaries...
- Abu- Ka-mil Shuja- ibn Aslam
- Sharif BasyouniSharif BasyouniMahmoud Cherif Bassiouni is an Egyptian Muslim international United Nations war crimes expert, often called "the Father of International Criminal Law"....
- CtesibiusCtesibiusCtesibius or Ktesibios or Tesibius was a Greek inventor and mathematician in Alexandria, Ptolemaic Egypt. He wrote the first treatises on the science of compressed air and its uses in pumps...
- DiophantusDiophantusDiophantus of Alexandria , sometimes called "the father of algebra", was an Alexandrian Greek mathematician and the author of a series of books called Arithmetica. These texts deal with solving algebraic equations, many of which are now lost...
- DjerDjerDjer was the second or third pharaoh of the first dynasty of Egypt, which dates from approximately 3100 BC. Some scholars, however, debate whether the first pharaoh, Menes or Narmer, and Hor-Aha might have been different rulers. If they were separate rulers, this would make Djer the third pharaoh...
- Farouk El-BazFarouk El-BazFarouk El-Baz is an Egyptian American scientist who worked with NASA to assist in the planning of scientific exploration of the Moon, including the selection of landing sites for the Apollo missions and the training of astronauts in lunar observations and photography.Currently, El-Baz is Research...
- Wafik El-DeiryWafik El-DeiryWafik El-Deiry is an associate Professor of Medicine and Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He is also a member of the University of Pennsylvania Comprehensive Cancer Center and Institute for Human Gene Therapy...
- Yehia El-Mashad
- Mostafa A. El-Sayed
- Taher ElGamalTaher ElgamalDr. Taher Elgamal is an Egyptian cryptographer. Elgamal is sometimes written as El Gamal or ElGamal, but Elgamal is now preferred...
- EuclidEuclidEuclid , fl. 300 BC, also known as Euclid of Alexandria, was a Greek mathematician, often referred to as the "Father of Geometry". He was active in Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy I...
- Caleb GattegnoCaleb GattegnoCaleb Gattegno Alexandria, Egypt is best known for his innovative approaches to teaching and learning mathematics , foreign languages and reading...
- Eman GhoneimEman GhoneimDr. Eman Ghoneim is an experienced Egyptian geomorphologist with a primary focus on the application of Geographical Information Systems , Remote Sensing and the use of Hydrologic modeling in Flash flood hazard and Groundwater exploration in arid environments.During her research, she uses satellite...
- Hamed GoharHamed GoharProf. Hamed Goher was an Egyptian Prof. Hamed Goher was an [[Egyptians|Egyptian]] Prof. Hamed Goher was an [[Egyptians|Egyptian]] [[to the sea...
- Farkhonda HassanFarkhonda HassanFarkhonda Hassan is a professor of Geology at the American University in Cairo and is chair of the Commission on Human Development and Local Administration of the Shura Council.-Education:...
- Tarek Ali HassanTarek Ali HassanDr. Tarek Ali Hassan , is a professor of Medicine and Chief of Endocrinology at Al-Azhar University in Cairo. He is also a composer, musician, writer, painter, and philosopher. His music, in a modern polyphonic style, has been performed in Egypt and in many countries.Hassan has published major...
- Gamal HemdanGamal HemdanGamal Hemdan was a prominent Egyptian geographer.-Life:Hemdan was born in 1928 in Al Qalyubiyah governorate, Egypt....
- Riad HigazyRiad HigazyRiad Abdel-Magid Higazy was an Egyptian earth scientist.The wrinkle ridge Dorsum Higazy on the Moon is named after him....
- Rashad KhalifaRashad KhalifaRashad Khalifa was an Egyptian-American biochemist, closely associated with the United Submitters International. He was assassinated in 1990.-Life:Khalifa was born in Egypt on November 19, 1935...
- Mostafa MahmoudMostafa MahmoudMustafa Kamal Mahmoud Husayn commonly known as Mustafa Mahmud was an Egyptian scientist and a prolific author. Dr. Mustafa Mahmoud was born in Shibin el-Kom, Munufiyya province, Egypt...
- Mahmoud El ManhalyMahmoud El ManhalyDr. Mahmoud El Manhaly is an Egyptian Sugaring plants scientist. El Manhaly was the manager of the Egyptian Research Institute of sugaring plants, and the technical consultant of Dr. Youssef Waly; the Egyptian former minister of Agriculture...
- Moustafa Mousharafa
- Sameera MoussaSameera MoussaSameera Moussa was an Egyptian nuclear scientist who held a doctorate in atomic radiation and worked to make the medical use of nuclear technology affordable to all...
- PtolemyPtolemyClaudius Ptolemy , was a Roman citizen of Egypt who wrote in Greek. He was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology. He lived in Egypt under Roman rule, and is believed to have been born in the town of Ptolemais Hermiou in the...
- Rushdi SaidRushdi SaidRushdi Said , was born in 1920 and educated at Cairo, Zurich, and Harvard Universities. He is the father of Egyptian geology, and is considered to be one of the most accomplished Egyptian scientists....
- Tarek ShawkiTarek ShawkiTarek Galal Shawki is currently the Director of the Regional Bureau for Science in Arab States. Prior to his appointment in June 2008, he was the Chief of the Section for "ICTs in Education, Science and Culture" within the "Information Society Division" in UNESCO . Dr...
- Elsayed Elsayed WagihElsayed Elsayed WagihElasayed Elsayed Wagih PhD, DIC, CIDTT is an Egyptian Professor of Virology and Biotechnology and vice President of the Arab Society for Biotechnology. He was born in Alexandria, Egypt...
- Ibn YunusIbn YunusIbn Yunus was an important Egyptian Muslim astronomer and mathematician, whose works are noted for being ahead of their time, having been based on meticulous calculations and attention to detail.The crater Ibn Yunus on the Moon is named after...
- Ahmed ibn YusufAhmed ibn YusufAbu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Yusuf ibn Ibrahim ibn Tammam al-Siddiq Al-Baghdadi , known in the West by his Latinized name Hametus, was an Arab mathematician, like his father Yusuf ibn Ibrahim .- Life :...
- Ahmed H. Zewail
Mathematicians
- Ahmad al-QalqashandiAhmad al-QalqashandiShihab al-Din abu 'l-Abbas Ahmad ben Ali ben Ahmad Abd Allah al-Qalqashandi was a medieval Egyptian writer and mathematician born in a village in the Nile Delta. He is the author of Subh al-a 'sha, a fourteen volume encyclopedia in Arabic, which included a section on cryptology...
- Abu- Ka-mil Shuja- ibn Aslam
- Taher ElgamalTaher ElgamalDr. Taher Elgamal is an Egyptian cryptographer. Elgamal is sometimes written as El Gamal or ElGamal, but Elgamal is now preferred...
- Caleb GattegnoCaleb GattegnoCaleb Gattegno Alexandria, Egypt is best known for his innovative approaches to teaching and learning mathematics , foreign languages and reading...
- Ibn YunusIbn YunusIbn Yunus was an important Egyptian Muslim astronomer and mathematician, whose works are noted for being ahead of their time, having been based on meticulous calculations and attention to detail.The crater Ibn Yunus on the Moon is named after...
- Ahmed ibn YusufAhmed ibn YusufAbu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Yusuf ibn Ibrahim ibn Tammam al-Siddiq Al-Baghdadi , known in the West by his Latinized name Hametus, was an Arab mathematician, like his father Yusuf ibn Ibrahim .- Life :...
Surgeons & Physicians
- Da'ud Abu al-FadlDa'ud Abu al-FadlDa'ud Abu al-Fadl was a Karaite Jewish physician who lived in Egypt in the twelfth century CE. He born at Cairo in 1161 and died there about 1242. Having studied medicine under the Jewish physician Hibat Allah ibn Jami, and under Abu al-Fafa'il ibn Naqid, he became the court physician of the...
- Alsayed Ali Ahmad AlshaykhAlsayed Ali Ahmad AlshaykhAlsayed Ali Ahmad Alshaykh was born in Alexandria and trained in Al Azhar University as a physician. He traveled around Egypt, the Middle East and Central Europe. These years were crucial to shaping his thoughts. On his return, he began to gather students in Cairo before Napoleon's French invasion...
- Yahya of AntiochYahya of AntiochYahya of Antioch, full name Yaḥya ibn Saʿīd al-Anṭākī , was a Melkite Christian physician and historian of the 11th century....
- Samy AzerSamy AzerProfessor Samy A. Azer was born in March 1953. He is an Australian Medical Educator who has made an input to Medical Education internationally.-Academic career:...
- Paul GhaliounguiPaul GhaliounguiPaul Ghalioungui or Ghalioungi , MD , MRCP , Professor of Medicine and former Chairman of Internal Medicine department, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University...
- Nagy HabibNagy HabibNagy Habib is a Professor of Surgery based in London.Professor of Hepto-biliary SurgeryDivision of Surgery, Oncology, Reproductive Biology and Anaesthetics,Imperial College London...
- Mohammed Aboul-Fotouh HassabMohammed Aboul-Fotouh HassabMohammed Aboul-Fotouh Hassab was an Egyptian gastro-intestinal surgeon. He is well known for the description of his operation Hassab’s decongestion operation for the treatment of oesophageal varices as a result of portal hypertension. Dr...
- Tarek Ali HassanTarek Ali HassanDr. Tarek Ali Hassan , is a professor of Medicine and Chief of Endocrinology at Al-Azhar University in Cairo. He is also a composer, musician, writer, painter, and philosopher. His music, in a modern polyphonic style, has been performed in Egypt and in many countries.Hassan has published major...
- Yusuf IdrisYusuf IdrisYusuf Idris, also Yusif Idris was an Egyptian writer of plays, short stories, and novels. Idris originally trained to be a doctor, studying at the University of Cairo...
- Magdy IshakMagdy IshakMagdy A Ishak MD, FRCS, CCIM, born 1947 in Suez, Egypt, is an orthopedic surgeon and the President of the . He is also Chairman of the Scottish-Egyptian Association and Vice Chairmanof the British Egyptian Society., he is also Chairman of M I Holdings....
- Naguib Pasha MahfouzNaguib Pasha MahfouzNaguib Mikhail Mahfouz is known as the father of obstetrics and gynaecology in Egypt and was a pioneer in obstetric fistula.-Early life:Mahfouz was born to a Coptic Christian family on the January 5, 1882 in the city of Mansoura in the delta of Egypt. He joined Kasr El Aini Medical School in 1898,...
- Ibrahim NagiIbrahim NagiIbrahim Nagi was an Egyptian poet. Nagi was also a doctor in internal medicine. Nagi's most famous poem is "El Atlal" or "The Ruins" which was eventually sang by famous Egyptian singer Om Kalthoom. He was a co founder of the Cairo Society for Romantic Poetry...
- Emin PashaEmin PashaMehmed Emin Pasha — he was born Isaak Eduard Schnitzer and baptized Eduard Carl Oscar Theodor Schnitzer — was a physician, naturalist, and governor of the Egyptian province of Equatoria on the upper Nile...
- Muhammed Taher PashaMuhammed Taher PashaMuhammed Taher Pasha was an Egyptian doctor of Turkish origin in political sciences and the founder of the Mediterranean Games...
- Ali ibn RidwanAli ibn RidwanAbu'l Hasan Ali ibn Ridwan Al-Misri was an Egyptian Muslim physician, astrologer and astronomer, born in Giza.He was a commentator on ancient Greek medicine, and in particular on Galen; his commentary on Galen's Ars Parva was translated by Gerardo Cremonese...
- Nawal El SaadawiNawal El SaadawiNawal El Saadawi , born October 27, 1931, is an Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician and psychiatrist. She has written many books on the subject of women in Islam, paying particular attention to the practice of female genital mutilation in her society....
- Hilana SedarousHilana SedarousDr Hilana Sedarous is the first Egyptian female doctor. Born in Tanta Egypt*After primary school she went to study at Sannia school in Cairo and after to the College of Teachers......
- Gorgi SobhiGorgi SobhiProfessor Gorgi Sobhi جورجى صبحى Professor of General Medicine, Professor of the History of Medicine and Professor of Egyptology.-Early life:...
- Isaac Israeli ben SolomonIsaac Israeli ben SolomonIsaac Israeli ben Solomon , also known as Isaac Israeli the Elder and Isaac Judaeus, was one of the foremost physicians and philosophers of his time. He is regarded as the father of medieval Jewish Neoplatonism...
- Sir Magdi Yacoub
Pioneering Women
- Kamilia AbdelfattahKamilia AbdelfattahProfessor Kamilia Ibrahim Abdelfattah is an Egyptian psychologist, and a pioneering Egyptian woman scientist in the field of child psychology and studies:-Academic career:...
- Hypatia of AlexandriaHypatia of AlexandriaHypatia was an Egyptian Neoplatonist philosopher who was the first notable woman in mathematics. As head of the Platonist school at Alexandria, she also taught philosophy and astronomy...
- Lotfia ElNadiLotfia ElNadiLotfia ElNadi was an Egyptian aviatrix .At the age of 26, Lotfia ElNadi became the first Egyptian female to fly a plane from Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt....
- Ester FanousEster FanousEster Akhnoukh Fanous or Esther Fanous, also known as Ester Wissa was an Egyptian Christian feminist and the daughter of doctor Akhnoukh Fanous and Balsam Wissa....
- Farkhonda HassanFarkhonda HassanFarkhonda Hassan is a professor of Geology at the American University in Cairo and is chair of the Commission on Human Development and Local Administration of the Shura Council.-Education:...
- HatshepsutHatshepsutHatshepsut also Hatchepsut; meaning Foremost of Noble Ladies;1508–1458 BC) was the fifth pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty of Ancient Egypt...
- Jihan Sadat
- Doria ShafikDoria ShafikDoria Shafiq was one of the women who led the women's liberation movement in Egypt in the early 1950s. As a result of her activities, Egyptian women now have the right to elect and nominate in the Egyptian constitution...
- Hoda Sharawy
- Cleopatra VII
- Safeya Zaghloul
Religious scholars and preachers
- AbassadAbassadAbassad was a bishop and martyr of the early Christian church. After being tortured in a variety of ways, he was beheaded by the command of Arrianus under Diocletian. His feast day is December 23.-References:...
- Muhammad AbduhMuhammad AbduhMuhammad Abduh was an Egyptian jurist, religious scholar and liberal reformer, regarded as the founder of Islamic Modernism...
- Hassan Al-BannaHassan al-BannaSheikh Hasan Ahmed Abdel Rahman Muhammed al-Banna known as Hasan al-Banna was a schoolteacher and imam, best known for founding the Muslim Brotherhood, one of the largest and most influential 20th century Muslim revivalist organizations.-Early life:Banna was born in 1906 in Mahmoudiyah, Egypt...
- Severus Ibn al-MuqaffaSeverus Ibn al-MuqaffaSeverus ibn al-Muqaffaʿ or Severus of El Ashmunein was a Coptic Bishop, author and historian. In Arabic, his name is spelled Sawires ساويرس. Severus is sometimes confused with Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa.He was bishop of Hermopolis Magna , in Upper Egypt, around the end of the tenth century...
- Yusuf Al-QaradawiYusuf al-QaradawiYusuf al-Qaradawi is a controversial Egyptian Islamic theologian. He is best known for his programme, ash-Shariah wal-Hayat , broadcast on Al Jazeera, which has an estimated audience of 60 million worldwide...
- Safwat Al-ShwadfySafwat Al-ShwadfyShiekh Safwat Al-Shwadify , was one of most prominent scholars and sheikhs in Egypt...
- Origen of Alexandria
- Pope Shenouda III of AlexandriaPope Shenouda III of AlexandriaPope Shenouda III of Alexandria is the 117th Pope of Alexandria and the Patriarch of All Africa on the Holy Apostolic See of Saint Mark the Evangelist of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria...
- Bishop AngaelosBishop AngaelosBishop Angaelos is a general bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria consecrated by Pope Shenouda III on 14 November 1999...
- Abadiu of AntinoeAbadiu of AntinoeAbadiu of Antinoe is a saint of the Coptic Church. He was the bishop of Antinoe, and was made a martyr by the Arians. His feast day is December 26. He is referenced in Les Martyrs d'Égypte by Hippolyte Delehaye.-References:...
- Saint Paphnutius the BishopSaint Paphnutius the BishopSaint Paphnutius the Bishop is an Egyptian saint from the tenth century AD.He was initially a monk in the Nitrian Desert. He exerted harsh asceticism and worship, ate dry beans, and fasted for many days in a row. He was later ordained a priest, and remained in the wilderness for 35 years...
- Abraam, Bishop of Faiyum
- Habib GirgisHabib GirgisArchdeacon Habib Kozman Girgis was a modern-day dean of the Catechetical School of Alexandria. Habib Girgis was born in Cairo in 1876....
- Mohamed Hassan
- Amr KhaledAmr KhaledAmr Mohamed Helmi Khaled is an Egyptian Muslim activist and television preacher. The New York Times Magazine, in reference to Khaled's popularity in Arab countries, described him in its April 30, 2006 issue as "the world's most famous and influential Muslim television preacher." Amr Khaled has...
- Abd al-Hamid KishkAbd al-Hamid KishkSheikh Abdul-Hamid Kishk was a well-known Egyptian preacher, scholar of Islam, activist, and author. He was a graduate of the prestigious Al-Azhar University in Cairo and was said to be known for his humour, popular sermons, and for "his outspoken stance against" music, restrictions on...
- Meletius of LycopolisMeletius of LycopolisMeletius was bishop of Lycopolis in Egypt. He is known to us mainly as the founder and namesake of the Melitians , one of several scismatic sects in early church history which were concerned about the ease with which lapsed Christians reentered the Church. See also DonatismThe details of his life...
- Abdel-Halim MahmoudAbdel-Halim MahmoudSheikh Abdel-Halim Mahmoud served as Grand Imam of Al Azhar from 1973 until his death in 1978...
- Matta El MeskeenMatta El MeskeenFather Matta El Meskeen or Matthew the Poor, born Youssef Iskandar was an Egyptian Coptic Orthodox monk. He was the key figure in the revival of Egyptian monasticism which began in 1969 when he was appointed to the Monastery of St Macarius in the Wadi El Natrun in Egypt...
- Anba MikhailAnba MikhailAnba Mikhail نيافة الأنبا ميخائيل مطران أسيوط , is the Elder Metropolitan of the Holy Metropolis of Asyut , Anba Mikhail نيافة الأنبا ميخائيل مطران أسيوط (born 1911 or 1912), is the Elder Metropolitan of the Holy Metropolis of Asyut (Lycopolis), Anba Mikhail نيافة الأنبا ميخائيل مطران أسيوط...
- John of NikiûJohn of NikiûJohn of Nikiû was an Egyptian Coptic bishop of Nikiû/Pashati in the Nile Delta and appointed general administrator of the monasteries of Upper Egypt in 696...
- Sayyed Qutb
- Bishop SerapionBishop SerapionBishop Serapion of the Los Angeles was born in Assiut on November 10, 1951. Following his graduation from the Faculty of Medicine at Assiut in 1975, Bishop Serapion formerly practiced medicine in Aswan.-Joining the Monastery:...
- Muhammad Metwally Al ShaarawyMuhammad Metwally Al ShaarawyMuhammad Metwally El-Shaarawy was an Egyptian Muslim jurist. -Early life:El-Shaarawy was born in Dakadous village, Mit Ghamr, Ad Daqahliyah, Egypt on April 15, 1911. He is a descendant of Ali ibn Abi Talib. He got married while he was in elementary school. He has three sons and two...
- Ahmed ShakerAhmed ShakerAḥmad Muḥammad Shākir was an Egyptian scholar of hadith.-Positions held:He graduated from and worked at Al-Azhar University and retired in 1951...
- Athanasius, Metropolitan of Beni SuefAthanasius, Metropolitan of Beni SuefMetropolitan Athanasius was the Coptic Orthodox bishop of Beni Suef and al-Bahnassa, Egypt, from 1962 until his death in 2000. Bishop Athanasius had, just as Pope Shenouda III, his roots in the Sunday School movement, a reform movement in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt...
- Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi
- Pope Cyril VIPope Cyril VI of AlexandriaFather Mina became Pope of Alexandria on 10 May 1959 . In accordance with the old Coptic church tradition, Pope Cyril VI was the only monk in the 20th century to be chosen for papacy without having being a bishop /Metropolitan first...
- Muhammad Hussein YacoubMuhammad Hussein YacoubMuhammad Hussein Yacoub Yacoub is a Salafi islamic scholar in Egypt, who has given hundreds of lectures in Da’wah. A number of his books are currently being published...
- Menassa YouhannaMenassa YouhannaFather Menassa Youhanna was a Coptic priest, historian and theologian, most noted for his work on the history of the Coptic Orthodox Church.- Biography :...
Saints
- Abdel Messih El-MakariAbdel Messih El-MakariFather Abdel Messih El-Makari was a Coptic Orthodox monk and priest, and a 20th century Coptic saint. Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria testified as to the holiness and asceticism of this contemporary saint.-Life:...
- Pope Abraham of AlexandriaPope Abraham of AlexandriaPope Abraham of Alexandria was the 62nd Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church from 975 to 978. He is considered a saint by the Coptic Orthodox Church.- Early life :...
- Abraam Bishop of FayoumAbraam Bishop of FayoumSaint Abram was a contemporary Coptic Orthodox saint. He was the Bishop of Faiyum and Giza, and was also known as the Friend of the Poor.- Biography :...
- Alexander of AlexandriaAlexander of AlexandriaAlexander of Alexandria was the nineteenth Patriarch of Alexandria from 313 to his death. During his patriarchate, he dealt with a number of issues relevant to a church's positions on issues facing the church. These included the dating of Easter, the actions of Meletius of Lycopolis, and the issue...
- Saint AmunSaint AmunAmmon or Amun was a saint and hermit of Egypt. He was one of the most venerated ascetics of the Nitrian Desert, and Saint Athanasius mentions him in his life of Saint Anthony...
- Anianus of AlexandriaAnianus of AlexandriaAnianus of Alexandria was the Patriarch of Alexandria from 68 to 82, a position which preceded the Popes of the Coptic Orthodox Church. He was ordained as the successor of Saint Mark the Evangelist, and was also the first convert Mark won to Christianity in the region.-Saint Mark:As Mark was...
- Anthony the GreatAnthony the GreatAnthony the Great or Antony the Great , , also known as Saint Anthony, Anthony the Abbot, Anthony of Egypt, Anthony of the Desert, Anthony the Anchorite, Abba Antonius , and Father of All Monks, was a Christian saint from Egypt, a prominent leader among the Desert Fathers...
- Saint ApolloniaSaint ApolloniaSaint 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 legend, her torture included having all of her teeth violently pulled out or shattered...
- Athanasius of AlexandriaAthanasius of AlexandriaAthanasius of Alexandria [b. ca. – d. 2 May 373] is also given the titles St. Athanasius the Great, St. Athanasius I of Alexandria, St Athanasius the Confessor and St Athanasius the Apostolic. He was the 20th bishop of Alexandria. His long episcopate lasted 45 years Athanasius of Alexandria [b....
- Mar AwginMar AwginMar Awgin , also known as Saint Eugenios, founded the first cenobitic monastery of Asia.Originally, Saint Eugenios was a pearl-fisher from the island Clysma or Kolzum near Suez in Egypt. After having worked for 25 years, he joined the monastery of Pachomius in Upper Egypt, where he worked as a baker...
- Catherine of AlexandriaCatherine of AlexandriaSaint Catherine of Alexandria, also known as Saint Catherine of the Wheel and The Great Martyr Saint Catherine is, according to tradition, a Christian saint and virgin, who was martyred in the early 4th century at the hands of the pagan emperor Maxentius...
- Saints Chrysanthus and DariaSaints Chrysanthus and DariaSaints Chrysanthus and Daria are saints of the Early Christian period. According to legend, Chrysanthus was the only son of an Egyptian patrician, named Polemius or Poleon, who lived during the reign of Numerian. His father moved from Alexandria to Rome. Chrysanthus was educated in the finest...
- Cyril of AlexandriaCyril of AlexandriaCyril of Alexandria was the Patriarch of Alexandria from 412 to 444. He came to power when the city was at its height of influence and power within the Roman Empire. Cyril wrote extensively and was a leading protagonist in the Christological controversies of the later 4th and 5th centuries...
- Cyril VICyril VICyril VI may refer to:* Cyril VI Tanas, Patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church* Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Pope and Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria...
- Cyrus and JohnCyrus and JohnSaints Cyrus and John are venerated as martyrs. They are especially venerated by the Coptic Church and surnamed Wonderworking Unmercenaries because they healed the sick free of charge....
- Demetrius of AlexandriaDemetrius of AlexandriaPope Demetrius of Alexandria was Patriarch of Alexandria . Sextus Julius Africanus, who visited Alexandria in the time of Demetrius, places his accession as eleventh bishop after Mark in the tenth year of Commodus; Eusebius of Caesarea's statement that it was in the tenth of Septimius Severus is a...
- DemianaDemianaSaint Demiana and the 40 Virgins, , also known as the Chaste Martyr Saint Demiana, is an Egyptian martyr of the early fourth century.-Birth and Childhood of St. Demiana:...
- DorotheaDorothea of AlexandriaSaint Dorothea of Alexandria is venerated as a virgin martyr. Her legend states that she was courted by the Emperor Maximinus. She rejected his suit in favor of her adherence to Christianity and her commitment to virginity, and he had her beheaded circa 320.-Historicity:Eusebius of Caesarea...
- Dioscorus of AlexandriaDioscorus of AlexandriaPope Dioscorus I of Alexandria was Patriarch of Alexandria from 444. He was deposed by the Council of Chalcedon in 451 but was recognized as Patriarch by the Coptic Church until his death. He died in Asia Minor, on September 17, 454...
- Euphrosyne of AlexandriaEuphrosyne of AlexandriaSaint Euphrosyne of Alexandria belongs to that group of legendary virgins who flee advantageous marriages and adopt male attire and pass for men, in order to lead lives of celibacy and asceticism....
- Felix and RegulaFelix and RegulaThe saints Felix and Regula are Coptic Orthodox and Roman Catholic saints, together with their servant Exuperantius, and are the patron saints of Zürich, their feast day being 11 September at the head of the Coptic Calendar....
- HilarionHilarionHilarion was an anchorite who spent most of his life in the desert according to the example of Anthony the Great.-Early life:Hilarion was born in Thabatha, south of Gaza in Syria Palaestina of pagan parents. He successfully studied rhetoric with a Grammarian in Alexandria. It seems that he was...
- Hyacinth and ProtusHyacinth and ProtusSaints Protus and Hyacinth were Christian martyrs during the persecution of Emperor Valerian I . Protus' name is sometimes spelled Protatius, Proteus, Prothus, Prote, and Proto. His name was corrupted in England as Saint Pratt...
- John the Short
- Macarius of EgyptMacarius of EgyptMacarius of Egypt was an Egyptian Christian monk and hermit. He is also known as Macarius the Elder, Macarius the Great and The Lamp of the Desert.-Life:...
- Macarius of AlexandriaMacarius of AlexandriaSaint Macarius of Alexandria 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. He was also known as ho politikos. He was an extreme ascetic, and numerous miracles were ascribed to him...
- Mary of EgyptMary of EgyptMary of Egypt is revered as the patron saint of penitents, most particularly in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic churches, as well as in the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches.-Life:...
- Pope Matthew I of Alexandria
- Saint MauriceSaint MauriceSaint Maurice was the leader of the legendary Roman Theban Legion in the 3rd century, and one of the favorite and most widely venerated saints of that group. He was the patron saint of several professions, locales, and kingdoms...
- Saint MenasSaint MenasSaint Menas , the Martyr and Wonder-worker, is one of the most well-known Egyptian saints in the East and the West, due to the many miracles that are attributed to his intercession and prayers...
- Moses the BlackMoses the BlackSaint Moses the Black , was an ascetic monk and priest in Egypt in the fourth century AD.-Early life:...
- Saint NilusNilus of SinaiSaint Nilus the Elder, of Sinai , was one of the many disciples and fervent defenders of St. John Chrysostom.-Life:We know him first as a layman, married, with two sons...
- OnuphriusOnuphriusOnuphrius or Onoufrios , venerated as Saint Onuphrius in both the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Catholic Churches; Venerable Onuphrius in Eastern Orthodoxy and Saint Nofer the Anchorite in Oriental Orthodoxy, lived as a hermit in the desert of Upper Egypt in the 4th or 5th centuries.-Life and...
- Pakhom
- Saint Pambo
- ParsomaParsomaSaint Parsoma the Naked is an Egyptian saint, recognized solely by the Coptic Orthodox Church.-Early life:...
- Paul of TammahPaul of TammahSaint Paul of Tammah was an Egyptian saint who lived in the fourth and fifth centuries AD. He is venerated only in the Coptic Orthodox Church.-Life:...
- Paul the SimplePaul the SimplePaul the Simple was a contemporary of St. Anthony and a younger contemporary of St. Paul of Egypt, the First Hermit. The account of his life is found in Palladius of Helenopolis De Vitis Patrum 8,28 and Tyrannius Rufinus Historia Eremitica 31.Originally a farmer, upon discovering that his wife was...
- Pavly the Anchorite
- Peter of Alexandria
- PishoyPishoySaint Pishoy , known in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria as the Star of the Desert and the Beloved of our Good Savior, is an Egyptian desert father. He is said to have seen Jesus and that his body is preserved to the present day in incorruptibility at the Monastery of Saint Pishoy at the...
- Samuel the ConfessorSamuel the ConfessorSaint Samuel the Confessor is a Coptic Orthodox saint, venerated in all Oriental Orthodox Churches...
- Saint SarahSaint SarahSaint Sarah, also known as Sara-la-Kali , is the mythic patron saint of the Roma people. The center of her veneration is Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, a place of pilgrimage for Roma in the Camargue, in southern France...
- Serapion Bishop of ThmuisSerapion Bishop of ThmuisThe Sacramentary of Serapion of Thmuis is a work of Saint Serapion, or Sarapion , bishop of Thmuis in the Nile Delta and a prominent supporter of Athanasius in the struggle against Arianism...
- Saint Shenouda the ArchimandriteSaint Shenouda the ArchimandriteSaint Shenoute the Archimandrite was the abbot of the White Monastery in Egypt. He is considered a saint by the Oriental Orthodox Churches, and is one of the most renowned saints of the Coptic Orthodox Church....
- Simon the TannerSimon the TannerSimon the Tanner , also known as Saint Simon the Shoemaker , is the Coptic Orthodox saint associated with the story of the moving the Mokattam Mountain in Cairo, Egypt, during the rule of the Muslim Fatimid Caliph al-Muizz Lideenillah while Abraham the Syrian was the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox...
- VerenaVerenaVerena is venerated as a saint by the Coptic Orthodox Church and by the Roman Catholic Church. According to tradition, she was associated with the Theban Legion and died on the 4th day of Thout ....
Athletes
- Alaa AbdelnabyAlaa AbdelnabyAlaa Abdelnaby is a retired Egyptian-American professional basketball player. He played for Duke University in college and then played in the NBA and CBA, among other leagues.-Early life:Abdelnaby was born in Cairo, Egypt...
- Nagui AsaadNagui AsaadNagui Asaad Youssef ناجى أسعد, , is an Egyptian athlete who represented Egypt in the international events in the 1970s and early 1980s in shot put and discus throw.-Biography:...
- Ahmed Mohamed AshoushAhmed Mohamed AshoushAhmed Mohamed Ashoush is an Egyptian athlete .* Three times African champion in shot put, in 1984, 1985 and 1988.* Won a bronze medal at the 1987 All-Africa Games.-Achievements:-References:...
- Hisham GreisHisham GreisHisham Fouad Greis is a retired male track and field athlete from Egypt, one of only a few Egyptian athletes to have won gold medals at the African athletic events...
- Hassan Ahmed HamadHassan Ahmed HamadHassan Ahmed Hamad is an Egyptian athlete who was a member of the Egyptian Athletics team between 1978 and 1992.He was a member of one of the strongest Egyptian teams in throw events with Nagui Asaad, Hisham Greis and Mohamed Naguib Hamed, this team is considered to be the strongest team Egypt...
- Mohamed Naguib HamedMohamed Naguib HamedMohamed Naguib Hamed is an Egyptian athlete, one of only a few Egyptians to win gold medals in African athletic events.Along with his colleagues Nagui Asaad, Hassan Ahmed Hamad, and Hisham Greis, he formed a strong Egyptian team in throwing events—in fact, a team considered to be the strongest one...
- Dionysios KasdaglisDionysios KasdaglisDionysios Kasdaglis was a Greek-Egyptian tennis player. He competed in the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.-Career:Kasdaglis, the only competitor from Egypt, made it to the finals in both the singles and doubles events...
- Hanan Ahmed KhaledHanan Ahmed KhaledHanan Ahmed Khaled is an Egyptian female athlete The most successful female athlete in the history Egyptian athletics winning a total of two gold medals in All-Africa Games, four gold, five silver and two Bronze medals in African Athletic championships in discus throw and shot put.She also played...
- Hatem MersalHatem MersalHatem Mohamed Mersal is an Egyptian long jumper.His personal best jump is 8.31 metres, achieved in June 1999 in Oslo. This is the current national record.-Achievements:-References:...
- Khadr El TouniKhadr El TouniKhadr Sayed El Touni was an Egyptian weightlifter. Until recently he was ranked #1 on the list of history's 50 greatest weightlifters issued by the International Weightlifting Federation...
Football/soccer players
- Mohamed AboutreikaMohamed AboutreikaMohamed Aboutrika is an Egyptian footballer. Aboutrika plays as a second striker and as an attacking midfielder for the Egyptian team Al-Ahly and the Egyptian national football team....
- Taher AbouzaidTaher AbouzaidAmer Taher Abouzeid Sayed is a retired Egyptian footballer. He played as a midfielder for El-Ahly and the Egyptian national team....
- Mahmoud El-GoharyMahmoud El-GoharyMahmoud El-Gohary is an Egyptian football coach and former player.-Career:El-Gohary is one of the most important figures in the history of Egyptian and African football, and is considered by many as the best Egyptian football coach ever. He was the top scorer of the 1959 edition of the African...
- Essam El-HadaryEssam El-HadaryEssam El-Hadary is an Egyptian goalkeeper, playing for Sudan Premier League side El-Merreikh.-Club career:Swiss club FC Sion announced that they had signed El-Hadary to a four-year contract in February 2008, despite claims to the contrary from his club Al-Ahly...
- Mahmoud El-KhateebMahmoud El-KhateebMahmoud El-Khatib popularly nicknamed Bibo, is a former Egyptian football player.-Career:*"Bibo" played for Al-Ahly between 1972–1988 and for the Egyptian National Team between 1974-1986...
- Hazem EmamHazem EmamHazem Emam is a retired Egyptian footballer. He spent most of his career as an attacking midfielder for Zamalek SC. Hazem is one of the most talented players in the history of Egyptian football, and one of the most popular players ever in the Middle East.-Early life:Hazem was born in Mohandessin,...
- Ahmed Fathi
- Hossam GhalyHossam GhalyHossam El Sayed Ghali is an Egyptian football midfielder. He is the team captain of the Egyptian Premier League side Al-Ahly. Ghali plays mainly as a central midfielder, less frequently as a right full-back and due to injuries even an outside midfielder...
- Gamal Abdel Hamid
- Gamal HamzaGamal HamzaGamal Hamza is an Egyptian football striker. He currently plays for the Egyptian Premier League side El Gouna FC.-Zamalek:...
- Ahmed HassanAhmed HassanAhmed Hassan is an Egyptian footballer. He currently plays as an attacking midfielder or on the right wing for the Egyptian Premier League club Zamalek SC and the Egyptian national team...
- Hossam HassanHossam HassanHossam Hassan Hussein is a retired Egyptian footballer who played as a striker, and a current coach.A prolific goalscorer, he amassed well over 150 caps for Egypt, netting more than 50 times...
- Mido
- Emad MoteabEmad MoteabEmad Moteab is an Egyptian football striker. He plays for Al-Ahly Egyptian club as well as the Egyptian national team...
- Hany RamzyHany RamzyHany Guda Ramzy is an Egyptian international football defender. He is the current Head Coach of the Egypt U23 national football team.-Early life:...
- Ibrahim SaidIbrahim SaidIbrahim Said is an Egyptian footballer. He currently plays for Ittihad Alexandria, as well as the Egyptian national team.-With Al Ahly:...
- Saleh Seleem
- Hassan ShehataHassan ShehataHassan Shehata is an Egyptian football coach and former player, currently the head coach of the Zamalek SC.He was the head coach Egyptian national team from 2004 to 2011...
- ShikabalaShikabalaMahmoud Abdel Razek Fadlallah , commonly known as Shikabala is an Egyptian footballer who currently plays for Egyptian Premier League club Zamalek SC, where he started his football career...
- Amr ZakiAmr ZakiAmr Zaki is an Egyptian footballer who currently plays as a striker for Zamalek and the Egypt national team. He is known for his strong headers and for being a top striker in Africa.-Early career:...
- Mohamed ZidanMohamed ZidanMohamed Abdullah Zidan is an Egyptian footballer. He currently plays as a striker for the German club Borussia Dortmund as well as the Egyptian national team. Nicknamed "Zizou", he is known for putting unique designs in his hair.-Early career:Zidan was born in Port Said, Egypt, to an Egyptian...
Other sports
- Ramy AshourRamy AshourRamy Mohamed Ashour is a professional squash player from Egypt. He reached world No. 1 in January, 2010, after beating Nick Matthew in the final of the 2009 Saudi International Squash Tournament. At 22 he became the youngest player to achieve world No. 1 since the Khan era, having previously been...
- Lamia Bahnasawy
- Ahmed BaradaAhmed BaradaAhmed Barada is a former professional squash player from Egypt. He finished runner-up at both the World Open and the Super Series Finals in 1999 . His career-high world ranking was World No...
- Ismail EssamIsmail EssamIsmail Essam is an athlete from Egypt. He competes in archery.Essam competed at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery. He was defeated in the first round of elimination on both occasions, placing 56th overall in 2000 and 62nd in 2004.-References:...
- Ahmed HamadaAhmed HamadaAhmed Hamada,, known as "Hamada", is an Egyptian racing driver. After eight years in racing, achieving third position overall in the Zip Thunderarabia Middle East Championship as well as racing with the same team, ERTMD in the Chevrolet Lumina CSV Middle East Championship and finishing fourth...
- Esmat MansourEsmat MansourEsmat Mansour is an Egyptian weightlifter who competed in the Women's 58 kg at the 2005 World Championships in Doha, Qatar and reached the 6th spot with 204 kg in total. In 2009 she established six new African weightlifting records.-References:...
- Lucy RokachLucy RokachLucienne "Lucy" Rokach is an English professional poker player from Stoke-on-Trent. She was born in Cairo, Egypt and is now regarded as one of the top female players in Europe...
- Mark SeifMark SeifMark Seif is an Egyptian American attorney and professional poker player.-Personal life:Seif was born in Cairo, Egypt before moving with his family at the age of two, to Southern California...
- Amr ShabanaAmr ShabanaAmr Shabana is a professional squash player from Egypt. He won the World Open in 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009, and reached the World No. 1 ranking in 2006.-Career overview:...
- Sam SolimanSam SolimanSam Soliman is an Australian boxer of Coptic Egyptian descent. Soliman began his boxing career after studying multiple forms of martial arts, such as Tae Kwon Do, Karate, and Kick-Boxing.-Amateur Boxing Career:...
- Nasser El SonbatyNasser El SonbatyNasser El Sonbaty is a retired IFBB professional bodybuilder.-Biography:A graduate from the University of Augsburg in Germany, earning a university degree in history, political science and sociology, El Sonbaty began bodybuilding in 1983. His first competition was a Junior State Championship in...
Prime Ministers of Egypt
- Kamal Hassan AliKamal Hassan AliGeneral Kamal Hassan Ali was an Egyptian politician and military hero. He was Prime Minister of Egypt from 17 July 1984 to 4 September 1985.Ali was involved in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and the Yom Kippur War. He was head of the Egyptian Intelligence Service from 1975 to 1978. After that, he...
- Atef EbeidAtef EbeidAtef Muhammad Ebeid was the Prime Minister of Egypt from October 1999 to July 2004. President Hosni Mubarak invited him to form the new government after the parliamentary elections in 1999. Ebeid was sworn in on 5 October 1999, replacing Kamal Ganzouri.-Early career and Education:Dr...
- Mahmoud Sami el-Baroudi
- Mustafa el-Nahhas
- Mahmoud FawziMahmoud FawziMahmoud Fawzi was an Egyptian diplomat and political figure from Circassian origin, . He was born and died in Cairo....
- Kamal GanzouriKamal GanzouriKamal Ganzouri is an Egyptian economist who became Prime Minister-Designate of Egypt in November 2011. He served as Prime Minister from 1996 to 1999. He came to power in 1996 succeeding Atef Sedki, and was in turn succeeded by Atef Ebeid in 1999...
- Boutros GhaliBoutros GhaliBoutros Ghali was the Prime Minister of Egypt from 1908 to 1910. He was a Coptic Christian.Ghali was accused of favouring the British in the Denshawai incident and on February 20, 1910, was assassinated by Ibrahim Nassif al-Wardani, a young pharmacology graduate who had just returned from the...
- Abd El Aziz Muhammad Hejazi
- Mustafa KhalilMustafa KhalilMustafa Khalil was an Egyptian politician. He served as the Prime Minister of Egypt from October 2, 1978 to May 15, 1980. Khalil also served as the Egyptian foreign minister from 1979 until 1980. Khalil was best known for helping to negotiate the 1979 Camp David Accord peace treaty between Egypt...
- Ali Lutfi MahmudAli Lutfi MahmudAli Mahmoud Lutfi served as Prime Minister of Egypt from 4 September 1985 to 9 November 1986.-References:...
- Ahmad Fuad MohieddinAhmad Fuad MohieddinAhmad Fuad Mohieddin was from 2 January 1982 to 5 June 1984 the Prime Minister of Egypt. He was a member of the National Democratic Party .-References:...
- Zakaria MohieddinZakaria MohieddinZakaria Mohieddin was an Egyptian military officer, politician, Prime Minister of Egypt and head of the first Intelligence body in Egypt, the Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate.-Overview:...
- Hosni MubarakHosni MubarakMuhammad Hosni Sayyid Mubarak is a former Egyptian politician and military commander. He served as the fourth President of Egypt from 1981 to 2011....
- Muhammad NaguibMuhammad NaguibMuhammad Naguib was the first President of Egypt, serving from the declaration of the Republic on June 18, 1953 to November 14, 1954. Along with Gamal Abdel Nasser, he was the primary leader of the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, which ended the rule of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty in Egypt and Sudan...
- Gamal Abdel NasserGamal Abdel NasserGamal Abdel Nasser Hussein was the second President of Egypt from 1956 until his death. A colonel in the Egyptian army, Nasser led the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 along with Muhammad Naguib, the first president, which overthrew the monarchy of Egypt and Sudan, and heralded a new period of...
- Ahmed NazifAhmed NazifAhmed Nazif served as the Prime Minister of Egypt from 14 July 2004 to 29 January 2011, when his cabinet was dismissed by President Hosni Mubarak in light of a popular uprising that led to the Egyptian Revolution of 2011...
- Abdel Fattah Yahya Ibrahim PashaAbdel Fattah Yahya Ibrahim PashaYahya, Pasha Ibrahim was an Egyptian political figure. He served as Prime Minister of Egypt from 1923 to 1924....
- Abdel Khaliq Sarwat PashaAbdel Khaliq Sarwat PashaAbdel Khaliq Sarwat Pasha was an Egyptian political figure. He served as the Prime Minister of Egypt from 1 March 1922 until 30 November 1922, and again between 26 April 1927 and 16 March 1928....
- Adli Yakan PashaAdli Yakan PashaAdli Yakan Pasha , sometimes referred to as Adly Pasha, was an Egyptian political figure. He served as Prime Minister of Egypt between 1921 and 1922, again between 1926 and 1927, and finally in 1929. He held several prominent political posts including Foreign Minister, Interior Minister and...
- Ahmad Mahir PashaAhmad Mahir PashaAhmed Maher Pasha was the Prime Minister of Egypt from October 10, 1944 to February 24, 1945. He was a member of the Saadist Institutional Party and was appointed Prime Minister following the removal of Mustafa an-Nahhas Pasha by King Farouk.After assuming power he called for new elections and...
- Ahmad Ziwar PashaAhmad Ziwar PashaAhmad Ziwar Pasha was the prime minister of Egypt from 24 November 1924 to 7 June 1926....
- Ali Mahir PashaAli Mahir PashaAli Mahir Pasha was an Egyptian political figure. He served as Prime Minister of Egypt from 30 January 1936 to 9 May 1936, a second term from 18 August 1939 to 28 June 1940, a third term from 27 January 1952 to 2 March 1952 and a final fourth term from 23 July 1952 to 7 September 1952...
- Hassan Sabry PashaHassan Sabry PashaHassan Sabry Pasha was Prime Minister of Egypt from June 28, 1940 to November 11, 1940. He succeeded Ali Mahir Pasha.He was appointed by King Farouk to form a coalition Cabinet in June 1940...
- Hussein Rushdi PashaHussein Rushdi PashaHusayn, Pasha Rushdi was an Egyptian political figure of Turkish originwho served as Prime Minister of Egypt between 1914 and 1919. Under pressure from British authorities, Rushdi issued a “Decision of the Council of Ministers” which essentially declared war against the Central Powers in the...
- Hussein Sirri PashaHussein Sirri PashaHussein Sirri Pasha was an Egyptian politician. He served as Prime Minister of Egypt for three short periods, during which he also served as foreign minister. He first served as prime minister from 1940 until 1942 during the height of Egypt's involvement in World War II as the Germans invaded and...
- Isma'il PashaIsma'il PashaIsma'il Pasha , known as Ismail the Magnificent , was the Khedive of Egypt and Sudan from 1863 to 1879, when he was removed at the behest of the United Kingdom...
- Mahmoud an-Nukrashi PashaMahmoud an-Nukrashi PashaMahmoud Fahmi an-Nukrashi Pasha was an Egyptian political figure. He served as the prime minister of Egypt between 1945 and 1946 and again from 1946 and 1948. He was assassinated by a 21 year-old student and member of the Muslim Brotherhood, disguised as a police official, while in office....
- Muhammad Mahmoud PashaMuhammad Mahmoud PashaMuhammad Mahmud Pasha was Prime Minister of Egypt twice.Mahmud first became Prime Minister from June 27, 1928 to October 4, 1929, running under the Liberal Constitutional Party. When he left office, Sir Percy Lyham Loraine led Egypt as Governor General for two months until a new Prime Minister...
- Muhammad Said PashaMuhammad Said PashaMuhammad Said Pasha , was Prime Minister of Egypt from 1910 to 1914, and again in 1919. He was born in Alexandria to a family of Turkish origin.-References:...
- Muhammad Sharif PashaMuhammad Sharif PashaMuhammad Sharif Pasha was an Egyptian statesman of Turkish origin. He served as Prime Minister of Egypt three times during his career. His first term was between April 7, 1879 and August 18, 1879. His second term was served from September 14, 1881 to February 4, 1882...
- Muhammad Tawfiq Nasim PashaMuhammad Tawfiq Nasim PashaMuhammad Tawfiq Nasim Pasha was an Egyptian political figure of Turkish origin. He served as the prime minister of Egypt between May 1920 and 1921, again from 1922 until 1923, and finally between 1934 and 1936...
- Nubar PashaNubar PashaNubar Pasha was an Egyptian politician and the first Prime Minister of Egypt. He served as Prime Minister three times during his career. His first term was between August 1878 and February 23, 1879. His second term was served from January 10, 1884 to June 9, 1888...
- Raghib PashaRaghib PashaIsma'il ibn Ahmad ibn Hassan bani Yani , known simply as Isma'il Ragheb Pasha , was a Greek Ottoman politician who served as Prime Minister of Egypt and held several other high-ranking government positions.-Biography:...
- Riyad PashaRiyad PashaRiyad Pasha was an Egyptian statesman. His name can also be spelled Riaz Pasha and Riyāḍ Bāshā . He served as Prime Minister of Egypt three times during his career. His first term was between September 21, 1879 and September 10, 1881. His second term was from June 9, 1888 to May 12, 1891...
- Tewfik PashaTewfik PashaHH Muhammed Tewfik Pasha ' was Khedive of Egypt and Sudan between 1879 and 1892, and the sixth ruler from the Muhammad Ali Dynasty.-Early life:...
- Ali SabriAli SabriAli Sabri was an Egyptian politician of Turkish origin.He was one of the second row of 1952 revolution officers, he was the head of Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate from 1956 to 1957...
- Anwar El Sadat
- Mamdouh SalemMamdouh SalemMamdouh Muhammad Salem was the Prime Minister of Egypt from April 16, 1975 to October 2, 1978.Salem was born in Alexandria, Egypt. He served as governor of Asyut, Gaarbiya and Alexandria from 1967 to 1971 and then served as interior minister...
- Atef SedkiAtef SedkiAtef Muhammad Naguib Sedki was the Prime Minister of Egypt from 1986 until 1996. He replaced Ali Mahmoud Lutfi on November 10, 1986.-Biography:...
- Aziz SedkiAziz SedkiAziz Sedki was an Egyptian politician and engineer. Sedki served as the Prime Minister of Egypt from January 17, 1972 until March 23, 1976. He was nicknamed the "father of Egyptian industry."-Early life:...
- Essam SharafEssam SharafEssam Abdel-Aziz Sharaf is an Egyptian academic who has been Prime Minister of Egypt since 3 March 2011. He served as Minister of Transportation from 2004 to 2005.-Early life and education:...
- Youssef WahbaYoussef WahbaYoussef Wahba Pasha Egypt ian Prime Minister and jurist.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 that included Muslim scholars such as Abdallah Nadim and Sheikh Muhammed Abduh...
- Saad Zaghloul
Egyptian military personnel
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- Ahmed Ali al-MwawiAhmed Ali al-MwawiAhmed Abdullah Al-Mwawi , also Mawawi or Muwawi, was a Major General in the Egyptian Army. He served as the General Commander of the Egyptian expeditionary force during 1948 Arab–Israeli War....
- Ahmad Ismail AliAhmad Ismail AliAhmad Ismail Ali was the Commander-in-Chief of Egypt's army and minister of war during the Yom Kippur War...
- Kamal Hassan AliKamal Hassan AliGeneral Kamal Hassan Ali was an Egyptian politician and military hero. He was Prime Minister of Egypt from 17 July 1984 to 4 September 1985.Ali was involved in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and the Yom Kippur War. He was head of the Egyptian Intelligence Service from 1975 to 1978. After that, he...
- Abdel Hakim AmerAbdel Hakim AmerMohamed Abdel Hakim Amer was an Egyptian general and political leader. Born in Astal, Samallot, in the Al Minya Governorate in 1919, he served in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, took part in the 1952 Revolution and commanded the Egyptian Army in the Suez Crisis, the North Yemen Civil War and the...
- Murad BeyMurad BeyMurad Bey was an Egyptian Mamluk chieftain , cavalry commander and joint ruler of Egypt with Ibrahim Bey. He was of Georgian origin having been born in Tbilisi....
- Abdel Ghani el-GamasyAbdel Ghani el-GamasyMohamed Abdel Ghani el-Gamasy was an Egyptian Field Marshal and The Commander in Chief of The Armed Forces.- Early life :El Gamasy was born on 9 September 1921 in Batanoon, Monufia Governorate, Egypt...
- Mahmoud Abdel Rahman FahmyMahmoud Abdel Rahman FahmyRear Admiral Mahmoud Abdel Rahman Fahmy , was Commander of the Egyptian Naval Forces and Vice Defense Minister from 12 February 1972 to October 24, 1972...
- Mohammed Aly FahmyMohammed Aly FahmyField Marshal Mohammed Aly Fahmy graduated from the Egyptian Military Academy in November 1939. He was the commander of the Egyptian Air Defense Command from May 1969 to January 1975 and chief- of - staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces from January 1975 to October 1978.He participated in World War...
- Mahmoud FehmyMahmoud FehmyMahmoud Fehmy was an Egyptian general. He was the Egyptian second in command in the Battle of Tel el-Kebir. When General Sir Drury Curzon Drury-Lowe, in charge of British cavalry, saw him after the Battle of Kassasin, thinking he was a "respectable looking gentleman", and talked with him, a...
- Abd al-Halim Abu GhazalaAbd al-Halim Abu GhazalaField Marshal Mohamed Abd al-Halim Abu Ghazala was Defense Minister of Egypt from 1981 to 1989, when former Egyptian president Mubarak removed him from office due to claims that he was involved in a missile-parts illegal import scandal from the United States, by violating U.S. export laws...
- Adel Amin HafezAdel Amin HafezAdel Amin Hafez 1 March 1919 - 27 August 2010) was Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Air Force from 1964 to 1966. In September 1949 he became the first Egyptian aviator to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an Egyptian aircraft...
- Mahmoud KabilMahmoud KabilMahmoud Kabil is an award-winning Egyptian actor and political activist. He is also the UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for the Middle East and North Africa. Kabil served as an officer in the Military of Egypt's Special Forces before becoming a promising actor in Egyptian cinema during the 1970s. ...
- Abd-Al-Minaam KhaleelAbd-Al-Minaam KhaleelGeneral Abd-Al-Minaam Khaleel graduated from the Egyptian Military Academy in 1941. He assumed command of the Egyptian 2nd Army during the Yom Kippur War, replacing Major General Saaduddin Mamun.- External links :...
- Suleiman KhaterSuleiman KhaterSuleiman Mohammed Abdul-Hamid Khater was an Egyptian soldier who on October 5, 1985 opened fire on Israeli tourists who apparently ignored orders to move away from a military post in the Sinai, killing seven...
- Rashad Mehanna
- Ali MohamedAli MohamedAli Abdul Saoud Mohamed, is a double agent who worked for both the CIA and Egyptian Islamic Jihad simultaneously, reporting on the workings of each for the benefit of the other....
- Zakaria MohieddinZakaria MohieddinZakaria Mohieddin was an Egyptian military officer, politician, Prime Minister of Egypt and head of the first Intelligence body in Egypt, the Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate.-Overview:...
- Hussein Refki PashaHussein Refki PashaHussein Refki Pasha Ahmed Hafez Mohammed Hafez was an Egyptian military general and political figure.-Career:Hussein Refki Pasha served as Egypt's Minister of War and Marine from December 1937 to April 1938, during the early reign of King Farouk I of Egypt...
- Ibrahim Pasha
- Frederick Peake
- James F. M. PrinsepJames F. M. PrinsepJames Frederick McLeod Prinsep was an English footballer who held two 'youngest player' records for almost 125 years, before they were both broken within the space of just over a year....
- Abdul Munim RiadAbdul Munim RiadAbdul Munim Riad was a general and chief of staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces. He was killed along with several of his aides in an Israeli mortar attack on March 9 1969...
- Magdy Galal SharawiMagdy Galal SharawiAir Marshal Magdy Galal Sharawi is a retired senior Egyptian Air Force officer. From 2002 to 2008, he was the Commander of the Egyptian Air Force....
- Saad El ShazlySaad El ShazlySaad Mohamed el-Husseiny el-Shazly was an Egyptian military personality. He was Egypt's chief of staff during the October War...
- Youssef Sabri Abu TalebYoussef Sabri Abu TalebYousef Sabri Abu Taleb Gad Al-Haq was an Egyptian Colonel General and The Commander in Chief of The Armed Forces.-Early life:Yousef Abu Taleb was born on 24 May 1929. He graduated from the Military academy...
- Mohamed Hussein Tantawi
- Abdul Munim WasselAbdul Munim WasselMajor General Abdul Munim Wassel was the commander of the Egyptian third army during the Yom Kippur War.-External links:* http://www.defencejournal.com/2002/nov/4th-round.htm...
- Abu ZikryAbu ZikryMarshal Fouad Mohamed Abou Zikry , was Commander of the Egyptian Naval Forces and Vice Defense Minister from 12 February 1972 to October 24, 1972...