The following is a list of some of the notable Egyptians, inside and outside of Egypt:
Actors Male actors
Abdel Moneim Madbouly Adel Emam Ahmed Zaki Ahmed El-Fishawy Ahmed El Sakka Ahmed El Saadany Ahmed Ezz Ahmed Helmy Ahmed Malek Ahmed Mekky Ahmed Ramzy Ali Mansur Amr Waked Anwar Wagdy Ashraf Abdel Baqi Emad Hamdy Ezzat Abou Aouf Fareed Shawky George Sidhom Hassan Youssef Hussein Fahmy Ismail Yaseen Kamal El Shennawy Kal Naga Karim Abdel Aziz Karim Mahmoud Abdel Aziz Maged el-Kedwany Mostafa Amar Mena Massoud Mohamed Emam Mohamed Ramadan Nour El-Sherif Omar Sharif, Academy Award nominee Ramez Galal Rami Malek, Academy Award Winner Ramy Youssef Rushdy Abaza Saeed Saleh Salah El-Saadany Salah Zulfikar Samir Ghanem Shoukry Sarhan Stephan Rosti Yehia Chahine Youssef El Sherif
Actresses
Amena Rizk Amina Khalil Assia Dagher Asmaa Abulyazeid Aziza Amir Bahiga Hafez Bushra Donia Samir Ghanem Eman El-Asy Faten Hamama Ghada Adel Hana El Zahed Hanan Tork Hind Rostom Huda El-Mufti Laila Elwi Lebleba Leila Mourad Lobna Abdel Aziz Mariam Fakhr Eddine Mary Queeny May Calamawy May Elghety Menna Shalabi Mona Zaki Naima Akef Nermin Al-Fiqy Nelly Karim Ruby Shadia Shereen Ahmed Sherihan Shwikar Soad Hosny Tara Emad Yasmin Abdulaziz Yasmin Ali Yasmin Raeis Yasmine Al Massri Yasmine Sabri Yosra El Lozy Yousra
Dancers and choreographers
Dina Fifi Abdou Mahmoud Reda Magda Saleh Nagwa Fouad Nelly Mazloum Samia Gamal Soheir Zaki Taheyya Kariokka Zeinat Olwi
Filmmakers and television directors
Ahmed El-Nahass Amr Salama André Hakim Asaad Kelada Ash Atalla Assia Dagher Atef El Tayeb Ayten Amin Daoud Abdel Sayed Ezz El-Dine Zulficar Fadwa El Guindi Frank Agrama Hala Khalil Hassan el-Imam Helmy Halim Henry Barakat Hussein Kamal Ibrahim El Batout Jehane Noujaim Kamla Abou Zekry Khairy Beshara Khaled Youssef Maher Sabry Mahmoud Zulfikar Marwan Hamed Mary Queeny Mohamed Diab Mohamed Khan Mohammed Karim Mohamed Said Mahfouz Raymond Hakim Robert Hakim Salah Abu Seif Sherif Arafa Sam Esmail Tamer El Said Tamer Shaaban Tarek El-Telmissany Yousry Nasrallah Youssef Chahine
Theater actors, directors, producers and playwrights Abdel Moneim Madbouly Abo El Seoud El Ebiary Alfred Farag Naguib Al Rehani Sam Esmail Tawfiq al-Hakeem
Film critics
Iris Nazmy Samir Farid Salwa Bakr Tarek El Shennawi
Radio and television personalities
Ahmed Mussa Akmal Saleh Ali Faik Zaghloul Amr Ellissy Bassem Youssef Bob Francis (radio) Hamdi Qandil Hamed Gohar Lamis Elhadidy Mofeed Fawzy Mona El-Saghir Mona El-Shazly Sarah Khalifa Nagui Osama Mounir Salwa Hegazy Shahira Amin Tamer Amin Youssef Hussein
Music
Musicians and composers
Abdu al-Hamuli Abu Bakr Khayrat Ammar El Sherei Amr Diab Aziz El-Shawan Baligh Hamdi Dawood Hussnei Gamal Abdel-Rahim Halim El-Dabh Hasan Rashid Kamal Al Taweel Kamel al-Khola'ie Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah Mohamed El Qasabgi Mohammed Abdel Wahab Mounir Mourad Moustafa Amar Omar Khairat Rageh Daoud Ramzi Yassa Riad Al Sunbati Rifaat Garrana Saleh Abdel Hai Sayed Darwish Sayed Mekawy Sheikh Imam Soliman Gamil Tarek Ali Hassan Yusef Greiss Zakaria Ahmed
Music directors and conductors
Ratiba El-Hefny Nabil Shehata Nabila Erian Selim Sahab Sherif Mohie El Din Youssef Elsisi
Songwriters
Abo El Seoud El Ebiary Abdel Rahman el-Abnudi Abdel latif Moubarak
Singers and pop stars
Abdel Halim Hafez Ahmed Adaweyah Amal Maher Amira Selim Amr Diab Angham Carmen Suleiman Dalida Demis Roussos Dina El Wedidi Ehab Tawfik Farid al-Atrash Fayza Ahmed Haidy Moussa Hakim Hamada Helal Hani Shaker Kareem Salama Karem Mahmoud Laila Mourad Lara Scandar Mohamed Abdel Wahab Mohamed Hamaki Mohamed Hassan Mohamed Mounir Mohammad Fouad Mounira El Mahdeya Moustafa Amar Nesma Mahgoub Rami Sabry Ruby Sandy Shaaban Abdel Rahim Shadia Sherine Wagdy Sherine Simone Philip Kamel Tamer Hosny Tony Kaldas Umm Kulthum
Architects, planners and engineers Architects
Ali Labib Gabr Mahmoud Riad Mohamed Kamal Ismail Naoum Shebib Sayed Karim Charles Ayrout
Engineers
Mohamed M. Atalla Taher Elgamal Mootaz Elnozahy Hassan K. Khalil Yahya El Mashad Salah Obaya Adel Sedra Ahmed Tewfik Mona Zaghloul Kawthar Zaki
Arts
Cartoonists and comic artists
Ahmad Nady Ahmed Ragab Ahmed Toughan Alexander Sarukhan George Bahgoury Gomaa Hussein Bikar Mustafa Hussein Salah Jahin Tarek Shahin
Painters
Abdel Hadi Al Gazzar Adel Nassief Adham Wanly Armen Agop Chafik Charobim Evelyn Ashamallah Farouk Hosny Fathi Hassan Gazbia Sirry George Bahgoury Georges Hanna Sabbagh Ghada Amer Hassan Mohamed Hassan Hussein Bikar Hussein El Gebaly Injy Aflatoun Isaac Fanous Kamal Amin Mahmoud Mokhtar Margaret Nakhla Salah Taher Diane Tuckman Seif Wanly
Sculptors
Adam Henein Armen Agop Hassan Heshmat Mahmoud Mokhtar
Literature
Authors
Duaa Abdelrahman Intissar Abdulmomen Abbass AlAqqad Abd Al Rasheed Al Sadiq Mahmmudi Abdel Hakim Qasem Abdel Wahab el-Miseiri Abo El Seoud El Ebiary Adel Darwish Adel Iskandar Ahdaf Soueif Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed Ahmed Mourad Alaa Al Aswany Albert Cossery Alfred Farag Ayman Zohry Bahaa Taher Edmond Jabès Edwar al-Kharrat Ezzat el Kamhawi Farag Foda Fekry Pasha Abaza Gamal al-Banna Gamal Al-Ghitani Gilbert Sinoué Hasan Hanafi Ihsan Abdel Quddous Iris Habib Elmasry Kamal el-Mallakh Leila Ahmed Louis Awad Lutis Abd Al Karim Mahmoud El-Saadany Masri Feki Mansoura Ez Eldin Mo Gawdat Mohammad Elsannour Mohammad Hassanein Heykal Mohammad Moustafa Haddara Mostafa Amin Mostafa Mahmoud Muhammad Aladdin Muhammad Husayn Haykal Muhammad Sa'id al-'Ashmawi Muhammad Jalal Kishk Mustafa Lutfi al-Manfaluti Nabil Farouk Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel Prize in Literature winner Nasr Abu Zayd Nawal El Saadawi Out el Kouloub Said El Kemny Salama Moussa Sonallah Ibrahim Taha Hussein Tarek Heggy Tawfiq al-Hakeem Yasser Thabet Yehia Hakki Yusuf Idris Zaki Naguib Mahmoud
Historians
Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti Abd al-Rahman al-Rafai Ibn Duqmaq Shafi' bin Ali el-Masry Al-Maqrizi Al-Mufaddal Al-Sakhawi Gawdat Gabra George Antonius George Elmacin Ibn Abd-el-Hakem Imam Al-Suyuti Iris Habib Elmasry John of Nikiû Manetho Menassa Youhanna Raouf Abbas Rifa'a el-Tahtawi Severus Ibn al-Muqaffa Zahi Hawass
Poets
Abdel Rahman el-Abnudi Abdel Latif Moubarak Abdul Rahman Yusuf Abduallah El Sharif Ahmed Abdel Muti Hijazi Ahmed Fouad Negm Ahmed Rami Ahmed Shawqi Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi Hafez Ibrahim Ibrahim Nagi Iman Mersal Mahmoud Sami al-Baroudi Mahmud Bayram el-Tunsi Mohammad Ibrahim Abu Senna Mostafa Saadeq Al-Rafe'ie Salah Jahin Gaston Zananiri
Journalists
Abo El Seoud El Ebiary Adel Darwish Ahmad Al-Khamisi Ahmed Toughan Amr Ellissy Assaad Taha Ayman Mohyeldin Ethar El-Katatney Ezzat el Kamhawi Farag Foda Farouk Abdul-Aziz Gamal Nkrumah Hala El Badry Ibrahim al-Mazini Ibrahim Hegazi Iris Nazmy Khalil Mutran Mansoura Ez-Eldin Mohamed El-Tabii Mohamed Hassanein Heikal Mohamed Said Mahfouz Momtaz Al Ket Mona Eltahawy Mostafa Amin Muhammad Husayn Haykal Muhammad Jalal Kishk Nawara Negm Ola Naguib Osama Anwar Okasha Rawya Ateya Reda Helal Rifa'a el-Tahtawi Sabah Hamamou Safinaz Kazem Said Sonbol Salama Ahmed Salama Shahira Amin Soliman Kenawy Tarek Heggy Tawfiq al-Hakim Wael Abbas Yaqub Sanu Yasser Abdel Hafez Yasser Khalil Yasser Thabet Yosri Fouda Younan Labib Rizk Yousef Gamal El-Din Zain Abdul Hady
Intellectuals
Abdelmegid Moustafa Farrag Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed Akram Habib Bayoumi Andil Magdi Youssef Mustafa Mahmoud Rifa'a el-Tahtawi
Salama Moussa Tarek Heggy Zaki Naguib Mahmoud
Lawyers
Ahmad Najib al-Hilali Ahmed Gamal El-Din Moussa Ali Abu el-Fotoh Ali Sadek Abou-Heif Bahaa El-Din Abu Shoka Farouk Sultan Khaled Ali Mohamed Kamel Leilah Stephan Bassily Sameh Ashour Taher Helmy Youssef Darwish
Business 19th — mid-20th Century Feudalists Abbud Pasha Nationalists (1923 — 1952) Talaat Pasha Harb Post Infitah (1974 — ) Ahmed Zayat Ahmed Zulfikar Dodi Fayed Gamal Aziz, also known as Gamal Mohammed Abdelaziz Hassan Allam Mohamed Al-Fayed Naguib Sawiris Nassef Sawiris Raymond Lakah Samih Sawiris Tharwat Bassily Ahmed El Maghrabi Khairat el-Shater Mohamed A. El-Erian Mohamed Mansour Osman Ahmed Osman Rachid Mohamed Rachid Talaat Moustafa
Activists
Abdel Wahab El-Messiri Ahmed Douma Ahmed Seif El-Islam Ahdaf Soueif Alaa Abd El-Fattah Dina Zulfikar Gamal Eid George Isaac Hossam Bahgat Hossam el-Hamalawy Israa Abdel Fattah Kamal Khalil Kareem Amer Khaled Ali Laila Soueif Mahienour El-Massry Maikel Nabil Sanad Mohamed Lotfy Mona Eltahawy Mona Seif Nawara Negm Nancy Okail Rehab Bassam Sameh Naguib Wael Abbas Wael Ghonim Wael Khalil Nada Thabet Yasser Thabet Abdelsalam Elkhadrawy
Government
Presidents
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi Adly Mansour Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat Gamal Abdel Nasser Muhammad Hosni Mubarak Mohamed Morsi Muhammad Naguib Sufi Abu Taleb
Prime Ministers of Egypt
Mostafa Madbouly Ibrahim Mahlab Sherif Ismail Kamal Ganzouri Essam Sharaf Ahmed Shafik Ahmed Nazif Atef Ebeid
Diplomats
Abdel Hamid Badawi Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam Ahmed Aboul Gheit Ahmed Asmat Abdel-Meguid Ahmed Maher Ali Maher Amr Moussa Ashraf Ghorbal Aziz Ezzat Pasha Boutros Boutros Ghali Fathi Saleh F. D. Amr Bey Helmy Bahgat Badawi Ihab el-Sherif Ismail Chirine Jean-Sélim Kanaan Kamil Abdul Rahim Maged A. Abdelaziz Mahmoud Riad Mohammed Bassiouni Mohamed ElBaradei Mohamed Hafez Ismail Mohammed Hassan El-Zayyat Mohammed Murad Ghaleb Muhammad Ibrahim Kamel Muhammad Shaaban Nabil Fahmi Nadia Younes Omar Sharaf Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy Sameh Shoukry Tahseen Bashir
Caliphs
al-Adid Al-Amir Al-Faiz Al-Hafiz Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah Al-Musta'li Al-Zafir Ali az-Zahir al-Mustansir
Monarchs
Menes - First Pharoanic King to Unite Egypt as One Ramesses II Tutankhamun Akhenaten Amenhotep III Thutmose I Thutmose II Thutmose IV Abbas I Abbas Hilmi Pasha Cleopatra VII Farouk of Egypt Fuad I of Egypt Fuad II of Egypt Hatshepsut Ibrahim Pasha Muhammad Ali of Egypt
Queens of Egypt
Farida of Egypt Hatshepsut Narriman Sadek Nazli Sabri Nefertiti Queen Karomama Shajar al-Durr Sitt al-Mulk Hoshiyar Qadin
Politicians
Abaza Family Abdel-Moneim Imam Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam Ahmad Esmat Abdel Meguid Ahmad Fathi Sorour Ahmad Mahir Pasha Ahmad Najib al-Hilali Ahmed Aboul Gheit Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed Ahmed Nazif Ahmed Shafiq Ahmed Urabi Ahmed Medhat Yeghen Pasha Ali Pasha Mubarak Amr Moussa Abdel Rahim Sabri Pasha Atef Ebeid Ayman Nour Bahey El Din Barakat Pasha Boutros Boutros Ghali Boutros Ghali El-Emam family Fouad Serageddin Heshmat Fahmi Hussein Sabri Pasha Hussein Al Shafei Ismail al-Din Isma'il Sidqi Joseph de Picciotto Bey Kamal Ramzi Stino Mahmoud Esmat Mahmoud Ezzat Makram Ebeid Mohamed AlBaradei Mohamed Anwar Esmat Sadat Mohammad Farid Mokhtar Khattab Mostafa Elwi Saif Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha Mustafa Kamil Pasha Mustafa an-Nahhas Pasha Numan Gumaa Rafik Habib Saad Zaghloul Stephan Bassily Wafik Moustafa Youssef Darwish Zakaria Mohieddin Zulfikar family
Scholars
Egyptologists
Abdul Latif al-Baghdadi Ahmad Fakhri Ahmed Kamal Alexander Badawy Aziz Suryal Atiya Dhul-Nun al-Misri Kamal el-Mallakh Labib Habachi Mahmoud Maher Taha Naguib Kanawati Pahor Labib Selim Hassan Zahi Hawass
Explorers
Ahmed Hassanein Hannu Ibn Selim el-Aswani Nehsi
Mathematicians
Mohamed M. Atalla Alaa A. Abdel Bary Hanan Mohamed Abdelrahman Elsayed M. Abo-Dahab Attia Ashour Caleb Gattegno Ali S. Hadi