Ibn al Haytham
965 - 1040
Father of modern optics and pioneer of scientific
Mamdouh Salem
1918 - 1988
Prime Minister of Egypt
Ahmed Hassanein
1889 - 1946
Geographic explorer and chamberlain to King Farouk
Khasekhemwy
-2770 - -2656
Pharaoh of Egypt
Aziz Sedky
1920 - 2008
Prime Minister of Egypt
Tutankhamun
-1341 - -1323
Pharaoh of ancient Egypt
Musa
-1500 - -1400
Pepi I Meryre
-2332 - -2283
Third king of the Sixth Dynasty of Egypt
Hosni Mubarak
1928 - 2020
President of Egypt
Origen
185 - 254
Biblical exegesis, apologetics, theology
Abd al-Halim Abu Ghazala
1930 - 2008
Defense Minister of Egypt
Menkaura
-2532 - -2504
Pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt
Heba Selim
1947 - 1974
Mossad agent
Ptolemy X Alexander I
-144 - -88
King of Egypt and Cyprus
Anthony the Great
251 - 356
Christian monasticism
Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy
1928 - 2010
Grand Imam of Al-Azhar
Fuad I of Egypt
1868 - 1936
King of Egypt and Sudan
Eric Hobsbawm
1917 - 2012
Historian of industrial capitalism, socialism
Janusz Glowacki
1938 - 2017
Writer and playwright
Psamtik III
-567 - -525
Last pharaoh of the 26th dynasty of Egypt
Necho II
-664 - -595
Pharaoh of the 26th Dynasty
Farag Foda
1945 - 1992
Professor, columnist, human rights activist
Abbas II of Egypt
1874 - 1944
Last khedive of Egypt and Sudan
Al-Kamil Nasir ad-Din Muhammad
1177 - 1238
Sultan of Egypt and Syria
Ahmad Shawqi
1868 - 1932
Poet, modernist, dramatist
Senusret III
-1878 - -1839
Pharaoh of Egypt
Mahmoud Riad
1917 - 1992
Secretary-General of the Arab League
Ragaa Al Geddawy
1934 - 2020
actress and model
Georges Guetary
1915 - 1997
Singer, dancer, cabaret performer and film actor
Arsinoe II
-316 - -270
Queen of Thrace, Anatolia, Macedonia, and Egypt
Ramses V
-1220 - -1145
Pharaoh of the 20th dynasty of Egypt
Muhib Al Din Al Khatib
1886 - 1969
Salafi writer and editor
Arsinoe III of Egypt
-235 - -204
Queen of Ptolemaic Egypt
As-Salih Ayyub
1205 - 1249
Sultan of Egypt
Gad al-Haq Ali Gad al-Haq
1917 - 1996
Grand Imam of Al-Azhar
Ashraf Marwan
1944 - 2007
Spy for Egypt and Israel
Princess Farial of Egypt
1938 - 2009
Teacher
Asmahan
1912 - 1944
Singer and actress
Shenoute
348 - 465
Abbot of the White Monastery, Coptic writer
Berenice IV
-77 - -55
Queen of the Ptolemaic dynasty
Ahmed Urabi
1841 - 1911
Army officer and leader of the ʻUrabi revolt
Abu Khalil Qabbani
1835 - 1902
Founder of the short musical play
Said Halim Pasha
1865 - 1921
Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
Seti I
-1306 - -1279
Pharaoh of the 19th Dynasty
Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd
1943 - 2010
Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies
Macarius of Egypt
300 - 390
Monk and ascetic
Mahmoud El Nokrashy Pasha
1888 - 1948
Prime Minister of Egypt
Sinuhe
-1990 - -1940
Royal official and adventurer
Muhammad Abduh
1849 - 1905
Islamic scholar, jurist, and Grand Mufti of Egypt
Ahmad Zaki Pasha
1867 - 1934
Philologist, scholar, translator, civil servant
Cleopatra III
-160 - -101
Queen of Egypt and co-regent with her mother
Hatem Ali
1962 - 2020
Director, Writer, Actor
Thutmose III
1481 - 1425
Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty
Jean Baptiste Kleber
1753 - 1800
General of the French Revolutionary Wars
Abd al-Masih al-Antaki
1875 - 1922
Journalist and founder of periodicals
Ramesses I
-1318 - -1290
Founder of the 19th dynasty
Fawzia Fuad of Egypt
1921 - 2013
Queen of Iran
Mohammed Ali Tewfik
1875 - 1955
Heir presumptive of Egypt and Sudan
Amenhotep I
-1526 - -1506
Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty
Sayyid Qutb
1906 - 1966
Author, educator, theorist, poet
Pepi II Neferkare
-2284 - -2184
Pharaoh of the Sixth Dynasty
Nectanebo I
300 - 361
Founder of the 30th dynasty of Egypt
Cosmas Indicopleustes
-601 - -535
Merchant and theologian
Omar Suleiman
1936 - 2012
Director of Egyptian General Intelligence Service
Rushdy Abaza
1926 - 1980
Film and television actor
Hassan Fathy
1900 - 1989
Pioneer of appropriate technology and vernacular
Seti II
-1303 - -1197
Pharaoh of the 19th Dynasty
Demetrio Stratos
1945 - 1979
Lead singer of Area
Sarah Hegazi
1989 - 2020
IT specialist
Sobekneferu
-1896 - -1802
Ruler of ancient Egypt, last of the 12th dynasty
Mohammed Abdel Wahab
1902 - 1991
Singer, actor, and composer
Joseph Elian Sarkis
1856 - 1932
Writer, editor, translator, bookseller
Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad
1927 - 1988
Quran reciter and Hafiz
Giuseppe Ungaretti
1888 - 1970
Poet, journalist, essayist, critic, academic
Amenhotep III
-1386 - -1353
King of ancient Egypt, builder of Luxor Temple
Wasfi al-Tal
1919 - 1971
Prime Minister of Jordan
Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed
1872 - 1963
First president of Cairo University
Victor Samuel Leonard Malu
1947 - 2017
Chief of Army Staff
Piri Reis
1465 - 1553
Navigator, geographer and cartographer
Anwar Sadat
1918 - 1981
Amenemhat I
-1991 - -1962
Pharaoh of Egypt and founder of the 12th dynasty
Mostafa El-Abbadi
1928 - 2017
Greco-Roman studies
Psamtik II
-652 - -589
King of the 26th dynasty of Egypt
Thutmose II
-1510 - -1479
King of Egypt
Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria
1923 - 2012
Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria
Ramesses III
-1217 - -1155
Pharaoh of the 20th dynasty
Tefta Tashko-Koco
1910 - 1947
Singer and soprano
William Donald Hamilton
1936 - 2000
Evolutionary theorist
Catherine of Alexandria
-287 - -305
Christian martyr and virgin
Hypatia
350 - 415
Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer
Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt
1789 - 1848
General and viceroy of Egypt
Youssef Chahine
1926 - 2008
Film director, actor, writer and producer
Mostafa Kamal Tolba
1922 - 2016
Executive Director of UNEP
Muhammad Hamid Abu al-Nasr
1913 - 1996
General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood
Didymus the Blind
313 - 398
Head of the Catechetical School of Alexandria
Georges Moustaki
1934 - 2013
Singer-songwriter
Thimi Mitko
1820 - 1890
Folklorist and activist
Thutmose IV
-1410 - -1390
Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt
Tahia Carioca
1915 - 1999
Belly dancer and film actress
Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II Tryphon
-182 - -116
King of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt
Hatshepsut
-1507 - -1458
Female king of Egypt
Abd al-Halim Hafez
1929 - 1977
Singer and actor
Ptolemy IX Soter
-143 - -81
King of Ptolemaic Egypt
Djedefre
-2575 - -2465
King of the 4th Dynasty
Huda Sharawi
1879 - 1947
Founder of the Egyptian Feminist Union
Abdel Hakim Amer
1919 - 1967
Military officer and vice president of Egypt
Farid Simaika
1907 - 1943
Olympic diver
Naguib Mahfouz
1911 - 2006
Writer and Nobel laureate
Nefertiti
-1370 - -1330
Queen consort of Akhenaten
Ahmad Izzat Pasha al-Abid
1851 - 1924
Second Secretary of Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II
Muhammad Ibn 'Abd al-Karim al-Khattabi
1882 - 1963
President of the Republic of the Rif
Theophylact Simocatta
-585 - -640
Byzantine historiographer
Said of Egypt
1822 - 1863
Wali of Egypt and Sudan
Muhammad Hassanein Heikal
1923 - 2016
Editor-in-chief of Al-Ahram
Yusuf Idris
1927 - 1991
Writer and playwright
Ramesses II
-1303 - -1213
Pharaoh of the 19th Dynasty
Dodi Fayed
1955 - 1997
Film producer
Pachomius the Great
292 - 348
Founder of cenobitic monasticism
Omar Sharif
1932 - 2015
Actor
Saad Zaghloul
1859 - 1927
Leader of the Wafd Party and the nationalist
Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai
1901 - 1950
Number theory
Fathi Osman
1928 - 2010
Islamic author and thinker
Jigoro Kano
1860 - 1938
Founder of judo and first Asian member of the IOC
Ismail Pasha
1830 - 1895
Khedive of Egypt and Sudan
Mustafa Lutfi al-Manfaluti
1876 - 1924
Writer and poet
Sabat Islambouli
1867 - 1941
Physician
Mustafa Kamil Pasha
1874 - 1908
Lawyer and activist
Mentuhotep II
-2008 - -1957
Pharaoh of the Eleventh Dynasty
Akhenaten
-1380 - -1336
Pharaoh of Egypt and founder of Atenism
Ctesibius of Alexandria
-285 - -222
Father of pneumatics
Ahmed Zewail
1946 - 2016
Father of femtochemistry
Tawfiq al-Hakim
1898 - 1987
Founder of contemporary Egyptian drama
Richard Anthony
1938 - 2015
French pop singer
Taha Hussein
1889 - 1973
Writer, critic, educator, minister of education
Philo of Alexandria
-15 - 50
Hellenistic Jewish philosopher
Diophantus
-200 - -284
Author of Arithmetica
Ismail Sidky
1875 - 1950
Prime Minister of Egypt
Ramses IX
-1129 - -1111
Pharaoh of Egypt
cajupi
1866 - 1930
Delegate to the Congress of Monastir
Hamza El Din
1929 - 2006
Nubian composer and oud player
John Philoponus
490 - 570
Aristotelian commentator, Christian apologist
Abbas Mahmoud al-Aqqad
1889 - 1964
Journalist, literary critic, philosopher
Hassan al-Banna
1906 - 1949
Islamic revivalist and reformer
Ahmed Zaki
1949 - 2005
Amenhotep, son of Hapu
-1425 - -1356
Architect, scribe, and public official
Maximos V Hakim
1908 - 2001
Patriarch of Antioch and All the East
Ptolemy XII Auletes
-112 - -51
King of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
1922 - 2016
Secretary-General of the United Nations
Gameel Al-Batouti
1940 - 1999
Pilot and flight instructor
Evelyn Emmet, Baroness Emmet of Amberley
1899 - 1980
Member of Parliament for East Grinstead
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