Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd
1943 - 2010
Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies
Horemheb
-1320 - -1292
Pharaoh of Egypt, commander-in-chief of the army
Shabaka
-712 - -696
Kushite king and founder of the 25th dynasty
Abbas Mahmoud al-Aqqad
1889 - 1964
Journalist, literary critic, philosopher
Cleopatra III
-160 - -101
Queen of Egypt and co-regent with her mother
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
1922 - 2016
Secretary-General of the United Nations
Azmi Mohamed Megahed
1950 - 2020
volleyball player
Victor Samuel Leonard Malu
1947 - 2017
Chief of Army Staff
Hassan Fathy
1900 - 1989
Pioneer of appropriate technology and vernacular
Euclid
265 - 300
Mathematician
Ramesses I
-1318 - -1290
Founder of the 19th dynasty
Muhammad Abduh
1849 - 1905
Islamic scholar, jurist, and Grand Mufti of Egypt
Thutmose IV
-1410 - -1390
Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt
Amenhotep, son of Hapu
-1425 - -1356
Architect, scribe, and public official
Mahmoud Riad
1917 - 1992
Secretary-General of the Arab League
Hatem Ali
1962 - 2020
Director, Writer, Actor
Khasekhemwy
-2770 - -2656
Pharaoh of Egypt
Diophantus
-200 - -284
Author of Arithmetica
Nawal El Saadawi
1931 - 2021
Physician, psychiatrist, author and activist
Ramses IX
-1129 - -1111
Pharaoh of Egypt
Umm Kulthum
1898 - 1975
Singer, songwriter, and film actress
Taha Hussein
1889 - 1973
Writer, critic, educator, minister of education
Mustafa Lutfi al-Manfaluti
1876 - 1924
Writer and poet
Theophylact Simocatta
-585 - -640
Byzantine historiographer
Pepi I Meryre
-2332 - -2283
Third king of the Sixth Dynasty of Egypt
Asmahan
1912 - 1944
Singer and actress
Hassan al-Banna
1906 - 1949
Islamic revivalist and reformer
Naguib Mahfouz
1911 - 2006
Writer and Nobel laureate
Anthony the Great
251 - 356
Christian monasticism
Joseph Elian Sarkis
1856 - 1932
Writer, editor, translator, bookseller
Ramesses II
-1303 - -1213
Pharaoh of the 19th Dynasty
Ctesibius of Alexandria
-285 - -222
Father of pneumatics
Pepi II Neferkare
-2284 - -2184
Pharaoh of the Sixth Dynasty
Mahmoud Fawzi
1900 - 1981
Foreign minister and prime minister of Egypt
Omar Sharif
1932 - 2015
Actor
Sahure
-2465 - -2325
Ruler of the Fifth Dynasty
Abd al-Halim Hafez
1929 - 1977
Singer and actor
Senusret I
-1971 - -1926
Pharaoh of Egypt
Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy
1928 - 2010
Grand Imam of Al-Azhar
Tawfiq al-Hakim
1898 - 1987
Founder of contemporary Egyptian drama
Mustafa Khalil
1920 - 2008
Prime Minister of Egypt
Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt
1789 - 1848
General and viceroy of Egypt
Ahmed Zewail
1946 - 2016
Father of femtochemistry
John Philoponus
490 - 570
Aristotelian commentator, Christian apologist
Fawzia Fuad of Egypt
1921 - 2013
Queen of Iran
Anwar Sadat
1918 - 1981
Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed
1872 - 1963
First president of Cairo University
Abd al-Halim Abu Ghazala
1930 - 2008
Defense Minister of Egypt
Saad Zaghloul
1859 - 1927
Leader of the Wafd Party and the nationalist
Fuad I of Egypt
1868 - 1936
King of Egypt and Sudan
Musa
-1500 - -1400
Muhammad Hamid Abu al-Nasr
1913 - 1996
General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood
Mohammed Ali Tewfik
1875 - 1955
Heir presumptive of Egypt and Sudan
Giuseppe Ungaretti
1888 - 1970
Poet, journalist, essayist, critic, academic
Ahmad Shawqi
1868 - 1932
Poet, modernist, dramatist
Aziz Sedky
1920 - 2008
Prime Minister of Egypt
Ptolemy IX Soter
-143 - -81
King of Ptolemaic Egypt
Haqqi al-Azm
1864 - 1955
Prime Minister of Syria
Farouk I
1920 - 1965
King of Egypt and the Sudan
Hatshepsut
-1507 - -1458
Female king of Egypt
Pothinus
-177 - -47
Regent for Ptolemy XIII
Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II Tryphon
-182 - -116
King of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt
Georges Moustaki
1934 - 2013
Singer-songwriter
Senusret III
-1878 - -1839
Pharaoh of Egypt
Thutmose III
1481 - 1425
Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty
Ahmad Zaki Pasha
1867 - 1934
Philologist, scholar, translator, civil servant
Didymus the Blind
313 - 398
Head of the Catechetical School of Alexandria
Mahmoud El Nokrashy Pasha
1888 - 1948
Prime Minister of Egypt
Cosmas Indicopleustes
-601 - -535
Merchant and theologian
Djedefre
-2575 - -2465
King of the 4th Dynasty
Janusz Glowacki
1938 - 2017
Writer and playwright
Sinuhe
-1990 - -1940
Royal official and adventurer
Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria
1923 - 2012
Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria
Khafre
-2575 - -2465
Pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty
Ptolemy XII Auletes
-112 - -51
King of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt
Ptolemy II Philadelphus
308 - 246
King of Egypt, patron of arts and sciences
Mahmoud Reda
1930 - 2020
Co-founder of the Reda Troupe
Ramses V
-1220 - -1145
Pharaoh of the 20th dynasty of Egypt
Ahmed Urabi
1841 - 1911
Army officer and leader of the ʻUrabi revolt
Menkaura
-2532 - -2504
Pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt
Huda Sharawi
1879 - 1947
Founder of the Egyptian Feminist Union
Thutmose II
-1510 - -1479
King of Egypt
Arsinoe III of Egypt
-235 - -204
Queen of Ptolemaic Egypt
Farag Foda
1945 - 1992
Professor, columnist, human rights activist
Youssef Chahine
1926 - 2008
Film director, actor, writer and producer
Arsinoe II
-316 - -270
Queen of Thrace, Anatolia, Macedonia, and Egypt
Hypatia
350 - 415
Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer
Yusuf Idris
1927 - 1991
Writer and playwright
Isaac Israeli ben Solomon
832 - 932
Neoplatonic philosopher and medical writer
Hosni Mubarak
1928 - 2020
President of Egypt
Nefertiti
-1370 - -1330
Queen consort of Akhenaten
Muhammad Metwalli al-Sha,rawi
1911 - 1998
Islamic scholar and former minister of Endowments
Nour El-Sherif
1946 - 2015
Actor and producer
Nectanebo I
300 - 361
Founder of the 30th dynasty of Egypt
Gameel Al-Batouti
1940 - 1999
Pilot and flight instructor
Catherine of Alexandria
-287 - -305
Christian martyr and virgin
Demetrio Stratos
1945 - 1979
Lead singer of Area
Necho II
-664 - -595
Pharaoh of the 26th Dynasty
Origen
185 - 254
Biblical exegesis, apologetics, theology
As-Salih Ayyub
1205 - 1249
Sultan of Egypt
Jigoro Kano
1860 - 1938
Founder of judo and first Asian member of the IOC
Abd al-Masih al-Antaki
1875 - 1922
Journalist and founder of periodicals
Evelyn Emmet, Baroness Emmet of Amberley
1899 - 1980
Member of Parliament for East Grinstead
Mostafa El-Abbadi
1928 - 2017
Greco-Roman studies
Ashraf Marwan
1944 - 2007
Spy for Egypt and Israel
Muhammad Ibn 'Abd al-Karim al-Khattabi
1882 - 1963
President of the Republic of the Rif
Said Halim Pasha
1865 - 1921
Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
Sobekneferu
-1896 - -1802
Ruler of ancient Egypt, last of the 12th dynasty
Amenhotep III
-1386 - -1353
King of ancient Egypt, builder of Luxor Temple
Maitama Sule
1929 - 2017
Federal Commissioner of Public Complaints
Ahmad Izzat Pasha al-Abid
1851 - 1924
Second Secretary of Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II
Said of Egypt
1822 - 1863
Wali of Egypt and Sudan
Hamza El Din
1929 - 2006
Nubian composer and oud player
Paul of Thebes
-227 - 341
Christian ascetic
Mentuhotep II
-2008 - -1957
Pharaoh of the Eleventh Dynasty
Seti I
-1306 - -1279
Pharaoh of the 19th Dynasty
Pachomius the Great
292 - 348
Founder of cenobitic monasticism
Psamtik II
-652 - -589
King of the 26th dynasty of Egypt
Philo of Alexandria
-15 - 50
Hellenistic Jewish philosopher
William Donald Hamilton
1936 - 2000
Evolutionary theorist
Amenhotep II
-1427 - -1400
King of ancient Egypt
Berenice IV
-77 - -55
Queen of the Ptolemaic dynasty
Psamtik III
-567 - -525
Last pharaoh of the 26th dynasty of Egypt
Amenhotep I
-1526 - -1506
Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty
Cyril of Alexandria
376 - 444
Patriarch of Alexandria and defender of orthodoxy
Gad al-Haq Ali Gad al-Haq
1917 - 1996
Grand Imam of Al-Azhar
Mamdouh Salem
1918 - 1988
Prime Minister of Egypt
Sayyid Qutb
1906 - 1966
Author, educator, theorist, poet
Fathi Osman
1928 - 2010
Islamic author and thinker
Mohammed Abdel Wahab
1902 - 1991
Singer, actor, and composer
Omar Suleiman
1936 - 2012
Director of Egyptian General Intelligence Service
Thimi Mitko
1820 - 1890
Folklorist and activist
Piri Reis
1465 - 1553
Navigator, geographer and cartographer
Ahmed Hassanein
1889 - 1946
Geographic explorer and chamberlain to King Farouk
Georges Guetary
1915 - 1997
Singer, dancer, cabaret performer and film actor
Ibn al Haytham
965 - 1040
Father of modern optics and pioneer of scientific
Tefta Tashko-Koco
1910 - 1947
Singer and soprano
Richard Anthony
1938 - 2015
French pop singer
Mohamed Morsi
1951 - 2019
President of Egypt, leader
Mustafa Kamil Pasha
1874 - 1908
Lawyer and activist
Abbas II of Egypt
1874 - 1944
Last khedive of Egypt and Sudan
Farid Simaika
1907 - 1943
Olympic diver
Ramesses III
-1217 - -1155
Pharaoh of the 20th dynasty
Mostafa El-Nahas
1879 - 1965
Prime Minister of Egypt
Sarah Hegazi
1989 - 2020
IT specialist
Faten Hamama
1931 - 2015
Actress, producer, screenwriter
Abu Khalil Qabbani
1835 - 1902
Founder of the short musical play
Eric Hobsbawm
1917 - 2012
Historian of industrial capitalism, socialism
Maximos V Hakim
1908 - 2001
Patriarch of Antioch and All the East
Ptolemy X Alexander I
-144 - -88
King of Egypt and Cyprus
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