- Zahi Hawass
Zahi Hawass (born in Damietta, on 28 May 1947) is an Egyptian archaeologist and a world-famous Egyptologist. In recent years, he has gained international renown in non-archaeological circles through his frequent appearances in television documentaries pertaining to early Egyptian civilization. Hawass received his Bachelor's degree from Alexandria University, and his Ph.D from the University of Pennsylvania.
- Ahmed Nazif
Dr. Ahmed Nazif has served as the Prime Minister of Egypt since 14 July 2004. On 27 September 2005, he resigned enabling President Hosni Mubarak to call for General Elections. Nazif remained as a caretaker Prime Minister until the new government formed on 27 December 2005.
- Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Boutros Boutros-Ghali is an Egyptian diplomat who was the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1992 to December 1996.
- Hassan Hanafi
Prof. Dr. Hassan Hanafi is a professor of philosophy and a leading authority on modern Islam. Hanafi studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. Since 1967, he has been a professor of philosophy in Cairo, as well as a visiting professor at universities in France, the United States of America, Belgium, Kuwait and Germany. Hanafi has acted as an advisor to the InterAction Council, a coalition of 26 former prime ministers and presidents.
- Ahmed Maher
Ahmed Maher was the foreign minister of Egypt from 2001 until 2004. He studied law at Cairo University, served as a junior diplomat in Africa and is generally considered an 'outsider' but is a skilled career diplomat. Prior to becoming foreign minister Ahmed Maher served as Ambassador to the United States.
- Atef Ebeid
Dr. Atef 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. Dr. Ebeid was sworn on October 5, 1999, replacing Kamal Ganzouri.
- Qasim Amin
Qasim Amin (1863-1908) was an Egyptian jurist and one of the founders of the Egyptian National Movement and Cairo University. Born to an Upper Egyptian mother and an Ottoman father who had served as an administrator in Kurdistan then Egypt, Amin is perhaps most noted as an early advocate of women's rights in Egyptian society. Amin pointed out the plight of aristocratic Egyptian women who could be kept as a "prisoner in her own house and worse off than a slave".
- Mohamed Kamal
Mohamed Mostafa Kamal is a Political Science Professor at Cairo University, and a prominent member of a generation of new reformers, led by Gamal Mubarak, in Egypt's National Democratic Party (NDP). A political scientist by training, Mohamed Kamal is both a commentator and analyst of Egyptian, as well as regional, current affairs. He is credited for being one of the primary architects of the 2005 re-election campaign of President Hosni Mubarak.
- Yuriko Koike
is a Japanese politician, who is currently serving as the Minister of Defense in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. She is a member of the House of Representatives of Japan for Tokyo's 10th district. She is originally known as an expert on the Middle East issues.
- Martin Lings
Martin Lings (Abu Bakr Siraj Ad-Din). After completing his doctorate, Lings worked at the British Museum and later British Library, overseeing eastern manuscripts and other textual works, rising to the position of Keeper of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts 1970-73. A writer throughout this period, Lings output increased in the last quarter of his life. While his thesis work on Ahmad al-Alawi had been well-regarded, his most famous work was a biography about Muhammad, …
- Mahmoud Mokhtar
Mahmoud Mokhtar was an Egyptian sculptor. Notwithstanding his prematurely early death, his impact on contemporary Egyptian art has been colossal. He is considered the father of modern Egyptian sculpture. Born in the Nile Delta region in a small villege called Nesha, Mokhtar moved to Cairo in 1908 where he joined the newly founded School of Fine Arts. In 1911, he was granted a scholarship to study art in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux Arts.
- Mourid Barghouti
Mourid Barghouti (born July 8, 1944, in Deir Ghassana near Ramallah on the West Bank) is a Palestinian poet and writer. Barghouti grew up in Ramallah as one of four brothers. In the mid-1960s, Barghouti went to study at Cairo University in Cairo, Egypt. He was just finishing his last year in college when the Six-Day War of 1967 started. By the end of the war, Israel had captured Gaza and the West Bank, and Barghouti, like many Palestinians living abroad, …
- Ahmed Osman
Ahmed Osman (born 1934) is an Egyptian-born author and Egyptologist. He has put forward several theories which are mainly rejected by mainstream Egyptologists.
- Amina Wadud
Amina Wadud is a controversial Islamic feminist and scholar. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, and, during graduate school, she studied Arabic in Egypt at the American University in Cairo, Cairo University, and Al-Azhar University. She currently works as an Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond, Virginia, …
- Magdi Yacoub
Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub FRS, FRCS, (born November 16, 1935), is an eminent heart surgeon. He was born in Belbis, Egypt, to a Coptic Orthodox family hailing from the southern town of Assiut. He studied at Cairo University. He taught at Chicago, and moved to Britain in 1962 where he became a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at Harefield Hospital (1969-2001) and director of medical research and education (from 1992).
- Adel Emam
Adel Emam, , born May 17, 1940, is a popular Egyptian movie and stage actor. He is primarily a comedian, but he has starred in more serious works and, especially early in his earlier films, combined comedy with romance. He earned a Bachelor's Degree in Agriculture from Cairo University. Since then he has appeared in over 100 movies and 10 plays. He is probably the most famous actor in the Arab World. He has received critical and popular praise throughout his career.
- Yosri Fouda
Yosri 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 Qatar-based Al-Jazeera channel.
- Farkhonda Hassan
Dr. Farkhonda Hassan is a professor of Geology at the American University in Cairo (AUC) and is chair of the Commission on Human Development and Local Administration of the Shoura Assembly (Second House of the Egyptian Parliament). She has a B.Sc. in Chemistry and Geology from Cairo University, an M.Sc. in Solid State Science from the American University in Cairo, and a Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Pittsburgh (USA).
- Arthur John Arberry
Arthur John Arberry (1905-1969) was a respected scholar of Arabic, Persian, and Islamic studies. Formerly Head of the Department of Classics at Cairo University in Egypt, he was also the Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic at Cambridge University from 1947 until his death in 1969. Arberry's translation of the Qur'an is widely respected, one of the most prominent written by a non-Muslim scholar.
- Mohamed Elmasry
Mohamed ElMasry (born December 24, 1943) is an Egyptian-Canadian professor of computer engineering at the University of Waterloo and activist for Muslim causes. He is the current president of the Canadian Islamic Congress. Born in Cairo, Egypt in 1943, he earned a B.Sc. degree from Cairo University in 1965. After moving to Canada, he continued his studies at the University of Ottawa, and in 1974 earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering.
- Fathi Arafat
Fathi Arafat (January 11, 1933 - December 1, 2004), born in Cairo, was a Palestinian physician and the founder and long-term chairman of the Palestine Red Crescent Society. He studied medicine at Cairo University from 1950 until 1957 and thereafter practiced as a pediatrician in Cairo, Kuwait and Jordan. He was a younger brother of the late Palestinian president Yasser Arafat. Arafat became a member of the Palestinian National Council in 1967.
- Sufi Abu Taleb
Sufi Abu Taleb (born 1925) served as Acting President of Egypt from 6 October 1981 to 14 October 1981, following the assassination of Egypt's third president Anwar Sadat. Upon Sadat's assassination, Sufi Abu Taleb was serving as Speaker of the People's Assembly from November 4, 1978 to November 4, 1983. According to the adopted constitution, in case of the vacancy of the office of the president, …
- Yousry Nasrallah
Yousry Nasrallah (Arabic:) (born 1952) is an Egyptian film director. Nasrallah was born 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. He became assistant to Youssef Chahine whose company Misr International would go on to produce his films. Nasrallah's works have dealt with themes of leftism, Islamic fundamentalism, and expatriation.
- Adel Sedra
Adel Sedra is an electrical engineer whose research specialization is microelectronics, with particular emphasis on applications in communication and instrumentation systems. He received his bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Cairo University in 1964. This was followed by a master's degree in 1968 and a PhD in 1969, both from the University of Toronto. He then became an assistant professor at the University of Toronto in 1969, …
- Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria
His Holiness Pope Shenouda III (born 3 August 1923), born "Nazeer Gayed", 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. By definition of his post he is the head of The Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria. A graduate of Cairo University and the Coptic Orthodox Seminary, …
- Kamil Idris
Dr. Kamil Eltayed Idris (born on August 26, 1945, August 26, 1953, or August 26, 1954) is a Sudanese international civil servant. He has been Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) since November 1997. He is also the head of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV).
- Georges Abi-Saab
Georges Michel Abi-Saab is an Egyptian international law specialist. Georges Abi-Saab is Honorary Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva (having taught there from 1963 to 2000), Honorary Professor at Cairo University’s Faculty of Law and a Member of the Institute of International Law. Professor Abi-Saab is a former ad hoc Judge of the International Court of Justice, …
- Abd Al-Bari Atwan
Abdul Bari Atwan is the editor-in chief of the London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi. He was born on February 17, 1950 in Dair Al-Balah, a Palestinian refugee camp. He was one of 11 children. After primary school at the camp, his schooling was continued first in Jordan in 1967, and then in Cairo, Egypt. In 1970 he entered Cairo University where he studied journalism and also received a diploma in English-Arabic translation.
- Alaa Abd El-Fatah
Alaa Ahmed Abd El-Fatah is a prominent Egyptian blogger, software developer, and democracy activist. He is known for co-founding (along with wife Manal) the Egyptian blog aggregator "Manalaa". He has been active in developing Arabic-language versions of important software and platforms. His father, Ahmad Seif, is a prominent lawyer and manager of Hesham Mubarak Law Centre, and his mother, Prof.
- Nadia Younes
Nadia Younes (June 13, 1946 - August 19, 2003) was an Egyptian national who spent her entire career, for over 33 years, in the United Nations (UN) and the World Health Organization, rising to high-level posts in a variety of areas. She was born in Cairo, Egypt, and earned a Master of Arts degree in political science and international relations from New York University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature from Cairo University.
- Hamza el Din
Hamza El Din (b. Toshka, Egypt, July 10, 1929; d. Berkeley, California, May 22, 2006), was a Nubian oud player, "tar" player, and vocalist. Born in the village of Toshka, near Wadi Halfa in southern Egypt, he is considered by some to have been the father of modern Nubian music. Originally trained to be an electrical engineer and after working in Cairo for the Egyptian national railroad, El Din changed direction and began to study music at the Cairo University, …
- Mahmoud Maher Taha
Dr. Mahmoud Maher Taha is a famous Egyptian Egyptologist. *He has obtained his B.A. in Egyptology from Cairo University (Departement of Archeology), 1963 and completed his Doctorate in the same field at the University of Lyon, France 1982. *He worked as General Director of Information Center of Egyptology. *He has worked since 1992 as General Director of the Center of Documentation and Studies on Ancient Egypt.
- Nabil el Araby
Nabil Elaraby, born 15 March 1935 in Egypt was a Judge at the International Court of Justice until February 2006. He was Member of the International Law Commission of the United Nations 1994-2004, Judge at the Judicial Tribunal of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries in 1990 and Commissioner at the United Nations Compensation Commission in Geneva (1999-2001).
- Hussein Bassir
Hussein Bassir is an Egyptian archaeologist of Giza Pyramids and one of the directors (field director) of the excavation team in the Valley of the Golden Mummies at Bahariya Oasis. In 1994, he got his BA in Egyptology from Cairo University. In 2004, he got his MA in Near Eastern Sudies from the Johns Hopkins University where he currently conducts research as a doctoral candidate. He is also the author of several works of fiction in Arabic on ancient Egypt.
- Akhnoukh Fanous
Akhnoukh Fanous (1856-1946) was a prominent Coptic political figure of the early twentieth century. Fanous is best known for founding the Egyptian Party in 1908, which consisted mainly of wealthy Copts. He also funded and organized the Coptic Conference in 1911, held in Assiut, which advocated Coptic rights. In 1901, Akhnoukh Fanous received a honorary PhD in Law from the American University in Beirut. He was also one of the founders of the Egyptian University in 1908.
- Magdi Wahba
Magdi Wahba (1925-1991) was an Egyptian university professor, author, Johnsonian scholar, translator, and lexicographer. He was born in Alexandria in 1925 the son of a high court judge and later cabinet minister. His mother had been educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and Oxford University. The grandson of a Prime Minister he belonged to the Egyptan aristocracy of the time but was nonetheless a member of the communist party in his youth.
- Saeed Nafisi
Saeed Nafisi (also Naficy) (8 June, 1896 - November 13, 1966) was an Iranian scholar, fiction writer and poet. He was a prolific writer in Persian. Nafisi was born in Tehran, where he conducted numerous research projects on Iranian culture, literature and poetry. He published many seminal articles on Iran, Persian literary texts and Sufism and his works have been translated into more than 20 languages worldwide. He died in a Russian hospital in Tehran.
- Kamal Stino
Kamal Ramzi Stino was both the Agriculture Minister and Vice Prime Minister of Egypt under Nasser. He was also Director-General for the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development. Born to a Coptic Orthodox family, Dr. Stino became professor at Cairo University before being promoted to Minister of Agriculture. He is notable for many achievements among them keeping the price of certain staples, such as bread and cheese, …
- Monir Fakhri Abdel Nour
Monir Fakhri Abdel Nour (August 21, 1945)i s a member of the Pan-African Parliament from Egypt. He also head's the Reperesentative Group of the New Wafd Party in the People's Assembly. Graduated from Cairo University, Faculty of Economics & Political studies. Obtained a M.A. degree in Economics from the American University in Cairo (A.U.C.).Banker and Businessman, …
- John Gaddum
Sir John Henry Gaddum FRS (31 March 1900 - 30 June 1965) was a British pharmacologist.He was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He became professor of pharmacology at the University of Cairo. Subsequent to this he took up a chair at University College London. He later worked at Porton Down. He is best remembered for his classic work "Gaddum's Pharmacology".