Naguib Mahfouz

Naguib Mahfouz

male, deceased (2006)
Islam-related controversy, existentialism, Cairo University alumni, Nobel Prize for Literature, Egyptian, religious persecution…Egyptian Museum of Cairo
Naguib Mahfouz (December 11 1911 – August 30 2006) was an Egyptian novelist who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature who managed to modernize Ar...
Omar Abdel-Rahman

Omar Abdel-Rahman

male, 71 years old
blind, terrorist, serving life sentence, prisoner, Egyptian, November 1997 Luxor massacre
Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman is a blind Egyptian Muslim cleric who is currently serving a life sentence at the Federal Administrative Maximum...
Mohamed Atta

Mohamed Atta

male, deceased (2001)
terrorist, Participant in the September 11, 2001 attacks, North Tower, Muslim, world trade center, Islamist terrorism…Egyptian
Mohamed Atta ("') (September 1, 1968 - September 11, 2001) was named by the FBI as the head suicide pilot of American Airlines Flight 11, the first...
Sayyid Qutb

Sayyid Qutb

male, deceased (1966)
In the shades of the Qur'an, anti-zionist, social justice, Religious leader, al qaeda, islamic fundamentalism…Egyptian
Sayyid Qutb (also Seyyid, Sayid, Sayed; also Koteb, Kutb) (9 October 1906 - 29 August 1966) was an Egyptian author, Islamist, and the leading...
Omar Sharif

Omar Sharif

male, 77 years old
Muslim, actor, convert to islam, Egyptian, bridge player, Best Drama Actor Golden Globe…Egyptian actor
Omar Sharif (born April 10, 1932) is an Academy Award-nominated Egyptian actor who has starred in many Hollywood films. He has acted in Arabic,...
Clement Of Alexandria

Clement Of Alexandria

male, 1909 years old
Christian, universalist, gnosis, Church Father, communion for all, Catholic…Egyptian
Clement of Alexandria (Titus Flavius Clemens), was the first member of the Church of Alexandria to be more than a name, and one of its most...
Manetho

Manetho

male
historian, Sebennytos, Aegyptiaca, Ptolemaic era, 3rd century BC, egyptologist…ancient egyptian, Egyptian
Manetho, also known as Manethon of Sebennytos, was an Egyptian historian and priest from Sebennytos (ancient Egyptian: "Tjebnutjer") who lived...
Origen

Origen

male, deceased (254)
Christian, Catechetical School of Alexandria, Caesarea Maritima, platonic, universalist, greek…Egyptian
Origen (Greek: "Ōrigénēs", 185–ca. 254) was an early Christian scholar, theologian, and one of the most distinguished of the early fathers of the C...
Eratosthenes

Eratosthenes

male
death by starvation, circumference of the earth, Geometer, Egyptian, Hellenistic Egyptian, Librarian of Alexandria
Eratosthenes (Greek ; 276 BC - 194 BC) was a Greek mathematician, geographer and astronomer. His contemporaries nicknamed him "beta" (Greek for...
Mohamed Elbaradei

Mohamed Elbaradei

male, 67 years old
diplomat, Muslim, New York University School of Law alumni, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, International Atomic Energy Agency, United Nations official…Egyptian
Mohamed ElBaradei is an Egyptian diplomat and the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), an inter-governmental...