- Hosni Mubarak
Muhammad Hosni Said Mubarak, Arabic: محمد حسنى سيد مبارك Muḥammad Ḥusnī Mubārak, commonly known as Hosni Mubarak, Arabic: حسنى مبارك Ḥusnī Mubārak (born May 4, 1928) has been the president of Egypt since October 14, 1981. Mubarak was appointed vice-president of the Republic of Egypt after moving up the ranks of the Egyptian Air Force.
- Ayman Al-Zawahiri
Ayman Muhammad Rabaie al-Zawahiri or closer to the original Arabic pronunciation al-Zawahri (born June 19, 1951) is a prominent member of al-Qaeda, and was the second and last "emir" of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, having succeeded 'Abbud al-Zummar in the latter role when al-Zummar was jailed for life in Egypt. Al-Zawahiri is a qualified surgeon, and is an author of works including numerous al-Qaeda statements. He speaks Arabic, French, and English.
- Tutankhamun
Nebkheperure Tutankhamun (alternately spelled with "Tutenkh-", "-amen", "-amon"), Egyptian ', was a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty (ruled 1333 BC - 1324 BC), during the period of Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom. His original name, Tutankhaten, meant "Living Image of Aten", while Tutankhamun meant "Living Image of Amun". He is possibly also the "Nibhurrereya" of the Amarna letters.
- Gamal Abdel Nasser
Gamal Abdel Nasser ("; Masri: جمال عبد الناصر - " also transliterated as Jamal Abd al-Naser, Jamal Abd an-Nasser and other variants; January 15 1918 - September 28 1970) was the President of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970. Nasser is seen as one of the most important political figures in recent Middle East history. Nasser was well-known for his Arab nationalist and anti-colonial foreign policy.
- 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.
- Amr Diab
Amr Diab (Amr Abd-Albaset Abd-Alaziz Diab), a newborn star for his phenomenal singing talent had his first glow to lifeon the 11th of October 1961 in Port Said, Egypt. His father was thechairman of Marine Construction & Shipbuilding. He played a greatrole to igniting the early sparks of musical inspiration towards Diab'searly stages in his professional music career.
- Ahmed Aboul Gheit
Ahmed Aboul Gheit (born June 12 1942 in Heliopolis) has served as the Foreign Minister of Egypt since July 2004, since the government of Ahmed Nazif took office. Gheit previously served as Egypt's ambassador to the United Nations. In December 2005 he began mediating the Chad-Sudan conflict.
- Ayman Nour
Ayman Abd El Aziz Nour is an Egyptian politician, a former member of that country's Parliament and chairman of the Al Ghad party. He became famous around the world following his January 2005 imprisonment by the government of President Hosni Mubarak, which was widely understood as a politically motivated move by the state and caused a lot of internal anger as well as foreign pressure for his release.
- Amr Moussa
Amr Moussa is the current Secretary-General of the League of Arab Nations since his election to the position in May 2001. He is a former Egyptian Foreign Minister and diplomat He served as Cairo’s ambassador to India in 1967 and as Egypt’s ambassador to the United Nations in 1990. He was appointed Foreign Minister in the Ganzouri Cabinet in 1991 and remained in this position until 2001.
- Seti I
Nomen=<hiero><-p:t-H-C7-i-i-mr*i*i:n-></hiero><br> Seti Merenptah<br>"He of the god Seth, beloved of Ptah"Golden=Wehemkhau Weserpedjutemtawnebu | Nebty=Wehemmesut Sekhemkhepesh Derpedjetpesdjet | Horus=Kanakht Khaemwaset-Seankhtawy | Reign=1290 BC to 1279 BC | Predecessor=Ramesses I | Successor=Ramesses II | Spouse= Queen Tuya | Issues= Ramesses II, Tia, …
- Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz (December 11 1911 – August 30 2006) was an Egyptian novelist who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature who managed to modernize Arabic literature. He is regarded as one of the first writers of Arabic literature, along with Tawfiq al-Hakim, to explore themes of existentialism.
- Omar Abdel-Rahman
Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman is a blind Egyptian Muslim cleric who is currently serving a life sentence at the Federal Administrative Maximum Penitentiary hospital in Florence, Colorado, United States. Formerly a resident of New York City, Abdel-Rahman and nine others were convicted of "Seditious Conspiracy," which requires only that a crime be planned, not that it necessarily be attempted. His prosecution grew out of investigations of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
- Mohamed Atta
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 plane to crash into the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001 attacks. Atta is suspected of using numerous aliases during his lifetime, including Mehan Atta, Mohammed Atta, Mohammad El Amir, Mohamed El Sayed, …
- Sayyid Qutb
Sayyid Qutb (also Seyyid, Sayid, Sayed; also Koteb, Kutb) (9 October 1906 - 29 August 1966) was an Egyptian author, Islamist, and the leading intellectual of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s and 60s. He is best known in the Muslim world for his work on the social and political role of Islamic fundamentalism, particularly in his books "Social Justice" and "Ma'alim fi-l-Tariq" ("Milestones").
- Omar Sharif
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, French, and English feature films. Sharif is most famous for his roles in "Doctor Zhivago" and "Lawrence of Arabia".
- Clement Of Alexandria
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 distinguished teachers. He was born about the middle of the 2nd century, and died between 211 and 216. He united Greek philosophical traditions with Christian doctrine and valued "gnosis" that with communion for all people could be held by common Christians.
- Manetho
Manetho, also known as Manethon of Sebennytos, was an Egyptian historian and priest from Sebennytos (ancient Egyptian: "Tjebnutjer") who lived during the Ptolemaic era, ca. 3rd century BC. Manetho recorded "Aegyptiaca" ("History of Egypt"). His work is of great interest to Egyptologists, and is often used as evidence for the chronology of the reigns of pharaohs.
- Origen
Origen (Greek: "Ōrigénēs", 185–ca. 254) was an early Christian scholar, theologian, and one of the most distinguished of the early fathers of the Christian Church. He is thought to have been born at Alexandria. He taught in Alexandria, reviving the Catechetical School of Alexandria where Clement had taught. The patriarch of Alexandria at first supported Origen but later expelled him for being ordained without the patriarch's permission.
- Eratosthenes
Eratosthenes (Greek ; 276 BC - 194 BC) was a Greek mathematician, geographer and astronomer. His contemporaries nicknamed him "beta" (Greek for "number two") because he supposedly proved himself to be the second in the ancient Mediterranean region in many fields. He is noted for devising a system of latitude and longitude, and for being the first known to have calculated the circumference of the Earth. He also made what he thought was a map of the Earth.
- Mohamed Elbaradei
Mohamed ElBaradei is an Egyptian diplomat and the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), an inter-governmental organization under the auspices of the United Nations. ElBaradei and the IAEA were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005.
- Abdel Halim Hafez
Abdel Halim Isma'el Shabana
- Amr Zaki
Amr Zaki ((born January 1, 1983) is an Egyptian professional footballer currently registered as a player for El Zamalek in Egypt. Zaki is an adaptable striker, who can play behind a front two or as a main forward. Born in Mansoura, he started his career in Al-Mansoura Sporting Club in Egypt before moving and to ENPPI in the 2003-2004 season. At ENPPI, he was the 2006 top goal scorer and helped the club win its first trophy, the 2005 Egyptian Cup.
- Abu Ayyub Al-Masri
Abu Ayyub al-Masri (Translation: Father of Ayyub (the eldest) the Egyptian) (born c. 1967) and Abu Hamza al-Muhajir (أبو حمزة المهاجر Translation: Father of Hamza (the eldest) the Muhajir) are two pseudonyms of the same person according to an FBI wanted poster and the U.S. State Department.
- Suzanne Mubarak
Suzanne Mubarak (birth name Suzanne Saleh Sabet or Thabet (born February 28, 1941) is married to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and is the first lady of Egypt. The daughter of an Egyptian doctor and a Welsh nurse, Mubarak was born in Al Minya Governorate, located on the Nile River about 150Km to the south of Cairo. She studied at St. Claire Heliopolis in Cairo during high school and moved on to study at the American University in Cairo.
- Diodorus Siculus
Diodorus Siculus (Greek), ca. 90 BC- ca. 30 BC, was a Greek historian, born at Agyrium in Sicily (now called Agira). Jerome writes that Diodorus flourished in 49 BC ("Chronica", s.a. Abraham 1968); this date is supported by Diodorus' own statements. The earliest date Diodorus mentions is his visit to Egypt in the 180th Olympiad (between 60 and 56 BC).
- 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.
- Appian
Appian ("c." 95 – "c." 165), of Alexandria was a Greek historian with Roman citizenship who flourished during the reigns of Trajan, Hadrian and Antoninus Pius. He was born ca. 95 in Alexandria. He tells us that, after having filled the chief offices in the province of Egypt, he repaired to Rome ca. 120, where he practiced as an advocate, pleading cases before the emperors. In 147 at the earliest he was appointed to the office of procurator, …
- Hossam Ramzy
Hossam Ramzy is an Egyptian professional percussionist, composer and music arranger.
- Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
Yusuf al-Qaradawi is an Egyptian Muslim scholar and preacher best known for his popular al Jazeera program, "ash-Shariah wal-Hayat" ("Shariah and Life"), and IslamOnline, a website that he helped to found in 1997. He has also published some fifty books, including "The Lawful and the Prohibited in Islam" and "Islam: The Future Civilization".
- Saad Eddin Ibrahim
Saad Eddin Ibrahim is an Egyptian American sociologist and human rights activist who was imprisoned in 2000 under suspicion of espionage and corruption. His defense team countered that the real motives behind the government's persecution of Ibrahim and his assistants was his blatant criticism of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his government. He received a seven-year sentence, but was later released, some claim, because of external political pressure.
- Gamal Mubarak
Gamal Mubarak, or Gamal El Deen Muhammad Hosni Saiid Mubarak (Arabic:جمال الدين محمد حسنى سيد مبارك), born 1963, is the younger of the two sons of current Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak (the First Lady). In contrast to his elder brother Alaa, Gamal has pursued an active public profile and is starting to wield some influence on political life in the country.
- Mona Eltahawy
Mona Eltahawy is an award-winning New York-based journalist and commentator and an international lecturer on Arab and Muslim issues. Her opinion pieces have appeared frequently in the International Herald Tribune, The Washington Post and the pan-Arab Asharq al-Awsat newspaper and she has also published opeds in The New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, Egypt's al-Dostour and Lebanon's Daily Star.
- Muhammad Abduh
Muhammad Abduh (or Muhammad 'Abduh was an Egyptian jurist, religious scholar and liberal reformer known as the founder of Islamic Modernism.
- Anwar al Sadat
Anwar Al Sadat, officially Muhammad Anwar Al Sadat, Arabic: محمد أنورالسادات Muhammad 'Anwar as-Sādāt (December 25, 1918 - October 6, 1981) was the third President of Egypt, serving from October 15, 1970 until his assassination. He is considered to be one of the most important and influential Egyptian and Arab figures in modern history.
- Amr Khaled
Amr Mohamed Helmi Khaled (born September 5 1967) is an Egyptian Muslim activist and preacher. "The New York Times Magazine", in reference to Khaled's popularity in Arab countries, described him in its April 30, 2006 issue as "the world's most famous and influential Muslim televangelist." Amr Khaled has recently been chosen as number 62 of the world's most influential people by Time Magazine.
- 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.
- Mohamed Al-Fayed
Mohamed Abdel Moneim Fayed state he is not entitled. Fayed is the owner of Harrods department store in Knightsbridge, the English Premiership football team Fulham Football Club and other business interests. He re-launched "Punch" in 1996, only to see it fold again in 2002. He is married to Finnish socialite and former model Heini Wathén, and has four living children: Jasmine, Karim, Camilla and Omar.
- Hassan Al-Banna
Imam Hassan al Banna was an Egyptian social and political reformer best known as founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. Hassan al-Banna was the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood or Society of the Muslim Brothers, the largest and most influential Sunni revivalist organization in the 20th century. Created in Egypt in 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood became the first mass-based, overtly political movement to oppose the ascendancy of secular and Western ideas in the Middle East.
- 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.
- Abu Hamza Al-Masri
Abu Hamza al-Masri is a Muslim cleric in the United Kingdom, currently serving a seven-year prison sentence for soliciting murder and inciting racial hatred.