31.1976° N, 29.8928° E
ALEXANDRIA
Most Famous People Born in Alexandria, Egypt
- Notable people
- 679
- Peak decade
- 1930s
- Median birth year
- 1930
- Most distinctive
- Grammarian 312.5×
The Ptolemaic library city whose classical afterglow still lights up the page: a Philosopher bench running at nearly ten times the global baseline, a Grammarian cluster that's effectively a historical artifact, and a thick Priest presence carried forward from the patristic centuries — all of it sitting next to a perfectly twentieth-century Film and Actor scene from the golden age of Egyptian cinema.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Alexandria during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Alexandria Is Known For
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Actor is Alexandria's biggest profession — 6% of all notables (41).
Alexandria over-indexes on grammarian — 312.5× the global rate.
Alexandria under-produces politician — only 0.4× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Alexandria's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Sports
- Film & TV
- Writing
- Politics & Law
- Art & Design
- Science
- Other
Gamal Abdel Nasser
1918 - 1970
Omar Sharif
1932 - 2015
Rudolf Hess
1894 - 1987
Cleopatra
-69 - -30
Origen
185 - 254
Athanasius of Alexandria
295 - 373
Hypatia
350 - 415
Eric Hobsbawm
1917 - 2012
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
1876 - 1944
Philo
-15 - 45
Demis Roussos
1946 - 2015
Giuseppe Ungaretti
1888 - 1970
Constantine P. Cavafy
1863 - 1933
Catherine of Alexandria
287 - 305
Hero of Alexandria
10 - 75
Diophantus
Born 200
Georges Moustaki
1934 - 2013
Youssef Chahine
1926 - 2008
Dodi Fayed
1955 - 1997
Appian
95 - 165
Apollonius of Rhodes
-295 - -215
Abbas II of Egypt
1874 - 1944
Alex Proyas
Born 1963
Tawfiq al-Hakim
1898 - 1987
Haim Saban
Born 1944
Pappus of Alexandria
290 - 350
Hassan Fathy
1900 - 1989
Caesarion
-47 - -30
John Philoponus
490 - 570
Mary of Egypt
344 - 421
André Aciman
Born 1951
Claudian
370 - 404
Eli Cohen
1924 - 1965
Ammonius Saccas
175 - 242
Theon of Alexandria
335 - 405
Mohamed Al-Fayed
Born 1933
Fawzia Fuad of Egypt
1921 - 2013
Cosmas Indicopleustes
Died 550
Cleopatra Selene II
-40 - 5
Pope Dionysius of Alexandria
190 - 264
Qasim Amin
1863 - 1908
Penelope Delta
1874 - 1941
Saint Apollonia
-
Georges Guétary
1915 - 1997
Didymus the Blind
313 - 398
Basilides
Died 145
Menelaus of Alexandria
70 - 140
Sayed Darwish
1892 - 1923
Achilles Tatius
-
Dionysius Thrax
-170 - -89
Riccardo Freda
1909 - 1999
Hind Rostom
1931 - 2011
Pope Peter I of Alexandria
Died 311
Ammonius Hermiae
440 - 523
Nazli Sabri
1894 - 1978
Hesychius of Alexandria
-
Moshé Mizrahi
1931 - 2018
Herodas
-300 - -250
Arsinoe IV of Egypt
-68 - -41
Pope Dioscorus I of Alexandria
444 - 454
Amr Khaled
Born 1967
Olympiodorus the Younger
495 - 570
Farida of Egypt
1921 - 1988
Robert Bauval
Born 1948
Nelly Karim
Born 1974
Demetrio Stratos
1945 - 1979
Gamil Ratib
1926 - 2018
Mohamed Nagy
Born 1984
Georges Schehadé
1905 - 1989
Apollonius Dyscolus
-
Anastasius Sinaita
630 - 701
Isidore of Pelusium
370 - 440
Didymus Chalcenterus
-63 - 10
Abu Hamza al-Masri
Born 1958
Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb
1895 - 1971
Michel Pablo
1911 - 1996
Syrianus
Died 437
Ctesibius
-284 - -221
Ibn Ata Allah
Died 1309
Zubaida Tharwat
1940 - 2016
Konstantinos Tsaldaris
1884 - 1970
Arius Didymus
-83 - -9
Al Cliver
Born 1951
Dionysius Periegetes
Born 290
Abd El-Razzak El-Sanhuri
1895 - 1971
Aelius Herodianus
180 - 250
Arsinoe III of Egypt
-246 - -204
Manos Loïzos
1937 - 1982
Arturo Schwarz
Born 1924
Edwar al-Kharrat
1926 - 2015
Bob Azzam
1925 - 2004
Mustafa Ben Halim
Born 1921
Shadi Abdel Salam
1930 - 1986
Hermias (philosopher)
Died 450
Alexander Iolas
1907 - 1987
Ronny Abraham
Born 1951
Amr Warda
Born 1993
Alexandre Lagoya
1929 - 1999
Harpocration
Born 130
Anatolius of Laodicea
Died 283
Georges Corm
Born 1940
Jean Agélou
1878 - 1921
Angham
Born 1969
Alkistis Protopsalti
Born 1954
Ahmed Hamoudi
Born 1990
Henri Boulad
Born 1931
George Leonardos
Born 1937
Bayram al-Tunisi
1893 - 1961
Ahmed Ramzy
1930 - 2012
Palladas
-
Ismail Sedky
1875 - 1950
Gaby Aghion
1921 - 2014
Mahmoud El Nokrashy Pasha
1888 - 1948
Aelius Theon
-
Eileen Caddy
1917 - 2006
Sosigenes of Alexandria
-
Abdel Nader
Born 1993
Gabriel Aghion
Born 1955
Apollos
-
Carpocrates
Died 138
Moustafa Amar
Born 1966
Frank Agrama
Born 1935
Ahmed Asmat Abdel-Meguid
1923 - 2013
Isidore of Alexandria
450 - 520
Mahmoud Abdel Aziz
1946 - 2016
Marwa El-Sherbini
1977 - 2009
Ovidio G. Assonitis
Born 1943
Caleb Gattegno
1911 - 1988
Mohammad Salim Al-Awa
Born 1942
Jean Dessès
1904 - 1970
Tiberius Julius Alexander
Died 70
Karam Gaber
Born 1979
Farouk Hosny
Born 1938
Anatolius of Constantinople
449 - 458
Henri Stierlin
Born 1928
Jean de Menasce
1902 - 1973
Gabriele Reuter
1859 - 1941
Massimo Poggio
Born 1970
Shady Mohamed
Born 1979
Alexander Helios
-40 - -29
Mohammed Lotfy Gomaa
1886 - 1953
Ahmed El-Kass
Born 1965
Mamdouh Salem
1918 - 1988
Nemat Shafik
Born 1962
Princess Farial of Egypt
1938 - 2009
Berenice IV of Egypt
-77 - -55
Alexis Lecaye
Born 1951
Hussein Bicar
1913 - 2002
Hephaestion (grammarian)
-
Harry Siddons Mowbray
1858 - 1928
Fabio Morábito
Born 1955
Nikos Perakis
Born 1944
Ibrahim Said
Born 1979
Adamantius
-
Ahmad Zaki Pasha
1867 - 1934
Tryphon
-50 - -1
Farid Simaika
1907 - 1943
Robert Favart
1911 - 2003
Heidi El Tabakh
Born 1986
Macarius of Alexandria
297 - 395
Grégoire Solotareff
Born 1953
Tewfik Saleh
1926 - 2013
Khaled Saïd
1982 - 2010
Nikos Tsiforos
1909 - 1970
Sammy Sheik
Born 1981
Menas of Constantinople
Died 552
Hesham Mesbah
Born 1982
Alypius of Alexandria
-
Togo Mizrahi
1901 - 1986
Armenak Alachachian
1930 - 2017
Anne-Marie Alonzo
1951 - 2005
Moustafa Safouan
1921 - 2020
Konstantinos Parthenis
1878 - 1967
Raphael David Levine
Born 1938
Mariamne (third wife of Herod)
-43 - -4
Isidore of Chios
Died 251
Antigone Costanda
Born 1934
Georges Chehata Anawati
1905 - 1994
Mohamed Ali Rashwan
Born 1956
Origen the Pagan
Died 268
Timagenes
-
Vittorio Rieti
1898 - 1994
Antonis Benakis
1873 - 1954
Alaa Abdelnaby
Born 1968
Mahmoud Mohamed Shaker
1909 - 1997
Nicanor Stigmatias
Died 39
Sotion
-230 - -160
Theognostus of Alexandria
210 - 270
Hassan Aref
1950 - 2011
Youssef Nada
Born 1931
Apollonius the Sophist
-
Ibram Lassaw
1913 - 2003
Michèle Reverdy
Born 1943
Cleopatra IV of Egypt
-138 - -112
Fatima Rushdi
1908 - 1996
Alexander Binder
1888 - 1929
Stephanus of Alexandria
-
Ibrahim Abdel Meguid
Born 1946
Lamberto Loria
1855 - 1913
Naguib Kanawati
Born 1941
Raymond Eddé
1913 - 2000
Pierius
-
Michel Fattal
Born 1954
Fabrizio Calvi
Born 1954
Georges Hanna Sabbagh
1887 - 1951
Evgenia Fakinou
Born 1945
Tamer Bayoumi
Born 1982
Ismail Adham
1911 - 1940
Ibrahim Moustafa
1904 - 1968
Ahmed Badawi
1927 - 1981
Mamdouh Habib
Born 1955
Aristonicus of Alexandria
-100 - 14
Sherif Ashraf
Born 1987
Lambros D. Callimahos
1910 - 1977
Zein Al-Sharaf Talal
1916 - 1994
Perch Zeytuntsyan
1938 - 2017
Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr
Born 1963
Gabriel Jabbour
1922 - 1987
Ambrose of Alexandria
212 - 251
Pamphilus of Alexandria
-
Camelia (actor)
1929 - 1950
Mohamed El Shorbagy
Born 1991
Henri Philippe Pharaoun
1901 - 1993
Alessandro Barsanti
1858 - 1917
Nagwa Fouad
Born 1936
Nour El Sherbini
Born 1995
Leucius of Brindisi
Died 180
Raneem El Weleily
Born 1989
Pope Avilius of Alexandria
40 - 95
Ahmed Abdul Maqsoud
Born 1989
Dusé Mohamed Ali
1866 - 1945
Jean Cortot
1925 - 2018
Abdel Hamid Badawi
1887 - 1965
Milo (footballer)
Born 1990
Louis C. Camilleri
Born 1955
Bernard Dacorogna
Born 1953
Gideon Gechtman
1942 - 2008
Jacques Hassoun
1936 - 1999
Ahmed Maher (youth leader)
Born 1980
Bahiga Hafez
1908 - 1983
Anwar Mesbah
1913 - 1998
Carlo Suarès
1892 - 1976
Abdel Hadi Al Gazzar
1925 - 1966
Tiberius Claudius Balbilus
3 - 79
Youssef Dawoud
1938 - 2012
Johannes Eppler
1914 - 1999
Serge Hefez
Born 1955
Hakob Hakobian (painter)
1923 - 2013
Giuseppe Guarino (film director)
1885 - 1963
Jean-Pierre Gredy
Born 1920
Abdellatief Abouheif
1929 - 2008
Knut Mørch Hansson
1920 - 1994
Seif Wanly
1906 - 1979
Karim Alrawi
Born 1952
Karim Abdel Gawad
Born 1991
Teresa Cremisi
Born 1945
Apollinaris (the Elder)
-
Ammonius Grammaticus
-
Euphrosyne of Alexandria
414 - 470
Hussein Zaky
Born 1979
Maurice Maunoury
1863 - 1925
Gabriel Hawawini
Born 1947
Augustos Zerlendis
1886 - 1954
Nadia Gamal
1937 - 1990
Mary the Jewess
Born 384
Issy Smith
1890 - 1940
Basil Gogos
1929 - 2017
Nahed Sherif
1942 - 1981
Asclepiodotus of Alexandria
-
Asma El Bakry
1947 - 2015
Serapion of Alexandria
-
Mohamed Bakir El-Nakib
Born 1974
Maximus I of Constantinople
-
Ibrahim Shams
1914 - 2001
Marwan El Shorbagy
Born 1993
Mahmoud Fayad
1925 - 2002
Tasso Janopoulo
1897 - 1970
Anne Aly
Born 1967
Berenice (Seleucid queen)
Died -246
Stephen Hanessian
Born 1935
Moataz Nasr
Born 1961
Bruno Vailati
1919 - 1990
Aeschylus of Alexandria
Born -300
Attik
1885 - 1944
Johanan HaSandlar
-
Pope Anianus of Alexandria
Died 82
Ayten Amer
Born 1986
Agathodaemon of Alexandria
-
Gabriel G. Nahas
1920 - 2012
Jean-Jacques Fiechter
Born 1927
Mahienour El-Massry
Born 1986
Max Edrei
1889 - 1972
Timocharis
-320 - -260
Mohamed Yousri Salama
1974 - 2013
Ammonius of Alexandria (Christian)
Born 19
Jacques Cohen (actor)
1930 - 2016
Raymond Hakim
1909 - 1980
Harald Mors
1910 - 2001
Cassian of Autun
Died 335
Mahmoud Mekki
Born 1954