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
- Filtered to 1880s Clear ×
Giuseppe Ungaretti
1888 - 1970
Konstantinos Tsaldaris
1884 - 1970
Mahmoud El Nokrashy Pasha
1888 - 1948
Mohammed Lotfy Gomaa
1886 - 1953
Alexander Binder
1888 - 1929
Georges Hanna Sabbagh
1887 - 1951
Abdel Hamid Badawi
1887 - 1965
Giuseppe Guarino (film director)
1885 - 1963
Augustos Zerlendis
1886 - 1954
Attik
1885 - 1944
Max Edrei
1889 - 1972
Xenophon Kasdaglis
1880 - 1943
Jeanne Matthey
1886 - 1980
Armand Megglé
1889 - 1959
Ettore di Giorgio
1887 - 1971
Andreas Asimakopoulos
Born 1889
Leonard Fielding Nalder
1888 - 1958
Moammed Sceab
1887 - 1913
Maurice Cohen
1889 - 2006
Harry Marcus
1880 - 1976
Bianca Bruno
1880 - 1948
Adrian Daninos
1887 - 1976
Elisa Ussing
1885 - 1949