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.

Through the Decades

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 grammarian312.5× the global rate.

Alexandria under-produces politician — only 0.4× the global rate.

  1. Actor41
  2. Priest32
  3. Football31
  4. Player30
  5. Politician29
  6. Writer28
  7. Basket26
  8. Painter26
  1. Grammarian10312.5×
  2. Weightlifter712.8×
  3. Philosopher239.5×
  4. Fencer75.4×
  5. Wrestler115.0×
  6. Priest323.2×
  7. Basket263.0×
  8. Film242.9×
  1. Politician290.4×
  2. Football310.4×

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.

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0001 POLITICIAN

Gamal Abdel Nasser

1918 - 1970

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0008 HISTORIAN

Eric Hobsbawm

1917 - 2012

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0044 ACTOR

Georges Guétary

1915 - 1997

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0076 TROTSKYIST

Michel Pablo

1911 - 1996

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0115 WRITER

Eileen Caddy

1917 - 2006

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0128 SCIENTIST

Caleb Gattegno

1911 - 1988

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0143 POLITICIAN

Mamdouh Salem

1918 - 1988

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0148 PAINTER

Hussein Bicar

1913 - 2002

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0158 ACTOR

Robert Favart

1911 - 2003

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0192 SCULPTOR

Ibram Lassaw

1913 - 2003

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0201 POLITICIAN

Raymond Eddé

1913 - 2000

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0208 WRITER

Ismail Adham

1911 - 1940

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0214 ARMY

Lambros D. Callimahos

1910 - 1977

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0215 QUEEN

Zein Al-Sharaf Talal

1916 - 1994

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0241 WEIGHTLIFTER

Anwar Mesbah

1913 - 1998

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0246 WORLD WAR

Johannes Eppler

1914 - 1999

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0274 WEIGHTLIFTER

Ibrahim Shams

1914 - 2001

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0282 SCREENWRITER

Bruno Vailati

1919 - 1990

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0298 PARATROOPER

Harald Mors

1910 - 2001

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0332 COMEDIAN

Dinos Iliopoulos

1913 - 2001

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0334 ORIENTALIST

Umberto Rizzitano

1913 - 1980

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0353 COMMUNIST

Shuhdi Atiya ash-Shafi

1911 - 1960

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0355 SINGER

Jean Ross

1911 - 1973

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0366 FILM

André Hakim

1915 - 1980

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0367 WRESTLER

Ibrahim Orabi

Born 1912

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0382 ARCHITECT

Charalambos Sfaellos

1914 - 2004

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0384 JOURNALIST

Renato Mieli

1912 - 1991

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0392 MATHEMATICIAN

Albert Edrei

1914 - 1998

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0399 POLITICIAN

Dimitrios Bitsios

1915 - 1984

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0400 CONDUCTOR

Piero Guarino

1919 - 1991

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0425 DIPLOMAT

Wahbi al-Bouri

1916 - 2010

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0457 INTELLIGENCE

Yolande Harmer

1913 - 1959

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0461 DIPLOMAT

Ismail Chirine

1919 - 1994

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0466 ACTOR

Aileen Marson

1912 - 1939

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0470 AIR FORCE

Hassan Ibrahim

1917 - 1990

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0474 POLITICIAN

Paolo Battino Vittorelli

1915 - 2003

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0492 BEAUTY PAGEANT

Charlotte Wassef

1912 - 1988

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0521 MISSING

Mounir Hafez

1911 - 1998

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0522 DIPLOMAT

Giovanni D'Orlandi

1917 - 1973

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0540 INVENTOR

Samuel Fedida

1918 - 2007

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0554 ARCHAEOLOGIST

Émile Chami

1910 - 1992

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0570 SCULPTOR

Asim Ahmed Amin

1918 - 1989

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0585 DOCTEUR

Antoine Fattal

1918 - 1987

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0588 WRITER

Mary Giatra Lemou

1915 - 1989

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0592 OPERA

Vasco Campagnano

1910 - 1976

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0598 FENCER

Stefanos Zintzos

1917 - 1992

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0604 HOCKEY

John Rogers (ishockeyspelare)

Born 1910

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0629 BANK

Helmut Haeusgen

1916 - 1989

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0642 ATHLETE

Roberto Curcio

1912 - 1993

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0672 PAINTER

Mario D'Antona

1911 - 1977

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