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

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1930s with 66 notable births.

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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Showing 66 of 679 notable people

0002 ACTOR

Omar Sharif

1932 - 2015

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0017 COMPOSER

Georges Moustaki

1934 - 2013

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0036 ENTREPRENEUR

Mohamed Al-Fayed

Born 1933

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0052 ACTOR

Hind Rostom

1931 - 2011

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0057 FILM

Moshé Mizrahi

1931 - 2018

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0088 SINGER

Manos Loïzos

1937 - 1982

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0093 FILM

Shadi Abdel Salam

1930 - 1986

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0106 PRIEST

Henri Boulad

Born 1931

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0107 AUTHOR

George Leonardos

Born 1937

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0109 ACTOR

Ahmed Ramzy

1930 - 2012

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0122 SCREENWRITER

Frank Agrama

Born 1935

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0133 PAINTER

Farouk Hosny

Born 1938

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0145 CHILD

Princess Farial of Egypt

1938 - 2009

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0170 BASKET

Armenak Alachachian

1930 - 2017

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0174 CHEMIST

Raphael David Levine

Born 1938

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0177 MODEL

Antigone Costanda

Born 1934

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0190 BUSINESS

Youssef Nada

Born 1931

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0216 PLAYWRIGHT

Perch Zeytuntsyan

1938 - 2017

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0225 DANCER

Nagwa Fouad

Born 1936

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0238 PSYCHIATRIST

Jacques Hassoun

1936 - 1999

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0245 ACTOR

Youssef Dawoud

1938 - 2012

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0264 DANCER

Nadia Gamal

1937 - 1990

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0280 CHEMIST

Stephen Hanessian

Born 1935

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0296 ACTOR

Jacques Cohen (actor)

1930 - 2016

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0302 SCHOLAR

Mohammad Moustafa Haddara

1930 - 1997

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0308 ACTOR

Shwikar

1938 - 2020

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0313 JOURNALIST

Safinaz Kazem

Born 1937

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0314 BOXER

Abdel Moneim El-Guindi

1936 - 2011

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0316 FOOTBALL

Samir Qotb

1938 - 2006

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0321 PRIEST

Mark Jabalé

Born 1933

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0362 CHOREOGRAPHER

Isaac Alvarez

1930 - 2020

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0377 PRIEST

Basil Osborne

Born 1938

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0385 FOOTBALL

Essam Baheeg

1931 - 2008

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0389 WRESTLER

Osman El-Sayed

1930 - 2013

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0395 ARCHITECT

Gilbert de Botton

1935 - 2000

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0408 ACTOR

Ali Hassanein (actor)

1939 - 2015

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0415 WRITER

Paolo Terni

1932 - 2015

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0431 PAINTER

Daniel Schinasi

Born 1933

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0433 AUTHOR

Nihād Šarīf

1932 - 2011

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0445 PRIEST

Arsen Berberian

1937 - 2013

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0447 ECONOMIST

Isaac Johsua

Born 1939

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0460 SCULPTOR

Hagop Sandaldjian

1931 - 1990

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0464 BASKET

Raymond Sabounghi

1931 - 2002

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0467 ACTOR

Lily Tirinnanzi

Born 1938

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0483 PHOTOGRAPHER

Bob Krieger

1936 - 2020

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0508 BASKET

George Chalhoub

1931 - 2014

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0532 BASKET

Mordechai Hefez

1930 - 2010

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0537 PRIEST

Marco Dino Brogi

1932 - 2020

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0542 WRITER

Vera Pegna

Born 1934

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0543 FENCER

Guy Barrabino

1934 - 2017

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0548 FILM

Joseph Lisbona

1932 - 2016

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0551 BANK

André Lévy-Lang

Born 1937

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0560 POLITICIAN

Moufed Mahmoud Shehab

Born 1936

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0566 ART HISTORIAN

Michael Dames

Born 1938

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0589 PLAYER

Albert Gaertner

1939 - 1996

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0596 SINGER

Matt Flinders

Born 1937

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0599 SPORT

Hassan Moaffi

1931 - 1975

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0602 ARTIST

Ahmed Morsi

Born 1930

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0615 ACTOR

Marcello Casco

1936 - 1999

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0624 FENCER

Magdy Conyd

Born 1939

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0630 SPORT

Georgios Pangalos

Born 1936

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0643 ACTOR

Nikos Garoufallou

1937 - 2009

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0653 CRICKET

Michael Carr (cricketer)

1933 - 1995

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0657 SPRINT

Fouad Yazgi

Born 1932

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0663 ACADEMIC

Farouk Hammad

Born 1933

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0679 PAINTER

Kévork Zabounian

Born 1933

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