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 49 of 679 notable people

0011 SINGER

Demis Roussos

1946 - 2015

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0025 FINANCIER

Haim Saban

Born 1944

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0064 AUTHOR

Robert Bauval

Born 1948

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0066 SINGER

Demetrio Stratos

1945 - 1979

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0080 ACTOR

Zubaida Tharwat

1940 - 2016

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0101 ECONOMIST

Georges Corm

Born 1940

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0125 ACTOR

Mahmoud Abdel Aziz

1946 - 2016

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0127 FILM

Ovidio G. Assonitis

Born 1943

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0129 LAWYER

Mohammad Salim Al-Awa

Born 1942

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0152 FILM

Nikos Perakis

Born 1944

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0193 COMPOSER

Michèle Reverdy

Born 1943

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0198 WRITER

Ibrahim Abdel Meguid

Born 1946

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0200 EGYPTOLOGIST

Naguib Kanawati

Born 1941

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0206 AUTHOR

Evgenia Fakinou

Born 1945

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0237 PHOTOGRAPHER

Gideon Gechtman

1942 - 2008

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0256 PUBLISHER

Teresa Cremisi

Born 1945

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0262 ACADEMIC

Gabriel Hawawini

Born 1947

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0268 ACTOR

Nahed Sherif

1942 - 1981

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0270 FILM

Asma El Bakry

1947 - 2015

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0309 PHOTOGRAPHER

Ilana Salama Ortar

Born 1949

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0328 ACADEMIC

Gerald Prince

Born 1942

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0336 ACTOR

Nadia Al-Gindi

Born 1945

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0360 MILITAR

Mohab Mamish

Born 1948

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0379 PAINTER

Mouna Bassili Sehnaoui

Born 1945

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0381 PRIEST

Joseph Jules Zerey

Born 1941

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0404 WRITER

Victor Teboul

Born 1945

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0424 ACTOR

Nabil Massad

Born 1949

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0430 PLAYER

Aly Abdel Aziz

Born 1947

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0436 FOOTBALL

Michael Kadosh

1940 - 2014

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0449 PRINCE

Prince Asem bin Nayef

Born 1948

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0456 PAINTER

Claude Lazar

Born 1947

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0458 CHURCH

Neill F. Marriott

Born 1947

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0468 SINGER

Michaële

1944 - 2018

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0495 BASKET

Sherif Fouad Aboulkheir

Born 1947

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0539 WRITER

Soheir Khashoggi

Born 1947

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0545 PLAYER

Mohammed Awad (squash player)

Born 1949

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0547 IMMUNOLOGIST

Rashika El Ridi

Born 1941

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0552 RESEARCH

Mohamed Hashish

Born 1947

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0553 SONGWRITER

Jamal Salameh

Born 1945

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0569 ASTRONOMER

Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos

1947 - 1997

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0573 COMMUNICATION

Hubert Sacy

Born 1949

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0591 ADVISOR

Abu Walid al Masri

Born 1945

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0609 BIOLOGIST

Elsayed Elsayed Wagih

Born 1946

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0613 POLITICIAN

Paul Zammit

Born 1941

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0616 SCREENWRITER

Giorgos Katakouzinos

1943 - 2013

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0618 ACADEMIC

Aristides Patrinos

Born 1947

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0619 CHILD

Ömer Abdülmecid Osmanoğlu

Born 1941

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0671 BASKET

Domenico Pizzichemi

1940 - 2006

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0674 SCIENTIST

Maha Ashour-Abdalla

1943 - 2016

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