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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  • Politics & Law
  • Art & Design
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Showing 32 of 679 notable people

0023 FILM

Alex Proyas

Born 1963

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0061 PREACHER

Amr Khaled

Born 1967

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0103 SINGER

Angham

Born 1969

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0121 SINGER

Moustafa Amar

Born 1966

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0142 FOOTBALL

Ahmed El-Kass

Born 1965

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0144 ECONOMIST

Nemat Shafik

Born 1962

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0184 BASKET

Alaa Abdelnaby

Born 1968

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0217 IMAM

Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr

Born 1963

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0278 POLITICIAN

Anne Aly

Born 1967

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0281 SCULPTOR

Moataz Nasr

Born 1961

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0326 CINEMA

Steve Gainer

Born 1962

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0357 DIPLOMAT

Eli Avidar

Born 1964

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0442 ACTOR

Talaat Zakaria

1960 - 2019

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0446 ACTOR

Dimitra Papadopoulou

Born 1962

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0450 BASKET

Alain Attalah

Born 1964

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0455 FILM

Ahmed Rashwan

Born 1969

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0477 FOOTBALL

Mohamed Sallam

Born 1969

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0481 BASKET

Abdel Meguid Amir

Born 1961

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0511 WRESTLER

Kamal Ibrahim (wrestler)

Born 1961

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0515 TEACHER

Ashraf Al Hajuj

Born 1969

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0533 FOOTBALL

Ahmed Sary

Born 1968

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0536 BASKET

Ashraf Sedky

Born 1968

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0549 SURGEON

Ned Abraham

Born 1961

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0561 BUSINESS

Kasim Kutay

Born 1965

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0572 PARSON

Ibrahim Faltas

Born 1964

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0621 FOOTBALL

Moustafa Ali

Born 1965

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0625 PRODUCER

Barry Weeks

Born 1961

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0638 JOURNALIST

Nicola Calathopoulos

Born 1960

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0639 FOOTBALL

Jim Meechan

Born 1963

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0645 BASKET

Mohammed Abdel Moteleb

Born 1968

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0650 BASKET

Amir Abou el-Kheir

Born 1961

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0669 ARTIST

Mona A. El-Bayoumi

Born 1962

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