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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 24 of 679 notable people

0019 FILM

Dodi Fayed

1955 - 1997

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0023 FILM

Alex Proyas

Born 1963

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0051 FILM

Riccardo Freda

1909 - 1999

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0057 FILM

Moshé Mizrahi

1931 - 2018

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0093 FILM

Shadi Abdel Salam

1930 - 1986

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0118 FILM

Gabriel Aghion

Born 1955

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0127 FILM

Ovidio G. Assonitis

Born 1943

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0152 FILM

Nikos Perakis

Born 1944

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0162 FILM

Tewfik Saleh

1926 - 2013

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0169 FILM

Togo Mizrahi

1901 - 1986

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0249 FILM

Giuseppe Guarino (film director)

1885 - 1963

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0270 FILM

Asma El Bakry

1947 - 2015

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0297 FILM

Raymond Hakim

1909 - 1980

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0358 FILM

Adolf El Assal

Born 1981

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0366 FILM

André Hakim

1915 - 1980

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0413 FILM

Christopher Maher

Born 1955

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0455 FILM

Ahmed Rashwan

Born 1969

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0473 FILM

Sam Abbas

Born 1993

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0527 FILM

Robert Hakim

1907 - 1992

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0548 FILM

Joseph Lisbona

1932 - 2016

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0559 FILM

Amal Ramsis

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0576 FILM

Ayten Amin

Born 1978

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0578 FILM

Batoul Arafa

Born 1981

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0579 FILM

Youssef El Deeb

Born 1954

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