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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  • Sports
  • Film & TV
  • Writing
  • Politics & Law
  • Art & Design
  • Science
  • Other
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Showing 29 of 679 notable people

0001 POLITICIAN

Gamal Abdel Nasser

1918 - 1970

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0003 POLITICIAN

Rudolf Hess

1894 - 1987

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0022 POLITICIAN

Abbas II of Egypt

1874 - 1944

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0081 POLITICIAN

Konstantinos Tsaldaris

1884 - 1970

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0092 POLITICIAN

Mustafa Ben Halim

Born 1921

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0113 POLITICIAN

Mahmoud El Nokrashy Pasha

1888 - 1948

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0131 POLITICIAN

Tiberius Julius Alexander

Died 70

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0143 POLITICIAN

Mamdouh Salem

1918 - 1988

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0201 POLITICIAN

Raymond Eddé

1913 - 2000

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0223 POLITICIAN

Henri Philippe Pharaoun

1901 - 1993

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0244 POLITICIAN

Tiberius Claudius Balbilus

3 - 79

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0261 POLITICIAN

Maurice Maunoury

1863 - 1925

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0278 POLITICIAN

Anne Aly

Born 1967

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0324 POLITICIAN

Murad Muwafi

Born 1950

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0376 POLITICIAN

Mohamed Abdel Moneim

1899 - 1979

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0390 POLITICIAN

Mohamed Said Pasha

1863 - 1928

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0399 POLITICIAN

Dimitrios Bitsios

1915 - 1984

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0429 POLITICIAN

Matthew Gaines

1840 - 1900

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0432 POLITICIAN

Sosibius

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0474 POLITICIAN

Paolo Battino Vittorelli

1915 - 2003

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0478 POLITICIAN

Ptolemy Macron

Died -163

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0485 POLITICIAN

Abdel Fattah Yahya Pasha

1876 - 1951

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0490 POLITICIAN

Giorgio Sonnino

1844 - 1921

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0498 POLITICIAN

Alessandro Paternostro

1852 - 1899

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0505 POLITICIAN

Steven C. Panagiotakos

Born 1959

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0535 POLITICIAN

Louis Deschizeaux

1897 - 1987

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0560 POLITICIAN

Moufed Mahmoud Shehab

Born 1936

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0574 POLITICIAN

Alberto Cerruti

1840 - 1912

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0613 POLITICIAN

Paul Zammit

Born 1941

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