30.0460° N, 31.2365° E
CAIRO
Most Famous People Born in Cairo, Egypt
- Notable people
- 1,340
- Peak decade
- 1940s
- Median birth year
- 1948
- Most distinctive
- Sultan 94.0×
An Arab capital with a deep medieval memory. Cairo's most distinctive profession is sultan at nearly a hundred times the global rate — the Mamluk and Ayyubid courts left a long shadow — alongside the diplomats, journalists, and artists of a 20th-century pan-Arab capital. The modern half is footballers, actors, and the filmmakers of the golden age of Egyptian cinema, the Hollywood of the Arab world.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Cairo during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Cairo Is Known For
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Football is Cairo's biggest profession — 13% of all notables (178).
Cairo over-indexes on sultan — 94.0× the global rate.
Cairo under-produces politician — only 0.6× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Cairo's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Filtered to 1910s Clear ×
Naguib Mahfouz
1911 - 2006
Dorothy Hodgkin
1910 - 1994
Marika Rökk
1913 - 2004
Albert Cossery
1913 - 2008
Leila Mourad
1918 - 1995
Edmond Jabès
1912 - 1991
Ihsan Abdel Quddous
1919 - 1990
Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet
1911 - 1996
Salah Abu Seif
1915 - 1996
Henri Curiel
1914 - 1978
Henry Barakat
1914 - 1997
Mustafa Amin
1914 - 1997
Ahmad Ismail Ali
1917 - 1974
Suhayr al-Qalamawi
1911 - 1997
Ramses Wissa Wassef
1911 - 1974
Abo El Seoud El Ebiary
1910 - 1969
Stratís Tsírkas
1911 - 1980
Niazi Mostafa
1911 - 1986
Yusuf Sibai
1917 - 1978
Clément Harari
1919 - 2008
Bruno Hussar
1911 - 1996
Georges Henein
1914 - 1973
Ezzel Dine Zulficar
1919 - 1963
Jacqueline Kahanoff
1917 - 1979
Amina el-Saeed
1914 - 1995
Marie-Madeleine Dienesch
1914 - 1998
Elias Zoghby
1912 - 2008
Charles Issawi
1916 - 2000
Khadr El-Touni
1915 - 1956
Marc Soriano
1918 - 1994
Abu Bakr Khairat
1910 - 1963
Ahmed Mazhar
1917 - 2002
Mahmoud el-Meliguy
1910 - 1983
Gamal El-Sagini
1917 - 1977
Mostafa Taha
Born 1910
Yehia Chahine
1917 - 1994
Attia Hamouda
1914 - 1992
Hassan El-Far
1912 - 1972
Alexander Badawy
1913 - 1986
Mimi Chakib
1913 - 1983
Anthony Kershaw
1915 - 2008
Isaac Fanous
1919 - 2007
René Habachi
1915 - 2003
Mahmoud Shokoko
1912 - 1985
Gianni Vernuccio
1918 - 2007
Johannes Kai
1912 - 1999
Dimitri Papadimos
1918 - 1994
Denise Soriano-Boucherit
1916 - 2006
Alexandre Sanguinetti
1913 - 1980
Mahmoud Hassan (wrestler)
1919 - 1998
Aziz El-Shawan
1916 - 1993
Abdel Moneim Wahby
1911 - 1988
Miguel Ablóniz
1917 - 2011
Mohamed Sedki Sulayman
1919 - 1996
Naoum Shebib
1915 - 1985
Clea Badaro
1913 - 1968
Antoine Sanguinetti
1917 - 2004
Elias Moadab
1916 - 1952
Abdel Azim Ashry
1911 - 1997
Michel Fardoulis-Lagrange
1910 - 1994
Abdel-Karim Sakr
1918 - 1994
Mahmoud Ezzat
Born 1913
Albert Tadros
1914 - 1993
Nello Paratore
1912 - 1991
Filip Bajković
1910 - 1985
Robert Makzoumi
1918 - 2006
Terence Otway
1914 - 2006
Ibrahim Shoukry
1916 - 2008
Marcello La Greca
1914 - 2001
Moisis Michail Bourlas
1918 - 2011
Raymond Abner
1919 - 1999
Haim Yehuda
1917 - 1985
Hassan Abdulaziz al-Saaty
Born 1916
Jean Asfar
1917 - 2010
Kent Walton
1917 - 2003
Constantin Macris
1917 - 1984
Mahmoud Younis
1911 - 1976
George Khoury
1912 - 1983
Egizio Rubino
1919 - 1990
Herbert Frenzel (Romanist)
1913 - 1968
Mourad El-Kodsi
1919 - 2007
Hassan Hassanein
1916 - 1957
Prince Ismail Imaduddeen
1915 - 1972
Adel Amin Hafez
1919 - 2010
Antonio Maglio
1912 - 1988
Ali El-Kashef
Born 1917
Mourad Fahmy
1910 - 1983
Gamal el-Din Sabri
Born 1915
Higazi Said
Born 1916
Gordon Etherington-Smith
1914 - 2007
Bob Bigg
1911 - 1981
André Parodi
1910 - 1990