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 1940s Clear ×
Julian Fellowes
Born 1949
Mohamed ElBaradei
Born 1942
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
Born 1944
Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu
Born 1943
Vassula Ryden
Born 1942
Roland Moreno
1945 - 2012
Soad Hosny
1943 - 2001
Raffi
Born 1948
Nour El-Sherif
1946 - 2015
Radwa Ashour
1946 - 2014
Gilbert Sinoué
Born 1947
Nonie Darwish
Born 1949
Leila Ahmed
Born 1940
Benny Lévy
1945 - 2003
Margaret Hodge
Born 1944
Alain Gresh
Born 1948
Adly Mansour
Born 1945
Jonathan Williams (racing driver)
1942 - 2014
Omar Khairat
Born 1948
Édika
Born 1940
Ahmed Aboul Gheit
Born 1942
Mohamed Khan
1942 - 2016
Gillian Hills
Born 1944
Tobie Nathan
Born 1948
Ahmed Shafik
Born 1941
Ashraf Marwan
1944 - 2007
Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni
1940 - 2015
Ahmed Rateb
1949 - 2016
Salwa Bakr
Born 1949
Nabila Ebeid
Born 1945
Omar Khorshid
1945 - 1981
Ismail El Shafei
Born 1947
Mike Beuttler
1940 - 1988
Daoud Abdel Sayed
Born 1946
Alia Al-Hussein
1948 - 1977
Nicola Pagett
Born 1945
Lenin El-Ramly
1945 - 2020
Paula Jacques
Born 1949
Robert Solé
Born 1946
Maggie Gobran
Born 1949
Atef El-Tayeb
1947 - 1995
Mohamed El Naschie
Born 1943
Jane Feather
Born 1945
Ronald Mourad Cohen
Born 1945
Moïse Rahmani
1944 - 2016
Alec R. Costandinos
Born 1944
Isaac Joseph
1943 - 2004
Mahmoud Kabil
Born 1946
Princess Fadia of Egypt
1943 - 2002
Jehane Ragai
Born 1944
Raffi Armenian
Born 1942
Ahmed Khadr
1948 - 2003
Hasan Tawfiq
1943 - 2014
Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil
Born 1943
Lebleba
Born 1946
Madiha Salem
1944 - 2015
Huda Lutfi
Born 1948
Feyrouz (actress)
1943 - 2016
Anna Boghiguian
Born 1946
Yehia El-Fakharany
Born 1945
Samy Cohen
Born 1943
Aziz Dweik
Born 1948
Mohamed Kamel Amr
Born 1942
Daniel Dagan
Born 1944
Ezzat Abou Aouf
1948 - 2019
Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour
Born 1945
Moustafa Reyadh
Born 1941
Michael Raeburn
Born 1943
Liliana Picciotto Fargion
Born 1947
Hassan Moustafa
Born 1945
Lotfy Labib
Born 1947
Moushira Khattab
Born 1944
Hamada Emam
1943 - 2016
Hassan Hamdy
Born 1949
Sameh Fahmi
Born 1949
Asaad Kelada
Born 1942
Ahmad Al-Khamisi
Born 1948
Nora Valsami
Born 1948
Mohamed Elmasry
Born 1943
Shahriar Shafiq
1945 - 1979
Nelly (Egyptian entertainer)
Born 1949
Youssef Eid
1948 - 2014
Mona Latif-Ghattas
Born 1946
Mahmoud Maher Taha
Born 1942
Enaam Elgretly
Born 1944
Prince Abbas Hilmi
Born 1941
Moustafa Gadalla
Born 1944
Ibrahim Mahlab
Born 1949
Tahani Rached
Born 1947
Vicki Shiran
1947 - 2004
Michel Carmona
Born 1940
Abla Mohammed al-Kahlawi
Born 1948
Mahmoud Abou-Regaila
Born 1941
Caroline Charles
Born 1942
Nabil Naoum
Born 1944
Yehezkel Ben-Ari
Born 1943
Glenys Linos
1941 - 2020
Mourad Ismail
Born 1944
Gilbert (cantor)
Born 1947
Youssef Ibrahim Sarraf
1940 - 2009
Carali
Born 1945
Arshak Poladian
Born 1948
Jenny Strauss Clay
Born 1942
Donald Sassoon
Born 1946
René Zayan
1947 - 2014
Georges Bakar
Born 1946
Salmin Amour
Born 1942
Onnig Cavoukian
Born 1945
Liz Brady
1940 - 2019
Wasma'a Khalid Chorbachi
Born 1944
Yehya Khalil
Born 1944
Maged George Elias Ghattas
Born 1949
Jean Mohsen Fahmy
Born 1942
Samy Pavel
Born 1944
Alain Emmanuel Dreuilhe
1949 - 1988
Nadia Younes
1946 - 2003
Jacques Ninio
Born 1942
Constantin Xypas
Born 1947
Ahmed Safwat
1947 - 2003
Talaat Guenidi
Born 1943
Nabil Seidah
Born 1949
Sayed Meshaal
Born 1942
Said S. Bedair
1949 - 1989
César Ades
1943 - 2012
Louis Lévy-Garboua
Born 1945
Arafa Hussein Mustafa
1940 - 2019
Carlos Miranda y Elío
Born 1943
Ahmed Mostafa (footballer, born 1940)
Born 1940
Mohamed Awad Tageddin
Born 1945
Ahmed Rifaat
1942 - 2017
Abdel Hamid Shaheen
1943 - 2014
Ali Abdelghany
Born 1944
Peter Donaldson
1945 - 2015
Ovadia Harari
1943 - 2012
Nisa Chevènement
Born 1944
Wafik Moustafa
Born 1948
Mamdouh Shoukri
Born 1947
Ronald Cicurel
Born 1945
Albert Khelfa
Born 1945
Fathy El Gharbawy
Born 1949
Nikoferis Themistokeles Paradellis
1942 - 2002
Patrizia Paoletti Tangheroni
Born 1947
Nora Picciotto
Born 1942
Ahmed Zein El-Abidin
Born 1943
Sandro Bichara
1947 - 2006
Ursula Straumann
Born 1944
Mohamed Yousef Soliman
Born 1948
Adrian Ropes
1941 - 2004
Roddy Georgeson
Born 1948
Albert Bensimon
Born 1948
Moussa Helal
Born 1949
Willy Molco
1943 - 2002
Sameh Abdel Rahman
Born 1943
Osvaldo Miccichè
Born 1945
Abbas Kaoud
Born 1948
Fathy El Shazly
Born 1943
Ibrahim Abdel Rahman
Born 1940
Gomaa Frahat
Born 1941
Amin Abdel Rahman
Born 1941
Marcel Botton
Born 1946
Waguih Aboul Seoud
Born 1946
Huda Lufti
Born 1948
George Z. Voyiadjis
Born 1946
Amina Hamza Mohamed El-Guindi
Born 1942
Malek K. Gabr
1943 - 2007
Ali Badawi
Born 1940
Mohamed Rifai
Born 1941