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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- Film & TV
- Writing
- Politics & Law
- Science
- Art & Design
- Other
Ahmed Hussein
Born 1983
Georges Bakar
Born 1946
Heba Kotb
Born 1967
Pope Mark VI of Alexandria
Died 1656
Ayman Younes
Born 1964
Salmin Amour
Born 1942
Adham Sharara
Born 1953
Islam Shokry
Born 1983
Leïla el-Wakil
Born 1955
Mahmoud Aboul-Dahab
Born 1970
Nasser Kamel
Born 1959
Ahmed Mohamed (sport shooter)
Born 1996
Ali El-Hassani
1902 - 1960
Terence Otway
1914 - 2006
Ibrahim Shoukry
1916 - 2008
Raphaël Cohen
Born 1938
Emad El Geziry
Born 1981
Wael Al-Aydy
Born 1971
Onnig Cavoukian
Born 1945
Engy Ghozlan
Born 1985
Yuhanna al-Armani
1720 - 1786
Marcello La Greca
1914 - 2001
Liz Brady
1940 - 2019
Ahmed Kamal (footballer)
Born 1981
Abdul-Aziz Abdul-Shafi
Born 1952
Eva Nil
1909 - 1990
Mohamed Rizk
Born 1988
Sylvain Orebi
Born 1956
Hagop Ishkanian
Born 1938
Pope Gabriel VIII of Alexandria
Died 1603
Nour Zaki
Born 1988
Amr Ezzat Salama
Born 1951
Christine Solomon
Born 1981
Wasma'a Khalid Chorbachi
Born 1944
Paul Antaki
1927 - 2011
Essam el-Erian
1954 - 2020
Salâh Ud Dîn At Tijânî
Born 1958
Salwa Hegazy
1933 - 1973
Abeer Essawy
Born 1986
Yehya Khalil
Born 1944
Maged George Elias Ghattas
Born 1949
Ahmed Yasser Rayyan
Born 1998
Ahmad Nady
Born 1981
Islam Siam
Born 1985
Elias Fattal
Born 1958
Ahmed Aboul-Fotouh
Born 1998
Haggagovic
Born 1984
Jean Mohsen Fahmy
Born 1942
Farkhonda Hassan
1930 - 2020
Nezar AlSayyad
Born 1955
Pope John XI of Alexandria
Died 1452
Damianos Kyriazis
1890 - 1948
Sayed Abdelmoneim
Born 1988
Didar Fawzy-Rossano
1920 - 2011
Clelia Sarnelli Cerqua
1924 - 2009
Hesham Ashmawy
1978 - 2020
Tarek Kamel
1962 - 2019
Khaled Hafez
Born 1963
Moisis Michail Bourlas
1918 - 2011
Samy Pavel
Born 1944
Fawkiah de Egipto
1897 - 1974
Youssef Ibrahim
Born 1999
Karim Samir Lotfy
Born 1989
Alain Emmanuel Dreuilhe
1949 - 1988
Karim Handawy
Born 1988
Noha Yossry
Born 1992
Nadia Younes
1946 - 2003
Mahmoud Tobah
Born 1989
Amira Selim
Born 1976
Hassan Abu Basha
1922 - 2005
Shaza El-Sayed
Born 1992
Mohamed Sanad (handballer)
Born 1991
Tarek Eltayeb
Born 1959
Jacques Ninio
Born 1942
Mathilde Delattre
Born 1871
Adel Boutobba
Born 1977
Moaz El-Henawy
Born 1990
Constantin Xypas
Born 1947
Mohamed Abu Hamed
Born 1973
Emad Abu Ghazy
Born 1955
Hussein F. Sabbour
Born 1936
Aziz Ezzat Pasha
1869 - 1961
Raymond Abner
1919 - 1999
Mohamed Salah El Azab
Born 1981
Ahmed Said (broadcaster)
1925 - 2018
Ahmed Safwat
1947 - 2003
Pope Mark V of Alexandria
Died 1619
Mostafa Alnagar
Born 1980
Ahmed Mohammed Ali
Born 1972
Razmig Hovaghimian
Born 1975
Youssef Mohamed
Born 1927
Fouad Haddad
1927 - 1985
Talaat Guenidi
Born 1943
Dina Hosny
Born 1983
Franco Donato
Born 1981
Roger Khawam
1922 - 2016
Mai Mohamed
Born 1990
Essam Marei
-
Nick Arakgi
Born 1955
Medhat Haroun
1951 - 2012
Mohamed Riad
Born 1927
Ahmed A. Karim
Born 1974
Hussein Refki Pasha
1876 - 1950
Heba Amin
Born 1980
Al-Mahdy Soliman
Born 1986
Al-Malik al-Achraf Muzaffar ad-Din Musa
-
Ali Khalafalla
Born 1996
Ibn al-Furat
1334 - 1405
Libertaire Rutigliano
1921 - 1945
Nabil Seidah
Born 1949
Giovanni Oman
1922 - 2007
Haim Yehuda
1917 - 1985
Sayed Meshaal
Born 1942
Salah Atef
Born 1989
Omar Shama
Born 1976
Hassan Abdulaziz al-Saaty
Born 1916
Samia Serageldin
Born 1952
Nadeen Osama El Sayed
Born 1998
Zaki Harari
Born 1926
Mahmoud Samir (footballer)
Born 1985
Sanaa Seif
Born 1993
Sherif Fayed
Born 1992
Mohamed Medhat Bahgat
Born 1926
Sherif El Baily
Born 1979
Said S. Bedair
1949 - 1989
Hany Moussa
Born 1966
César Ades
1943 - 2012
Alessandro Limongelli
1890 - 1932
Tarek Hussein
Born 1993
Magdi Youssef
Born 1936
Mohamed Hussein
Born 1991
Maurice Zilber
1920 - 2008
Philippe El Sisi
Born 1984
Ahmed Hassan Said
Born 1961
Jean Asfar
1917 - 2010
Menna El-Tanany
Born 1990
Amr Swelim
Born 1984
Islah Jad
Born 1951
Dalia El-Gebaly
Born 1992
Mahmoud El Sayed Samir
Born 1983
Osama Khalifa
Born 1995
Marwa Hassan
Born 1993
Iris Nazmy
-
C. K. Alexander
1923 - 1980
Ahmed Elbiali
Born 1990
Mona El-Hawary
Born 1962
Victor Rizkallah
Born 1933
Rawya Rageh
Born 1981
Ahmad Hassan Stakoza
Born 1979
Salama Ismail
Born 1986
Kent Walton
1917 - 2003
Aly Elsamman
1929 - 2017
Alan E. Baklayan
Born 1959
Abdel Latif Ahmed
Born 1983
Ethel Moustacchi
1933 - 2016
Ayn-al-Hayat Rifaat
1858 - 1910
Ahmed M. Ibrahim
Born 1987
Louis Lévy-Garboua
Born 1945
Sameh Sami
Born 1978
Haitham El-Fazani
Born 1985
Rabab Eid
Born 1990
Youssef Hesham
Born 1985
Adel al-Gazzar
Born 1965
Arafa Hussein Mustafa
1940 - 2019
Noor Abdulmajeed
-
Mohamed Hamdy Sharaf
Born 1995
Fatma Omar
Born 1973
Dorri El-Said
Born 1927
Jermin Anwar
Born 1986
Mohammad Tolba
Born 1979
Nora Atalla
Born 1957
Carlos Miranda y Elío
Born 1943
Aya Darwish
Born 1994
Nabil Na'eem
Born 1956
Charles James Murray
1851 - 1929
Mohamed Magdi Hamza Khalif
Born 1996
Ahmed Mostafa (footballer, born 1940)
Born 1940
Mohamed Awad Tageddin
Born 1945
Philippe Ducrest
1927 - 2004
Tarik Abdel Bary
Born 1961
Roger Kay
1921 - 2001
Ahmed Rifaat
1942 - 2017
Nadia Sirry
Born 1958
Sanaa Ismail Hamed
Born 1984
Abdel Hamid Shaheen
1943 - 2014
Tarek Madkour
Born 1967
Gabriel Ghanoum
Born 1953
Mai El Kamash
Born 1994
Sameh El-Saharty
Born 1957
Farid Müller
Born 1962
Muhammed Fuad pascha
1835 - 1931
Hassan Madani
Born 1979
Abdallah Kamal
1965 - 2014
Ashraf El-Shihy
Born 1955
Hafez Abu Seada
1965 - 2020
Pierre Azaria
1865 - 1953
Hesham Mansour
Born 1984
Ragheb Moftah
1898 - 2001
Edmond Nessler
1907 - 2004
Ahmed Gad
Born 1978
Abdelrahman Oraby
Born 1987
Ibrahim Fayad
1931 - 2008
Salma Tarik
Born 1989
Faten Zahran Mohammed
Born 1955
Hedy Habra
-
Ali Abdelghany
Born 1944
Samar Hassounah
Born 1987
Avedis Yapoudjian
1931 - 2017
Abdel Hamid Ahmed
Born 1984
Mohamed El Ghanem
-
Mahmoud Moustapha Kamel
1928 - 2004
Essam Marzouk
Born 1960
Peter Donaldson
1945 - 2015
Arwa Saleh
1951 - 1997
Ovadia Harari
1943 - 2012
Maha Zein
Born 1976
Abdel-Kader Telmissany
1924 - 2003
Ahmed Tewfik
Born 1960
Joseph Frankforter
Born 1938
Omaia Elwan
Born 1932
Constantin Macris
1917 - 1984
Nisa Chevènement
Born 1944
Hassan Abdalla
Born 1960
Ibrahim Nour El Din
Born 1979
Mahmoud Younis
1911 - 1976
Srabonti Narmeen Ali
Born 1979
Wafik Moustafa
Born 1948
Armen Agop
Born 1969
Philip Hollick
1936 - 1991
Andrea Schomburg
Born 1955
George Khoury
1912 - 1983
Mamdouh Shoukri
Born 1947
Elisabetta Bartuli
Born 1955
Tamer Abu Ghazaleh
Born 1986
Hend Kheera
Born 1981
Muntasir al-Qaffasch
Born 1964
Ronald Cicurel
Born 1945
Matusha Corkidi
1922 - 1987
Egizio Rubino
1919 - 1990
Herbert Frenzel (Romanist)
1913 - 1968
Raoul Rossi
1927 - 2006
Mohamed Mehrez
Born 1935
Saba Habachy
1897 - 1996
Tamer Abdul Hamid
Born 1971
Anba Abakir
Born 1962
Farid Boulad Bey
1872 - 1947
Mahmoud Latif
Born 1951
Amr El-Gaiar
Born 1974
Mohamed Shaker
1933 - 2018
Al-Muzaffar Hajji
1331 - 1347
Shehab Mohamed
Born 1989
Mourad El-Kodsi
1919 - 2007
Al-Mujahid
Died 1240
Shaker Elsayed
Born 1951
Georgette Savvides
Born 1973
Ayman Kamel
Born 1965
Nicolas Ioannou
Born 1965
Tamer Hamed
Born 1974
Leon Eliachar
1922 - 1987
Ahmed Alaa
Born 1994
Engy Sayed
Born 1986
Effat Nssar
Born 1964
Sara Mohamed
Born 1990
Sergio Cassingena
Born 1951
Mohamed El Sayed
Born 1973
Zaki Osman (footballer, born 1932)
1932 - 2014
Sayed Shabrawy
Born 1993
Charif Souki
Born 1953
Basma Abdel Aziz
Born 1976
Mohamed Salamah
1888 - 1992
al-Hadi (Imam)
-
Albert Khelfa
Born 1945
Mohamed Sedik
Born 1978
Giuseppe Bausardo
Born 1951
Maurice Choukrane
Born 1956
Hassan Hassanein
1916 - 1957
Essam Marouf
Born 1958
Clément-Joseph Hannouche
1950 - 2020
Ahmed Shroyda
Born 1990
Ahmed Sabry
1933 - 1958
Fathy El Gharbawy
Born 1949
Christiane Saleh
-
Makida Moka
-
Nikoferis Themistokeles Paradellis
1942 - 2002
Charles Moberly
1907 - 1996
Kamal Sabri Kolta
Born 1930
Patrizia Paoletti Tangheroni
Born 1947
Lina El Tannir
Born 1987
Nora Picciotto
Born 1942
Omar Kholeif
-
Ahmed El-Mehelmy
Born 1962
Ahmed Zein El-Abidin
Born 1943
Prince Ismail Imaduddeen
1915 - 1972
Sherif Sabri Pasha
Born 1895
Mohamed El Gawarhy
Born 1996
Sandro Bichara
1947 - 2006
Nano (Egyptian footballer)
Born 1985
Jean-Pierre Enkiri
1924 - 2017
Riem Higazi
Born 1970
Lucy Rokach
-