List of Famous people born in Asyut Governorate, Egypt

Samir Yousef Ghanem is an Egyptian comedian, singer, and entertainer. Samir Ghanem earned a bachelor's degree in Agriculture from Alexandria University

Sayyid Ibrahim Husayn Shadhili Qutb, known popularly as Sayyid Qutb, was an Egyptian author, educator, revolutionary, Islamic theorist, poet, and a leading member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1966, he was convicted of plotting the assassination of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and was executed by hanging.

Karima Mokhtar was an Egyptian stage and film actress whose career spanned for more than fifty years.

Mustafa Lutfi el-Manfaluti was an Egyptian writer and poet who wrote many famous Arabic books and was born in the Upper Egyptian city of Manfalut to an Egyptian father and a Turkish mother.

Pope Shenouda III was the 117th Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark. His episcopate lasted 40 years, 4 months, and 4 days from 14 November 1971 until his death on 17 March 2012.

Mohamed AbouGabal, also known by his nickname Gabaski, is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Egyptian Premier League club Zamalek and Egyptian national team.

Al-Suyuti ; aka Jalaluddin; was an Egyptian scholar, historian and jurist. From a family of Persian origin, he was described as one of the most prolific writers of the Middle Ages. His biographical dictionary Bughyat al-wuʻāh fī ṭabaqāt al-lughawīyīn wa-al-nuḥāh contains valuable accounts of prominent figures in the early development of Arabic philology. He was appointed to a chair in the mosque of Baybars in Cairo in 1486, and was an authority of the Shafii school of thought (madhhab).

Shaker Abdel Hamid Suleiman was the Egyptian Minister of Culture from 2011 to 2017. He served as Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Culture, then Minister of Culture at the Ministry of Kamal al-Ganzuri in December 2011, and was a Professor of Creative Psychology at The Egyptian Academy of Arts. He died a week after he was infected with COVID-19.