List of Famous people born in Cairo Governorate

Maryana Iskander is an Egyptian-born American social entrepreneur and lawyer. In 2022, she is to become the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Wikimedia Foundation. Iskander is the CEO of the Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator and a former chief operating officer of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America in New York.

Mai Yamani is an independent Saudi scholar, author and anthropologist.

Dame Penelope Margaret Lively is a British writer of fiction for both children and adults. Lively has won both the Booker Prize and the Carnegie Medal for British children's books.

Meriam George is an Egyptian beauty pageant titleholder, winner of Miss Supertalent. At the age of eighteen, she was the official Pantene Miss Egypt 2005 winner. She represented Egypt in Miss Universe 2005, Miss Intercontinental 2005 and Miss Earth 2006. In Miss Earth, she was among the eight finalists, in Miss Intercontinental, she was a semifinalist, and in Miss Universe, she did not place. In October 2013, she traveled to Seoul, South Korea, to represent her country as "Miss Egypt" at the Miss Supertalent of the World 2013, where she placed as 1st runner-up, She is a Coptic Christian.Egypt's best showing in the grand slam pageants since Antigone Costanda was Miss World in 1954.

Jehane Noureldin Ragai is an Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the American University in Cairo (AUC). She is the author of the non-fiction book The Scientist and the Forger, published in 2015 by Imperial College Press.