List of Famous people born in Cairo Governorate

Omar Gaber is an Egyptian footballer who plays for Egyptian Premier League side Pyramids and the Egyptian national team mainly as a right-back but also sometimes as a midfielder.

Gohar Gasparyan, also known as the "Armenian nightingale", was an Armenian opera singer.

Nabil Ali Mohammed Abd AL Azeez was an Egyptian scientist, writer, and intellectual who worked in the field of natural language processing and computational linguistics. Ali is considered a pioneer of Arabic language computing, making significant innovations in early computational linguistics.

Amira Selim is an Egyptian soprano and opera singer, based in France.

Abu'l-Qasim Ahmad ibn al-Mustansir, better known by his regnal name al-Mustaʽli Billah, was the ninth Fatimid caliph and the 19th imam of Mustaʽli Ismailism.

Al-Muzaffar Sayf ad-Din Hajji ibn Muhammad ibn Qalawun, better known as al-Muzaffar Hajji, was the Bahri Mamluk sultan of Egypt. He was also the sixth son of an-Nasir Muhammad to hold office, ruling from September 1346 and December 1347. He was known for his love of sports and pigeon racing, acts which led to frustration among the senior Mamluk emirs who believed he neglected the duties of office and spent extravagant sums on gambling. His reign ended when he was killed in a confrontation with Mamluk conspirators outside of Cairo.

Al-Ashraf Zayn ad-Din Abu al-Ma'ali Sha'ban ibn Husayn ibn Muhammad ibn Qalawun, better known as al-Ashraf Sha'ban or Sha'ban II, was a Mamluk sultan of the Bahri dynasty in 1363–1377. He was a grandson of Sultan an-Nasir Muhammad. He had two sons who succeeded him: al-Mansur Ali and as-Salih Hajji.