List of Famous people born in Cairo Governorate

Mahmoud Samir is an Egyptian footballer, who plays as a midfielder for Egyptian Premier League club Al-Mokawloon al-Arab.

Moaz El-Henawy is an Egyptian footballer. He currently plays as a defender for the Egyptian Premier League club Aswan SC. Moaz was the Egypt U-20 national team captain in the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Egypt. In January 2012, El-Henawy suffered a large leg injury that would keep him out for many months therefore preventing him to take part with the Egypt U-23 team in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Ali Sabri was an Egyptian politician of Turkish origin.

Cecil Louis Troughton Smith, known by his pen name Cecil Scott "C. S." Forester, was an English novelist known for writing tales of naval warfare, such as the 10-book Horatio Hornblower series depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic wars. The Hornblower novels A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours were jointly awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1938. His other works include The African Queen and The Good Shepherd.

An-Nasir Shihab ad-Din Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Qalawun, better known as an-Nasir Ahmad, was the Bahri Mamluk sultan of Egypt, ruling from January to June 1342. A son of Sultan an-Nasir Muhammad, he became embroiled in the volatile succession process following his father's death in 1341. An-Nasir Ahmad lived much of his life in the desert fortress of al-Karak in Transjordan and was reluctant to assume the sultanate in Cairo, preferring al-Karak, where he was closely allied with the inhabitants of the city and the Bedouin tribes in its vicinity. His Syrian partisans, emirs Tashtamur and Qutlubugha al-Fakhri, successfully maneuvered to bring Syria under an-Nasir Ahmad's official control, while sympathetic emirs in Egypt were able to oust the Mamluk strongman Emir Qawsun and his puppet sultan, the five-year-old half-brother of an-Nasir Ahmad, al-Ashraf Kujuk. An-Nasir Ahmad eventually assumed the sultanate after frequently delaying his departure to Egypt.