List of Famous people born in Cairo Governorate

Hala Helmy el-Said is the current Egyptian Minister of Planning and Economic Development.

Stéphanos I Sidarouss was a Cardinal and leader of the Coptic Catholic Church, an Eastern Catholic sui juris particular church of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Patriarch of Alexandria from 1958 to 1986, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1965.

Ibrahim Ali ElSaid Nour El Din is an Egyptian football referee.

Abū Naṣr Tāj al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Kafi al-Subkī, or Tāj al-Dīn al-Subkī – or simply Ibn al-Subki – was a leading Islamic scholar, a faqīh, a muḥaddith and a historian from the celebrated al-Subkī family of Shāfiʿī ʿulamā, during the Mamluk era.

Ahmed Mohamed Abdel Kader Radwan, commonly known as Ahmed Abdel Kader, is an Egyptian footballer who plays for Egyptian Premier League side Al Ahly as an attacking midfielder.

Hussein Mohamed Shafiq (Arabic: حسين محمد شفيق‎, more commonly known by his stage name Hussein Riad (Arabic: حسين رياض‎, was an Egyptian actor, who mainly played "dad roles". His career spanned about 46 years and he appeared in approximately 320 films, 240 theater plays, and 150 radio and 50 TV plays.