List of Famous people born in Cairo Governorate

Abd El-Karim Sakr was an Egyptian football forward who played for Egypt & Farouk.

Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥākim, better known with his regnal name al-Ẓāhir li-iʿzāz Dīn Allāh, was the seventh caliph of the Fatimid dynasty (1021–1036). Al-Zahir assumed the caliphate after the disappearance of his father al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah.

Muhammad Salah Eldin Bahgat Ahmad Helmy, known as "Salah Jaheen" or "Salah Jahin" was a leading Egyptian poet, lyricist, playwright and cartoonist.

Khaled El Ghandour is an Egyptian football Midfielder at Egyptian

Club El-Zamalek، One of the most decorated players in the history of El-Zamalek. El Ghandour scored many goals during his career, as that of the professional Ghandour short trip in the club Kazma and he ending his career in El-Tersana.

Ahmed Adel Abdel Moneam is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for egyptian League club Misr Lel-Makkasa.

Maggie Gobran or Mama Maggie, a Coptic Orthodox, is the founder and CEO of the non-profit charity Stephen's Children in Cairo, Egypt. She was also professor of computer science at the American University in Cairo, is married and has a son and a daughter. She was nominated for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize.

Atef El-Tayeb was an Egyptian film director.

Ashraf Fahmy (Arabic: أشرف فهمي 25 August 1936 – 25 January 2001 was an Egyptian film director active in the Egyptian film industry since the late 1960s. He was credited with launching the career with his First Feature Film a daring director frequently seen in film festivals worldwide during decades, in addition he wrote three Films (Until The End of Lifetime – Arabic: (حتى آخر العمر one of the most memorable film and famous for the music composed by Omar Khorshid, and he also produced three other films.

Mahmoud Mokhtar was an Egyptian footballer. A prolific striker, he scored 9 goals in 10 international matches for Egypt.

Yahya Haqqi (7 January 1905 – 9 December 1992) was an Egyptian writer and novelist. Born to a middle-class family in Cairo, he was trained as a lawyer at the Cairo School of Law, graduating in 1925. Like many other Egyptian writers, such as Naguib Mahfouz and Yusuf Idris, he spent most of his life as a civil servant, supplementing his literary income; he eventually rose to become adviser to the National Library of Egypt.