List of Famous people born in Cairo Governorate

Amany Burhanuddin Umar Lubis is an Indonesian muslim women scholars of Mandailing-Egyptian descent. As an Islamic scholar, Amany was appointed as chairperson of the Indonesian Ulema Council for Women, Youth and Families for the 2015–2020 period. On January 7, 2019, she was appointed as rector of the Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta by the minister of religion affairs of the Republic of Indonesia, Lukman Hakim Saifuddin. Her new position made her as the first woman who served as chancellor of the largest Islamic university in Indonesia, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta.

Osama Orabi is an Egyptian retired professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

Aly Lotfi Ibrahim Mostafa is an Egyptian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Al Ahly in the Egyptian Premier League.

Ibrahim El-Masry is an Egyptian handball player for Al Ahly and the Egyptian national team.

Moataz Eno is an Egyptian footballer. He plays the defensive midfielder position for Egypt's club Al-Gaish.

Alaa Al-Aswany is an Egyptian writer, and a founding member of the political movement Kefaya.

Mohamed Abu Hamed Shaheen is an Egyptian politician. He is the former vice chairman of the Free Egyptians Party, and was an elected member of the post-revolutionary People's Assembly of Egypt, representing Kasr El Nil district in Cairo. He is the former head of the Free Egyptians Party's parliamentary bloc. He resigned from the party in early March 2012, though he rejoined the party in February 2015.

Hani Shukrallah was an Egyptian journalist and political analyst. He was editor-in-chief of Al-Ahram Weekly between 1991 and 2005 and later founder and until February 2011 editor-in-chief of Ahram Online, both part of the state-run Al-Ahram Foundation. He was also the Executive Director of the Heikal Foundation for Arab Journalism.

Eutychius of Alexandria was the Melkite Patriarch of Alexandria. He is known for being one of the first Christian Egyptian writers to use the Arabic language. His writings include the chronicle Nazm al-Jauhar, also known by its Latin title Eutychii Annales.

Mai Mas'ud Amin Fahmi Mohamed is an Egyptian synchronized swimmer who competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics.