List of Famous people born in Egypt
Nermin Al-Fiqy
Nermin Al-Fiqy is an Egyptian actress.
Taheyya Kariokka
Taheyya Kariokka also Tahiya Carioca, was an Egyptian belly dancer and film actress.
Sameera Moussa
Sameera Moussa was the first female Egyptian nuclear physicist. Sameera held a doctorate in atomic radiation. She hoped her work would one day lead to affordable medical treatments and the peaceful use of atomic energy. She organized the Atomic Energy for Peace Conference and sponsored a call that set an international conference under the banner "Atoms for Peace." She was the first woman to work at Cairo University.
Eman Ahmed
Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty was an Egyptian considered to be the heaviest living woman in the world and the second heaviest woman in history, after Carol Yager. However, at 4 feet 7 1⁄2 inches (141 cm), Eman was about a foot shorter than 5-foot-7-inch (170 cm) Yager, giving her the highest recorded BMI at 251.1 and body fat percentage. Her initial weight was claimed to be around 500 kilograms (1,100 lb).
Shwikar
Shwikar Ibrahim was an Egyptian actress. She started her career in Alexandria in some tragedic roles before she was discovered by the Egyptian film director Fateen Abdul Wahab to work as a comedian in TV, cinema and theatres.
Amr Warda
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Hamed Abdel-Samad
Hamed Abdel-Samad is a German-Egyptian political scientist and author.
Nassef Sawiris
Nassef Onsi Sawiris is an Egyptian billionaire businessman, the youngest of Onsi Sawiris' three sons. As of April 2019, his net worth was estimated to be $7.5 billion, and the fourth richest African in 2019, according to Forbes.
Imhotep
Imhotep was an Egyptian chancellor to the Pharaoh Djoser, probable architect of Djoser's step pyramid, and high priest of the sun god Ra at Heliopolis. Very little is known of Imhotep as a historical figure, but in the 3,000 years following his death, he was gradually glorified and deified.
Hafiz Ibrahim
Hafez Ibrahim was a well known Egyptian poet of the early 20th century. He was dubbed the "Poet of the Nile", and sometimes the "Poet of the People", for his political commitment to the poor. His poetry took on the concerns of the majority of ordinary Egyptians, including women’s rights, poverty, education, as well as his criticism of the British Empire and foreign occupation.