List of Famous people born in Egypt

Mostafa Mohamed Ahmed is an Egyptian professional footballer who currently plays as a forward for Egyptian Premier League club Zamalek and the Egypt national team.

Amr Mohamed Eid El Soleya is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a Midfielder for Egyptian League club Al Ahly and Egyptian national team.

Abdel Nader is an American-Egyptian professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Northern Illinois Huskies and the Iowa State Cyclones before being drafted by the Boston Celtics with the 58th overall pick in the 2016 NBA draft. Nader has also played for the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Moustafa Amar is an Egyptian musician and actor.

Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed El-Tayeb is an Egyptian Islamic scholar and the current Grand Imam of al-Azhar and former president of al-Azhar University. He was appointed by the Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, following the death of Mohamed Sayed Tantawy in 2010. He is from Kurna, Luxor Governorate in Upper Egypt, and he belongs to a Sunni Muslim family.

Mustafa Lutfi el-Manfaluti was an Egyptian writer and poet who wrote many famous Arabic books and was born in the Upper Egyptian city of Manfalut to an Egyptian father and a Turkish mother.

Ayten Amer is an Egyptian actress.

Basil Gogos was an American illustrator best known for his portraits of movie monsters which appeared on the covers of Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine in the 1960s and 1970s.

Fernand Legros was an art dealer who for over a decade, from the middle 1950s until the late 1960s, sold the forged artworks of Elmyr de Hory, an artist and "the Greatest Art Forger of Our Time".

Dr. Ali Moustafa Mosharafa was an Egyptian theoretical physicist. He was professor of applied mathematics in the Faculty of Science at Cairo University, and also served as its first dean. He contributed to the development of the quantum theory as well as the theory of relativity.