List of Famous people born in Egypt
Ismail Chirine
Ismail Hussein Chirine was a royal Egyptian diplomat. He served as commander in chief of the Egyptian army. His ancestors had relations to Muhammad Ali dynasty.
Alexander Helios
Alexander Helios was a Ptolemaic prince and was a son of the Macedonian queen Cleopatra VII of Ptolemaic Egypt by Roman triumvir Mark Antony. Alexander's fraternal twin sister was Cleopatra Selene II. Cleopatra named her son after Alexander the Great. His second name in Ancient Greek means "Sun"; this was the counterpart of his twin sister's second name Selene (Σελήνη), meaning "Moon".
Hosny Abd Rabo
Hosny Abd Rabo is an Egyptian retired professional footballer.
Hany Adel
Hany Adel is an Egyptian guitarist, vocalist, and screen actor. He was born September 8, 1976 and is the founding member of the Arabic language band Wust El-Balad. He has also played significant supporting roles in a number of contemporary Egyptian films dealing with controversial social and political issues facing Arab society. These films include Microphone (2010), a film about Egypt's culture wars, Asmaa (2011) about a woman living in Cairo with HIV/AIDS, the 2013 film Fatat El Masnaa about gender and class discrimination in modern Egyptian society and the movie Ishtibak ("Clash") set after the political events of June 2013.
Basem Morsi
Basem Morsy el-Qotb Abdullah is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Egyptian club El Makkasa and the Egypt national team.
Khaled Ali
Khaled Ali is an Egyptian lawyer and activist. He is known for his advocacy for reform of government and private sector corruption and for promoting social justice and labor rights. He is the former head of the Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights (ECESR), and co-founder of the Front for Defending Egyptian Protesters and the Hisham Mubarak Law Center (HMLC).
Ali Gomaa
Ali Gomaa is an Egyptian Islamic scholar, Jurist, and public figure who has taken a number of controversial political stances. He specializes in Islamic Legal Theory. He follows the Shafi`i school of Islamic jurisprudence and the Ash'ari school of tenets of faith. Gomaa is a Sufi. Gomaa is also a supporter of the 2013 Military Coup.
Ramy Essam
Ramy Essam is an Egyptian musician. He is best known for his appearances in Tahrir Square in Cairo during the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. Ramy is one of the few singers in Middle East to sing hard rock.
Amr Zaki
Amr Hassan Zaki is an Egyptian retired professional footballer who played as a striker.
Mohammad Fouad
Mohamed Fouad Abd El Hamid Hassan is an Egyptian singer, actor and songwriter. He filmed his first television series "Agla Min Hayaty" in 2010, and hosted the television show "Khush Ala Fo’sh" in 2014.