List of Famous people born in Tanta, Egypt

Ahmed Khaled Tawfik Farrag was an Egyptian author and a physician, also known as Ahmed Khaled Tawfek who wrote more than 200 paperbacks, in both Egyptian Arabic and Classical Arabic. He was the first contemporary writer of horror and science fiction in the Arabic speaking world and also the first writer to explore the medical thriller genre.

Doria Shafik was an Egyptian feminist, poet and editor, and one of the principal leaders of the women's liberation movement in Egypt in the mid-1940s. As a direct result of her efforts, Egyptian women were granted the right to vote by the Egyptian constitution.

Mohamed Fawzi was an Egyptian composer and singer. Artist Mohamed Fawzi & Co was established El sharq El Awsat factory for Vinyl on April 30, 1959, and turned into Sono Cairo /Sout El Qahira Egyptian Company for Vinyl on January 6, 1964. He composed the music for "Kassaman", the Algerian national anthem.

Abdelhamid I. Sabra (1924-2013) was a professor of the history of science specializing in the history of optics and science in medieval Islam. He died December 18, 2013. Sabra provided English translation and commentary for Books I-III of Ibn al-Haytham's seven book Kitab al-Manazir, written in Arabic in the 11th century.

Kamal Al Taweel or Kamal El-Tawil was a distinguished Egyptian composer and music author.

Hussein Mahmoud Hassan el-Shafei, also known as Hussein el-Shafei, was a member of Egypt's 1952 revolutionary leadership council and served as Vice-president under two Egyptian presidents, Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat. He was one of the nine men who had constituted themselves as the committee of the Free Officers Movement, led the country's cavalry corps during the uprising and was one of only three living members of the Revolutionary Command Council at the time of his death.

Maximos V Hakim was elected Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, and Alexandria and Jerusalem of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in 1967 and served until 2000. He guided the church through turbulent changes in the Middle East and rapid expansion in the Western hemisphere.