List of Famous people named Magdi

Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub, is an Egyptian-British retired professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Imperial College London, best known for his early work in repairing heart valves with surgeon Donald Ross, adapting the Ross procedure, where the diseased aortic valve is replaced with the person's own pulmonary valve, devising the arterial switch operation (ASO) in transposition of the great arteries, and establishing the heart transplantation centre at Harefield Hospital in 1980 with a heart transplant for Derrick Morris, who at the time of his death was Europe's longest-surviving heart transplant recipient. Yacoub subsequently performed the UK's first combined heart and lung transplant in 1983.

Magdi Abdelghani Sayed Ahmed is an Egyptian retired professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. Contrary to popular belief, He isn't the first player to score a goal for Egypt in the world cup as it was Abdulrahman Fawzi who scored twice in the 1934 FIFA World Cup.

Magdi Khalil is a Coptic political analyst, researcher, author and executive editor of the Egyptian weekly Watani International. He is also a columnist for Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, London, a freelance writer for several Arabic language newspapers, and a frequent contributor to Middle East broadcast news TV.

Magdi El Gallad is an Egyptian journalist.