List of Copts
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This is a list of notable Copts. For saints, please refer to Coptic Saints
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Being an integral part of Egypt
's history, Christian Copts, have shared in all aspects of life and had many contributions to the Egyptian political, professional and spiritual activities. The is a list of notable Christian Copts with articles in Wikipedia.
The word 'Copt' is derived from the Egyptian Greek 'ment aiguption; which means 'From Egypt'. Prior to Muhammad Ali's rule of Egypt, average Egyptians were referred to as "Qibti" regardless of their religion.
Coptic saints
Egypt was one of the first countries to know Christianity, with Saint Mark the Evangelist bringing Christianity to the country around 55 AD.The Egyptian Christians, also known as the Copts, have produced thousands of saints, many of whom are recognised simultaneously in the Oriental Orthodox...
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Being an integral part of Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
's history, Christian Copts, have shared in all aspects of life and had many contributions to the Egyptian political, professional and spiritual activities. The is a list of notable Christian Copts with articles in Wikipedia.
The word 'Copt' is derived from the Egyptian Greek 'ment aiguption; which means 'From Egypt'. Prior to Muhammad Ali's rule of Egypt, average Egyptians were referred to as "Qibti" regardless of their religion.
Actors and directors
- Akmal SalehAkmal SalehAkmal Saleh is an Australian comedian and actor. He was born in Egypt and arrived in Sydney, Australia with his family in 1975 at the age of 11. He has been performing stand-up comedy since the early 1990s and his live shows have toured comedy festivals both within Australia and internationally...
Australian comedian and actor - Ash AtallaAsh AtallaAsh Atalla is an Egyptian-born television producer responsible for producing several British TV series such as The IT Crowd , The Office and Man Stroke Woman. He has also made cameo appearances in productions such as Ricky Gervais' Politics...
British television producer - Asaad KeladaAsaad KeladaAsaad Kelada is an American television director of many popular American television situation comedies.-Early life:Kelada was born in Cairo, Egypt where he studied drama under Youssef Chahine at the American University in Cairo...
Hollywood Director - Daoud Abdel SayedDaoud Abdel SayedDaoud Abdel Sayed is an Egyptian director and screenwriter. He was born in Cairo in 1946. He started as the assistant of Youssef Chahine in The Land...
Film Director - George SidhomGeorge SidhomGeorge Sidhom is a veteran Egyptian comedian.He is famous for being part of the stand-up comedy trio Tholathy Adwa'a El Masrah, alongside Samir Ghanem and El Deif Ahmed....
Actor - Hala SedkiHala SedkiHala Sedki George Younan is an Egyptian actress. She was a swimmer playing for Zamalek SC. She has received a Bachelor of Arts in 1981.- Career :...
Actress - Hany RamzyHany RamzyHany Guda Ramzy is an Egyptian international football defender. He is the current Head Coach of the Egypt U23 national football team.-Early life:...
Actor - Henry Barakat Director
- Naguib Al Rehani Film Icon & Actor
- Khairy BesharaKhairy BesharaKhairy Beshara is an Egyptian film director active in the Egyptian film industry since the 1970s. He is considered one of the Egyptian directors who re-defined Realism in Egyptian cinema in the 1980s. In a recent book published by Bibliotheca Alexandrina in 2007 about the most important 100 films...
Director - Samir SeifSamir SeifFor the martial artist, see Samir Seif .Samir Seif born to a Coptic Christian family in Cairo, Egypt, is a prominent Egyptian film director active in the Egyptian film industry also in TV.- Filmography :...
Director - Sanaa GamilSanaa GamilSanaa Gamil , born Thoraya Youssef Atallah , was an Egyptian actress.Born to a Coptic Orthodox family in Upper Egypt, she moved to Cairo to pursue her acting career and changed her name to Sanaa Gamil....
Actress - Sandra NashaatSandra NashaatSandra Nashaat is a famous Egyptian director. Nashaat is a Coptic Christian. Her movies include the popular:...
Director - SimonSimonSimon is a common name, from Hebrew meaning "He who has heard/hears [the word of God]".Simon may also refer to:-Names:* Simon , including a list of people with the given name Simon...
Singer - Youssef DawoudYoussef DawoudYoussef Dawoud is an Egyptian actor, who has worked in theatre, cinema and television.Dawoud started acting when studying at Alexandria University. After graduating from the Faculty of Engineering Department of Electricity, Alexandria University, in 1960, he worked for Alexandria Oils and Soap...
Actor - Youssef ChahineYoussef ChahineYoussef Chahine was an Egyptian film director active in the Egyptian film industry since 1950. He was credited with launching the career of actor Omar Sharif...
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Businessmen
- Farid StinoFarid StinoDr. Farid Stino is an Egyptian businessperson. Stino was the President and CEO of Ismailia-Misr Poultry Company, one of the largest poultry companies in the Middle East.He is also the owner of Stino Farms, based in Cairo.-External links:*...
- Fayez SarofimFayez SarofimFayez Sarofim is a Coptic Egyptian American fund manager for a number of Dreyfus family stock funds. He is divorced with five children, and lives in Houston, Texas. With an estimated net worth of between $1.8 billion to $4 billion, Sarofim was ranked by Forbes as the 428-richest person in the world...
Billionaire Houston Financier - Monir Fakhri Abdel NourMonir Fakhri Abdel NourMounir Fakhry Abdel Nour is an Egyptian politician. He is the Secretary-General of the Wafd Party and has been Minister of Tourism since 22 February 2011.- See also :*Cabinet of Egypt*List of Egyptians...
Banker and Businessman - Naguib SawirisNaguib SawirisNaguib Onsi Sawiris is an Egyptian businessman and politician. He was executive chairman of the telecommunications companies Wind Telecom and Orascom Telecom Holding before turning to politics in May 2011...
One of the wealthiest 100 people worldwide - Onsi SawirisOnsi SawirisOnsi Sawiris is an Egyptian businessman. He was estimated to be worth approximatively $2.9 billion according to Forbes in 2011. He is the patriarchal head of the Sawiris Family...
Founder of Orascom Group - Samih SawirisSamih SawirisSamih Onsi Sawiris is an Egyptian businessman and billionaire and second of three sons of Onsi Sawiris, the other two being Naguib Sawiris and Nassef Sawiris. He is the executive Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of Orascom Development, part of the Orascom group of companies...
Orascom Construction - Tharwat BassilyTharwat BassilyTharwat Bassily is a Coptic business man and the founder and Board Chairman of the pharmaceuticals company Amoun, one of leading private pharmaceutical companies in Egypt. He also undersecretary of the Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church, a member of the Shura Council, and the founder of...
Clergymen and Theologians
- Bishop AngaelosBishop AngaelosBishop Angaelos is a general bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria consecrated by Pope Shenouda III on 14 November 1999...
- Athanasius the Apostolic 20th Pope of Alexandria
- Metropolitan Athanasius of Beni SuefAthanasius, Metropolitan of Beni SuefMetropolitan Athanasius was the Coptic Orthodox bishop of Beni Suef and al-Bahnassa, Egypt, from 1962 until his death in 2000. Bishop Athanasius had, just as Pope Shenouda III, his roots in the Sunday School movement, a reform movement in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt...
- Cyril ICyril of AlexandriaCyril of Alexandria was the Patriarch of Alexandria from 412 to 444. He came to power when the city was at its height of influence and power within the Roman Empire. Cyril wrote extensively and was a leading protagonist in the Christological controversies of the later 4th and 5th centuries...
24th Pope of Alexandria - Pope Cyril VIPope Cyril VI of AlexandriaFather Mina became Pope of Alexandria on 10 May 1959 . In accordance with the old Coptic church tradition, Pope Cyril VI was the only monk in the 20th century to be chosen for papacy without having being a bishop /Metropolitan first...
116th Pope of Alexandria - Mother IriniMother IriniMother Irini, الأم إيرينى, was Abbess of St. Philopateer Mercurius Convent in Old Cairo, Egypt....
- Father Matta El MeskeenMatta El MeskeenFather Matta El Meskeen or Matthew the Poor, born Youssef Iskandar was an Egyptian Coptic Orthodox monk. He was the key figure in the revival of Egyptian monasticism which began in 1969 when he was appointed to the Monastery of St Macarius in the Wadi El Natrun in Egypt...
- Metropolitan Mikhail of Asyut
- OrigenOrigenOrigen , or Origen Adamantius, 184/5–253/4, was an early Christian Alexandrian scholar and theologian, and one of the most distinguished writers of the early Church. As early as the fourth century, his orthodoxy was suspect, in part because he believed in the pre-existence of souls...
Christian scholar - Metropolitan Seraphim of GlastonburyMetropolitan Seraphim of GlastonburyAbba Seraphim El-Suriani is the Metropolitan of Glastonbury and Head of the British Orthodox Church within the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria...
- Bishop SerapionBishop SerapionBishop Serapion of the Los Angeles was born in Assiut on November 10, 1951. Following his graduation from the Faculty of Medicine at Assiut in 1975, Bishop Serapion formerly practiced medicine in Aswan.-Joining the Monastery:...
- Pope Shenouda III of AlexandriaPope Shenouda III of AlexandriaPope Shenouda III of Alexandria is the 117th Pope of Alexandria and the Patriarch of All Africa on the Holy Apostolic See of Saint Mark the Evangelist of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria...
current Pope Alexandria
Historians and Coptologists
- Aziz Suryal AtiyaAziz Suryal AtiyaProfessor Aziz Suryal Atiya was a prominent Coptologist who was a Coptic historian and scholar and an expert in Islamic and Crusades studies.Professor Atiya was the founder of the Institute of Coptic Studies in Cairo in 1950s, and was also the founder of the Middle East Center, University of...
- Gawdat GabraGawdat GabraDr. Gawdat Gabra is a Coptologist; he finished his bachelor degree in Egyptian Antiquities – Cairo University 1967 and PhD in Coptic Antiquities University of Münster – Germany 1978....
- Habib GirgisHabib GirgisArchdeacon Habib Kozman Girgis was a modern-day dean of the Catechetical School of Alexandria. Habib Girgis was born in Cairo in 1876....
- Iris Habib ElmasryIris Habib ElmasryIris Habib Elmasry was a prominent Coptic Historian .-Biography:Iris Habib Elmasry was born into a righteous Coptic family 1910, Her family name Elmasry in Arabic language means The Egyptian....
- Labib HabachiLabib HabachiLabib Habachi was an influential Egyptian Egyptologist.Dr Habachi spent 30 years in the Antiquities Department of the Egyptian Government, ending his career as Chief inspector. During this period he spent an enormous amount of time in numerous dig sites in Egypt and the Sudan...
- Father Menassa YouhannaMenassa YouhannaFather Menassa Youhanna was a Coptic priest, historian and theologian, most noted for his work on the history of the Coptic Orthodox Church.- Biography :...
- Pahor LabibPahor LabibPahor Labib wasDirector of the Coptic Museum, Cairo, Egypt, from 1951 to 1965 and one of the world leaders in Egyptology and Coptology....
- Severus Ibn al-MuqaffaSeverus Ibn al-MuqaffaSeverus ibn al-Muqaffaʿ or Severus of El Ashmunein was a Coptic Bishop, author and historian. In Arabic, his name is spelled Sawires ساويرس. Severus is sometimes confused with Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa.He was bishop of Hermopolis Magna , in Upper Egypt, around the end of the tenth century...
- Younan Labib RizkYounan Labib Rizkwas a prominent Egyptian historian and literary figure. He was a professor of history at Ain Shams University in Cairo; and was also appointed a member of the History Committee of the Supreme Council for Culture. He was formerly Director of Historical Studies at the Institute of Research and Arab...
Journalists and writers
- Adel IskandarAdel IskandarAdel Iskandar is a British-born Middle East media scholar, postcolonial theorist, analyst, and academic. He is the author and co-author of several works on Arab media, most prominently an analysis of the Arab satellite station Al Jazeera...
- Alfred FaragAlfred FaragAlfred Farag – 4 December 2005 ) was one of the eminentEgyptian playwrights of the post 1952 Revolution period. He obtained his BA in English Literature from the Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University in 1949. He took up the teaching career till 1955 when he abandoned it for a post in the...
- Kamal el-MallakhKamal el-MallakhKamal el-Mallakh was a famous Egyptian archaeologist who discovered The King Khufu Solar ship in 1950.-Life:He was born to a Coptic family from Upper Egypt on 26 October 1918 and died on 29 October 1987....
- Louis AwadLouis AwadLouis Awad was an Egyptian intellectual and writer.Born in the upper Egypt town of Minya, Egypt, Awad studied at the literature department of Cairo University before setting off to England for further studies before the Second World War...
- Magdi WahbaMagdi WahbaMagdi Wahba was an Egyptian university professor, Johnsonian scholar, and lexicographer.He was born in Alexandria in 1925 the son of a high court judge and later cabinet minister. His mother had been educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and Oxford University...
- Michael Maurice PrinceMichael Maurice PrinceMichael Maurice Prince , sometimes referred to only as Michael Prince or M. M. Prince , is an Egyptian writer...
- Mofeed FawzyMofeed FawzyMofeed or Mufid Fawzy is an Egyptian television presenter, interviewer and journalist.He has produced and presented on Egyptian "Talk of the Town" for nearly 26 years....
- Ra'ouf Mus'adRa'ouf Mus'adRa’ouf Mus'ad is a playwright, journalist and novelist who was born in Sudan to Egyptian Coptic parents. He moved to Egypt as a teenager and lived in various countries, both in the Middle East and in Europe, during the past 30 years...
- Raouf Salama MoussaRaouf Salama MoussaDr Raouf Salama Moussa was a notable Egyptian bacteriologist and editor.He was the first and eldest son of Salama Moussa, a famous Coptic Egyptian journalist and reformer in the 1920s....
- Salama MoussaSalama MoussaSalama Moussa Born into a wealthy, land owning Coptic family in the town of Zagazig located in the Nile delta. Salama Musa was a journalist, writer, advocator of secularism, and pioneer of Arab socialism. He wrote or translated 45 published books; his writings still influence Arab thought and he...
- Said SonbolSaid SonbolSaid Sonbol سعيد سنبل,Egyptian writer and editor,graduated from Fouad I University's Chemistry Department,he would eventually become a journalist starting at the Wafd mouthpiece Al-Misri, Sonbol became Al-Akhbar's first economic bureau chief in 1958, the paper's deputy editor-in-chief in 1961,...
- Younan Labib RizkYounan Labib Rizkwas a prominent Egyptian historian and literary figure. He was a professor of history at Ain Shams University in Cairo; and was also appointed a member of the History Committee of the Supreme Council for Culture. He was formerly Director of Historical Studies at the Institute of Research and Arab...
- Youssef SidhomYoussef SidhomYoussef Sidhom is the editor-in-chief of the Egyptian weekly newspaper Watany, the only Christian newspaper in Egypt. He is the son of Watani's founder, Anton Sidhom.Youssef Sidhom is a prominent advocate of Coptic Christian rights in Egypt....
Musicians
- Adel KamelAdel KamelDr. Adel Kamel عادل كامل was a Music critic, musicologist and composer.He was one of the writers in Watani newspaper, the founder of “Panorama” section, a lecturer in Universities in Egypt and abroad, a member of jury in international choir competitions, amember of many international...
- Aziz El-ShawanAziz El-ShawanAziz El-Shawan was an Egyptian composer of classical music...
- Basem DarwischBasem DarwischBasem Darwisch is an Egyptian composer and oud soloist living in Germany. He is one of the Egyptian music experts in Europe with long experience as a music consultant for television, movie and drama. He was a member of the Egyptian Folklore Music Metqal El Qenawi and later joined the famous Nubian...
- Halim El-DabhHalim El-DabhHalim Abdul Messieh El-Dabh is an Egyptian-born American composer, performer, ethnomusicologist, and educator, who has had a career spanning six decades...
- Joseph TawadrosJoseph TawadrosJoseph Tawadros is an oud virtuoso from Australia.Joseph never ceases to amaze and at 28 has established himself as one the world’s leading oud performers and composers...
- Mikhail Girgis El BatanounyMikhail Girgis El BatanounyCantor Mikhail Girgis El Batanouny was an expert in Coptic music, and knowledgeable in church rites, in addition to being skilled in the languages of Coptic and Arabic....
- Ragheb MoftahRagheb MoftahDr. Ragheb Moftah was an Egyptian musicologist and scholar of the Coptic music heritage. He spent much of his life studying the recording and notation of Coptic liturgical texts...
- Ramzi YassaRamzi YassaRamzi Yassa is an Egyptian pianist. An outstanding member of the first batch of musicians trained at the Cairo Conservatory, Yassa graduated in Moscow's Tchaikovsky Conservatory, taking part in the 1974 Tchaikovsky competition, where he earned an Honorary certificate. He then launched a concert...
- Osama MounirOsama MounirOsama Mounir Christian Egyptian TV personality, his famous program is "Ana Welnogoom We Hawak" which is a program about love on Nogoom FM radio channel....
- Youssef ElsisiYoussef ElsisiYoussef Elsisi was an Egyptian conductor and music educator.-Biography:...
- Yusef GreissYusef GreissYusef Greiss was an Egyptian composer of classical music, part of that nation's first generation of such composers.Greiss was of Coptic heritage. He composed orchestral works and chamber music...
- Wagih AzizWagih AzizWagih Aziz is an Egyptian composer and singer who has had his debut back in 1988.-About Wagih:Wagih Aziz made his debut back in 1988 through a theatrical adaptation of poems. Over the years, Wagih developed a taste chiefly influenced by two styles, those of and – an influence that made its way...
Painters and artists
- Adel NassiefAdel NassiefAdel Nassief is a Coptic painter specializing in Coptic art. He has some work on display on the external wall of a Coptic church in Paris and some work in the Cairo modern art museum and in Coptic churches in Damanhour and Alexandria...
- Chafik CharobimChafik CharobimChafik Charobim , is a well known impressionist and naturalist Egyptian artist who painted the "Peaceful and Tranquil Egypt of the last Century". He loved nature in any form and his paintings show a great love for the sea, the desert and the people of Egypt. He has left a legacy of over 186...
- Evelyn AshamallahEvelyn AshamallahEvelyn Ashamallah is a female Coptic painter, born in Desouk, Kafr el-Sheikh, Egypt in 1948 to Ashamallah Eskandar Hanna and Elaine Mikhail Hanna....
- George BahgouryGeorge BahgouryGeorge Abdel Masih Al Bahgoury or George Bahgoury جورج البهجورى is an Egyptian-French painter.-Life and career:Bahgoury was born into a Coptic Christian family in Luxor, Upper Egypt in 1932. In 1955, he studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Zamalek, Cairo, under the guidance of the...
- Hany ArmaniousHany ArmaniousHany Armanious is an Australian artist who lives and works in Sydney, Australia. Armanious produces installations and sculptural forms, as well as paintings and drawings.-Life and work:...
- Isaac FanousIsaac FanousIsaac Fanous was an Egyptian artist and scholar, who specialized in Coptic art and founded its contemporary school.-Early life and teaching:...
- Kamal AminKamal AminKamal Amin Awad was one of the most famous Egyptian artists of his time. He was one of the pioneers of graphic arts. The artist, whose masterpieces and unique techniques impressed Egyptian modern art, was born in Tanta in 1923. He was interested in teaching his students about the modern...
- Margaret NakhlaMargaret Nakhla- Personal data :*Date of Birth:12 /10/1908*Place of Birth: Alexandria*Date of death: 30/9/1977 - Stages of study : * Studied art in France * Diploma educator 1939...
Politicians
- Akhnoukh FanousAkhnoukh FanousAkhnoukh Fanous was a prominent Coptic political figure of the early twentieth century. Fanous is best known for founding the Egyptian Party in 1908, which consisted mainly of wealthy Copts. He also funded and organized the Coptic Conference in 1911, held in Assiut, which advocated Coptic rights...
- Stephan BassilyStephan BassilyStephan Bassily Bek born 1900 Member of the Egyptian Parliament in the forties and a member of the Wafd Party's supreme authority ,he was an eminent lawyer and vice chairman of the Egyptian Bar Association for many years until 1986 , also was a member of the International Bar Association and a...
- Boutros GhaliBoutros GhaliBoutros Ghali was the Prime Minister of Egypt from 1908 to 1910. He was a Coptic Christian.Ghali was accused of favouring the British in the Denshawai incident and on February 20, 1910, was assassinated by Ibrahim Nassif al-Wardani, a young pharmacology graduate who had just returned from the...
- Boutros Boutros GhaliBoutros Boutros-GhaliBoutros Boutros-Ghali is an Egyptian politician and diplomat who was the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1992 to December 1996...
- Dina PowellDina PowellDina Habib Powell , born 1973, is the former Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs for the United States government. She was in charge of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, a part of the State Department...
- Ester FanousEster FanousEster Akhnoukh Fanous or Esther Fanous, also known as Ester Wissa was an Egyptian Christian feminist and the daughter of doctor Akhnoukh Fanous and Balsam Wissa....
- Ibrahim El-GoharyIbrahim El-GoharyIbrahim El-Gohary is a famous Copt who was Egypt's prime minister during the second half of the 18th century.-Biography:Ibrahim El-Gohary was born to poor Coptic parents in Qalyub. His father, Youssef El-Gohary, made clothes for living. As a young child, Ibrahim excelled in writing and arithmetic...
- Kamal StinoKamal StinoDr. Kamal Ramzi Stino was born in Mansoura, Egypt on July 10, 1910. His father, Eng. Ramzi Stino Hanna was the first Egyptian irrigation engineer to take over supervision duties for the entire Egyptian irrigation system under the British. At that time, Egypt was under British rule...
- Makram EbeidMakram EbeidMakram Ebeid Pasha was an Egyptian Coptic politician. Ebeid was the Wafd Party secretary-general between 1936 and 1942. He was also a finance minister of Egypt. Ebeid left the Wafd Party after a dispute with his old friend and the then Prime Minister of Egypt and leader of the Wafd Party Mustafa...
- Moheb StinoMoheb StinoDr. Moheb Ramzi Stino was the Minister of Tourism and Aviation for Egypt under Anwar Sadat. His brother, Dr. Kamal Stino, was Vice-Prime Minister under Nasser. His other brother, Charles Stino, was the vice Minister of Industry, under Nasser.-References:...
- Monir Fakhri Abdel NourMonir Fakhri Abdel NourMounir Fakhry Abdel Nour is an Egyptian politician. He is the Secretary-General of the Wafd Party and has been Minister of Tourism since 22 February 2011.- See also :*Cabinet of Egypt*List of Egyptians...
- Wassef HineinWassef HineinWassef Hinein was the only Coptic Christian member of the Egyptian Free Officers group which took power in a military coup against the Egyptian monarchy in 1952...
- Youssef Boutros GhaliYoussef Boutros GhaliYoussef Raouf Boutros Ghali is a former Minister of Finance of Egypt. He served from 2004 to 2011. He was succeeded by Samir Radwan on 31 January 2011.-Education:...
- Youssef WahbaYoussef WahbaYoussef Wahba Pasha Egypt ian Prime Minister and jurist.Youssef Wahba was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1852 of a prominent Coptic family. His father, Wahba Bey had been a founder of the first Coptic charitable society that included Muslim scholars such as Abdallah Nadim and Sheikh Muhammed Abduh...
- Georgette KelliniGeorgette KelliniDr. Georgette Sobhi Kellini born in Cairo , Coptic Member of the Parliament of Egypt and human rights activist,a member of the National Council for Human Rights, holds a doctorate in international trade law.-Sources:***...
Surgeons
- Gorgi SobhiGorgi SobhiProfessor Gorgi Sobhi جورجى صبحى Professor of General Medicine, Professor of the History of Medicine and Professor of Egyptology.-Early life:...
- Hilana SedarousHilana SedarousDr Hilana Sedarous is the first Egyptian female doctor. Born in Tanta Egypt*After primary school she went to study at Sannia school in Cairo and after to the College of Teachers......
- Sir Magdi Yacoub
- Magdy IshakMagdy IshakMagdy A Ishak MD, FRCS, CCIM, born 1947 in Suez, Egypt, is an orthopedic surgeon and the President of the . He is also Chairman of the Scottish-Egyptian Association and Vice Chairmanof the British Egyptian Society., he is also Chairman of M I Holdings....
- Naguib Pasha MahfouzNaguib Pasha MahfouzNaguib Mikhail Mahfouz is known as the father of obstetrics and gynaecology in Egypt and was a pioneer in obstetric fistula.-Early life:Mahfouz was born to a Coptic Christian family on the January 5, 1882 in the city of Mansoura in the delta of Egypt. He joined Kasr El Aini Medical School in 1898,...
- Nagy HabibNagy HabibNagy Habib is a Professor of Surgery based in London.Professor of Hepto-biliary SurgeryDivision of Surgery, Oncology, Reproductive Biology and Anaesthetics,Imperial College London...
Others
- Fathia NkrumahFathia NkrumahFathia Nkrumah , was an Egyptian and the First Lady of the newly independent Ghana as the wife of the Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah, its first president....
– Wife of Kwame NkrumahKwame NkrumahKwame Nkrumah was the leader of Ghana and its predecessor state, the Gold Coast, from 1952 to 1966. Overseeing the nation's independence from British colonial rule in 1957, Nkrumah was the first President of Ghana and the first Prime Minister of Ghana...
, GhanaGhanaGhana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...
's first president - Maria al-QibtiyyaMaria al-QibtiyyaMaria al-Qibtiyya , or Maria the Copt, was an Egyptian Coptic Christian slave who was sent as a gift from Muqawqis, a Byzantine official, to the Islamic prophet Muhammad in 628. Some sources say she became his wife, taking the title "Mother of the Believers"...
– Wife of Prophet Muhammad - Meriam GeorgeMeriam GeorgeMeriam George is an Egyptian beauty pageant titleholder. At the age of eighteen, she was the official Pantene Miss Egypt 2005 winner. She represented Egypt in Miss Universe 2005, Miss Intercontinental 2005 and Miss Earth 2006...
– Miss Egypt 2005 - Mohammed HegazyMohammed HegazyMohammed Hegazy is the first Egyptian Muslim convert to Christianity to seek official recognition of his conversion from the Egyptian Government.-Biography:Hegazy grew up in Port Said on the Suez Canal in Egypt...
– Egyptian Muslim convert to Christianity
See also
- CoptCoptThe Copts are the native Egyptian Christians , a major ethnoreligious group in Egypt....
s - Coptic saintsCoptic saintsEgypt was one of the first countries to know Christianity, with Saint Mark the Evangelist bringing Christianity to the country around 55 AD.The Egyptian Christians, also known as the Copts, have produced thousands of saints, many of whom are recognised simultaneously in the Oriental Orthodox...
- Coptic Orthodox Church
- Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church
- List of Coptic Orthodox Popes
- Coptic flagCoptic flagThe Coptic flag was created in 2005 by Coptic activists in different countries to represent Coptic communities both in Egypt and in the diaspora. It is not recognized by the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, but many Copts worldwide have adopted it as a symbol of Coptic identity...
- EgyptEgyptEgypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
- EgyptiansEgyptiansEgyptians are nation an ethnic group made up of Mediterranean North Africans, the indigenous people of Egypt.Egyptian identity is closely tied to geography. The population of Egypt is concentrated in the lower Nile Valley, the small strip of cultivable land stretching from the First Cataract to...
- List of Egyptians
- Coptic languageCoptic languageCoptic or Coptic Egyptian is the current stage of the Egyptian language, a northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century. Egyptian began to be written using the Greek alphabet in the 1st century...