Since 7 thousands years ago...Egypt has given birth to many prominent figures to the world in different domains , Pharaohs are the builders of the greatest civilization in the past, but Egyptians still hard worker ,kind , creative people...all over the world you will find successful Egyptians
 

Ahmed Zewail

Anwar Sadat

Naguib Mahfouz

he was born in February 26, 1946, in Egypt where he grew up, Zewail received both his Bachelor of Science and his master's degrees from Alexandria University Alexandria.
He began his professional career as an undergraduate trainee at Shell Corporation in Alexandria in 1966.
After continued studies in the U.S.A. he graduated for Ph.D. in 1974 at the University of Pennsylvania.
In 1982 he was tenured, as he became a full professor, and in 1990 was honored by the first Linus Pauling Chair at Caltech.
At the age of 52, Zewail won the “Banjamin Franklin” prize after his latest scientific achievements known as the femto_second which is the smallest part of he second, he received the prize at a lavish ceremony attended by some 1,500 scientists, students, officials and figures, including former US Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford.
In 1999, Dr. Ahmed Zewail, a laser expert was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Chemistry and by that he is the first Egyptian to be nominated for this honourable prize.
Dr. Zewail is the first originally Arab Muslim scientist to win such prize since Naguib Mahfouz, who won the literature prize in 1988, and late President Anwar Sadat, who shared the peace prize in 1978. But he is the first to take one of the prestigious awards for science. The Nobel carries an award of nearly one million dollars.

Egyptian statesman and president (1970--81), born in the Tala district, Egypt. He trained for the army in Cairo, and in 1952 was a member of the coup deposing King Farouk. After becoming president, he temporarily assumed the post of prime minister (1973--4), after which he sought settlement of the conflict with Israel. He met the Israeli premier in Jerusalem (1977) and at Camp David, USA, in 1978, and the same year he and Begin were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Following criticism by other Arab statesmen and hard-line Muslims, he was assassinated in Cairo by extremists.

Novelist, born in Cairo. He graduated from Cairo University in 1934 and held administrative posts, but by 1939 had already written three novels. His later work was somewhat overshadowed by the notoriety surrounding The Children of Gebelawi (1961), serialized in the magazine Al-Ahram, which portrays average Egyptians living the lives of Cain and Abel, Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed. It was banned throughout the Arab world, except Lebanon. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988, but his work is still unavailable in many Middle Eastern countries on account of his outspoken support for President Sadat's Camp David peace treaty with Israel. In 1994 he survived an attack on his life by Islamic fundamentalists,

Mohamed el-Baradei

The International Atomic Agency Director, Dr. Mohamed el-Baradei, was born in Egypt in 1942. He gained a Bachelor's degree in Law in1962 at the University of Cairo, and a Doctorate in International Law at the New York School of Law in 1974. His career began with the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1964. In this position he served on two Permanent
Missions of Egypt to the United Nations in New York and Geneva. Later, he also became a senior fellow in charge of the International Law Program at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research. He has also served as a senior member of the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) Secretariat, and as the Assistant Director General for External Relations.

HOSNI MUBARAK

Egyptian statesman and president (1981-- ), born in al-Minufiyah, Egypt. A former pilot and flying instructor who rose to become commander of the Egyptian Air Force, he was vice-president under Anwar Sadat from 1975 until the latter's assassination in 1981. The only candidate for the presidency, he pledged to continue Sadat's domestic and international policies, including firm treatment of Muslim extremists, and the peace process with Israel.  

B. GHALI

Egyptian diplomat, who took office as the sixth secretary-general of the United Nations (1992--97). The former deputy prime minister of Egypt, he was the first to hold the post from the Continent of Africa.

Dalida

Dalida, the beautiful, tragic French chateuse born in Egypt to Italian parents and was active in the film and music world beginning in 195?.  She first worked as a double for Joan Collins in The Egyptian, after which she travelled to France, where she was quickly signed to Barclay records.  Her during her Barclay years (1956 through 1970) consisted largely of French versions of American, British, Italian, and occasionally German pop hits.  Speedy Gonzalez and Itsy-Bitsy-Teeny-Weeny-Yellow-Polka-Dot-Bikini (Itsy-Bitsy-Teeny-Weeny-Tout-Petit- Petit-Bikini) are particularly amusing in French.  After changing labels in 1970, she began to record more originals, having even greater chart success in France and other countries.  Unfortunately Carrerre has not seen fit to grace us with a compilation as extensive as the

G. ABDUL NASSER

Egyptian statesman, prime minister (1954--6), and president (1956--70), born in Alexandria. An army officer, he became dissatisfied with the corruption of the Farouk regime, and was involved in the military coup of 1952. He assumed the premiership in 1954, and then presidential powers, deposing his fellow officer, General Mohammed Neguib. Officially elected president in 1956, he nationalized the Suez Canal, which prompted Britain and France to seek his forcible overthrow, gaining Israeli co-operation in the invasion of Sinai. In 1958 he created a federation with Syria (the United Arab Republic), but Syria withdrew in 1961. After the six-day Arab--Israeli War (1967), heavy losses on the Arab side led to his resignation, but he was persuaded to stay on, and died still in office.

OMAR SHARIEF

Film actor, born in Alexandria, Egypt. He made his Egyptian film debut in 1953, and attracted international attention following his role in Lawrence of Arabia (1962). Later films include Doctor Zhivago (1965), Funny Girl (1968), The Tamarind Seed (1974),and Return to Eden (1982). He is also a renowned bridge player.

Sayed Darwish

Born on March 17,1892, in an old district of Alexandria.
He was sent to school in 1899 where his music teacher, Sami Effendi, encouraged him in his love of music.
At the age of eight he excelled in singing "mowashahat" (short songs) and religious poems.
In 1905 he joined a religious institute and so came to be known as "Sheikh" Sayed Darwish for the rest of his life.
By 1912 his music and songs were achieving great success, which encouraged him to form a musical troupe of his own, bearing his name and comprising the most celebrated Egyptian musicians of the time.
In 1915 he started to develop Arabic music, which glorified his name. He settled in Cairo where his fame was widespread and as a result stage managers and troupes competed in attracting Darwish to join them. He eventually formed his own group of actors and actresses in 1921.Darwish was an innovator of Arabic music and songs. He had always been aware that genuine art should be derived from real life. He clearly expressed the feelings and aspirations of the people and events of his time in his songs and music. He dealt with broad and wide-ranging topics in his songs, as the national, the passionate, the social and the sarcastic. He also composed musical plays for the stage in which sublime music and popular themes were combined.
He liberated Arabic music from its conventional forms. He believed that music depicted and expressed human feelings and aspirations and was not merely for entertainment. He excelled in the national song type of music due to his close ties with leaders of the national movement for independence early in the century, like Saad Zaghloul and Mustafa Kamel.

Mohamed Abdel Wahab

Composer, musician, singer, actor, Mohamed Abdel Wahab was a giant in the world of Middle Eastern entertainment. This prolific artist composed some of the most classical Egyptian music.
Mohamed Abdel Wahab was born in 1907 in Cairo. As a child, he fell in love with music and acting, joining a drama troupe at the age of seven. Later, he sang at religious festivals. Although his family wanted him to study religion, Abdel Wahab pursued his passion for music. He trained formally in both Arabic music and Western music. He had a beautiful baritone singing voice and played the oud.In 1991, Mohamed Abdel Wahab died of heart failure. His career spanned 74 years and created a legend in the world of modern Arabic music and melody. He composed over 1800 romantic and patriotic songs

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Um Kalthoum

Um Kalthoum was bornin 1904 and died in1975. She was unquestionably the most gifted singer and musician of this century in the Middle East. She was continuously popular for over 50 years and her songs are still played nightly on any number of Arabic language radio stations."During the 1950s and 1960s Umm Kulthum expanded her role in Egyptian public life. She granted more interviews during which she spoke about her life, repeatedly identifying herself as a villager or peasant, who shared a cultural background and essential values with the majority of the Egyptian populace. Her interviews were full of stories of her family, her neighbors, and the familial qualities of village life.

Tutankhamen

Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty (1361--1352 BC), the undistinguished son-in-law of the heretic pharaoh, Akhenaton. He came to the throne at the age of 12, and is famous only for his magnificent tomb at Thebes, which was discovered intact in 1922 by Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter

Nefertiti

Egyptian queen, the consort of Akhenaton, by whom she had six children, and whose new religious cult of the Sun god Aton she supported. She is immortalized in the beautiful sculptured head found at Amarna in 1912, now in the Berlin Museum. Little is known of her background, but she is believed to have been an Asian princess from Mitanni

Cleopatra

When Cleopatra VII ascended the Egyptian throne, she was only seventeen. She reigned as Queen Philopator and Pharaoh between 51 and 30 BC, and died at the age of 39.
With the death of Cleopatra, a whole era in Egyptian history was closed. Alexandria remained capital of Egypt, but Egypt was now a Roman province. The age of Egyptian Monarchs gave way to the age of Roman Emperors, and Cleopatra's death gave way to the rise of Rome. The Ptolemies were of Macedonian descent, yet they ruled Egypt as Egyptians - as Pharaohs. And, indeed, Cleopatra was the last Pharaoh.

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Sir Magdi Yacoub

Magdi Yacoub was born in Egypt in 1935 and wanted to be a "heart doctor" ever since he was a small boy. When he was seven, his 21-year-old aunt died of a curable heart condition. From that moment on Magdi Yacoub’s ambition was to do whatever he could do to alleviate the pain and misery of people with heart disease Sir Magdi, came to Britain in 1962 and started his pioneering heart surgery in 1967 before beginning work at Harefield Hospital in 1969. In 1980 came his transplant operation on Derrick Morris, now Europe's longest surviving heart patient, and among celebrities whose lives he extended was much loved comedian, Eric Morecambe.The renowned heart surgeon Sir Magdi Yacoub returns regularly to his native Egypt to treat sick children free of charge. In Egypt hundreds of children never get treatment and die before their teens.The mood of the adults and children queuing along the long, white hospital corridor is fraught but buoyantly expectant, as though they are waiting to see a famous film or pop idol.In a sense, they are. Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub, the renowned heart surgeon, is regarded as a virtual deity here in his native Egypt.
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Mohamed Ali Pasha

Governor and later viceroy of Egypt (1805--49), the founder of the Egyptian royal family which endured until the 1953 revolution. He was sent to Egypt with a Turkish--Albanian force on the French invasion in 1798, and after the departure of the French, supported Egypt against the Mamluks. As viceroy he massacred the Mamluks (1811), and formed a regular army. In 1816 he reduced part of Arabia through the generalship of his adopted son Ibrahim Pasha (1789--1848), in 1820 he annexed Nubia, and his troops occupied Morea and Crete against the Greeks (1821--8). In 1831 Ibrahim began the conquest of Syria, and the victory at Nezib (1839) might have elevated his father to the throne of Constantinople; but the quadruple alliance in 1840, the fall of Acre to the British, and the consequent evacuation of Syria compelled him to limit his ambition to Egypt.

DEMIS ROUSSOS

The most famous Greek singer in the world ..  The Roussos had been in Egypt for two generations and on 15 June 1946 Artemios Venturis Roussos was born in Alexandria. His mother, Olga, and his father, George, both of Greek extraction, had also been born in the country their parents had come to in the 1920s. Following the Greek custom, the baby was named after his paternal grandfather, Demis being a pet name for Artemios. In the heart of an orthodox community, he lived in the middle of a Muslim city. From his early childhood he was immersed in folk music, exposed to Byzantine and Arabic influences. Attracted to singing, he joined the choir of the Greek Byzantine Church with which he sang for five years as a soloist. At the same time he studied musical theory and learnt how to play the guitar and the trumpet.

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Anthony, St

Religious hermit, the father of Christian monasticism, born in Koman, Upper Egypt. He sold his possessions for the poor at the age of 20 and withdrew into the wilderness. He spent 20 years in the most rigorous seclusion, during which he withstood a series of temptations by the devil which became famous in Christian theology and art. In 305 he left his retreat to found a monastery, at first only a group of separate and scattered cells near Memphis and Arsinoë - one of the earliest attempts to instruct people in the monastic way of life. Feast day 17 January.

Akhenaton

Egyptian king of the 18th dynasty. He renounced the worship of the old gods, introduced a monotheistic solar cult of the sun-disc (Aton), and changed his name. He built a new capital at Amarna (Akhetaton), where the arts blossomed while the empire weakened. He was married to Nefertiti

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Mohamed Naguib

Egyptian general and president (1952--4), born in Khartoum. As general of an army division in 1952 he carried out a coup in Cairo which banished Farouk I and initiated the "Egyptian Revolution'. Taking first the offices of commander-in-chief and prime minister, he abolished the monarchy in 1952 and became president of the republic. He was deposed in 1954 and succeeded by Nasser.

Yassar Arafat

Yassar Arafat( born in August 24, 1929 in Cairo –November11,2004),Muhammad Abd al-Rahman ar-Rauf al-Qudwah al-Husayni and also known as Abu Ammar, was the President of the Palestinian Authority (leader since 1993, elected to a five-year term in 1996 and continued in this position in absences of further elections); leader of Fatah and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) (since 1969), and co-winner of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize. He was a guerrilla leader, regarded as a resistance fighter (or freedom fighter) by supporters but as a terrorist by critics

YOUSSEF CHAHINE

Born in 1926, son of a Syrian lawyer and a Christian family in Alexandria, Egypt, Chahine attended the prestigious Victoria College. He dreamed of the cinema and theatre, watched Hollywood musicals, and in 1946 left to study drama in California. Chahine’s early films in Egypt included Raging Sky (1953), begun while Farouk was still King and dealing with a peasant farmer’s challenge to a feudal landlord. But the first truly indicative film of his style and preoccupations was Cairo Central Station (Bab al-Hadid), in 1958.

director of some 40 films, is probably the most independent of Arab film-makers, producing what he thinks is important, even at his own expense, and raising issues that disturb..win canes 1999

Dr. Farouk El-Baz

he is Research Professor and Director of the Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University, Boston MA, U.S.A. He is Adjunct Professor of Geology at the Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. He is also a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Geological Society of America Foundation, Boulder CO.
He was born on 1 January 1938 in the Nile Delta town of Zagazig. Twenty years later, he received a B.Sc. in chemistry and geology from Ain Shams University, followed by a scholarship for graduate study. In 1961, he received a M.S. degree in geology from the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy; his performance won him membership in the honorary society of Sigma Xi. In 1964 he received a Ph.D. in geology from the University of Missouri after conducting research in 1962-1963 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge MA. In 1989, he received an Honorary Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) degree from the New England College, Henniker NH.
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C. P. Cavafy

Constantine Cavafy modern Greek poet was born Konstantínos Pétrou Kaváfis in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1863, the ninth child of Constantinopolitan parents. His father died in 1870, leaving the family poor. Cavafy's mother moved her children to England, where the two eldest sons took over their father's business. Their inexperience caused the ruin of the family fortunes, so they returned to a life of genteel poverty in Alexandria. The seven years that Constantine Cavafy spent in England—from age nine to sixteen—were important to the shaping of his poetic sensibility: he became so comfortable with English that he wrote his first verse in his second language.After a brief education in London and Alexandria, he moved with his mother to Constantinople, where they stayed with his grandfather and two brothers. Although living in great poverty and discomfort, Cavafy wrote his first poems during this period, and had his first love affairs with other men. After briefly working for the Alexandrian newspaper and the Egyptian Stock exchange, at the age of twenty-nine Cavafy took up an appointment as a special clerk in the Irrigation Service of the Ministry of Public Works—an appointment he held for the next thirty years. Much of his ambition during these years was devoted to writing poems and prose essays.   more..

Mohamed Al-Fayed

Al Fayed's high-flying life is a stark contrast to his humble beginnings, born in the slums of Alexandria in 1929. He was a soft drink salesman in Egypt until he married Samira Kashoggi, the younger sister of shipping tycoon Adnan Kashoggi, in 1954. The two-year marriage produced Dodi. Al Fayed used his new family connections to become an exporting agent in Egypt, moving to Haiti in the early 1960s before arriving in England in 1970. He later married a Finn, Heini, with whom he has four children. In 1984, Al Fayed made his name when he bought Harrods. But he was later investigated for lying about his origins, wealth and business interests. Mohamed 'Al' Fayed is best known outside Britain as the father of the Egyptian playboy Dodi Fayed, who courted Princess Diana during the final days of her life. The true circumstances of Diana's death unarguably amount to a fantastic story; yet the facts were subsequently manipulated by hard-Left journalists working within British TV to suit their own subversive agenda. As a result, half the world is now convinced that: a) Diana and Dodi were about to marry (they weren't); b) Diana was pregnant (she wasn't); and c) Diana and Dodi were murdered by British agents who, riding a motorcycle and wielding a flashlight, provoked chauffeur Henri Paul into ramming his Mercedes into a post after establishing in advance that neither would be wearing their seat belts (they weren't murdered).

Suzanne Mubarak

Her Excellency Suzanne Mubarak, the First Lady was born in Menya Governorate, Egypt.The First Lady is the Chairperson of the Advisory Board to the National Council on Childhood and Motherhood and also the President of the Egyptian National Women Committee. Recently, Mrs. Mubarak became President of the National Council for Women.
Mrs. Mubarak is the founder and Chairperson of the Integrated Care Society, a non-profit organization established in 1977 with the objective of providing various types of services in the fields of social, cultural and health-care to school children
 

Alexander

. He crossed over into Egypt, where he was welcomed as a liberator from the hated Persians. He founded the port city of Alexandria in place of the old Greek trading port of Naukratis. This was the largest of the 70 cities that Alexander founded during the course of his conquests. He visited the ancient oracle of Zeus Ammon. Alexander never revealed what the oracle told him, but his soldiers spread the rumor that he had said that Alexander was destined to rule the world.

Moses

Major character of Israelite history, portrayed in the Book of Exodus as the leader of the deliverance of Hebrew slaves from Egypt and the recipient of the Ten Commandments at Mt Sinai. In Exodus, stories about his early life depict his escape from death as an infant by being hidden in the bulrushes, his upbringing in the Egyptian court, his flight to Midian, and his divine call to lead the Hebrews out of Egypt. Stories of this deliverance describe Moses predicting a series of miraculous plagues designed to persuade the Pharaoh to release the Hebrews, the Passover narrative, and the miraculous escape led by Moses through the "sea of reeds'. Traditions then describe Moses' leadership of the Israelites during their 40 years of wilderness wandering, and his death E of the Jordan R before the Hebrews entered Canaan, the Promised Land. He was traditionally considered the author of the five books of the Law, the Pentateuch of the Hebrew Bible, but this is doubted by modern scholars.

Abdel-Latif Abu Heif

Swimmer of the century
He was the first swimmer to cross the English Channel three times. He was also named World Swimming Champion for five years and, in 1963, was nominated the best swimmer in history by the International Professionals Long-Distance Swimming Federation

William D. Hamilton

he is considered one of the prominent figures in modern biology and his theories concerning the genetic basis of behavior expanded Darwin's theory of natural selection past its original scope. William Hamilton was born in 1936 in Cairo, Egypt. Even though he was born in Egypt he was a British citizen. As an undergraduate he attended Cambridge University and received a Bachelor of Arts in 1960. He earned his doctorate at the University of London in genetics in 1968. He was married in 1967. He began his career as a lecturer of genetics at the Imperial College of Science and Technology. He taught there until 1977. In 1977, Hamilton went to the United States to be a professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. There he was a part of the evolutionary biology faculty in the division of biological sciences. In 1984, he returned to England to accept the position as a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford. Hamilton expanded Charles Darwin's explanation of the existence of sterile castes in insects, and combined it with Ronald Fisher's hint about quantifying altruism in caterpillars toward siblings, creating a comprehensive theory accounting for underlying patterns of sociality in all organisms (Alexander). Recently he suggested that autumn leaves turn brilliant colors not just because of loss of chlorophyll, but, since red and orange are common warning colors in nature, this coloration would warn off insect pests that might lay eggs on the tree, thus preserving the species. Hamilton was awarded the Darwin Medal, the Linnean Medal and the Darfoord Prize. In 1975, he was awarded the Science Medal from the Zoological Society of London. He received the Newcomb Cleveland Prize by the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1981. William Hamilton died on March 7, 2000 in England. He was 63 years old. Hamilton died of malaria which he contracted on a expedition to the Congo where he was seeking evidence to bolster a radical hypothesis that the AIDS epidemic can be traced to contaminated polio vaccines.