Naguib ( ar, نجيب ''Najib'') is a given and family name in
Egyptian Arabic
Egyptian Arabic, locally known as Colloquial Egyptian ( ar, العامية المصرية, ), or simply Masri (also Masry) (), is the most widely spoken vernacular Arabic dialect in Egypt. It is part of the Afro-Asiatic language family, and ...
, a variant of the Arabic name
Najib Najib or Najeeb ( ar, نجيب) is an Arabic male given name. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
* Najib ad-Dawlah Yousafzai (died 1770), Pashtun warrior who fought in the Third Battle of Panipat
* Najib Amhali (born 1971), Moroc ...
. It may refer to the following people:
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Antonios Naguib
Antonios I Naguib ( ar, أنطونيوس نجيب; 18 March 1935 – 28 March 2022) was the Coptic Catholic Patriarch of Alexandria from 2006 to 2013. He was made a cardinal in 2010. He was bishop of Minya in Egypt from 1977 to 2002.
Biography ...
, Egyptian Catholic patriarch
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David Naguib Pellow, American ethnologist
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Mohamed Naguib
Mohamed Bey Naguib Youssef Qutb El-Qashlan ( ar, الرئيس اللواء محمد بك نجيب يوسف قطب القشلان, ; 19 February 1901 – 28 August 1984), also known as Mohamed Naguib, was an Egyptian revolutionary, and, along ...
, first president of Egypt
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Mohamed Naguib Hamed
Mohamed Naguib Hamed ( ar, محمد نجيب حامد; born September 13, 1962) is an Egyptian athlete, one of only a few Egyptians to win gold medals in African athletic events. He competed in the men's discus throw at the 1984 Summer Olympics and ...
, Egyptian athlete
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Naguib el-Rihani, Egyptian actor
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Naguib Kanawati
Naguib Kanawati (born 1941) is an Egyptian Australian Egyptologist and Professor of Egyptology at Macquarie University in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Early life
Kanawati was born in Alexandria, Egypt to a Melkite Greek Catholic fami ...
, Egyptian-Australian Egyptologist
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Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha ( arz, نجيب محفوظ عبد العزيز ابراهيم احمد الباشا, ; 11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. M ...
, Egyptian novelist
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Naguib Pasha Mahfouz
Naguib Pasha Mahfouz ( ar, نجيب باشا محفوظ / ALA-LC: ''Nagīb Bāshā Maḥfūẓ''; 5 January 1882 – 25 July 1974) is known as the father of obstetrics and gynaecology in Egypt and was a pioneer in obstetric fistula.
Early life ...
, Egyptian doctor
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Naguib Sawiris
Naguib Onsi Sawiris (or Sawires; ar, نجيب اُنسى ساويرس ; ; born 15 June 1954) is an Egyptian billionaire businessman. Sawiris is chairman of Weather Investments's parent company, and the former chairman and CEO of Orascom Telec ...
, Egyptian businessman
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Zaki Naguib Mahmoud
Zaki Naguib Mahmoud (Arabic: زكي نجيب محمود) (February 2, 1905 – September 8, 1993) was an Egyptian intellectual and thinker, and is considered a pioneer in modern Arabic philosophical thought. He was described by Abbas Mahmoud a ...
, Egyptian philosopher
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