This list of Copts includes notable Copts figures who are notable in their areas of expertise. For saints, please refer to ''

Coptic Saints Early church historians, writers, and fathers testified to the numerous Copt martyrs. Tertullian, 3rd century North African lawyer wrote "If the martyrs of the whole world were put on one arm of the balance and the martyrs of Egypt on the other, ...

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Performing arts

* Rami Malek, actor * Mena Massoud, actor *

Ash Atalla Ash Atalla (born 18 June 1972) is an Egyptian-born British television producer. He has produced several British TV series such as ''The Office'', ''The IT Crowd'', '' Man Stroke Woman'' and ''People Just Do Nothing''. He has also made cameo ap ...

, British television producer *

Henry Barakat Henry Antoun Barakat ( ar, هنري أنطون بركات, 11 June 1914, Cairo – 27 May 1997, Cairo) was a well known Egyptian film director. He was born in Shubra to a Melkite Greek Catholic father of Syro-Lebanese descent, and a Syro-Le ...

, director *

Khairy Beshara Khairy Beshara ( ar, خيري بشارة ; born June 30, 1947 in Tanta, Egypt) 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 Eg ...

, director * Youssef Dawoud, actor * Sanaa Gamil, actress *

Maged El Kedwany Maged El-Kedwany aka Maged Nabil Elkedwani اى ماجد نبيل الكدوانى( ar, ماجد الكدواني: born: 10 December 1967) is an Egyptian actor. He began acting in the 1990s, playing supporting roles. He won the Muhr Arab - Feat ...

, actor * Asaad Kelada, Hollywood director * Sandra Nashaat, director * Yousry Nasrallah, director * Hany Ramzy, actor *

Daoud Abdel Sayed Daoud Abdel Sayed ( ar, داود عبد السيد ) is an Egyptian director and screenwriter. He was born in Cairo in 1946. He started as the assistant of Youssef Chahine in The Land. He made several critically acclaimed films, and won s ...

, film director *

Hala Sedki Hala Sedki George Younan ( ar, هالة صدقى جورج يونان; born June 15, 1961, in Cairo) is an Egyptian actress. She began her career with the director Nour Al Demirdash in ''Rehlet Al Melion'' and has worked in more than 30 films. Sh ...

, actress *

George Sidhom George Sidhom ( ar, جورج سيدهم; 28 May 1938 – 27 March 2020), was a veteran Egyptian comedian. Early life George Sidhom was born in Sohag, Egypt on 28 May 1938 and married Linda Makram, who is a pharmacist with whom he remained unti ...

, actor * Nabila Erian, Opera singer

Businessmen

* Nader Anise, founder of Coptic American Chamber of Commerce (Coptic Chamber) and attorney * Tharwat Bassily * Michael Ebeid * Monir Fakhri Abdel Nour, banker and businessman *

Fayez Sarofim Fayez Sarofim (, arz, فايز صاروفيم‎; 1929 – 27 May 2022) was an Egyptian Coptic American, Coptic-American heir to the Sarofim family fortune, fund manager for a number of Louis Dreyfus Company, Dreyfus family stock funds, large ...

, billionaire, Houston financier *

Onsi Sawiris Onsi Sawiris (also written Sawires; ar, أنسى ساويرس; ) (August 14, 1930 – June 29, 2021) was an Egyptian businessman. He was the patriarchal head of the Sawiris family and founder of the Orascom Group conglomerate. Early life Sa ...

, founder of Orascom Group, Patrick of Sawiris Family * Naguib Sawiris, one of the wealthiest 100 people worldwide *

Samih Sawiris Samih Onsi Sawiris ( ar, سميح أنسي ساويرس, ; born in 1957) is an Egyptian- Montenegrin businessman and billionaire and the second of three sons of Onsi Sawiris, the other two being Naguib Sawiris and Nassef Sawiris. He is the former ...

, Orascom Tourism *

Nassef Sawiris Nassef Onsi Sawiris ( ar, ناصف أنسي ساويرس; born January 19, 1961) is an Egyptian billionaire businessman, and the youngest of Onsi Sawiris' three sons (his brothers are Naguib and Samih). As of October 2021, his net worth was e ...

, Orascom Construction & Industrial. The richest man in Egypt *

Farid Stino Dr. Farid Kamal Ramzi Stino is an Egyptian scientist, scholar, and entrepreneur who was born in Cairo, Egypt on September 1, 1943. He is the son of Dr. Kamal Ramzi Stino, the late Deputy Prime Minister of Egypt under Nasser's regime, and Lady Far ...

* Youssry Henien, Windsor Family Office. Banker and Businessman. * Ayad B. Saad, Morgan Stanley, Senior Vice President, Financial Advisor.

Clergy and theologians

* Anthony the Great, founder and pioneer of

Christian monasticism Christian monasticism is the devotional practice of Christians who live ascetic and typically cloistered lives that are dedicated to Christian worship. It began to develop early in the history of the Christian Church, modeled upon scriptural ...

* Athanasius the Apostolic, 20th Pope of Alexandria * Cyril I, 24th Pope of Alexandria * Dioscorus the Great, 25th Pope of Alexandria *

Pope Cyril VI ''This article uses dates and years written in the Coptic calendar, using the A.M. (Anno Martyrum) calendar era, in addition to the Gregorian calendar, using the A.D. (Anno Domini) calendar era.'' Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria also called Abba Ky ...

, 116th Pope of Alexandria *

Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria Pope Shenouda III (; cop, Ⲡⲁⲡⲁ Ⲁⲃⲃⲁ Ϣⲉⲛⲟⲩϯ ⲅ̅ '; ar, بابا الإسكندرية شنودة الثالث '; 3 August 1923 – 17 March 2012) was the 117th Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See ...

, 117th Pope of Alexandria * Mother Irini * Father Matta El Meskeen * Father Makary Younan * Father Bishoy Kamel * Origen, Christian scholar * George Habib Bebawi, Patrologist and Biblical scholar * Metropolitan Mikhail of Asyut * Metropolitan Athanasius of Beni Suef * Bishop Serapion *

Bishop Missael Bishop Missael (born 1940) is a diocesan bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria consecrated by Pope Shenouda III on 26 May 1991 to oversee the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Midlands, U.K. In this capacity, he is a member of The H ...

Bishop Angaelos Archbishop Anba Angaelos is the Coptic Orthodox Archbishop of London and Papal Legate to the UK and to Sydney and its Affiliated Regions. Early Life Angaelos was born in Cairo, Egypt and emigrated with his family to Australia when he spen ...

* Pope Tawadros II

Lawyers and judges

* Adel Bestavros, late lawyer and member of Coptic Lay and Endowment Councils * Sami Farag * Nabil Mounir Habib, represented Naguib Mahfouz, George Habib Bebawi, and is prominent in Egyptian law * Sherrie Mikhail Miday

Social activists

* Ester Fanous * Alber Saber * Akram Habib

Engineers

* Hani Azer * Michel Bakhoum * William Selim Hanna * Nabih Youssef *

Adel Sedra Adel S. Sedra is an Egyptian Canadian electrical engineer and professor. Career Born in Egypt in 1943, Sedra received his B.Sc. from Cairo University in 1964 and his M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, in 1968 and 1969, respectiv ...

Scientists

* Azer Bestavros *

Rushdi Said Rushdi Said ( ar, رشدي سعيد) (May 12, 1920 – February 8, 2013) was an Egyptian scientist. He was educated at Cairo, Zurich, and Harvard Universities. A professor of geology, he was the chairman of the board of the Egyptian Mining ...

* Edward Tawadros

Architects

* Michel Bakhoum * Ramses Wissa Wassef

Historians and Coptologists

Aziz Suryal Atiya Aziz Suryal Atiya ( ar, عزيز سوريال عطية, ; July 5, 1898 – September 24, 1988) was an Egyptian Coptologist who was a Coptic historian and scholar and an expert in Islamic and Crusades studies. Atiya was the founder of the In ...

* Iris Habib Elmasry *

Gawdat Gabra Dr. Gawdat Gabra (born 1947) ( ar, جودت جبرا, Coptic: Ⲅⲁⲩⲇⲁⲧ Ⲅⲁⲃⲣⲁ) is a Coptologist; he finished his bachelor's degree in Egyptian Antiquities – Cairo University 1967 and PhD in Coptic Antiquities University of M ...

Habib Girgis Archdeacon Habib Qozman Mankarious Girgis (Habib Girgis : ar, القديس حبيب جرجس for ''"Beloved" George'' ; 1876 – 21 August 1951) was a modern-day dean of the Catechetical School of Alexandria. He was the very first studen ...

Labib Habachi Labib Habachi (لبيب حبشي) (April 18, 1906 – February 18, 1984) was an influential Coptic Egyptian Egyptologist. Dr Habachi spent 30 years in the Antiquities Department of the Egyptian Government, ending his career as Chief inspector. ...

Pahor Labib Pahor Labib (; Arabic: باهور لبيب ''Bahur Labib''; born 19 September 1905 at Ain Shams, Cairo; died 7 May 1994) was Director of the Coptic Museum, Cairo, Egypt, from 1951 to 1965 and one of the world leaders in Egyptology and Coptology ...

* Severus Ibn al-Muqaffa * Younan Labib Rizk * Father Menassa Youhanna * Bishop Isidoros

Journalists and writers

* Anouar Abdel-Malek *

Louis Awad Louis Awad ( ar, لويس عوض, Minya, Egypt, el-Minya; 5 January 1915 – 9 September 1990) was an Egyptians, Egyptian intellectual and a writer. Born in the upper Egypt, in Sharuna village, in Minya, Egypt, Awad studied at the literatu ...

Alfred Farag Alfred Farag (14 June 1929 – 4 December 2005 ) was an Egyptian playwright. He was one of the eminent Egyptian playwrights of the post-1952 Revolution period. He obtained his BA in English Literature from the Faculty of Arts, Alexandria U ...

* Mofeed Fawzy * Waguih Ghali * Adel Iskandar * Magdi Khalil * Kamal el-Mallakh * Raouf Salama Moussa *

Salama Moussa Salama Moussa (or Musa; 1887 – 4 August 1958) ( ar, سلامه موسى , ) was an Egyptian journalist, writer and political theorist. Salama Moussa was an avowed secularist, he introduced the writings of Darwin, Nietzsche, and Freud to ...

* Ra'ouf Mus'ad * Younan Labib Rizk * Youssef Sidhom * Said Sonbol * Magdi Wahba

Musicians

Wagih Aziz Wagih Aziz ( ar, وجيه عزيز) (born 1961) 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 oFouad Haddadpoems. Over the years, Wagih ...

* Mikhail Girgis El Batanouny *

Halim El-Dabh Halim Abdul Messieh El-Dabh ( ar, حليم عبد المسيح الضبع, ''Ḥalīm ʻAbd al-Masīḥ al-Ḍab''ʻ; March 4, 1921 – September 2, 2017) was an Egyptian-American composer, musician, ethnomusicologist, and educator, who had ...

* Youssef Elsisi * Yusef Greiss * Adel Kamel * Ragheb Moftah * Osama Mounir *

Aziz El-Shawan Aziz El-Shawan (b. Cairo, May 6, 1916; d. Cairo, May 14, 1993) was one of the most prominent Egyptian composers of the twentieth century. He completed his primary and secondary education at the St. Joseph – La Salle College in Khoronfish, Cairo ...

* Joseph Tawadros *

Ramzi Yassa Ramzi Yassa ( ar, رمزى يسى; born 1948) is an Egyptian pianist. Born in Cairo, Yassa is an outstanding member of the first batch of musicians trained at the Cairo Conservatory. Yassa then joined the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow in the ...

* Nabila Erian * Lara Scandar

Painters and artists

Kamal Amin Kamal Amin Awad ( ar, كمال أمين عوض) (1923–1979) was a pioneering Egyptian artist in the field of graphic arts. The artist, whose masterpieces and unique techniques impressed Egyptian modern art, was born in Tanta in 1923. He was in ...

Hany Armanious Hany Armanious (born 1962) is an Australian artist who lives and works in Sydney. Armanious produces installations and sculptural forms, as well as paintings and drawings. Life and work Hany Armanious was born in Ismailia, Egypt and migrated to ...

Evelyn Ashamallah Evelyn Ashamallah ( ar, إيفيلين عشم الله) is a female Coptic painter, born in Desouk, Kafr el-Sheikh, Egypt in 1948 to Ashamallah Eskandar Hanna and Elaine Mikhail Hanna. She graduated from the faculty of fine arts at Alexandria ...

* George Bahgoury * Chafik Charobim *

Isaac Fanous Isaac Fanous (; December 19, 1919 – January 15, 2007) was an Egyptian Copt artist and scholar, who specialized in Coptic art and founded its contemporary school. Early life and teaching Fanous was born in Al-Minya and moved to Cairo to gai ...

* Margaret Nakhla * Adel Nassief * Adam Henein

Politicians

* Stephan Bassily * Boutros Boutros Ghali *

Youssef Boutros Ghali Youssef Raouf Boutros-Ghali or YBG ( ar, يوسف رؤوف بطرس غالي; born 20 August 1952) is an Egyptian economist who served in the government of Egypt as Minister of Finance from 2004 to 2011. He was succeeded by Samir Radwan on 31 ...

* Makram Ebeid * Akhnoukh Fanous * Ester Fanous *

Boutros Ghali , image = Boutros Ghali Pasha.jpg , order = 9th Prime Minister of Egypt , monarch = Abbas II , birth_date = , birth_place = Kiman-al-'Arus, Beni Suef, Ottoman Empire , death_date = , death_place = Cairo, Khedivate of ...

* Jirjis al-Jawhari * Ibrahim El-Gohary * Rafik Habib, Egyptian researcher, activist, author, and politician *

Wassef Hinein Wassef 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. In the period leading up to the coup, Copts were heavily involved in Egypt's national ...

* George Isaac (politician) * Georgette Kellini * Monir Fakhri Abdel Nour *

Dina Powell Dina Powell, also known as Dina Powell McCormick (née Habib , ar, دينا حبيب; June 12, 1973) is an American financial executive, philanthropist, and political advisor, best known for having been the United States Deputy National Securit ...

* Hala Shukrallah * Kamal Stino * Moheb Stino *

Mourad Wahba Mourad Wahba Pasha (1879-1972) was an Egyptian politician and high court judge. He served as Vice President of the Court of Cassation, then Egypt's highest court from 1931-1937 after which he was appointed as Minister of Agriculture in 1937 and M ...

Youssef Wahba Youssef Wahba Pasha (1852-1934) (, ) was an Egyptian Prime Minister and jurist. Biography 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 ...

* Peter Khalil, Labor MP, Australia

Physicians

* Nagy Habib * Magdy Ishak *

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 ...

Marty Makary Martin Adel Makary is a British-American surgeon, professor, author and medical reporter, medical commentator. He practices surgical oncology and gastrointestinal laparoscopic surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, is Mark Ravitch Chair in Gas ...

* Hilana Sedarous *

Gorgi Sobhi Professor Gorgi Sobhi (1884–1964) جورجى صبحى Professor of General Medicine, Professor of the History of Medicine and Professor of Egyptology. Early life He was born in Mimon of Beni Suef, Egypt, where he lived with his father, wh ...

* Sir Magdi Yacoub * Paul Ghalioungui * Moawad GadElrab

Athletes

Nagui Asaad Nagui Asaad Youssef (a.k.a. Nagy Assaad Youssef) ناجى أسعد, (born September 12, 1945), is a retired Egyptian athlete (track and field) who represented Egypt in international athletics events in the 1970s and early 1980s in shot put and ...

* Hisham Greiss * Hany Ramzy *

Farid Simaika Farid Simaika ( ar, فريد سميكة 12 June 1907 – 11 September 1943) was an Olympic diver who competed for Egypt. Early life Simaika was born on 12 June 1907 in Alexandria to one of the oldest Coptic families which can trace their ance ...

* Sam Soliman

Celebrity chefs

* Karine Bakhoum * Christopher Maher *

Michael Mina Michael Mina ( ar, مايكل مينا; born 1969) is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author. He is the founder of the Mina Group, a restaurant management company operating over 40 restaurants worldwide. He is the exec ...

Others

Charlotte Wassef Charlotte Wassef ( ar, شارلوت واصف; ; 15 July 1912 - 17 January 1988) was an Egyptian beauty queen and Miss World 1935, born in Alexandria to an Egyptian Christian family. She was crowned Miss Egypt in 1934 and also won International P ...

, Miss Egypt 1934 and Miss Universe 1935 *

Meriam George Meriam George (, arz, مريم چورچ, ; born 30 May 1987 in Cairo, Egypt) is an Egyptian beauty pageant titleholder and first runner-up at Miss Supertalent. Career At the age of eighteen, she was the official Pantene Miss Egypt 2005 win ...

, Miss Egypt 2005 * Nick Kaldas, retired Deputy Commissioner * Fathia Nkrumah, wife of Kwame Nkrumah,

Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...

's first president, born Fathia Rizk * Mohammed Hegazy, Egyptian Muslim convert to Christianity *

Lara Debbane Lara Debbane (born 1994) is an Egyptian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Egypt 2014 and represented her country at Miss Universe 2014 and Miss World 2015 Pageantry Miss Egypt 2014 Debanne was crowned as Miss Egypt 201 ...

, Miss Egypt 2014 *

Daniel Wassef Daniel is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge"Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 68. (cf. Gabriel—"God is my strength"), ...

, Guinness World Record holder

References

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