Cairo University alumni

Egyptian writer (1901_2006)

Saddam Hussein was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 until his overthrow in 2003 during the United States-led invasion of Iraq. He previously served as the vice president from 1968 to 1979 and also as the prime minister from 1979 to 1991 and later from 1994 to 2003. A leading member of the Ba'ath Party, he was a proponent of Ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism. The policies and ideologies he championed are collectively known as Saddamism, a right-wing variant of Ba'athism.

Palestinian political leader (1929–2004) and Former President of the Palestinian National Authority (1994-2004)

President of Egypt from 1956 to 1970

President of Egypt from 2012 to 2013

al-Qaeda terrorist leader (1951–2022), Muslim jurist and theologian (Sunni), surgeon

Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1992 to 1996

Egyptian actor (1932–2015)

Egyptian law scholar and diplomat, 4th Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient

Egyptian feminist writer (1931–2021)

Egyptian Islamist leader and politician (1906—1949)

Egyptian writer and literary critic (1889–1973)

117th pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church (1923–2012)

Egyptian judge and statesman; former interim President of Egypt

prime minister of Egypt since 2018

Egyptian egyptologist and archaeologist

Egyptian hijacker and one of the ringleaders of the September 11 attacks (1968–2001)

Japanese politician (born 1952)

Egyptian Prime Minister

Egyptian politician and engineer; Prime Minister of Egypt

Egyptian head of intelligence and vice president (1936–2012)

Egyptian politician, 8th Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood

politician from Egypt

Libyan politician (1952-2020)

Tunisian politician

Lebanese politician (1934-2015)

Egyptian activist

Egyptian association football player

human rights activist and First Lady of Egypt.

American Islamic scholar

Egyptian nuclear physicist (1917-1952)

Prime Minister of Egypt from 2012 to 2013

Egyptian writer

Egyptian politician; prime minister (2014-2015)

former Egyptian Prime minister

Syrian politician, foreign minister (1941-2020)

Egyptian architect (1900–1989)

former Saudi Arabian minister (1930–2021)

Palestinian politician and physician; co-founder of Hamas

Egyptian activist and engineer

Egyptian author and professor of literature (1913-1998)

Egyptian politician (1925–2008)

Egyptian painter (1924–1989)

Egyptian politician and judge (1935–2024)

Egyptian actor (born 1940)

Egyptian doctor and satirist

Egyptian politician (1932-2014)

Egyptian politician and officer

Egyptian writer (1927-1991)

lawyer, politician and ambassador from Egypt (1928 – 2013)

Member of the Supreme Council of the United Arab Emirates

Egyptian Quranic thinker, author, and academic (1943-2010)

Egyptian activist and writer (1923–1996)

leader of Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya

Queen Consort of Jordan

Egyptian novelist

Lebanese politician (1921-1987)

former Prime Minister of Yemen (2018-2024)

Egyptian businessman

German-british author and scholar of Islamic history (1930—2023)