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Nonnus of Panopolis
Nonnus of Panopolis (, Nónnos ho Panopolítēs, 5th century AD) was the most notable Greek epic poet of the Imperial Roman era. He was a native of Panopolis (Akhmim) in the Egyptian Thebaid and probably lived in the 5th century AD. He is known as the composer of the Dionysiaca, an epic tale of the god Dionysus, and of the Metabole, a paraphrase of the Gospel of John. The epic Dionysiaca describes the life of Dionysus, his expedition to India, and his triumphant return. It was written in Homeric Greek and in dactylic hexameter, and it consists of 48 books at 20,426 lines.
Sabah
Lebanese & Egyptian singer and actress (1927–2014)
Suzanne Mubarak
former First Lady of Egypt
Anoushka
Egyptian singer and actress
Princess Fathia Fuad of Egypt
Egyptian Royal (1930–1976)
Magdi Yacoub
Egyptian surgeon
Vassula Rydén
Christian mystic
Naguib el-Rihani
Egyptian actor
Nelly
Egyptian actress
Laila Iskander
Egyptian social entrepreneur and politician
Lebleba
Ninochka Manoug Kupelian (; ; born November 14, 1946), better known by stage name Lebleba (, ), is an actor.
Fayruz
Piruz Sarkis Artin Galfayan (; ; 15 March 1943 – 30 January 2016), known in Egypt as Feyrouz or Fayruz (), was an Egyptian film child actress.
Camelia
Egyptian actress (1929-1950)
Henry Barakat
Egyptian film director (1914–1997)
Zabbaleen
The Zabbaleen ( '''', ) is a word which literally means "garbage people" in Egyptian Arabic. The contemporary use of the word in Egyptian Arabic is to mean "garbage collectors". In cultural contexts, the word refers to teenagers and adults who have served as Cairo's informal garbage collectors since approximately the 1940s. The Zabbaleen (singular: ', ) are also known as Zarraba (singular: Zarrab), which means "pig-pen operators." The word ' came from the Egyptian Arabic word '''' (, ) which means "garbage".
Charlotte Wassef
Egyptian model
Lara Scandar
Egyptian singer
Naguib Pasha Mahfouz
Egyptian surgeon (1882–1974)
Riyad Ghali
Egyptian diplomat (1919-1978)
Lotfy Labib
Egyptian actor (1947–2025)