Coptic Christians

Abdel Messih El-Makari - Father Abdel Messih El-Makari was a Coptic Orthodox monk and priest, and a 20th century Coptic saint.

Abel of Tacla Haimonot - Abel of Tacla Haimonot was a monk at the monastery of Tacla Haimonot.

Abu al-Makarim - Al-Mu'taman Abu al-Makarim Sa'd Allah Jirjis ibn Mas'ud was a priest of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt living in the thirteenth century.

Adel Iskandar - Adel Iskandar is a British-born Middle East media scholar, postcolonial theorist and academic.

Adel Kamel - Dr. Adel Kamel عادل كامل was a Music critic, musicologist and composer.

Bahaa el-Din Ahmed Hussein el-Akkad - Bahaa el-Din Ahmed Hussein el-Akkad is an Egyptian former Muslim sheikh.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali - Boutros Boutros-Ghali is an Egyptian diplomat who was the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1992 to December 1996.

Boutros Ghali - Boutros Ghali was the Prime Minister of Egypt from 1908 to 1910.

Chafik Charobim - Chafik Charobim, is a well known impressionist and naturalist Egyptian artist who painted the "Peaceful and Tranquil Egypt of the last Century".

Dina Powell - Dina Habib Powell, born 1973, is the former Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs for the United States government.

Ester Fanous - Ester Akhnoukh Fanous or Esther Fanous, also known as Ester Wissa was an Egyptian Christian feminist and the daughter of doctor Akhnoukh Fanous and Balsam Wissa.

Evelyn Ashamallah - Evelyn Ashamallah is a female Coptic painter, born in Disuq, Kafr el-Sheikh, Egypt in 1948 to Ashamallah Eskandar Hanna and Elaine Mikhail Hanna.

Fahmy Ibrahim Mikhail - Professor Fahmy Ibrahim Mikhail was one of Egypt's eminent mathematicians during the period between the 1950s and the 1980s.

Farid Stino - Dr. Farid Stino is an Egyptian businessperson.

Fathia Nkrumah - Fathia Nkrumah, was the Egyptian wife of Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Ghana.

Fayez Sarofim - Fayez Sarofim is a Coptic Egyptian American fund manager for a number of Dreyfus family stock funds.

Gamal Helal - Gamal Helal is an Egyptian-American interpreter and diplomat who has translated for several American presidents and Secretaries of State.

George Bahgoury - George Abdel Masih Al Bahgoury or George Bahgoury جورج البهجورى is an Egyptian-French painter.

George Elmacin - George Elmacin, also known as Ibn Amid, was an Arabic Christian historian.

George Sidhom - George Sidhom is a veteran Egyptian comedian.

Gorgi Sobhi - Professor Gorgi Sobhi جورجى صبحى Professor of General Medicine,Professor of the History of Medicine and Professor of Egyptology.

Habib Girgis - Archdeacon Habib Girgis was a modern-day dean of the Catechetical School of Alexandria.

Hala Sedki - Hala Sedki George Younan 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.

Halim El-Dabh - Halim Abdul Messieh El-Dabh is an Egyptian-born U.S. composer, performer, ethnomusicologist, and educator.

Hani Azer - Hani Azer is an Egyptian engineer of Coptic descent.

Hany Ramzy - Hany Guda Ramzy is an Egyptian international football defender, who is the Head Coach of the Egypt national football team U21.

Ibrahim El-Gohary - Ibrahim El-Gohary is a famous Copt who was Egypt's prime minister during the second half of the 18th century.

Ibrahim Fahmy Ibrahim Mikhail - Professor Ibrahim Fahmy Ibrahim Mikhail is a professor of mathematics in the faculty of science in Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.

Iris Habib Elmasry - Iris Habib Elmasry was a prominent Coptic Historian.

Isaac Fanous - Isaac Fanous was an Egyptian artist and scholar, who specialized in Coptic art and founded its contemporary school.

John of Nikiû - John of Nikiû was an Egyptian Coptic bishop of Nikiû/Pashati in the Nile Delta and appointed general administrator of the monasteries of Upper Egypt in 696.

Joseph Tawadros - Joseph Tawadros is an oud virtuoso from Australia.

Kamal Stino - Dr. Kamal Ramzi Stino was born in Mansoura, Egypt on July 10, 1910.

Karine Bakhoum - Karine Bakhoum is a restaurant consultant and public relations expert.

Kosheh Martyrs - The Kosheh Martyrs are the victims of a massacre of 21 Coptic Christians in el-Kosheh village in Upper Egypt, located 450 kilometers south of Cairo, on Sunday January 2, 2000.

Labib Habachi - Labib Habachi was an influential Egyptian Egyptologist.

Louis Awad - Louis Awad was an Egyptian intellectual and writer.

Magdi Wahba - Magdi Wahba was an Egyptian university professor, Johnsonian scholar, and lexicographer.

Magdi Yacoub - Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub, FRS, is Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Imperial College London.

Magdy Ishak - Magdy A Ishak MD, FRCS, CCIM, born 1947 in Suez, Egypt, is an orthopedic surgeon and the President of the Egyptian Medical Society UK. He is also Chairman of the Scottish-Egyptian Association a...

Maggie Gobran - Maggie Gobran is a Coptic Orthodox Christian from Egypt, who founded the charity organization the Stephanus-children in Mokattam, outside Cairo in Egypt.

Makram Ebeid - Makram Ebeid Pasha was an Egyptian Coptic politician.

Nag Hammadi massacre - The Nag Hammadi Massacre was a massacre of Coptic Christians, mostly teenagers,carried out on the eve of January 7th, 2010 in the Egyptian city of Nag Hammadi.

Nagui Asaad - Nagui Asaad Youssef ناجى أسعد,, is an Egyptian athlete who represented Egypt in the international events in the 1970s and early 1980s in shot put and discus throw.

Naguib Pasha Mahfouz - Naguib Mikhail Mahfouz is known as the father of obstetrics and gynaecology in Egypt and was a pioneer in obstetric fistula.

Nagy Habib - Nagy Habib is a world-leading Professor of Surgery based in London.

Onsi Sawiris - Onsi Sawiris is an Egyptian businessman, estimated to be worth approximatively $1.7 billion according to Forbes and the patriarchal head of the Sawiris Family.

Osama Mounir - Osama Mounir Christian Egyptian TV personality, his famous program is "Ana Welnogoom We Hawak" which is a program about love on Nogoom FM radio channel.

Pahor Labib - Pahor Labib was Director of the Coptic Museum, Cairo, Egypt, from 1951 to 1965 and one of the world leaders in Egyptology and Coptology.

Ra'ouf Mus'ad - Ra’ouf Mus'ad is a playwright, journalist and novelist who was born in Sudan to Egyptian Coptic parents.

Ragai Karas - Ragai Karas is a professional watercolor painter.

Ragheb Moftah - Dr. Ragheb Moftah was an Egyptian musicologist and scholar of the Coptic music heritage.

Ramses Wissa Wassef - Ramses Wissa Wassef, was a famous Egyptian architect and designer, and a professor of art and architecture at the College of Fine Arts in Cairo.

Raouf Salama Moussa - Dr Raouf Salama Moussa was a notable Egyptian bacteriologist and editor.

Salama Moussa - Salama Moussa was a notable Egyptian journalist and reformer in the 1920s.

Sam Soliman - Sam Soliman is an Australian boxer of Coptic Egyptian descent.

Samih Sawiris - Samih Onsi Sawiris is a wealthy Egyptian businessman and billionnaire and second of three sons of Onsi Sawiris, the other two being Naguib Sawiris and Nassef Sawiris.

Sanaa Gamil - Sanaa Gamil, born Thoraya Youssef Atallah, was an Egyptian actress.

Sandra Nashaat - Sandra Nashaat is a famous Egyptian director.

Tharwat Bassily - Tharwat Bassily is a prominent Coptic business man, Board Chairman pharmaceuticals company Amoun one of leading private pharmaceutical companies in Egypt,who founded the company in the 1970s.

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.

Youssef Boutros Ghali - Youssef Boutros Ghali has been Egypt’s Minister of Finance since 2004.

Youssef Sidhom - Youssef Sidhom is the editor-in-chief of the Egyptian weekly newspaper Watani, the only Christian newspaper in Egypt.

Youssef Wahba - Youssef Wahba Pashaيوسف وهبى Egyptian Prime Minister and jurist.

Zakaria Botros - Zakaria Botros is a Coptic priest from Egypt.