Cairo is the capital city of Egypt and the heart of the largest urban area in Africa and the Middle East. The city is associated with ancient Egypz and located near the Nile delta.
Try to name these famous people, who are born in Cairo.
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Sultan of Egypt from 1917 to 1936, he replaced the title of Sultan in 1922 with King
1868
Fuad I
British chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize, known for the development of protein crystallography and determining the structure of insulin
1910
Dorothy Hodgkin
Writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "The Cairo Trilogy" "Children of our Alley" "The Harafish"
1911
Naguib Mahfouz
Widely regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers in Egyptian Cinema's golden age
1919
Ezz El-Dine Zulficar
King of Egypt from 1936 until he was overthrown in the 1952 coup d'etat
1920
Farouk I
Prime Minister of Egypt from 1984 to 1985
1921
Kamal Hassan Ali
Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1992 to 1996
1922
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Palestian political leader, Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization and President of the Palestinian National Authority, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994
1929
Yasser Arafat
British actor, known for his long-running role as Bridadier Lethbridge-Stewart in "Doctor Who"
1929
Nicholas Courtney
Second wife of King Farouk and the last Queen consort of Egypt
1933
Narriman Sadek
Italian-French singer, first singer to receive a diamond disc
1933
Dalida
Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces from 2011 to 2012 and de facto head of state
1935
Mohamed Hussein Tantawi
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency from 1997 to 2009, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005
1942
Mohamed el-Baradei
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Interim president of Egypt from 2013 to 2014 following the coup d'état and President of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt from 2013 to 2016
1945
Adly Mansour
Creator of "Downtown Abbey", Academy Award winning writer of the screenplay for "Gosford Park" and Member of the House of Lords since 2011
1949
Julian Fellowes
He formally reigned as the last King of Egypt from 1952 to 1953
1952
Fuad II
Prime Minister of Egypt from 2004 to 2011
1952
Ahmed Nazif
President of Egypt since 2014
1954
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
Billionaire, chairman of Weather Investments and one of the richest men in Africa
1954
Naguib Sawiris
Prime Minister of Egypt from 2015 to 2018
1955
Sherif Ismail
Israeli footballer who played for Liverpool, Rangers, Maccabi Tel Aviv and the Israeli national team, he was killed in a motorcycle crash in 2010
1956
Avi Cohen
Armenian-Canadian filmmaker, "The Sweet Hereafter" "Exotica" "Chloe" "The Captive"
1960
Atom Egoyan
Billionaire, richest Arabian men and owner of Aston Villa
1961
Nassef Sawiris
Taekwondo practitioner who was won two Olympic medals for Egypt
1993
Hedaya Malak Wahba
Footballer who plays for Wolfsburg and the Egyptian national team
1999
Omar Marmoush
Karateka and the first female Egyptian to have won an Olympic gold medal