List of Copts
From Coptic Wiki
This is a list of notable Copts. For saints, please refer to Coptic Saints.
Being an integral part of Egypt's history, the Copts, the Christians of Egypt, have shared in all aspects of life and had many contributions to the Egyptian political, professional and spiritual activities. The is a list of notable Copts with articles in Wikipedia.
Actors and directors
- Samir Seif سمير سيف, Director
- Mounir Rady منير راضي, Director
- Osama Fawzy أسامه فوزي, Director
- Akmal Saleh أكمل صالح Australian comedian and actor
- George Sidhom جورج سيدهم, Actor
- Hala Sedki هالة صدقي, Actress
- Maged El-Kedwany ماجد الكدواني, Actor
- Sanaa Gamil سناء جميل, Actress
- Marie Mouneeb ماري منيب
- Mariam Naoum ماريم نعوم, Film Writer
- Sandra Nashaat ساندرا نشأت, Director
- Hani Ramzy هاني رمزي
- Marcel Saleh مارسيل صالح, Montage
- Nagy Asaad ناجي أسعد, TV Actor
- Hany Girgis Fawzy هاني جرجس فوزي
- Salwa Khatab سلوي خطاب
- Youssef Dawoud يوسف داود, Actor
- Lotfy Labib لطفي لبيب, Actor
- Naguib Al Rehani نجيب الريحانى
- Beshara Waqeem بشاره واكيم
- Akeela Rateb عقيله راتب, Actor
- Adel Khairy عادل خيري
- Henry Barakat هنري بركات
- Ramsis Naguieb رمسيسي نجيب
- Asaad Kelada أسعد قلادة Hollywood Director
- Ash Atalla British television producer
Businessmen
- Farid Stino فريد استينو
- Fayez Sarofim فايز صاروفيم, Billionaire Houston Financier
- Morris Rizk موريس رزق, Al Hayah Medical Center
- Onsi Sawiris أنسي ساويرس, Founder of Orascom Corp.
- Samy Saad المهندس سامي سعد, Mercedes Factory
- Beshara B.T.M. المهندس بشاره
- Ghabour غبور
- Naguib Sawiris نجيب ساويرس CEO of Orascom Telecom, Owner of Weather Investments
- Monir Fakhri Abdel Nourمنير فخري عبد النور Banker and Businessman, founder of Egyptian Finance Company S.A.E.
- Maged Riad - Bavaria المهندس ماجد رياض - بافاريا
- Zarwat Bassily, الدكتور زروت باسيلي
Clergymen and theologists
- Pope Cyril VI قداسة البابا كيرلس السادس, The 116th Pope of Alexandria
- Origen أوريجانوس one of the world's most influential early Christian scholars
- Fr. Matta El Meskeen ابونا متي المسكين
- Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, قداسة البابا شنودة الثالث بابا الإسكندرية the current Coptic Pope of Alexandria & the 117th Pope on the See of St. Mark
- Metropolitan Seraphim of Glastonbury Head of the British Orthodox Church.
- Bishop Missael Bishop of the Diocese of the Midlands, United Kingdom
- Bishop Angaelosالأنبا انجيلوس Patriarchal Exarch for the Youth Ministry at Stevenage, United Kingdom
- Bishop Serapion الأنبا سرابيون Of the Los Angeles
- Anba Mikhail الأنبا ميخائيل مطران أسيوط Metropolitan of the Holy Metropolis of Asyut (Lycopolis), (Hieracon, (Hierakonopolis) and (Apollonopolis Parva).
- Athanasius, Metropolitan of Beni Suef الأنبا أثناسيوس مطران بنى سويف Metropolitan of Beni Suef and El-Bahnasa.
- Mother Irini الأم إيرينى mother superior at the Abu Seifein Convent
Social activists
- Ester Fanous إستر فانوس, also known as Ester Wissa
- Gorgette Kaliny جورجيت قليني, Parlament Member
Engineers
- Hani Azer هاني عازر Leading Civil Engineer
- Nabih Youssef نبيه يوسف, Leading Structural Engineer
- William Selim Hanna وليم سليم حنا, Minister of Housing; Prominent Structural Engineer
- Professor Awad Hanna[1] – Professor of Engineering: University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Michel G Youssef Leading Electrical Engineer
Scientists
- Rushdi Said رشدي سعيد
- Fahmy Ibrahim Mikhail - Professor of Mathematics, Faculty of science, Ain Shams University
- Ibrahim Fahmy Ibrahim - Professor of Mathematics, Faculty of science, Ain Shams University
- George Fahmy Makram - Physicist, ATLAS Experiment
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Architects
- Michel Bakhoum ميشيل باخوم Prominent Professor of Structural and Consulting Engineer
- Ramses Wissa Wassef رمسيس ويصا واصف
Historians and Coptologists
- Dr. Younan Labib Younan د. يونان لبيب يونان
- Aziz Suryal Atiya عزيز سوريال عطية Historian and Coptology pioneer.
- Pahor Labib باهور لبيب late Director of the Coptic Museum
- Gawdat Gabra Coptologist, lecturer, book writer and former director of the Coptic Museum.
- Habib Girgis حبيب جرجس, Coptologist, modern theologian, and a former dean of the reopened Theological School.
- Iris Habib Elmasry إيريس حبيب المصري , Author of the Story of the Coptic Church.
- Labib Habachi لبيب حبشي, Egyptologist
- Fr. Menassa Youhanna القس منسى القمص يوحنا, Historian and Theologian
- Severus Ibn al-Muqaffa ساويرس بن المقفع bishop, theologian, author and historian
Journalists and writers
- Alfred Farag الفريد فرج one of Egyptian theater’s leading contemporary playwrights
- Younan Labib Rizk د. يونان لبيب رزق
- Adel Iskandar عادل إسكندر - Author
- Magdi Wahba - University Professor
- Salama Moussa سلامه موسى Journalist, Reformer, Philosopher and Social Critic
- Morsi Attalah مرسي عطاالله
- Raouf Salama Moussa رؤوف سلامة موسى was a notable Egyptian bacteriologist and editor
- Louis Greece لويس جريس
- Youssef Sidhom يوسف سيدهم - Journalist
- Mofeed Fawzy مفيد فوزي Journalist
- Louis Awad لويس عوض
- Morsi Gameel Azeez: illustrious song-writer الشاعر الغنائى البارز مرسى جميل عزيز
- Kamal el-Mallakh كمال الملاخ
- Ra'ouf Mus'ad
Musicians
- Mikhail Girgis El Batanouny المعلم ميخائيل البتانوني
- Halim El-Dabh composer حليم الضبع
- Ragheb Moftah راغب مفتاح
- Ramzi Yassaرمزي يسى
- Hany Shenouda هاني شنوده
- Michael Al-Masry ميشيل المصري
- Aziz El-Shawan عزيز الشوان
- Osama Mounir أسامة منير
- Joseph Tawadros, Oud Player and ARIA award winning musician in Australia
- Adel Kamel Music Critic, Musicologist and composer
- Yusef Greiss يوسف جريس
Painters and artists
- Adel Nassief عادل نصيف
- Chafik Charobim شفيق شاروبيم, Painter
- Sayef Wanly سيف وانلي
- Ragai Karas رجائي كاراس, Painter
- Ragaie Anayet رجاني عنايت
- Isaac Fanous ايزاك فانوس, Father of Modern Coptic iconography
- Evelyn Ashamallah إيفيلين عشم الله, Painter
- Margaret Nakhla مرجريت نخلة
- George Bahgoury
Politicians
- Akhnoukh Fanous, Coptic Nationalist اخنوخ فانوس
- Boutros Ghali, Prime Minister of Egypt بطرس غالي
- Youssef Wahba Minister of Finance, Foreign Affairs and Prime Minister of Egypt يوسف وهبه
- Boutros Boutros Ghali, Former Secretary General of the United Nations بطرس بطرس غالي
- Dina Powell, Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs for the United States government دينا حبيب باول
- Ester Fanous إستر فانوس
- E. Kamel Ibrahim, Field Marshal, Former Head of Armed Forces, Head of Physical and Psychological Training of Special Forces (Al Sa'Ka Regiment).
- Ibrahim El-Gohary المعلم ابراهيم الجوهري
- Moheb Stino
- Kamal Stino, Former Vice Prime Minister of Egypt كمال استينو
- Makram Ebeid مكرم عبيد
- Michael Meunier, First American Egyptian nominated for a U.S. Office and a Coptic Activist مايكل منير
- Moheb Stino former minister of tourism and aviation, and vice-prime minister محب رمزي استينو
- Monir Fakhri Abdel Nour, Parliamentary منير فخري عبد النور
- Youssef Boutros Ghali, Minister of Finance of Egypt يوسف بطرس غالي
- Wassef Hinein
Surgeons
- Sir Magdi Yacoub مجدي يعقوب Leading Cardiothoracic surgeon ; Knight
- Naguib Pasha Mahfouz نجيب باشا محفوظ, Pioneer in Obstetric Fistula; Father of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Egypt
- Professor Gorgi Sobhi دكتور جورجى صبحى
- Professor Nagy Habib a world-leading Professor of Surgery Imperial College London pioneers of adult stem cell research, in the treatment of advanced cases of cancer
- Professor Shafik Barsom دكتور شفيق برسوم, Surgeon - Germany
- Professor Magdy Ishak FRCS CCIM مجدى اسحاق President of Egyptian Medical Society UK
- Professor Makar Amin مقار أمين Gynaecologic-Oncologic surgeon in Antwerp,Belgium
- Dr Hilana Sedarous دكتورة هيلانة سيداروس .....First female doctor in modern Egypt (1904 – 1998)
Athletes
- Hany Ramzy هاني رمزي Soccer Player
- Nagui Asaad ناجي أسعد [1] African champion in Shot Put, 1979, 1982.
- Hisham Greis هشام جريس[1] African champion in Hammer Throw, 1982.
- Sam Soliman International Boxer ranked No. 3 in the IBF
Celebrity chef
Others
- Hany Ramzy هاني رمزي
- Bahaa el-Din Ahmed Hussein el-Akkad - Former Egyptian Muslim sheikh.
- Meriam George - مريام جورج Miss Egypt 2005.
- Fathia Nkrumah فتحية رزق wife of Kwame Nkrumah the first president of Ghana
- Maria al-Qibtiyya مارية القبطية Islamic prophet Muhammad's wife
- Mohammed Hegazy محمد حجازى - First Egyptian Muslim convert to Christianity to seek official recognition of his conversion from the Egyptian Government.
See also
- Copts
- Coptic Orthodox Church
- Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church
- List of Coptic Orthodox Popes
- Coptic flag
- Coptic language
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 African Athletic Champions gbrathletics website http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/afc.htm
