This list of Copts includes notable Copts figures who are notable in their areas of expertise. For saints, please refer to List of Coptic saints.

Performing arts

• Ash Atalla, British television producer

• Henry Barakat, director

• Khairy Beshara, director

• Youssef Dawoud, actor

• Nabila Erian, Opera singer

• Sanaa Gamil, actress

• Maged El Kedwany, actor

• Asaad Kelada, Hollywood director

• Rami Malek, actor

• Mena Massoud, actor

• Sandra Nashaat, director

• Yousry Nasrallah, director

• Hany Ramzy, actor

• Daoud Abdel Sayed, film director

• Hala Sedki, actress

• George Sidhom, actor

Businessmen

• Nader Anise, founder of Coptic American Chamber of Commerce (Coptic Chamber) and attorney

• Tharwat Bassily

• Michael Ebeid

• Monir Fakhri Abdel Nour, banker and businessman

• Fayez Sarofim, billionaire, Houston financier

• Naguib Sawiris, one of the wealthiest 100 people worldwide

• Nassef Sawiris, Orascom Construction & Industrial. The richest man in Egypt

• Onsi Sawiris, founder of Orascom Group, Patrick of Sawiris Family

• Samih Sawiris, Orascom Tourism

• Farid Stino

Clergy and theologians

• Bishop Angaelos

• Anthony the Great, founder and pioneer of Christian monasticism

• Athanasius the Apostolic, 20th Pope of Alexandria

• Metropolitan Athanasius of Beni Suef

• Father Bishoy Kamel

• Cyril I, 24th Pope of Alexandria

• Pope Cyril VI, 116th Pope of Alexandria

• Dioscorus the Great, 25th Pope of Alexandria

• George Habib Bebawi, Patrologist and Biblical scholar

• Mother Irini

• Father Makary Younan

• Father Matta El Meskeen

• Metropolitan Mikhail of Asyut

• Bishop Missael

• Origen, Christian scholar

• Bishop Serapion

• Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, 117th Pope of Alexandria

• Pope Tawadros II

Lawyers and judges

• Sami Farag

• Sherrie Mikhail Miday

Social activists

• Ester Fanous

• Akram Habib

• Alber Saber

Engineers

• Hani Azer

• Michel Bakhoum

• William Selim Hanna

• Adel Sedra

• Nabih Youssef

Scientists

• Azer Bestavros

• Reda R. Mankbadi

• Rushdi Said

Architects

• Michel Bakhoum

• Ramses Wissa Wassef

Historians and coptologistcoptologists

• Aziz Suryal Atiya

• Iris Habib Elmasry

• Gawdat Gabra

• Habib Girgis

• Labib Habachi

• Severus Ibn al-Muqaffa

• Pahor Labib

• Younan Labib Rizk

• Marcus Simaika

• Father Menassa Youhanna

Journalists and writers

• Anouar Abdel-Malek

• Louis Awad

• Kamal el-Mallakh

• Alfred Farag

• Mofeed Fawzy

• Waguih Ghali

• Adel Iskandar

• Magdi Khalil

• Raouf Salama Moussa

• Salama Moussa

• Ra'ouf Mus'ad

• Younan Labib Rizk

• Matthew Shenoda

• Youssef Sidhom

• Said Sonbol

• Magdi Wahba

Musicians

• Wagih Aziz

• Mikhail Girgis El Batanouny

• Halim El-Dabh

• Aziz El-Shawan

• Youssef Elsisi

• Nabila Erian

• Yusef Greiss

• Adel Kamel

• Ragheb Moftah

• Osama Mounir

• Lara Scandar

• Joseph Tawadros

• Ramzi Yassa

Painters and artists

• Kamal Amin

• Hany Armanious

• Evelyn Ashamallah

• George Bahgoury

• Chafik Charobim

• Isaac Fanous

• Adam Henein

• Kiko

• Margaret Nakhla

• Adel Nassief

Politicians

• Jirjis al-Jawhari

• Stephan Bassily

• Boutros Boutros Ghali

• Makram Ebeid

• Ibrahim El-Gohary

• Mounir Fakhri Abdel Nour

• Akhnoukh Fanous

• Ester Fanous

• Boutros Ghali

• Youssef Boutros Ghali

• Rafik Habib

• George Helmy

• Wassef Hinein

• George Isaac

• Georgette Kellini

• Peter Khalil

• Raja Nicola

• Dina Powell

• Hala Shukrallah

• Kamel Sidky

• Kamal Stino

• Moheb Stino

• Mourad Wahba

• Youssef Wahba

Physicians

• Moawad GadElrab

• Paul Ghalioungui

• Nagy Habib

• Magdy Ishak

• Naguib Pasha Mahfouz

• Marty Makary

• Hilana Sedarous

• Gorgi Sobhi

• Sir Magdi Yacoub

Athletes

• Nagui Asaad

• Hisham Greiss

• Mark Kheirallah

• Gerges Magdy, football player (ENPPI Sporting Club)

• Youssef Makkar

• Hany Ramzy, football player (Egypt national football team)

• Mark Seif (Poker)

• Farid Simaika

• Sam Soliman

• Ashraf Youssef

Chefs

• Karine Bakhoum

• Christopher Maher

• Michael Mina

Others

• Lara Debbane, Miss Egypt 2014

• Thutmose Kamel Gabrial, Egyptian military pilot

• Meriam George, Miss Egypt 2005

• Nick Kaldas, retired Deputy Commissioner

• Fathia Nkrumah, wife of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first president, born Fathia Rizk

• Charlotte Wassef, Miss Egypt 1934 and Miss Universe 1935

See also

• Coptic diaspora

• List of Coptic saints

• Coptic Orthodox Church

• Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church

• List of Coptic Orthodox popes

• Coptic language

• Coptic people

• Christianity in Egypt

• Copts in Sudan

• Copts in Libya

References