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List of Copts

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Traditional areas of Coptic settlement:
  
10 to 15 million

Libya
  
ca. 60,000

Sudan
  
ca. 500,000

List of Copts

Egypt
  
estimations range between 9 to 15 million

Diaspora:
  
1–2 million (estimates vary)

United States
  
ca. 200,000 to 1 million

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

Contents

Performing arts

  • Ash Atalla, British television producer
  • Henry Barakat, director
  • Khairy Beshara, director
  • Youssef Dawoud, actor
  • Sanaa Gamil, actress
  • Maged El Kedwany, actor
  • Asaad Kelada, Hollywood director
  • Rami Malek, actor
  • Sandra Nashaat, director
  • Yousry Nasrallah, director
  • Hany Ramzy, actor
  • Naguib el-Rihani, film icon and actor
  • Daoud Abdel Sayed, film director
  • Hala Sedki, actress
  • George Sidhom, actor

    • Businessmen

  • Tharwat Bassily
  • Monir Fakhri Abdel Nour, banker and businessman
  • Ayad B. Saad, Morgan Stanley, First Vice President
  • Fayez Sarofim, billionaire, Houston financier
  • Naguib Sawiris, one of the wealthiest 100 people worldwide
  • Onsi Sawiris, founder of Orascom Group
  • Samih Sawiris, Orascom Construction
  • Farid Stino

    • Clergy and theologians

  • Athanasius the Apostolic, 20th Pope of Alexandria
  • Cyril I, 24th Pope of Alexandria
  • Pope Cyril VI, 116th Pope of Alexandria
  • Mother Irini
  • Father Matta El Meskeen
  • Origen, Christian scholar
  • Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, recently deceased Pope of Alexandria
  • Metropolitan Mikhail of Asyut
  • Metropolitan Athanasius of Beni Suef
  • Bishop Serapion
  • Bishop Missael
  • Bishop Angaelos
  • Pope Tawadros II

    • Judges

  • Sami Farag

    • Social activists

  • Ester Fanous
  • Alber Saber

    • Engineers

  • Hani Azer
  • William Selim Hanna
  • Nabih Youssef
  • John Sidhom

    • Scientists

  • Rushdi Said

    • Architects

  • Michel Bakhoum
  • Ramses Wissa Wassef

    • Historians and Coptologists

  • Aziz Suryal Atiya
  • Iris Habib Elmasry
  • Gawdat Gabra
  • Habib Girgis
  • Labib Habachi
  • Pahor Labib
  • Severus Ibn al-Muqaffa
  • Younan Labib Rizk
  • Father Menassa Youhanna

    • Journalists and writers

  • Anouar Abdel-Malek
  • Louis Awad
  • Alfred Farag
  • Mofeed Fawzy
  • Adel Iskandar
  • Magdi Khalil
  • Kamal el-Mallakh
  • Raouf Salama Moussa
  • Salama Moussa
  • Ra'ouf Mus'ad
  • Michael Maurice Prince
  • Younan Labib Rizk
  • Youssef Sidhom
  • Said Sonbol
  • Magdi Wahba
  • Danyal Shaida

    • Musicians

  • Wagih Aziz
  • Mikhail Girgis El Batanouny
  • Halim El-Dabh
  • Basem Darwisch
  • Youssef Elsisi
  • Yusef Greiss
  • Adel Kamel
  • Ragheb Moftah
  • Osama Mounir
  • Aziz El-Shawan
  • Joseph Tawadros
  • Ramzi Yassa

    • Painters and artists

  • Kamal Amin
  • Hany Armanious
  • Evelyn Ashamallah
  • George Bahgoury
  • Chafik Charobim
  • Isaac Fanous
  • Margaret Nakhla
  • Adel Nassief

    • Politicians

  • Stephan Bassily
  • Boutros Boutros Ghali
  • Youssef Boutros Ghali
  • Makram Ebeid
  • Akhnoukh Fanous
  • Ester Fanous
  • Boutros Ghali
  • Ibrahim El-Gohary
  • Rafik Habib, Egyptian researcher, activist, author, and politician
  • Wassef Hinein
  • George Isaac (politician)
  • Georgette Kellini
  • Monir Fakhri Abdel Nour
  • Dina Powell
  • Girgis Giorgio Sorial, politician, Italian MP
  • Kamal Stino
  • Moheb Stino
  • Mourad Wahba
  • Youssef Wahba

    • Physicians

  • Nagy Habib
  • Magdy Ishak
  • Naguib Pasha Mahfouz
  • Marty Makary
  • Hilana Sedarous
  • Gorgi Sobhi
  • Sir Magdi Yacoub

    • Athletes

  • Nagui Asaad
  • Hesdy Gerges
  • Hisham Greiss
  • Hany Ramzy
  • Farid Simaika
  • Sam Soliman

    • Celebrity chefs

  • Karine Bakhoum
  • Christopher Maher
  • Michael Mina

    • Others

  • Meriam George, Miss Egypt 2005
  • Nick Kaldas, retired Deputy Commissioner
  • Fathia Nkrumah, wife of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first president, born Fathia Rizk
  • Mohammed Hegazy, Egyptian Muslim convert to Christianity
  • Maria al-Qibtiyya, concubine for Muhammad

    • References

    List of Copts Wikipedia
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