List of Copts

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

• Rami Malek, actor
• Mena Massoud, actor
• 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
• Sandra Nashaat, director
• Yousry Nasrallah, director
• Hany Ramzy, actor
• Daoud Abdel Sayed, film director
• Hala Sedki, actress
• George Sidhom, actor
• Nabila Erian, Opera singer

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
• Onsi Sawiris, founder of Orascom Group, Patrick of Sawiris Family
• Naguib Sawiris, one of the wealthiest 100 people worldwide
• Samih Sawiris, Orascom Tourism
• Nassef Sawiris, Orascom Construction & Industrial. The richest man in Egypt
• Farid Stino
• Ayad B. Saad, Morgan Stanley,Senior Vice President.*

Clergy and theologians

• Anthony the Great, founder and pioneer of Christian monasticism
• Athanasius the Apostolic, 20th Pope of Alexandria
• Cyril I, 24th Pope of Alexandria
• Dioscorus the Great, 25th Pope of Alexandria
• Pope Cyril VI, 116th Pope of Alexandria
• Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, 117th Pope of Alexandria
• Mother Irini
• Father Matta El Meskeen
• Father Makary Younan
• Father Bishoy Kamel
• Origen, Christian scholar
• George Habib Bebawi, Patrologist and Biblical scholar
• Metropolitan Mikhail of Asyut
• Metropolitan Athanasius of Beni Suef
• Bishop Serapion
• Bishop Missael
• Bishop Angaelos
• Pope Tawadros II

Lawyers and judges

• Sami Farag
• Sherrie Mikhail Miday

Social activists

• Ester Fanous
• Alber Saber
• Akram Habib

Engineers

• Hani Azer
• Michel Bakhoum
• William Selim Hanna
• Nabih Youssef
• Adel Sedra

Scientists

• Azer Bestavros
• 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
• Waguih Ghali
• Adel Iskandar
• Magdi Khalil
• Kamal el-Mallakh
• 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
• Youssef Elsisi
• Yusef Greiss
• Adel Kamel
• Ragheb Moftah
• Osama Mounir
• Aziz El-Shawan
• Joseph Tawadros
• Ramzi Yassa
• Nabila Erian
• Lara Scandar

Painters and artists

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

Politicians

• Akhnoukh Fanous
• Boutros Boutros Ghali
• Boutros Ghali
• Dina Powell
• Ester Fanous
• George Isaac
• Georgette Kellini
• George Helmy
• Hala Shukrallah
• Ibrahim El-Gohary
• Jirjis al-Jawhari
• Kamal Stino
• Kamel Sidky
• Makram Ebeid
• Moheb Stino
• Monir Fakhri Abdel Nour
• Mourad Wahba
• Peter Khalil
• Rafik Habib
• Stephan Bassily
• Wassef Hinein
• Youssef Boutros Ghali
• Youssef Wahba

Physicians

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

Athletes

• Nagui Asaad
• Hesdy Gerges
• Hisham Greiss
• Gerges Magdy, football player (ENPPI Sporting Club)
• Hany Ramzy, football player (Egypt national football team)

• Youssef Makkar
• Ashraf Youssef
• Mark Kheirallah
• Mark Seif (Poker)
• Farid Simaika
• Sam Soliman

Chefs

• Karine Bakhoum
• Christopher Maher
• Michael Mina

Others

• Charlotte Wassef, Miss Egypt 1934 and Miss Universe 1935
• Meriam George, Miss Egypt 2005
• Nick Kaldas, retired Deputy Commissioner
• Fathia Nkrumah, wife of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first president, born Fathia Rizk
• Lara Debbane, Miss Egypt 2014
• Thutmose Kamel Gabrial, Egyptian military pilot

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