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

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
 * Edward Tawadros

Architects

 * Michel Bakhoum
 * Ramses Wissa Wassef
 * Wael Adly Aziz Mesiha
 * Samsoomy

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
 * Bishop Isidoros

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
 * 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

 * Stephan Bassily
 * Boutros Boutros Ghali
 * Youssef Boutros Ghali
 * Makram Ebeid
 * Akhnoukh Fanous
 * Ester Fanous
 * Boutros Ghali
 * Jirjis al-Jawhari
 * Ibrahim El-Gohary
 * Rafik Habib, Egyptian researcher, activist, author, and politician
 * Wassef Hinein
 * George Isaac (politician)
 * Georgette Kellini
 * Monir Fakhri Abdel Nour
 * Dina Powell
 * Hala Shukrallah
 * Kamel Sidky
 * Kamal Stino
 * Moheb Stino
 * Mourad Wahba
 * Youssef Wahba
 * Peter Khalil, Labor MP, Australia

Physicians

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

Athletes

 * Nagui Asaad
 * Hisham Greiss
 * Hany Ramzy
 * Farid Simaika
 * Sam Soliman
 * Pierre Edward

Celebrity 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
 * Daniel Wassef, Guinness World Record holder