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36 results
| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eli Cohen | Eliyahu Ben-Shaul Cohen | 1924 | 1965 | Egyptian | spy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Cohen |
| Bat Ye'or | Gisèle Littman | 1933 | n/a | Egyptian | author, best known for creating and popularising the Eurabia conspiracy theory in her writings about modern Europe, in which she argues that Islam, anti-Americanism and antisemitism hold sway over European culture and politics as a result of collaboration between radical Muslims elements on one hand, and European political elements on the other | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_Ye'or |
| Henry Rousso | Henry Rousso | 1954 | n/a | Egyptian | historian specializing in World War II France | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Rousso |
| Georges Moustaki | Georges Moustaki | 1934 | 2013 | Egyptian | singer-songwriter of Jewish Italo-Greek origin, best known for the poetic rhythm and simplicity of the romantic songs he composed and often sang | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Moustaki |
| Gilbert de Botton | Gilbert de Botton | 1935 | 2000 | Egyptian | financial pioneer, who is considered the inventor of the open architecture model of asset management, whereby a financial institution offers third party products to their clients | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_de_Botton |
| Yaqub Sanu | Yaqub Sanu | 1839 | 1912 | Egyptian | Jewish journalist, nationalist activist and playwright | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaqub_Sanu |
| Ronald Mourad Cohen | Sir Ronald Mourad Cohen | 1945 | n/a | Egyptian | businessman and political figure | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Mourad_Cohen |
| Ahmed Zayat | Ahmed Zayat | 1962 | n/a | Egyptian | businessman and owner of Thoroughbred race horses | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Zayat |
| Claudia Roden | Claudia Roden | 1936 | n/a | Egyptian | cookbook writer and cultural anthropologist of Sephardi/Mizrahi descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Roden |
| Lucette Lagnado | Lucette Matalon Lagnado | 1956 | 2019 | Egyptian | journalist and memoirist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucette_Lagnado |
| Leila Mourad | Leila Mourad or Layla Morad | 1918 | 1995 | Egyptian | singer and actress, and one of the most prominent superstars in Egypt and the entire Arab world in her era | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leila_Mourad |
| Joyce Mansour | Joyce Mansour nee Joyce Patricia Adès | 1928 | 1986 | Egyptian | author, notable as a surrealist poet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Mansour |
| Moshe Marzouk | Moshe Marzouk | 1926 | 1955 | Egyptian | Karaite Jew, hanged in 1955 for his involvement in a series of bombings in Cairo codenamed Operation Suzannah | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Marzouk |
| Ada Aharoni | Ada Aharoni | 1933 | n/a | Egyptian | poet, writer, lecturer, sociologist and peace researcher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Aharoni |
| Mounir Mourad | Mounir Mourad or Monir Morad | 1922 | 1981 | Egyptian | artist, singer, actor, and distinguished composer of lighthearted songs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mounir_Mourad |
| Basma Hassan | Basma Ahmed Sayyed Hassan | 1976 | n/a | Egyptian | actress | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basma_Hassan |
| Kamal Ruhayyim | Kamal Ruhayyim | 1947 | n/a | Egyptian | writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamal_Ruhayyim |
| Dawood Hosni | Dawood Hosni | 1870 | 1937 | Egyptian | music composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawood_Hosni |
| Albert Bensimon | Albert Bensimon | 1948 | n/a | Egyptian | businessman from Adelaide, South Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Bensimon |
| Youssef Darwish | Youssef Darwish | 1910 | 2006 | Egyptian | labour lawyer, communist and activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youssef_Darwish |
| Togo Mizrahi | Togo Mizrahi | 1901 | 1986 | Egyptian | director, actor, producer, and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Togo_Mizrahi |
| Jacqueline Kahanoff | Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff | 1917 | 1979 | Egyptian | novelist, essayist and journalist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Kahanoff |
| Salvator Cicurel | Salvator Cicurel | 1893 | 1975 | Egyptian | Olympic fencer, and later the president of Cairo's Sephardi Jewish Community Council from 1946 until 1957 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvator_Cicurel |
| Moïse Lévy de Benzion | Moïse Lévy de Benzion | 1873 | 1943 | Egyptian | department store owner who built an important collection of art and antiquities | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moïse_Lévy_de_Benzion |
| Marcelle Ninio | Victorine Marcelle Ninio | 1929 | 2019 | Egyptian | secretary and an Israeli spy who became involved in what was known as the Lavon affair | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelle_Ninio |
| Samuel Fedida | Samuel Fedida, OBE | 1918 | 2007 | Egyptian | telecommunication engineer responsible at Post Office Telecommunications for the development of Viewdata | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Fedida |
| Karim Kassem | Karim Ahmed Kassem | 1986 | n/a | Egyptian | actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karim_Kassem |
| Saul Moyal | Saul Moyal | null | null | Egyptian | fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Moyal |
| Camelia (actress) | Camelia | null | null | Egyptian | actress | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelia_(actress) |
| Elias Moadab | Ilya Mohadab Sasson commonly known as Elias Moadab | 1916 | 1952 | Egyptian | comedy actor, born to a Syrian Jewish father and Jewish Egyptian mother from the city of Tanta | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_Moadab |
| Chaim HaKohen | Chaim HaKohen of Aram Zobah (Aleppo) | 1585 | 1655 | Egyptian | Rabbi | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_HaKohen |
| Whusha al-dallala | Whusha al-dallala | 1104 | n/a | Egyptian | Jewish broker | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whusha_al-dallala |
| Ovadia Harari | Ovadia Harari | 1943 | 2012 | Egyptian | aerospace engineer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovadia_Harari |
| Joseph Cattaui | Joseph Aslan Cattaui Pasha | 1861 | 1942 | Egyptian | businessman and politician, who served as President of the Jewish community of Cairo from 1924 until his death in 1942 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Cattaui |
| Aaron Ben-zion ibn Alamani | Aaron Ben-zion ibn Alamani | 180 | 486 | Egyptian | Dayyan, or judge, and prominent Jew of Alexandria in the twelfth century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Ben-zion_ibn_Alamani |
| Abraham bar Hillel | Abraham bar Hillel | null | null | Egyptian | Hebrew-language poet whose works were discovered in 1896 in the Cairo Geniza | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_bar_Hillel |