Lista de Personas Famosas nacidas en Asiut

Samir Ghanem Youssef es un comediante, cantante y artista egipcio.

Sayyid Quṭb Ibrāhīm Ḥusayn al-Shādhilī fue un escritor, crítico literario e intelectual del Egipto de mediados de siglo XX. También fue miembro del Consejo de Orientación de la organización de los Hermanos Musulmanes tras su ingreso en 1951 y responsable de la Sección de Propaganda (da’wa) de la misma. Fue uno de los principales teóricos del islamismo contemporáneo cuyo pensamiento todavía hoy pervive como germen de algunas de las distintas corrientes islamistas más radicales. Acusado y condenado a muerte bajo la acusación de orquestar un complot para acabar con Nasser. Fue ahorcado el 29 de agosto de 1966.

Karima Mokhtar was an Egyptian stage and film actress whose career spanned for more than fifty years.

Mustafa Lutfi el-Manfaluti was an Egyptian writer and poet who wrote many famous Arabic books and was born in the Upper Egyptian city of Manfalut to an Egyptian father and a Turkish mother.

Shenouda III, con nombre de pila Nazir Gayed Rufail, fue papa de la Iglesia ortodoxa copta, el 117.º Patriarca de Alejandría y el Patriarca de África sobre la Santa Sede apostólica de San Marcos.

Mohamed AbouGabal, also known by his nickname Gabaski, is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Egyptian Premier League club Zamalek and Egyptian national team.

Al-Suyuti ; aka Jalaluddin; was an Egyptian scholar, historian and jurist. From a family of Persian origin, he was described as one of the most prolific writers of the Middle Ages. His biographical dictionary Bughyat al-wuʻāh fī ṭabaqāt al-lughawīyīn wa-al-nuḥāh contains valuable accounts of prominent figures in the early development of Arabic philology. He was appointed to a chair in the mosque of Baybars in Cairo in 1486, and was an authority of the Shafii school of thought (madhhab).

Shaker Abdel Hamid Suleiman was the Egyptian Minister of Culture from 2011 to 2017. He served as Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Culture, then Minister of Culture at the Ministry of Kamal al-Ganzuri in December 2011, and was a Professor of Creative Psychology at The Egyptian Academy of Arts. He died a week after he was infected with COVID-19.