Lista de Personas Famosas nacidas en Behera

Ahmed Hassan Zewail fue un químico y profesor universitario estadounidense, de origen egipcio, galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Química del año 1999 por sus estudios de los estados de transición de las reacciones químicas utilizando espectroscopia de femtosegundo.

Mahmoud Sami Al Baroudi was a significant Egyptian political figure and a prominent poet. He served as 5th Prime Minister of Egypt from 4 February 1882 until 26 May 1882. He was known as rab alseif wel qalam رب السيف و القلم. His father belonged to an Ottoman-Egyptian family while his mother was a Greek woman who converted to Islam upon marrying his father.

Hassan Shehata, nacido el 19 de junio de 1949, es un exfutbolista egipcio y entrenador de fútbol, actualmente es el entrenador de la selección de fútbol de Egipto, con la que ha coseguido ganar la Copa de África en 2006, 2008 y 2010.

Abdel-Wahab El-Messiri was an Egyptian scholar, author and general coordinator of the opposition organization Kefaya.

El papa San Cirilo VI de Alejandría fue el papa y patriarca de la Iglesia ortodoxa copta de Alejandría desde el 10 de mayo de 1959 hasta su muerte el 7 de marzo de 1971.

Mahmud Abouhalima is a convicted perpetrator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Abdul Meniem Al-Toras is the current Commander of the Egyptian Air Defense Command. He graduated from the Air Defense college in 1972, and saw action in the Yom Kippur War. He is the first commander-in-chief of the Egyptian Air Defense Forces who graduated from the Air Defense College and was commissioned in the Air Defense Forces as a separated military branch. All previous commanders-in-chief were graduates of the Army academy and were commissioned in Army units, in fact many of them were commissioned in non-AD units like Armour, Artillery, Infantry, and Signals. He held most of the notable commands in the Egyptian Air Defense. On 14 August 2012 President Mohamed Morsi Appointed him as the new Commander in Chief of the Egyptian Air Defence command after he dismissed Lt. General Abd El Aziz Seif-Eldeen. He is a member of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which was reorganized in September 2012.