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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
edit- 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
edit- 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
edit- 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
editSocial activists
editEngineers
editScientists
editArchitects
editHistorians and Coptologists
editJournalists and writers
editMusicians
editPainters and artists
editPoliticians
edit- 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
editAthletes
editCelebrity chefs
editOthers
edit- 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