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COMPANIONS from Egypt

This page contains a list of the greatest Egyptian Companions. The pantheon dataset contains 673 Companions, 16 of which were born in Egypt. This makes Egypt the birth place of the 11th most number of Companions behind United States and Saudi Arabia.

Top 10

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Egyptian Companions of all time. This list of famous Egyptian Companions is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Egyptian Companions.

1. Nefertiti (-1400 - -1330)

With an HPI of 85.45, Nefertiti is the most famous Egyptian Companion. Her biography has been translated into 93 different languages on wikipedia.

Nefertiti () (c. 1370 – c. 1330 BC) was a queen of the 18th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, the great royal wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten. Nefertiti and her husband were known for their radical overhaul of state religious policy, in which they promoted the earliest known form of monotheism, Atenism, centered on the sun disc and its direct connection to the royal household. With her husband, she reigned at what was arguably the wealthiest period of ancient Egyptian history. After her husband's death, some scholars believe that Nefertiti ruled briefly as the female king known by the throne name, Neferneferuaten and before the ascension of Tutankhamun, although this identification is a matter of ongoing debate. If Nefertiti did rule as Pharaoh, her reign was marked by the fall of Amarna and relocation of the capital back to the traditional city of Thebes. In the 20th century, Nefertiti was made famous by the discovery and display of her ancient bust, now in Berlin's Neues Museum. The bust is one of the most copied works of the art of ancient Egypt. It is attributed to the Egyptian sculptor Thutmose, and was excavated from his buried studio complex in the early 20th century.

2. Nefertari (-1290 - -1255)

With an HPI of 77.00, Nefertari is the 2nd most famous Egyptian Companion. Her biography has been translated into 49 different languages.

Nefertari, also known as Nefertari Meritmut, was an Egyptian queen and the first of the Great Royal Wives (or principal wives) of Ramesses the Great. She is one of the best known Egyptian queens, among such women as Cleopatra, Nefertiti, and Hatshepsut, and one of the most prominent not known or thought to have reigned in her own right. She was highly educated and able to both read and write hieroglyphs, a very rare skill at the time. She used these skills in her diplomatic work, corresponding with other prominent royals of the time. Her lavishly decorated tomb, QV66, is one of the largest and most spectacular in the Valley of the Queens. Ramesses also constructed a temple for her at Abu Simbel next to his colossal monument there.

3. Ankhesenamun (-1347 - -1400)

With an HPI of 74.49, Ankhesenamun is the 3rd most famous Egyptian Companion. Her biography has been translated into 46 different languages.

Ankhesenamun (ˁnḫ-s-n-imn, "Her Life Is of Amun"; c. 1348 or c. 1342 – after 1322 BC) was a queen who lived during the 18th Dynasty of Egypt. Born Ankhesenpaaten (ˁnḫ.s-n-pꜣ-itn, "she lives for the Aten"), she was the third of six known daughters of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten and his Great Royal Wife Nefertiti. She became the Great Royal Wife of Tutankhamun. The change in her name reflects the changes in ancient Egyptian religion during her lifetime after her father's death. Her youth is well documented in the ancient reliefs and paintings of the reign of her parents. Ankhesenamun was well documented as being the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Initially, she may have been married to her father and it is possible that, upon the death of Tutankhamun, she was married briefly to Tutankhamun's successor, Ay, who is believed by some to be her maternal grandfather. DNA test results on mummies discovered in KV21 were released in February 2010, which has given rise to speculation that one of two late 18th Dynasty queens buried in that tomb could be Ankhesenamun. Because of their DNA, both mummies are thought to be members of that ruling house.

4. Fawzia Fuad of Egypt (1921 - 2013)

With an HPI of 71.11, Fawzia Fuad of Egypt is the 4th most famous Egyptian Companion. Her biography has been translated into 42 different languages.

Fawzia of Egypt (Arabic: فوزية; Persian: فوزیه ; 5 November 1921 – 2 July 2013), also known as Fawzia Pahlavi or Fawzia Chirine, was an Egyptian princess who became Queen of Iran as the first wife of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran. Fawzia was the daughter of Fuad I, seventh son of Ismail the Magnificent. Her marriage to the Iranian Crown Prince in 1939 was a political deal: it consolidated Egyptian power and influence in the Middle East, while bringing respectability to the new Iranian regime by association with the much more prestigious Egyptian royal house. Fawzia obtained an Egyptian divorce in 1948, under which their one daughter Princess Shahnaz would be brought up in Iran. Fawzia, who was known as the "sad queen" in the press, lived in isolation and silence after the 1952 Egyptian revolution and never published her memories of the court of Iran and Egypt. In 1949, Fawzia married Colonel Ismail Chirine, an Egyptian diplomat, with whom she had a son and a daughter.

5. Arsinoe II (-316 - -270)

With an HPI of 63.71, Arsinoe II is the 5th most famous Egyptian Companion. Her biography has been translated into 37 different languages.

Arsinoë II (Koinē Greek: Ἀρσινόη, c. 316 BC – between 270 and 268 BC) was a Ptolemaic queen and co-regent of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of ancient Egypt. She was given the Egyptian title "King of Upper and Lower Egypt", making her pharaoh as well. Arsinoe was Queen of Thrace, Anatolia, and Macedonia by marriage to King Lysimachus. She became co-ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom upon her marriage to her brother, Pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus.

6. Meritamen (-1400 - -1300)

With an HPI of 63.39, Meritamen is the 6th most famous Egyptian Companion. Her biography has been translated into 19 different languages.

Meritamen (also spelled Meritamun, Merytamen, Merytamun, Meryt-Amen; ancient Egyptian: Beloved of Amun) was a daughter and later Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Ramesses the Great.

7. Nazli Sabri (1894 - 1978)

With an HPI of 62.07, Nazli Sabri is the 7th most famous Egyptian Companion. Her biography has been translated into 25 different languages.

Nazli Sabri (Arabic: نازلي صبري; 25 June 1894 – 29 May 1978) was the first queen consort in the Kingdom of Egypt from 1919 to 1936. She was the second wife of King Fuad I.

8. Bintanath (-1300 - -1300)

With an HPI of 61.66, Bintanath is the 8th most famous Egyptian Companion. Her biography has been translated into 22 different languages.

Bintanath (or Bentanath) was the firstborn daughter and later Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses II.

9. Farida of Egypt (1921 - 1988)

With an HPI of 59.93, Farida of Egypt is the 9th most famous Egyptian Companion. Her biography has been translated into 23 different languages.

Farida (born Safinaz Zulficar Arabic: صافيناز ذوالفقار; 5 September 1921 – 16 October 1988) was the Queen of Egypt for nearly eleven years as the first wife of King Farouk. She was the first queen of Egypt since antiquity to have left seclusion and played a public representational role, attending public functions and acting as honorary protector of charities, in accordance with the modern image the monarchy wished to represent at the time. The marriage was dissolved by divorce in 1948.

10. Meketaten (-1348 - -1338)

With an HPI of 59.81, Meketaten is the 10th most famous Egyptian Companion. Her biography has been translated into 23 different languages.

Meketaten (Ancient Egyptian: mꜥkt itn, meaning "Behold the Aten" or "Protected by Aten") was the second of six daughters born to the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten and his Great Royal Wife Nefertiti. She likely lived between Year 4 and Year 14 of Akhenaten's reign. Although little is known about her, she is frequently depicted with her sisters accompanying her royal parents in the first two-thirds of the Amarna Period.

People

Pantheon has 16 people classified as companions born between 1950 BC and 1948. Of these 16, 1 (6.25%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living companions include Suzanne Mubarak. The most famous deceased companions include Nefertiti, Nefertari, and Ankhesenamun. As of April 2022, 1 new companions have been added to Pantheon including Khenemetneferhedjet I.