ENGINEERS from Egypt

Top 4

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

1. Philo of Byzantium (-280 - -220)

With an HPI of 64.37, Philo of Byzantium is the most famous Egyptian Engineer.  His biography has been translated into 29 different languages on wikipedia.

Philo of Byzantium (Greek: Φίλων ὁ Βυζάντιος, Phílōn ho Byzántios, c. 280 BC – c. 220 BC), also known as Philo Mechanicus (Latin for "Philo the Engineer"), was a Greek engineer, physicist and writer on mechanics, who lived during the latter half of the 3rd century BC. Although he was from Byzantium he lived most of his life in Alexandria, Egypt. He was probably younger than Ctesibius, though some place him a century earlier.

2. Sherif Ismail (1955 - 2023)

With an HPI of 48.14, Sherif Ismail is the 2nd most famous Egyptian Engineer.  His biography has been translated into 32 different languages.

Sherif Ismail (Arabic: شريف إسماعيل, romanized: Šarīf ʾIsmāʿīl, pronounced [ʃɪˈɾiːf esmæˈʕiːl]; 6 July 1955 – 4 February 2023) was an Egyptian engineer and politician who served as the prime minister of Egypt from 2015 to 2018. He was also the minister of petroleum and mineral resources from 2013 to 2015.

3. Essam Sharaf (1952 - )

With an HPI of 47.65, Essam Sharaf is the 3rd most famous Egyptian Engineer.  His biography has been translated into 34 different languages.

Essam Abdel-Aziz Sharaf (Arabic: عصام عبد العزيز شرف, IPA: [ʕeˈsˤɑːm ʕæbdelʕæˈziːz ˈʃɑɾɑf]; born 1952) is an Egyptian academic who was the Prime Minister of Egypt from 3 March 2011 to 7 December 2011. He served as Minister of Transportation from 2004 to 2005.

4. Hesham Qandil (1962 - )

With an HPI of 43.14, Hesham Qandil is the 4th most famous Egyptian Engineer.  His biography has been translated into 28 different languages.

Hesham Mohamed Qandil (also spelled: Hisham Kandil; Arabic: هشام محمد قنديل pronounced [heˈʃæːm mæˈħæmmæd ʔænˈdiːl]; born 17 September 1962) is an Egyptian engineer and civil servant who was Prime Minister of Egypt from 2012 to 2013. Qandil was appointed as Prime Minister by President Mohamed Morsi on 24 July 2012 and sworn in on 2 August 2012. Qandil previously served as Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation from 2011 to 2012. Reuters reported that Qandil was a politically independent senior public servant in the Morsi administration, but was not popularly considered to be a likely candidate for the position of prime minister. Qandil was Egypt's youngest prime minister since Gamal Abdel Nasser's appointment in 1954. When Morsi was overthrown in a coup d'état by the military, Qandil after initially continuing in his role as prime minister until the formation of a new government, resigned from office on 8 July 2013 in protest over the killing of 61 protestors by the military at the Republican Guard headquarters. He was arrested on 24 December 2013 and released seven months later on 15 July 2014 after he was acquitted by the Court of Cassation, which accepted his appeal and annulled the one-year sentence against him.