Mohamed Naguib

Mohamed Naguib

Mohamed Bey Naguib Youssef Qutb El-Qashlan (Egyptian Arabic: الرئيس اللواء محمد بي نجيب يوسف قطب القشلان, Egyptian Arabic: [mæˈħæmmæd næˈɡiːb]; 19 February 1901 – 28 August 1984), also known as Mohamed Naguib, was an Egyptian military officer and revolutionary, who along with Gamal Abdel Nasser, was one of the two principal leaders of the Free Officers movement of 1952 that toppled the monarchy of Egypt and the Sudan (including modern day South Sudan), leading to the establishment of the Republic of Egypt, and the independence of Sudan, and eventually South Sudan in 2010. A distinguished and decorated general who was wounded in action in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, he became the leader of the Free Officers Movement of nationalist army officers opposed to the continued presence of British troops in Egypt and Sudan, and the corruption and incompetence of King Farouk. Following the toppling of Farouk in July 1952, Naguib went on to serve as the head of the Revolutionary Command Council, the prime minister, and first president of Egypt, successfully negotiating the independence of Sudan (hitherto a condominium of Egypt and the United Kingdom), and the withdrawal of all British military personnel from Egypt. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mohamed Naguib has received more than 496,456 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Mohamed Naguib is the 1,588th most popular politician (up from 1,921st in 2019), the 93rd most popular biography from Egypt (down from 3rd in 2019) and the 35th most popular Egyptian Politician.

Mohamed Naguib is most famous for being the first president of Egypt after the Egyptian Revolution of 1952.