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Cairo (egy)

Egypt

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Cairo ranks 55th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind The Bronx, Montreal, and Houston. Memorable people born in Cairo include Yasser Arafat, Dalida, and Khafra. Memorable people who died in Cairo include Ibn Khaldun, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and Hosni Mubarak. Cairo has been the birth place of many politicians and writers and the death place of many politicians and writers. Cairo is located in Egypt.

Cairo is the capital of Egypt and the city-state Cairo Governorate, and is the country's largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metropolitan area is the 12th-largest in the world by population with a population of over 22.1 million. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 2800 BC and 1997, Cairo was the birth place of 147 globally memorable people, including Yasser Arafat, Dalida, and Khafra. Additionaly, 133 globally memorable people have passed away in Cairo including Ibn Khaldun, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and Hosni Mubarak.

People Born in Cairo

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Cairo were politicians (60), writers (20), soccer players (15), singers (8), and actors (6),  while most who died were politicians (50), writers (27), religious figures (8), historians (5), and actors (4).

Occupational Trends

Over the past 100 years, politicians have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Cairo, including Yasser Arafat, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, and Mohamed Hussein Tantawi. Whereas, throughout history, politicians have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Cairo, including Yasser Arafat, Khafra, and Menkaure.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 25 globally memorable people born in Cairo since 1700.

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