The following is a list of Egyptian Nobel laureates and nominees:
| Year | Image | Laureate | Born | Died | Field | Citation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin | 12 May 1910 Cairo, Egypt | 29 July 1994 Ilmington, Warwickshire, United Kingdom | Chemistry | "for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances."[1] | ||
| 1978 | Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat [محمد أنور السادات] | 25 December 1918 Mit Abu El Kom, Monufia, Egypt | 6 October 1981 Cairo, Egypt | Peace | "for jointly having negotiated peace between Egypt and Israel in 1978."[2] (awarded together Israeli politician Menachem Begin) | ||
| 1988 | Naguib Mahfouz [نجيب محفوظ] | 11 December 1911 Cairo, Egypt | 30 August 2006 Agouza, Giza, Egypt | Literature | "who, through works rich in nuance – now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous – has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind."[3] | ||
| 1994 | Yasser Arafat [ياسر عرفات] | 4/24 August 1929 Cairo, Egypt | 11 November 2004 Clamart, Hauts-de-Seine, France | Peace | "for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East."[4] (awarded together with Israeli politicians Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres) | ||
| 1999 | Ahmed Hassan Zewail [أحمد حسن زويل] | 26 February 1946 Damanhour, Beheira, Egypt | 2 August 2016 Pasadena, California, United States | Chemistry | "for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy."[5] | ||
| 2005 | Mohamed Mustafa ElBaradei [محمد مصطفى البرادعي] | 17 June 1942 Cairo, Egypt | Peace | "for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way."[6] (awarded together with the international organization International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)) |
The following list are the nominees with verified nominations from the Nobel Committee and recognized international organizations. There are also other purported nominees whose nominations are yet to be verified since the archives are revealed 50 years after,[7] among them Nawal El Saadawi[8] [9] [نوال السعداوي] (for Literature), Sonallah Ibrahim[10] [صنع الله إبراهيم] (for Literature), Alaa Al Aswany [علاء الأسواني] (for Literature), Ahdaf Soueif [ميرال الطحاوي] (for Literature), Yusuf Idris[11] [يوسف إدريس] (for Literature), Miral al-Tahawy [ميرال الطحاوي] (for Literature), Gamal al-Ghitani [جمال الغيطانى] (for Literature), Maikel Nabil Sanad[12] [مايكل نبيل سند] (for Peace), Wael Ghonim[13] [وائل غنيم] (for Peace), Israa Abdel Fattah[14] [إسراء عبد الفتاح] (for Peace), Sister Emmanuelle Cinquin NDS (for Peace), and Abdel Fattah el-Sisi[15] [16] [عبد الفتاح السیسی] (for Peace).
| Image | Laureate | Born | Died | Years Nominated | Citation | Nominator(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chemistry | |||||||
| Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin | 12 May 1910 Cairo, Egypt | 29 July 1994 Ilmington, Warwickshire, United Kingdom | 1950, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964 | "for her pioneering discoveries of the structures of penicillin, vitamin B12, and insulin."[17] | Joseph Donnay (1902–1994), Robert Robinson (1886–1975), et al. | ||
| Ahmed Riad Tourky | 16 March 1902 Tanta, Gharbia, Egypt | 17 January 1971 Cairo, Egypt | 1967 | "for his works which dealt with metal corrosion and the development and application of electrochemical methods of research.[18] | Abdel Aziz Ali Mousa (1915-1979) | ||
| Literature | |||||||
| Percival George Elgood* | 3 July 1863 Marlborough, Wiltshire, United Kingdom | 20 December 1941 Cairo, Egypt | 1932 | [19] | Arthur James Grant (1862–1948) | ||
| Asis Domet* | 25 June 1890 Cairo, Egypt | 27 June 1943 Berlin, Germany | 1936 | [20] | G. E. Khuri (?) | ||
| Taha Hussein [طه حسين] | 15 November 1889 Maghagha, Minya, Egypt | 28 October 1973 Cairo, Egypt | 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969 | [21] | Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed (1872–1963) et al. | ||
| Giuseppe Ungaretti | 8 February 1888 Alexandria, Egypt | 2 June 1970 Milan, Italy | 1955, 1956, 1958, 1964, 1965, 1969, 1970 | [22] | Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888–1965), et al. | ||
| Tawfiq al-Hakim [توفيق الحكيم] | 9 October 1898 Alexandria, Egypt | 26 July 1987 Cairo, Egypt | 1969 | [23] | Shawqi Daif (1910–2005) | ||
| Georges Schéhadé | 2 November 1905 Alexandria, Egypt | 17 January 1989 Paris, France | 1971 | [24] | Camille Aboussouan (1919–2013) | ||
| Peace | |||||||
| Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | 26 October 1919 Tehran, Iran | 27 July 1980 Cairo, Egypt | 1964, 1967 | "for introducing important social reforms in Iran that helped secure peace in the Middle East, and negotiating in a conflict between Pakistan and Afghanistan from 1961 to 1963."[25] | |||
| Nada Thadet [ندى ثابت] (included in the 1000 PeaceWomen) | began on 2003 in Bern, Switzerland | 2005 | "in recognition of women’s efforts and visibility in promoting peace all over the world."[26] | ||||
| Maggie Gobran [ماجي جبران] | 1949 Cairo, Egypt | 2012, 2020 | "in recognition of her constant commitment and dedication to serving illiterate and poor women throughout Egypt."[27] [28] [29] | ||||
| Coptic Orthodox Church | originated in 42 A.D. in Alexandria, Egypt | 2018 | "for their refusal to retaliate against deadly and ongoing persecution from governments and terrorist groups in Egypt and elsewhere."[30] [31] | Coptic Orphans | |||