List of Egyptian Nobel laureates and nominees

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][14] [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).

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Image	Laureate	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Citation	Nominator(s)
Chemistry[b]
	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.[c]
	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.[d]
	Giuseppe Ungaretti*	8 February 1888 Cape Town, South Africa	2 June 1970 Milan, Italy	1955, 1956, 1958, 1964, 1965, 1969, 1970	[22]	Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888–1965), et al.[e]
	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[f]	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]	Ahmad Matin-Daftari (1897–1971) members of the British Parliament
	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]	Ruth-Gaby Vermont-Mangold (b. 1941) Swisspeace
	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]	Dagfinn Høybråten (b. 1957) Garnett Genuis (b. 1987) 5 members of the U.S. House of Representatives
	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]

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