Prominent People From Asyut
- Akhnoukh Fanous, political activist
- Ester Fanous, female activist
- Hafez Ibrahim, poet
- Amin Mohsen, Diplomat
- Gamal Abdel Nasser, Second President of Egypt
- Mustafa Lutfi al-Manfaluti, writer and poet
- Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church
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