Community
- Zareh Nubar, president of the Armenian General Benevolent Union.
- Sona Simonian-Zeitlian, An award winning educator and author with a long career of community activism and leadership in Cairo, Beirut, and Los Angeles.
- Boghos Bey Yusufian, instrumental in establishing Egypt's first school at the Citadel for the sons of the ruling family and high-ranking officials. Consequently, a number of the citadel graduates were Armenians.
- Artin Cherakian, who had studied civil administration, organized the School of Engineering, or Madrasat al-Handasah, at Bulaq, with the help of Yusuf Bey Hekekian, who had studied engineering in England. In September of the same year, he started the Bookkeeping and Accounting School, or Madrasat al-Idara. In 1835, he joined with Sdepan Demirdjian, who had studied diplomacy, in organizing the School of Civil Administration and Translation at the Citadel. In his turn, Yusuf Hekekian organized the School of Mines, which later became a division of the School of Engineering.
- Ya’cub Artin Pasha, A former Egypt's Education Minister and son of Artin Bey Cherakian, inaugurated Egypt's first school for girls in 1873.
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