List of Famous people born in Al Sharqia Governorate, Egypt

Magdi Yacoub

مجدي حبيب يعقوب
First Name Magdi
Last Name Yacoub
Born on November 16, 1936 (age 87)

Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub, is an Egyptian-British retired professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Imperial College London, best known for his early work in repairing heart valves with surgeon Donald Ross, adapting the Ross procedure, where the diseased aortic valve is replaced with the person's own pulmonary valve, devising the arterial switch operation (ASO) in transposition of the great arteries, and establishing the heart transplantation centre at Harefield Hospital in 1980 with a heart transplant for Derrick Morris, who at the time of his death was Europe's longest-surviving heart transplant recipient. Yacoub subsequently performed the UK's first combined heart and lung transplant in 1983.

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Sama El Masry

سامية أحمد عطية عبد الرحمن
First Name Sama
Last Name Masry
Born on January 15, 1976 (age 48)

Samia Ahmed Attia Abdel Rahman, known as Sama Elmasry, is an Egyptian actress, singer and belly dancer.

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Farouk El-Baz

First Name Farouk
Last Name El-Baz
Born on January 2, 1938 (age 86)

Farouk El-Baz is an Egyptian American space scientist and geologist, who worked with NASA in the scientific exploration of the Moon and the planning of the Apollo program. He was a leading geologist on the program, responsible for studying the geology of the Moon, the selection of landing sites for the Apollo missions, and the training of astronauts in lunar observations and photography. He played a key role in the Apollo 11 Moon landing mission, and later Apollo missions. He also came up with the idea of touchable Moon rocks at a museum, inspired by his childhood pilgimage to Mecca where he touched the Black Stone.

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