26 Egyptian male poets

Aziz Abaza was an Egyptian poet. He is known as one of the prominent poets in modern Egyptian and Arab literature.

Abdel Rahman el-Abnudi was a popular Egyptian poet, and later a children's books writer. He was one of a generation of poets who favored to write their work in the Egyptian dialect rather than Standard Arabic, the formal language of the state. This literary stance was associated with a militant political engagement: Abnudi and other Egyptian writers of this school sought to make their literary production part of the process of political development and movement towards popular democracy in Egypt. He married the former President of the Egyptian Television Network and television presenter and interviewer Nehal Kamal, and they had two children: Aya and Nour.

Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi in Cairo, was an Egyptian Romantic poet, publisher, medical doctor, bacteriologist and bee scientist.

Abbas Mahmoud al-Aqqad was an Egyptian journalist, poet and literary critic, and member of the Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo. More precisely, because "his writings cover a broad spectrum, including poetry, criticism, Islamology, history, philosophy, politics, biography, science, and Arabic literature", he is perceived to be a polymath.

Mahmoud Sami Al Baroudi was a significant Egyptian political figure and a prominent poet. He served as 5th Prime Minister of Egypt from 4 February 1882 until 26 May 1882. He was known as rab alseif wel qalam رب السيف و القلم. His father belonged to an Ottoman-Egyptian family while his mother was a Greek woman who converted to Islam upon marrying his father.

Al-Būsīrī was a Sanhaji Berber Muslim poet belonging to the Shadhiliyya order, being direct disciple of Sheikh Abul Abbas al-Mursi. His magnum opus, the Qasida Burda, in praise of the Prophet Muhammad, is one of the most popular poems in the world.

Constantine Peter Cavafy was an Egyptiot Greek poet, journalist and civil servant. His consciously individual style earned him a place among the most important figures not only in Greek poetry, but in Western poetry as well.

Amal Abul-Qassem Donqol was an Egyptian poet whose poems were influenced by Greek mythology, then pre-Islamic and Islamic imagery to modernize Arabic poetry. He was born in Qena and completed his secondary education there in 1957. He attended the faculty of Arts in 1958 just after his graduation from the secondary education stage. He dropped out to work as an employee at Qena Court of Justice as well as the Customs Department of Suez and Alexandria and the Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organisation for a living before the end of his first year in the faculty. He died in 1983 after long-time illness.

Abo El Seoud El Ebiary was an Egyptian comic screenwriter, playwright, lyricist, and journalist.

Abdelghani Ibrahim (1878–1962) was an Egyptian poet. Abdelghani is one of the country's most important early-twentieth-century poets. He grew up in Alexandria. His family's assets went to support the Baz family.

Hafez Ibrahim was a well known Egyptian poet of the early 20th century. He was dubbed the "Poet of the Nile", and sometimes the "Poet of the People", for his political commitment to the poor. His poetry took on the concerns of the majority of ordinary Egyptians, including women’s rights, poverty, education, as well as his criticism of the British Empire and foreign occupation.

Muhammad Salah Eldin Bahgat Ahmad Helmy, known as "Salah Jaheen" or "Salah Jahin" was a leading Egyptian poet, lyricist, playwright and cartoonist.

Loni Logori (1871–1929) was an Albanian-Egyptian entrepreneur, poet, and activist of the Albanian National Awakening.

Mustafa Lutfi el-Manfaluti was an Egyptian writer and poet who wrote many famous Arabic books and was born in the Upper Egyptian city of Manfalut to an Egyptian father and a Turkish mother.

Ibrahim Abd al-Qadir al-Mazini was an Egyptian poet, novelist, journalist, and translator.

Mostafa Saadeq Al-Rafe'ie was an Egyptian poet, born in Egypt in Tanta, Egypt.

Abdel Latif Moubarak is an Egyptian poet. He is a member of the Egyptian Writers Union and a member of the Arab Writers on the Internet. He writes poetry using classical Arabic and Egyptian vernacular. He received a Bachelor of Law from Ain Shams University. He is one of the most important poets in the era of the eighties and poems in several literary magazines in Egypt and the Arab world, including the Arab magazine, Kuwait magazine, News Literature, Republic newspaper, Al-Ahram, the new publishing culture (magazine).

Ahmed Fouad Negm, popularly known as el-Fagommi الفاجومي, was an Egyptian vernacular poet. Negm is well known for his work with Egyptian composer Sheikh Imam, as well as his patriotic and revolutionary Egyptian Arabic poetry. Negm has been regarded as "a bit of a folk hero in Egypt."

Ahmed Ramy was an Egyptian poet, songwriter and translator. He is best known for writing lyrics for the Egyptian singers Umm Kalthoum and Mohammed Abdel Wahab. Rami was also a translator. His works include translations of several of Shakespeare's plays and the quatrains of the Persian poet Omar Khayyám. Ramy also played a leading role in developing the Arabic song, using simple language to express his sublime themes. He was named "Poet of the youth" in recognition of his considerable contributions to the Arabic song.

Hamdeen Sabahi is an Egyptian politician, journalist and poet. He is currently the leader of the Egyptian Popular Current and a co-leader of the National Salvation Front. An opposition activist during the Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak eras, Sabahi was jailed 17 times during their presidencies for political dissidence. He was an immediate supporter and participant of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. Sabahi entered the 2012 Egyptian presidential race in which he finished third place with 21.5% of the vote trailing the second place candidate Ahmed Shafiq by a margin of 700,000 votes. In the 2014 presidential election he was one of just two candidates. He ran second with less than 4% of the vote. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was declared the winner after attracting 22 million of the nearly 23 million votes cast. Sisi sworn into office as President of Egypt on 8 June 2014.

Ahmed Shawqi, nicknamed the Prince of Poets, was an Arabic poet laureate, an Egyptian poet and dramatist who pioneered the modern Egyptian literary movement, most notably introducing the genre of poetic epics to the Arabic literary tradition.

Farouk Shousha was an Egyptian poet. He hosted the popular television program Umsiya Thaqafiya from 1977 through 2006.

Amr Sobhy is an award-winning Egyptian information activist, social entrepreneur, published author and poet. He is best known as co-creator of MorsiMeter; a digital initiative and online platform to document and monitor the performance of Egyptian President, Mohamed Morsi, which has attracted a wide global attention. The initiative modeled after Obameter is considered to be the first in Egypt and the Middle East to hold a president accountable for his promises.

Ahmed Tawfik Taymour Pasha (1871–1930) was an Egyptian writer and historian. Taymour Pasha was born on 6 November 1871 in Cairo to a family of the Egyptian elite, his father Isma'il Taymur being of Kurdish origin and his mother of Turkish descent.

Bayram al-Tunisi, was an Egyptian poet with Tunisian roots. He was exiled from Egypt by the British for his Egyptian nationalist poetry.

Gaston Zananiri was an eminent scholar, historian, and poet of Alexandria, Egypt.