The Most Famous
MAFIOSOS from Egypt
This page contains a list of the greatest Egyptian Mafiosos. The pantheon dataset contains 70 Mafiosos, 1 of which were born in Egypt. This makes Egypt the birth place of the 18th most number of Mafiosos behind Tunisia, and Kazakhstan.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Egyptian Mafiosos of all time. This list of famous Egyptian Mafiosos is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Abu Hamza al-Masri (b. 1958)
With an HPI of 48.83, Abu Hamza al-Masri is the most famous Egyptian Mafioso. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Mustafa Kamel Mustafa (Arabic: مصطفى كامل مصطفى; born 15 April 1958), also known as Abu Hamza al-Masri ( ; أبو حمزة المصري, Abū Ḥamzah al-Maṣrī – literally, father of Hamza, the Egyptian), or simply Abu Hamza, is an Egyptian cleric who was the imam of Finsbury Park Mosque in London, where he preached Islamic fundamentalist views. The UK tabloid press nicknamed him "Captain Hook" in allusion to the fictional pirate Captain Hook, due to his prosthetic hook devices. In 2004, Hamza was arrested by British police after the United States requested he be extradited to face charges. He was later charged by British authorities with sixteen offences for inciting violence and racial hatred. In 2006, a British court found him guilty of inciting violence, and sentenced him to seven years' imprisonment. On 5 October 2012, after an eight-year legal battle, he was extradited from the UK to the United States to face terrorism charges and on 14 April 2014 his trial began in New York. On 19 May 2014, Hamza was found guilty of eleven terrorism charges by a jury in Manhattan. On 9 January 2015, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
2. Murder of Marwa El-Sherbini (1978 - 2009)
With an HPI of 44.44, Murder of Marwa El-Sherbini is the 2nd most famous Egyptian Mafioso. Her biography has been translated into 14 different languages.
Marwa Ali El-Sherbini (Arabic: مروة على الشربيني), was an Egyptian woman and German resident who was killed in 2009 during an appeal hearing at a court of law in Dresden, Germany, when she was three months pregnant. She was stabbed by Alex Wiens, an ethnic German immigrant from Russia against whom she had testified in a criminal case for verbal abuse. El-Sherbini's husband, who was present at the hearing, tried to intervene. He too was repeatedly stabbed by Wiens and was then mistakenly shot and wounded by a police officer who was called to the court room. Wiens was arrested at the crime scene and subsequently tried for murder and attempted murder. He was found guilty of both charges; it was also found that Wiens's actions constituted a heinous crime, because they were committed in front of a child, against two people, in a court of law, and fulfilled the murder criterion of treacherousness, such as hatred against foreigners. Wiens was sentenced to life imprisonment. The death of El-Sherbini immediately resulted in international reactions, with the most vocal responses coming from predominantly Muslim nations. The Egyptian public and media focused attention on the religious and racial hatred aspect of the killing, especially as the initial confrontation between the victim and perpetrator had happened because she wore an Islamic headscarf. In response to anti-German sentiments and public protests in Egypt and other countries, the German government issued a statement of condolence nine days after the incident. Wiens's trial for murder and attempted murder occurred under strict security measures and was observed by national and international media, diplomats and legal experts.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Egyptian mafiosos born between 1958 and 1978. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Egyptian mafiosos include Abu Hamza al-Masri. The most famous deceased Egyptian mafiosos include Murder of Marwa El-Sherbini. As of April 2024, 1 new Egyptian mafiosos have been added to Pantheon including Murder of Marwa El-Sherbini.
