1952 in Egypt

Events in the year 1952 in Egypt.

← 1951 1950 1949 1952 in Egypt → 1953 1954 1955
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
See also:	Other events of 1952 List of years in Egypt

Incumbents

• Monarch: Farouk (until 28 July); Fuad II (starting 28 July)
• Prime Minister:
  • until 27 January: Mostafa El-Nahas
  • 27 January–2 March: Aly Maher Pasha
  • 2 March–2 July: Ahmed Naguib el-Hilaly
  • 2 July–22 July: Hussein Sirri Pasha
  • 22 July–23 July: Ahmed Naguib el-Hilaly
  • 23 July–7 September: Aly Maher Pasha
  • starting 7 September: Mohamed Naguib

Events

• 27 January – Aly Maher Pasha became the Prime Minister of Egypt for the 3rd time.
• 2 March – Aly Maher Pasha resigned.

Births

• 16 January – Fuad II of Egypt, The last King of Egypt and the Sudan from July 1952 to June 1953
• 4 March – Saad El-Katatni, The first Speaker of the People's Assembly after the Egyptian Revolution of 2011
• 8 July – Ahmed Nazif, Prime Minister of Egypt from 14 July 2004 to 29 January 2011
• 15 August – Ahmed Zulfikar, Mechanical Engineer and Entrepreneur (died 2010)
• 20 August – Youssef Boutros Ghali, Minister of Finance from 2004 to 2011
• 20 October – Sameh Shoukry, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt since 2014
• 4 November – Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria, the 118th and current pope of Alexandria and patriarch of the See of St. Mark

Deaths

• 5 August – Sameera Moussa, the first female Egyptian nuclear physicist