Attia Abdel Salam Ashour (Arabic: عطية عبد السلام عاشور, 13 September 1924 – 17 April 2017) was an Egyptian emeritus professor of applied mathematics at Cairo University.

[1][2][3] Attia Ashour was born on 13 September, 1924 as the first child of his father's family in Damietta, Egypt.

[4][5] Ashour was awarded a PhD in 1948 from the Imperial College London for his work on electromagnetic induction.

His thesis titled The Reduction of Electric Currents in Non-uniform Thin Plane Sheets and Spherical Shells, Having Special Distributions of Conductivity with Application of Geomagnetism, co-written with his Ph.D. supervisor Albert Price, was published that December.

He submitted another paper to the Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics with it being published in January 1950.

In 1995, the French President conferred on him the Chevalier dans l'Ordre National de Mérite.