Ismail Hussein Chirine (Arabic: إسماعيل شيرين; 17 October 1919 – 14 June 1994) was an Egyptian royal diplomat.

Later he became an officer in the army, where his proficiency in the English language was useful during negotiations in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, together with Rahmani Bey who later became ambassador to Czechoslovakia.

[2] In 1940s Chirine became the first to hold the position of Vice President of Zamalek SC.

[citation needed] Their daughter, Nadia, married firstly Egyptian actor Yusuf Shabaan[9] and secondly Mustafa Rashid.

He lived the rest of his life in Alexandria, tending his property in the South of Egypt and spending summers in Switzerland, to allow his wife to meet her eldest daughter, Princess Shahnaz Pahlavi.