Naguib el-Rihani (Arabic: نجيب الريحاني; January 21, 1889 in Cairo[1][2][3] – June 8, 1949 in Alexandria) was an Egyptian film and stage actor.

Born in Bab El Shereya, Cairo to a middle class family.

[4] His father, an Assyrian Christian[5] who worked as a horse expert and a trader, his mother was a Coptic Egyptian woman from Cairo.

He established his own theatrical group in the late 1910s, in Cairo, and partnered with his lifelong friend, Badeih Khairy, in adapting several French theatre hits to the Egyptian stage, and later to the cinema.

A great comedian both on stage and in films, he is considered "The Father of Comedy" in Egypt.