Sayed Marei (Arabic: سيد مرعي; 26 August 1913 – 22 October 1993) was an Egyptian politician who held various posts during the presidency of Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat.

[1] He was removed from the post the same year due to the unsuccessful attempts of the ministry to overcome the cotton worm disaster.

[8] He was appointed minister of land reclamation in August 1967 succeeding Abdel Mohsen Abu Al Nour in the post.

[4] He was named as the secretary general of the Arab Socialist Union on 16 January 1972 replacing Mohammed Abdul Salem Al Zayyat in the post.

[10] Marei's term as speaker of the Parliament ended in October 1978, and he was succeeded by Sufi Abu Taleb in the post.

[11] Marei resigned from his post of the presidential advisor in 1981 shortly after the assassination of Anwar Sadat and the election of Hosni Mobarak as president.

[1] Marei and his wife were related to Zakaria Mohieddin, a member of the Free Officers Movement, who married one of their cousins.

[12][13] Marei was among the Egyptian officials who were wounded in the attack on 6 October 1981 when the President Anwar Sadat was killed in a military parade in Cairo.

[4] Robert Springborg, a faculty member of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, published a book on Sayed Marei in 1982.