Mashhour Ahmed Mashhour (Arabic: مشهور أحمد مشهور, April 1, 1918 – July 6, 2008) was an Egyptian Engineer, he was the Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority (October 1965 – December 1983).

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Mashhour was born in April 1918 in Al-Saadieen Village in Sharqia Governorate, Egypt, for a big family of many siblings, one of his brothers is Abdel hay Mashhour. His father Ahmed Mashhour was the mayor of Al saadeyeen village and his mother Zuhra Zada was a housewife.

He graduated from the Faculty of Engineering, Fouad I University (now known as Cairo University) in 1942.

Following graduation Mashhour joined the Army Corps of Engineers in 1943 and graduated as a military officer engineer.^[1] He became a member of the Free Officers group and played a role in the Egyptian revolution of 1952. He was among the group assigned by the Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser for the nationalization of the Suez Canal, headed by Mahmoud Younis in 1956. After the nationalization of the Suez Canal in 1956, he was assigned the director of the movements in the Suez Canal Authority, then took over the chairmanship of the Suez Canal in October 1965.

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Mashhour was granted a lot of medals and accolades throughout his life.

• He was granted the Order of the Nile (Kiladate El Nile)^[4] by the president Anwar Sadat, which is Egypt's highest state honor, granted to the heads of state and those who rendered great services on the national or human level.
• The Republic Military Decoration, first Class.
• The Order of Merit, first Class.
• The Order of the Republic, first Class.
• The Order of Liberation.
• The Medal of Palestine.
• The medal of the Republic, third degree, and lots more.

He was also granted a number of accolades from different countries worldwide, including:

• The National Order of the Legion of Honour or Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur, France
• The Order of Renaissance, Poland
• The Order of Mono, Grand officer, the Togolese Republic
• He received an Honorary Doctorate from Minufiya University in 1982.

He was married to Aziza Salem Mashhour, and they had four children and ten grandchildren.

On 6 July 2008 he died in Cairo, Egypt at the age of 91, and a solemn military funeral was held and led by Ahmed Nazif, the Egyptian Prime Minister who attended on behalf of President Mubarak.

A dredger named after Mashhour was involved in the freeing of the ship involved in the 2021 Suez Canal obstruction.^[5]