Youssef Wahba [SEP] place of birth
Youssef Wahba
Youssef Wahba Pasha (1852-1934) (, ) Egyptian Prime Minister and jurist.
Youssef Wahba was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1852 of a prominent Coptic family. His father, Wahba Bey had been a founder of the first Coptic charitable society that included Muslim scholars such as Abdallah Nadim and Sheikh Muhammed Abduh. He translated the Code Napoleon into Arabic while at the Ministry of Justice between 1875 and 1882 and participated in setting the modern judicial system in Egypt becoming one of the first Egyptian judges in
Wahba
Wahba is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Grace Wahba (born 1934), the I. J. Schoenberg Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Magdi Wahba (1925–1991), Egyptian university professor, Johnsonian scholar, and lexicographer
- Rachel Wahba, therapist and an author of her own book; a memoir about her family
- Wahba Zuhayli (born 1932) a prominent Sunni professor and Islamic scholar specializing in Islamic law and legal philosophy
- Youssef Wahba (