Mahmoud Sami el-Baroudi

Mahmoud Sami Al Baroudi (; June 11, 1839 – December 11, 1904) was an Egyptian statesman and prominent poet who served as the fifth Prime Minister of Egypt from 4 February 1882 to 26 May 1882. He was married to a member of the Yeghen family, descendants of Mohammed Ali pashas’s sister.

He was known as rab alseif wel qalam رب السيف و القلم ("lord of sword and pen"). His father belonged to an Ottoman-Egyptian family while his mother was a Greek woman who converted to Islam upon marrying his father.

Works He wrote more than 370 poems, for instance: " Everyone who is alive, will die." (In Arabic:كُلّ حيّ سيموت).