Magdi Yacoub was born on November 16, 1935 AD, in the city of Belbeis in the Sharkia Governorate, and his family belonged to the Orthodox Christian sect, and the family’s origins were branched from Assiut Governorate, when Magdi Yacoub was 20 years old, his uncle died of a heart disease, so Magdy decided to study medicine and specialize in the field of cardiac treatment.

Indeed he succeeded and graduated from Cairo University medicine and worked as a doctor in 1957 AD, then decided to move to Britain in 1962 AD, then completed the study of medicine in the American city of Chicago, and in 1973 AD Magdi Yacoub joined Harefield Hospital in London, and worked there as a consultant in heart surgery, and performed the first procedure Open heart surgery in Nigeria in 1974.

The doctor is now working in London as a professor at the Imperial College of Sciences, and established the Dr. Magdi Yacoub Center for Cardiac Diseases and Research in Aswan in 2009, as part of the achievements of the Magdi Yacoub Heart Foundation, which serves patients inside and outside Egypt. Magdi Yacoub has made several achievements for many patients, including founding a center for heart surgery and transplantation in London, as well as establishing a center specialized in heart sciences in London, and establishing a charitable foundation called Chain of Hope, concerned with treating children in third world countries.

He helped save many cases with severe problems in the major circulatory system, supervised a large number of doctoral theses dealing with heart surgeries, published thousands of scientific medical articles, and developed heart surgeries in countries such as the Gulf states, Jamaica, Mozambique and Ethiopia.

Thanks to his many medical achievements, Sir Magdi Yacoub deserved to receive several honors, the most important of which are: The Queen of Britain granted him the title of Sir, which means knight in 1966 AD, and he is the only person who received this title from a non-British nationality, as the law stipulates that this title is for the British only, so Queen Elizabeth asked him to waive He refused to give up his Egyptian nationality in order to obtain the title of Sir.

Which made the whole British law indicative and give this title to a non-British person, and he was called at the time the title of King of Hearts, he received the Bradshaw Lectures Award from the Royal College of Medicine in 1988 AD, he received a medal from the Texas Heart Institute in 1988 AD, he received an award from the Ministry of Health in Britain for his role Effective in the development of medicine, and this was in 1999 AD.

The World Health Organization for the Service of Humanity awarded him an award for his effective role in treating many patients worldwide. He received the Golden Medal from the European Society of Cardiology. He obtained citizenship from Bergamo, Italy. He received the Medal of Merit of the International Academy of Cardiac Sciences in 2007. He deserved The Nile Collar for Sciences and Humanities in 2011, and in 2012 he was awarded the Great Medal of the American Heart Association.

Magdi Yacoub and his assistant staff also succeeded in developing heart valves using stem cells, and this medical discovery allows the use of some parts that were implanted in the heart in a period of up to three years, and also allows the transplantation of a whole heart within a period of up to ten years, and Magdi Yacoub transplanted a heart for a patient from Britain, the patient lived after the operation for a period of 33 years, and thus this man was the longest case that lived for a long period after a heart transplant.

Dr. Magdi Yacoub reached the age of 65 years, that is, in 2001 he decided to retire from heart surgery, and decided to work as a consultant only for everything related to heart surgery, but he retracted this decision in 2006 AD, in order to perform surgery for a two-year-old girl, as the girl was suffering From an enlarged heart, Dr. Magdy transplanted a new heart instead of the old one with which she was born, and the operation succeeded and the girl grew up and her heart grew completely naturally.

Since then, Dr. Magdy has returned to heart surgery and treating heart diseases with surgery, which he has always been distinguished and successful, and Sir Magdi Yacoub is still playing his successful and influential role in treating many cases and cases of heart patients, especially children.