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{{Infobox officeholder
|name            = Gamal Abdel Nasser <br> جمال عبد الناصر
|birthname       = Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein
|image           = Nasser portrait2.jpg
|imagesize       =
|alt             = 
|order           = [[List of Presidents of Egypt|2nd]]
|office          = President of Egypt
|term_start      = 23 June 1956
|term_end        = 28 September 1970
|vicepresident   = {{List collapsed|title=''See list''|1={{plain list|
* [[Sabri al-Asali]] <small>(1958)</small>
* [[Akram al-Hawrani]] <small>(1958–1960)</small>
* [[Abdel Latif Boghdadi (politician)|Abdel Latif Boghdadi]] <small>(1958–1964)</small>
* [[Abdel Hakim Amer]] <small>(1958–1965)</small>
* [[Nureddin Kuhala]] <small>(1960–1961)</small>
* [[Abdel Hamid al-Sarraj]] <small>(1961)</small>
* [[Kamal el-Din Hussein]] <small>(1961–1964)</small>
* [[Zakaria Mohieddin]] <small>(1961–1964, 1965–1968)</small>
* [[Hussein el-Shafei]] <small>(1961–1965, 1968–1970)</small>
* [[Anwar Sadat]] <small>(1964, 1969–1970)</small>
* [[Hassan Ibrahim]] <small>(1964–1966)</small>
* [[Ali Sabri]] <small>(1965–1968)</small>
}}
}}
|primeminister    = {{List collapsed|title=''See list''|1={{plain list|
* '''Himself''' <small>(1954-1962)</small>
* [[Ali Sabri]] <small>(1962–1965)</small>
* [[Zakaria Mohieddin]] <small>(1965–1966)</small>
* [[Muhammad Sedki Sulayman]] <small>(1966–1967)</small>
* '''Himself''' <small>(1967-1970)</small>
}}
}}
|predecessor      = [[Muhammad Naguib]]
|successor        = [[Anwar Sadat]] 
|office2          = [[Prime Minister of Egypt]]
|president2       = '''Himself'''
|term_start2      = 19 June 1967
|term_end2        = 28 September 1970
|predecessor2     = [[Muhammad Sedki Sulayman]]
|successor2       = [[Mahmoud Fawzi]]
|president3       = [[Muhammad Naguib]]<br/>'''Himself'''
|term_start3      = 18 April 1954
|term_end3        = 29 September 1962
|predecessor3     = [[Muhammad Naguib]]
|successor3       = [[Ali Sabri]]
|president4       = [[Muhammad Naguib]]
|term_start4      = 25 February 1954
|term_end4        = 8 March 1954
|predecessor4     = [[Muhammad Naguib]]
|successor4       = [[Muhammad Naguib]]
|office5          = [[Prime Minister of Egypt|Deputy Prime Minister of Egypt]]
|primeminister5   = [[Muhammad Naguib]]
|term_start5      = 8 March 1954
|term_end5        = 18 April 1954
|predecessor5     = [[Gamal Salem]]
|successor5       = [[Gamal Salem]]
|primeminister6   = [[Muhammad Naguib]]
|term_start6      = 18 June 1953
|term_end6        = 25 February 1954
|predecessor6     = [[Sulayman Hafez]]
|successor6       = [[Gamal Salem]]
|office7          = [[Law enforcement in Egypt|Minister of the Interior]]
|primeminister7   = [[Muhammad Naguib]]
|term_start7      = 18 June 1953
|term_end7        = 25 February 1954
|predecessor7     = [[Sulayman Hafez]]
|successor7       = [[Zakaria Mohieddin]]
|office8          = [[Egyptian Revolutionary Command Council|Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council]]
|term_start8      = 14 November 1954
|term_end8        = 23 June 1956
|predecessor8     = [[Muhammad Naguib]]
|successor8       = ''Post abolished''
|office9          = Secretary General of the [[Non-Aligned Movement]]
|term_start9      = 5 October 1964
|term_end9        = 8 September 1970
|predecessor9     = [[Josip Broz Tito]]
|successor9       = [[Kenneth Kaunda]]
|office10         = Chairman of the [[Organisation of African Unity]]
|term_start10     = 17 July 1964
|term_end10       = 21 October 1965
|predecessor10    = [[Haile Selassie I]]
|successor10      = [[Kwame Nkrumah]]
| birth_date      = {{birth date|1918|1|15|df=y}}
| birth_place     = [[Alexandria]], [[Sultanate of Egypt|Egypt]]
| death_date      = {{Death date and age|1970|09|28|1918|01|15|df=y}}
| death_place     = [[Cairo]], [[United Arab Republic|Egypt]]
| nationality     = [[Egyptians|Egyptian]]
| spouse          = [[Tahia Kazem]]
| children        = Hoda<br>Mona<br>[[Khalid Abdel Nasser|Khalid]]<br>Abdel Hamid<br>Abdel Hakim
| party           = [[Arab Socialist Union (Egypt)|Arab Socialist Union]]
| profession   = [[Lawyer]]
| religion        = [[Sunni Islam]]
| allegiance      = Egypt
| branch          = [[Egyptian Army]]
| serviceyears    = 1938–1952
| rank            = [[File:Turco-Egyptian_ka%27im_makam.gif|25px]] [[Colonel]]
| battles         = [[1948 Arab–Israeli War]]
|signature        = Nasser(PresidentofEgypt).jpg
 }}

{{cquote|"The peoples of Africa will continue to look at us, who guard their northern gate, and who constitute their link with the outside world. We will never in any circumstances be able to relinquish our responsibility to support, with all our might, the spread of enlightenment and civilization to the remotest depths of the jungle.” <ref>--Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt, 1955, quoted in [Prah, 2006: 170]</ref>}}