Neguib, Muhammad was an Egyptian revolutionary, who served as the first president and premier of the republic of Egypt. Born in Khartoum, Sudan, and educated at the Royal Military Academy in Cairo, Neguib became a general in the Egyptian army and was hailed as a national hero of Egypt's 1948-1949 war with Israel. In July 1952 he and a group of fellow officers seized control of the government and forced King Farouk I to abdicate. Although the real leader of the coup was Gamal Abdel Nasser, the popular Neguib at first emerged as commander in chief of the army and spokesman for the military junta; he was made premier in September.

Supreme authority was vested in a 13-member revolutionary council, which in June 1953 proclaimed Egypt a republic and Neguib its first president and premier. When he endorsed a return to parliamentary rule, which the council opposed, he was forced out of office.

Neguib was put under house arrest and held until freed by Anwar al-Sadat in 1971. He died in Cairo on August 28, 1984.