Attia Ashour (Arabic: عطية عبد السلام عاشور, 13 September 1924 – 17 April 2017) was an Egyptian emeritus professor of Applied Mathematics at Cairo University. He was a former president of the . A former Director of Advanced Schools on the Physics of the Earth. He was an elected member of World Academy of Sciences, a founding member of African Academy of Sciences and he was also a Knight in the National Merit Order in France.