The Order of the Nile (Kiladat El Nil) was established in 1915 and was one of the Kingdom of Egypt's principal orders until the monarchy was abolished in 1953. It was then reconstituted as the Republic of Egypt's highest state honor.

Sultanate and Kingdom of Egypt The Order was established in 1915 by Sultan Hussein Kamel of Egypt for award to persons who had rendered useful service to the country. It ranked beneath the Order of Ismail and was frequently awarded to British officers and officials serving in Egypt, as well as distinguished Egyptian citizens.The order comprised five classes: Grand Cordon: Badge worn from a sash over the right shoulder, with a star on the left chest. Grand Officer: Badge worn around the neck, with a smaller star on the left chest. Commander: Badge worn around the neck. Officer: Badge worn on the left chest from a ribbon bearing a rosette. Knight: Badge worn on the left chest from a plain ribbon.

Republic of Egypt After Egypt became a republic in 1953 the Order of the Nile was reconstituted to serve as Egypt's highest state honor. It now consists of: Collar: worn by the president of the Republic and may be granted to other Heads of State. Grand Cordon: awarded for exceptional services to the nation. Regarding this class, the badge of the order is worn from a sash and the star of the order worn on the left chest.

Although the five class structure of the original 1915 order was mentioned when the order was restructured in 1953, the four more junior grades (i.e. Grand Officer, Commander, Officer and Knight) are no longer awarded.

Some appointees to the order Sultanate and Kingdom of Egypt (1915–1953) Brigadier Peter Acland (4th class), 1936 Sir Pratap Singh of Idar (Grand Cordon), 1918 Judge Sir Maurice Amos (Grand Cordon) Maharaja Jagatjit Singh Bahadur of Kapurthala (Grand Cordon), 1924 Major Henry Beaumont (4th Class), 1916 Rear Admiral Richard Bevan (4th Class), 1919 Field Marshall Lord Birdwood Lieutenant General Louis Bols Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Borton VC, DSO (3rd Class) Howard Carter, British archaeologist and Egyptologist (3rd Class), 1926The Scotsman, Saturday 27 March 1926, page 8. Jovan Dučić Major Aubrey Faulkner Major General Harold Franklyn, Commandant Sudan Defence Force, 1939 Major Harry Gardner (4th Class), 1922 Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Kearsey (3rd Class) Harold Knox-Shaw, British astronomer Lancelot Lowther, 6th Earl of Lonsdale, 1920 Naguib Pasha Mahfouz, obstetrician and gynecologist, 1919 Lieutenant Colonel Cecil L'Estrange Malone David McAllister, Engineer-in-Chief, Egyptian State Railways, (3rd Class), 1916 Earl Mountbatten of Burma, (fourth class), 1922 Charles Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglesey, 1915 General Sir William Peyton (2nd Class), 1916 General Hussein Refki Pasha (Grand Cordon) Admiral of the Fleet The Earl of Cork and Orerry, 3rd class (1916) Admiral Francis Mitchell (Royal Navy officer) Rear Admiral Eric Gascoigne Robinson Captain George Francis Scott Elliot Dr. Hassan Omar Shaheen – Professor of ENT Kasr El-Aini Hospital, Cairo. Circa 1920 Major-General Sir Charlton Watson Spinks, last Sirdar of Egypt (Grand Cordon), 1931 Dr. Oskar Stross, Austrian Consul General Mervyn Whitfield, Political Branch, Public Security, Alexandria, 1917 General Sir Reginald Wingate, 1915 Judge Youssef Zulficar Pasha (Grand Cordon) Oswald Longstaff Prowde, English civil engineer Lt Colonel William John Ainsworth, CBE DSO Durham Light Infantry (3rd Class 1919),

Republic of Egypt (from 1953) King Hussein of Jordan, 1955 Marshal Josip Broz Tito, President of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, 1956 Prof. Amintore Fanfani, Prime Minister and ad-interim Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Italy, 1959 Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut, 1961 Taha Hussein, Egyptian writer, 1965 Umm kulthum, Egyptian singer and actress, 1965 Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer and composer, 1965 President Jimmy Carter, President of the United States, 1979 Emperor Akihito of Japan Emperor Amha Selassie of Ethiopia Mohammed Burhanuddin, 52nd Da'i al-Mutlaq of the Dawoodi Bohra, 1978 King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand Mohamed ElBaradei, former director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Queen Elizabeth II, 1975 Birendra Bir Bikram shah Dev, King of Nepal, 1974 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, 1975 Hassaballah El Kafrawy, Egyptian former Minister of Housing Pengiran Anak Haji Mohamed Yusof, prince consort and cheteria of Brunei, 1984 Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, 1988 King Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia, 1989 Pierre Gemayel, founder of the Lebanese Phalange Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain, 2016 King Idris of Libya (Grand Cordon) Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, Turkish academic, diplomat and former Secretary-General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Émile Lahoud, President of Lebanon, 2000 Makarios III, former president of Cyprus Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa Adly Mansour, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Constitutional Court and former acting President of Egypt King Mohammed VI of Morocco Muhammad Naguib, First President of Egypt Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of KazakhstanOfficial site of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan: President Nursultan Nazarbayev in Egypt for the World Economic Forum on the Middle East. Antonín Novotný, President of Czechoslovakia Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said of Oman, 1976 Ziaur Rahman, President of Bangladesh Heinrich Rau, East German politician (Grand Cordon), 1961 King Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia, 1954 King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia William E. Simon, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Suharto, President of Indonesia Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, former chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces of Egypt, 2012 Walter Ulbricht, President of East Germany, 1965 George Vasiliou, former president of Cyprus Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub, Egyptian professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery Professor Ahmed Zewail, Egyptian scientist Katerina Sakellaropoulou, President of Greece, 2020 Salva Kiir Mayardit, President of South Sudan, 2020 Haitham bin Tariq, Sultan of Oman, 2023 Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, 2023 Mufaddal Saifuddin, 53rd Da'i al-Mutlaq of the Dawoodi Bohras, 2023 Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait, 2024 King Frederik X, King of Denmark, 2024 King Felipe VI, King of Spain, 2025 Donald Trump, President of the United States, 2025

See also Orders, decorations, and medals of Egypt

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