Hisham Barakat was the Egypt Attorney General, appointed in July 2013. He was assassinated in a car bomb on 29 June 2015.

Barakat graduated with a BA in law in 1973. Appointed to the Public Prosecution, he joined the judiciary and worked in courts of first instance and appeal courts.He became the head of the technical office of the president of the Cairo Appeals Court.

He was appointed prosecutor-general by Egypt's interim president Adly Mansourafter Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud announced his resignation from the post and was sworn in on 10 July 2013.

On 14 July Barakat ordered the freezing of assets of 15 prominent Egyptian Islamists: Musli Brotherhood supreme guide Mohamed Badie, and his deputies Khairat al-Shater, Mohamed Ezzat and Rashad Baioumy; Mahdi Akef, the Brotherhood's former supreme guide; Mohamed Saad al-Katatny, head of the Freedom and Justice Party, FJP deputy leader Essam al-Erianand general secretary Mohamed al-Beltagy; Salafi preacher Safwat Hegazy; Essam Sultan, vice president of the Wasat Party;Assem Abdel Maged, member of the Jamaa Islamiya Shura Council; Hazem Salah Abu Ismail, Flag Party president; Tarek al-Zomor, Building and Development Party secretary; and former MP Mohammed al-Omda