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This is a list of Egyptian gods and supernatural beings. For more information see Ancient Egyptian religion.

• Amun - creator deity
• Anubis - god of embalming and tomb-caretaker who watches over the dead
• Apep - Serpent of the Underworld, enemy of Ra
• The Aten - the embodiment of the Sun's rays in a brief, monotheistic interlude
• Atum - a creator deity, and the setting sun
• Bast, protector of the pharaoh, cat-bodied or cat-headed. Also known as Bastet
• Bes - dwarfed semigod associated with protection of the household, particularly childbirth, and entertainment
• The four sons of Horus
• Geb - god of the Earth and first ruler of Egypt
• Hapy - god embodied by the Nile, and who represents life and fertility
• Hathor - Goddess of Love and Music
• Heget Goddess of Childbirth
• Horus the falcon-headed god, God of Pharaohs and Upper Egypt
• Imhotep God of wisdom, medicine and magic
• Isis - Goddess of magic, also the wife of osiris and goddess of the underworld
• Khepry - the scarab beetle, the embodiment of the dawn
• Khnum - a creator deity, god of the innundation
• Maahes - god of war
• Ma'at - personified concept of truth, balance, justice, and order
• Menhit - Goddess of war
• Meretseger, goddess of the valley of the kings
• Mont - god of war
• Naunet - the primal waters
• Neith - goddess of war, then great mother goddess
• Nephthys - goddess of death.
• Nut - goddess of heaven and the sky
• Osiris - god of the underworld, fertility and agriculture
• Ptah - a creator deity, also god of crafts, possibly Men-Nefer (Memphis)
• Ra - the sun, possible father of Anubis, also a creator deity
• Ra-Horakhty, god of both sky and Sun. A combination of Ra and Horus - thought to be God of the Rising Sun
• Sekhmet - goddess of destruction and war, particularly against demons of sickness
• Seker- god of death
• Reshep, war god that was originally from Syria
• Sobek - crocodile god of the Nile
• Set - god of storms, later became god of evil, desert, also Lower Egypt
• Seshat, scribe goddess
• Shu - embodiment of wind or air
• Taweret - goddess of pregnant women and protector at childbirth
• Tefnut - embodiment of rain, dew, clouds, and wet weather
• Thoth - god of the moon, drawing, writing, geometry, wisdom, medicine, music, astronomy, and magic
• Wadjet, snake goddess of lower Egypt
• Wadj-wer, fertility god and personification of the Mediterranean sea or lakes of the Nile delta
• Wepwawet - jackal god of upper Egypt
• Wosret - a localised guardian goddess, protector of the young god Horus