Ratiba Hefny (2 December 1931 – 16 September 2013) was an Egyptian international Opera singer (soprano) who performed in more than 500 opera performances. She was the dean of the Higher Institute of Arabic Music in Cairo, and became the director of the Cairo Opera House in 1988. She grew up in a musical family, her father Mahmoud El Hefny had written more than 45 books on music, and her grandmother, who also was a German opera singer. El-Hefny started playing the piano at the age of five. El-Hefny gave her singing voice to Snow White in Disney's 1975 Arabic edition of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

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Egypt State Incentive Prize in Arts and Letters of the Supreme Council of Culture, in 2004. On 2 December 2017, Google showed a Doodle in few countries for El-Hefny’s 86th Birthday.

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On 2 December 2017, Google dedicated a Doodle to the singer for the 86th anniversary of her birth. The Doodle reached all the countries of the Arab World.