Yes, Hawass, that’s the guy. I’m not an Egyptologisst, and have little knowledge of such matters, but it does seem that this guy has somehow pwned Egyptology and you can’t so much as turn to the subject without his face popping up.
Quietly, in the background sometimes even show is Mark Lehner, an American - he is even more rabid than Hawass.
These two milk the standard theory - which makes no sense when looked at closely - for their fame and fortune, basing much of their theory on work done in the 19th and early 20th centuries and never reexamined.