List of Kabyle people
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This is a list of Kabyle people.
Musicians
[edit]- Abderrahmane Abdelli, singer
- Amour Abdenour, Algerian singer (active since 1969)
- Myriam Abel, singer
- Etienne Daho, singer, composer, Kabyle father
- Malika Domrane, singer
- Kenza Farah, French singer
- Idir, singer [1]
- Marina Kaye, singer
- Sheryfa Luna, singer
- Souad Massi, singer [2]
- Lounes Matoub, Berberist and secularist singer assassinated In 1998 [3]
- Lounis Ait Menguellet, singer
- Kamel Messaoudi, singer
- Marcel Mouloudji, singer, actor, writer, artist
- Hakim Rachek, music producer
- Rim'K, singer
- Rouiched, actor
- Takfarinas, singer
- Tyssem, singer, one Kabyle parent
- Yasmina, singer
Actors
[edit]- Karim Ainouz, Brazilian film director and visual artist, Brazilian mother, Kabyle father
- Mhamed Arezki, actor
- Dany Boon, comedian, actor, director, Kabyle father, French mother
- Djamila, actress
- Fellag, comedian, humorist, actor and writer
- Mohamed Hilmi, actor
- Daniel Prévost, actor, Kabyle father
- Erika Sawajiri, actress, Kabyle mother, Japanese father
- Malik Zidi, actor, Kabyle father, French mother
Figures of the Algerian resistance and revolution
[edit]- Colonel Amirouche, Algerian revolutionary fighter, killed by French troops in 1959
- Krim Belkacem, Algerian revolutionary fighter, assassinated in 1970
- Saïd Mohammedi, Algerian revolutionary fighter (1912–1994)
- Cheik Mohamed el Mokrani, hero of the 1871 uprising, executed by the French the same year
- Lalla Fatma N'Soumer, woman who led western Kabylie in battle against French colonizers.
- Belkacem Radjef, Algerian nationalist and revolutionary (1909–1989)
- Abane Ramdane, joined the revolution in 1956, assassinated in 1957
Politicians
[edit]- Belaïd Abrika, one of the spokesmen of the Arouch
- Hocine Aït Ahmed, Algerian revolutionary fighter and secularist politician
- Mohand Arav Bessaoud, revolutionary mujahedin, founder of the Academie Berbere and 'spiritual father' of Berberism
- Ferhat Mehenni, politician, President of the Provisional Government of Kabylia
- Saïd Sadi, secularist politician
Sportspeople
[edit]- Yacine Adli, French footballer
- Karim Benzema, French footballer
- Mustapha Dahleb, Algerian footballer
- Rabah Madjer, Algerian footballer
- Kylian Mbappé, French footballer
- Camel Meriem, French footballer
- Moussa Saib, Algerian footballer
- Zinedine Zidane, French footballer [4]
Writers
[edit]- Tahar Djaout, writer and journalist assassinated by the GIA in 1993
- Mouloud Feraoun, writer assassinated by the OAS
- Mouloud Mammeri, writer and editor
- Mustapha Ourrad, copy editor at Charlie Hebdo and victim of attack on their offices
- Said Sadi
- Salem Zenia, novelist and poet; novels: Tafrara, Ighil d Wefru
References
[edit]- ^ Hadji, Hugo (8 May 2020). "The poetic power of Idir, the artist who took Algerian music to the world". The Conversation.
- ^ Spencer, Neil (1 October 2022). "The Guardian". The Guardian.
- ^ Slackman, Michael (10 October 2005). "A Slain Berber Singer's Voice Rouses His Hometown". The New York Times.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Hussey, Andrew (4 April 2004). "ZZ top". The Guardian.