List of Kabyle people
This is a list of Kabyle people.
Musicians
- 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
- Marina Kaye, singer
- Sheryfa Luna, singer
- Souad Massi, singer
- Lounes Matoub, Berberist and secularist singer assassinated In 1998.
- Lounis Ait Menguellet, singer
- Kamel Messaoudi, singer
- Marcel Mouloudji, singer, actor, writer, artist
- Daniel Prévost, actor, Kabyle father
- Hakim Rachek, music producer
- Rim'K, singer
- Rouiched, actor
- Soolking, singer
- Takfarinas, singer
- Tyssem, singer, one Kabyle parent
Actors
- Isabelle Adjani, actress, Kabyle father, German mother
- 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, actor
- Mohamed Hilmi, actor
- Erika Sawajiri, actress, Kabyle mother, Japanese father
- Yasmina, actress
- Malik Zidi, actor, Kabyle father, French mother
Figures of the Algerian resistance and revolution
- Colonel Amirouche, Algerian revolutionary fighter, killed by French troops in 1959
- Krim Belkacem, Algerian revolutionary fighter, assassinated in 1970
- Djamila Bouired, woman who led western Kabylie in battle against French colonizers
- 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
- 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
- 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
Writers
- 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
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