List of Kabyle people

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A list of Kabyle people

## Musicians[edit]

* Amour Abdenour, Algerian singer (active since 1969)
* Abderrahmane Abdelli, singer
* Myriam Abel, singer
* Kenza Farah, French singer
* Lounis Ait Menguellet, singer
* Idir, singer
* Lounes Matoub, Berberist and secularist singer assassinated In 1998.
* Daniel Prévost, actor, Kabyle father
* Etienne Daho, singer, composer, Kabyle father
* Takfarinas, singer
* Rim'K, singer
* Hakim Rachek, music producer
* Tyssem, singer, one Kabyle parent
* Malika Domrane, singer
* Kamel Messaoudi, singer
* Marcel Mouloudji, singer, actor, writer, artist
* Rouiched, actor
* Souad Massi, singer
* Soolking, singer
* Sheryfa Luna, singer
* Marina Kaye, singer

## Actors[edit]

* Isabelle Adjani, actress, Kabyle father, German mother
* 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
* Karim Ainouz, Brazilian film director and visual artist, Brazilian mother, Kabyle father

## 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)
* Belkacem Radjef, Algerian nationalist and revolutionary (1909 -1989).
* Abane Ramdane, joined the revolution in 1956, was assassinated in 1957.
* Lalla Fatma N'Soumer, woman who led western Kabylie in battle against French colonizers.
* Cheik Mohamed el Mokrani, hero of the 1871 uprising, executed by the French the same year.
* Djamila Bouired, woman who led western Kabylie in battle against French colonizers.

## Politicians[edit]

* 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.
* Belaïd Abrika, one of the spokesmen of the Arouch.
* Hocine Aït Ahmed, Algerian revolutionary fighter and secularist politician.
* Saïd Sadi, secularist politician.

## Sportspeople[edit]

* Mustapha Dahleb, Algerian footballer.
* Salah Assad, Algerian footballer.
* Azzedine Aït Djoudi, Algerian footballer.
* Camel Meriem, Algerian footballer
* Rabah Madjer, Algerian footballer.
* Zinedine Zidane, French footballer.
* Karim Benzema, French footballer.
* Moussa Saib, Algerian footballer.
* Adam Ounas, French footballer
* Ali Bencheikh, Algerian footballer.
* Ismaël Bennacer, Algerian Footballer
* Nabil Ghilas, Algerian footballer.
* Nadir Belhadj, Algerian footballer
* Karim Ziani, Algerian footballer.
* Kheira Hamraoui, French footballer.
* Houssem Aouar, algerian footballer

## 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, copyeditor at Charlie Hebdo and victim of attack on their offices
* Salem Zenia, novelist and poet. Novels: Tafrara, Ighil d Wefru.
* Mouloud Mammeri
* Said Sadi

## References[edit]