List of Kabyle people

A list of Kabyle people

Musicians[]

• Amour Abdenour, Algerian singer (active since 1969)
• Abderrahmane Abdelli, singer
• Myriam Abel, winner of Nouvelle Star season 3.
• Kenza Farah, French singer
• Lounis Ait Menguellet, singer
• Idir, singer
• Lounes Matoub, Berberist and secularist singer assassinated In 1998.
• Daniel Prévost, actor, Kabyle father
• Takfarinas, singer
• Rim'K, rapper
• 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
• Marina Kaye, singer

Actors[]

• Isabelle Adjani, actress, Kabyle father, German mother
• Mhamed Arezki, actor, Kabyle mother, French father
• 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.
• 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.

Politicians[]

• Mohand Arav Bessaoud, revolutionary mujahadin, 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.

Sportsmen[]

• Mustapha Dahleb, Algerian footballer.
• Salah Assad, Algerian footballer.
• Azzedine Aït Djoudi, Algerian footballer.
• Rabah Madjer, Algerian footballer.
• Zinedine Zidane, French footballer.
• Karim Benzema, French footballer.
• Moussa Saib, Algerian footballer.
• Ali Bencheikh, Algerian footballer born in ath-ouagag, province of Bordj Bou Arreridj.
• Nabil Ghilas, Algerian footballer.
• Karim Ziani, Algerian footballer.
• Kheira Hamraoui, 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, 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[]