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
  • Hakim Rachek, music producer
  • Rim'K, singer
  • Rouiched, actor
  • Takfarinas, singer
  • Tyssem, singer, one Kabyle parent
  • Yasmina, singer

Actors

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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


The Kabyle people, Berber people and ethnic group indigenous to Kabylia

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