Senegal's music is best known abroad due to the popularity of mbalax, a development of conservative music from different ethnic groups and sabar drumming popularized internationally by Youssou N'Dour.
Amdy Moustapha Faye is a Senegalese former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder and could also play as a centre back.
Ibou Faye is a retired Senegalese athlete who mainly competed in the 400 metres hurdles.
Mouhammad "Mo" Faye is a Senegalese professional basketball player who plays for Al Rayyan. He also represents the senior Senegalese national team.
Senegalese wrestling is a type of folk wrestling traditionally performed by the Serer people and now a national sport in Senegal and parts of The Gambia, and is part of a larger West African form of traditional wrestling. The Senegalese form traditionally allows blows with the hands (frappe), the only one of the West African traditions to do so. As a larger confederation and championship around Lutte Traditionnelle has developed since the 1990s, Senegalese fighters now practice both forms, called officially Lutte Traditionnelle sans frappe and Lutte Traditionnelle avec frappe for the striking version.
Kaddu Beykat is a 1975 Senegalese film directed by Safi Faye. It was the first feature film made by a Black African woman to be commercially distributed and brought international recognition for its director. Centred on a romance, it chronicles the daily lives of people in a rural Senegalese village.
Caroline Faye Diop was a Senegalese politician, the first female deputy and first female minister of the country. She was the wife of politician Demba Diop, Minister of Youth and Sport under president Léopold Sédar Senghor, who was assassinated in 1967.
Mathieu Faye is a Senegalese former basketball player. Faye competed for Senegal at the 1980 Summer Olympics, where he scored 57 points in 6 games. He was born in Dakar. He won the 1983 Korać Cup with France's CSP Limoges basketball team.
Abdala Faye is a Senegalese mixed media artist, and member of the Serer noble Faye family. He is the grandson of former Senegalese king, Mbaye Ndiay Djaly.
Faye is a typical Serer surname.
Gnima Faye is a Senegalese track and field athlete who competes in the 100 metres hurdles. She was the 2012 African champion in the event and has a personal best of 13.17 seconds.
The patronym Faye is one of the typical surnames of the Serer people of Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania. In French-speaking Senegal and Mauritania, and English-speaking Gambia, the surname is spelled Faye.
Lassana Faye is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Al-Zawraa in the Iraq Stars League.
Marieme Faye Sall, also spelled Marème Faye Sall, is a Senegalese public figure who served as the first lady of Senegal from 2012 to 2024, as wife of President Macky Sall. She is the country's first first lady to possess full Senegalese heritage by birth and ethnicity, as her three predecessors were of ethnic French or half Lebanese origin.
The first lady of Senegal is the title attributed to the wife of the president of Senegal. The country's current first lady is wife of President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, who had held the position since 2 April 2024. There has been no first gentleman of Senegal to date.
Events in the year 2020 in Senegal.
Lingeer Ngoné Dièye was a Lingeer from the Serer Kingdom of Saloum, and ancestor of the Guedj maternal dynasty of Cayor and Baol. She was the wife of the 17th century Senegalese noble and Teigne Thié Yasin Demba Noudj Fall, and mother of Damel—Teigne Lat Soukabé Ngoné Fall who ruled Cayor and Baol from 1697 to 1719, the first Guedj to do so, after overthrowing the reigning maternal dynasty and installing his mother's matriclan. In usurping the throne, he committed fratricide by killing his paternal half-brother and took his throne.
Mamadou Faye is a Senegalese former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He played in seven matches for the Senegal national team from 1994 to 1999. He was also named in Senegal's squad for the 1994 African Cup of Nations tournament.
Pape Mamadou "Mo" Faye is a Senegalese basketball player for AS Douanes and Senegal.
The African Patriots of Senegal for Work, Ethics and Fraternity, or just Patriots of Senegal, is a Senegalese political party founded in 2014 by Ousmane Sonko.
