List of Comorians

This is a list of notable people from, or connected to, the Comoros.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Academics and scientists

• Damir Ben Ali, first president of the University of the Comoros

Athletes and people in sports

• Jimmy Abdou, professional footballer currently playing for Millwall F.C & the Comoros national football team
• Kassim Ahamada, professional footballer

• Youssouf M'Changama, professional footballer currently playing for En Avant Guingamp
• El Fardou Ben, professional football player
• Toifilou Maoulida, professional footballer

• Waleed Al-Hammadi, professional footballer

• Nasser Mahmoud Noor, professional footballer
• Feta Ahamada, professional track and field sprint athlete
• Amed Elna, Olympic field athlete
• Fadane Hamadi, Olympic field athlete
• Denika Kassim, Olympic track and sprint athlete
• Hassanati Halifa, captain of the Comoros women's national football team in 2014
• Zaharouna Haoudadji, professional footballer
• Assimina Maoulida, professional footballer
• Ayouba Ali Sihame, Olympic swimmer
• Kanizat Ibrahim, business manager and football administrator

Authors and writers

• Hayatte Abdou, investigative journalist and founder of the National Magazine
• Coralie Frei, nurse and first published woman writer from the Comoros
• Touhfat Mouhtare, second published woman writer from the Comoros
• Faïza Soulé Youssouf, journalist, novelist, and union president
• Ali Zamir, novelist and winner of the Prix Senghor in 2016

Politicians and people in government

See also: List of Comorian politicians, List of sultans in the Comoros, and List of heads of state of the Comoros

• Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, President of Comoros
• Azali Assoumani, former President of Comoros
• Djoumbé Fatima, sultan of Mwali from 1842 to 1865 and 1874 to 1878
• Salima Machamba, sultan of Mwali from 1888 to 1909
• Djoueria Abdallah, politician and midwife from Mitsamiouli village
• Hadjira Oumouri, politician and midwife
• Rashid Mohamed Mbaraka Fatma, politician and doctor
• Sittou Raghadat Mohamed, politician and first women minister in the Comoros
• Roubani Kaambi, ambassador
• Mohamed Toihiri, ambassador and first published novelist from the Comoros

Visual and performance artists

• Hachimiya Ahamada, film director
• Zaïnaba Ahmed, traditional Comorian singer and women's rights advocate
• Lubaina Himid, painter and academic
• Nawal, singer-songwriter, musician
• Rohff, French rapper born In the Union of the Comoros, who lives in Vitry-sur-Seine
• Chamsia Sagaf, singer in Swahili

• Naïma, singer in the Zouk music genre

Other notable people

• Ayouba Iliassa, professional seaman deck officer (2nd Off)
• Ibrahim Ali, teenaged murder victim in France
• Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, Comorian-Kenyan member of al-Qaeda

See also

• List of Comorian politicians
• List of sultans in the Comoros
• List of heads of state of the Comoros