List of Kabyle people

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 ^[1]
• Marina Kaye, singer
• Sheryfa Luna, singer
• Souad Massi, singer ^[2]
• Lounes Matoub, Berberist and secularist singer assassinated In 1998 ^[3]
• 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 ^[4]

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

1. Hadji, Hugo (8 May 2020). "The poetic power of Idir, the artist who took Algerian music to the world". The Conversation.
2. Spencer, Neil (1 October 2022). "The Guardian".
3. Slackman, Michael (10 October 2005). "A Slain Berber Singer's Voice Rouses His Hometown". The New York Times.
4. Hussey, Andrew (4 April 2004). "ZZ top". The Guardian.