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
• 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
• Daniel Prévost, actor, Kabyle father
• Hakim Rachek, music producer
• Rim'K, singer
• Rouiched, actor
• Soolking, singer
• Takfarinas, singer
• Tyssem, singer, one Kabyle parent

Actors

• Isabelle Adjani, actress, Kabyle father, German mother
• 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, 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
• Djamila Bouired, woman who led western Kabylie in battle against French colonizers
• 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