Chérif or Cherif may refer to:

People

Surname

Ahmed Bey ben Mohamed Chérif Ahmed Bey ben Mohamed Sherif, also known as Ahmed Bey or Hadj Ahmed Bey ( ar, الحاج أحمد باي) (c. 1784 - c. 1850) was the last Bey of Constantine, in the Regency of Algiers, ruling from 1826 to 1848. He was the successor of Mohamed M ...

(1784–1850), last Bey of Constantine, Algeria, ruling from 1826 to 1848 * Cipriano Rivas Cherif (1891–1967), Spanish playwright and director, owner of the Caracol Theatre Club * Fatima Zohra Cherif (born 1986), Algerian volleyball player *

Ilès Ziane Cherif Ilès Ziane Cherif (born April 7, 1984 in Saïda) is an Algerian football player. He currently plays for USM El Harrach in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1. On April 5, 2008 he was called up by the Algerian A' National Team for a game ag ...

(born 1984), Algerian football player *

Mahmoud Cherif Colonel Mahmoud Chérif (1912–1987) was an Algerian military leader and politician. He was born in Chéria in the Tébessa governorship ( wilaya) in 1912. After school, he joined the French army and graduated from training courses with the r ...

(1912–1987), Algerian military leader and politician *

Moulay Ali Cherif Abul Amlak Moulay Sharif ibn 'Ali ( ar, مولايَ الشَّرِيف بْن عَلِيّ بْن مُحَمَّد بْن عَلِيّ بْن يوسف بْن عَلِيّ) – also known as Moulay Ali al-Sharif or Moulay Mohammed Cherif, Moulay ...

(died 1659), allegedly a descendant of l-Hesn d-Dakhl, considered to have been the founder of the Alaouite Dynasty of Morocco *

Sid Ali Yahia-Chérif Sid Ali «Alilou» Yahia-Chérif, (born January 4, 1985, in Hydra) is an Algerian football player who is currently playing for RC Kouba. Club career Growing up in Algiers, Yahia-Chérif began playing on the streets and in neighborhood tournament ...

(born 1985), Algerian football player *

Wafa Cherif Wafa Cherif (born 6 April 1986) is a Tunisian handball goalkeeper. She plays for the club A.S.F. Sfax and for the Tunisian national team. She participated at the 2009 World Women's Handball Championship The 2009 World Women's Handball Champio ...

(born 1986), Tunisian handball goalkeeper * Walid Cherif (born 1978), Tunisian boxer

Given name

Abdennour Chérif El-Ouazzani Si-Abdennour Chérif El-Ouazzani (born 18 March 1986 in Oran) is an Algerian football player. He currently plays for CA Bordj Bou Arréridj in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 2. Playing career MC Oran Abdennour Chérif El-Ouazzani began hi ...

(born 1986), Algerian football player *

Chérif Abdeslam Chérif Abdeslam (in Kabyle language, kabyle: Crif Σebdesslam) (born 1 September 1978 in Hussein Dey District, Hussein Dey, Algiers) is an Algerian retired football player. He has previously played for ''IR Husseïn Dey'' and NA Hussein Dey, NA ...

(born 1978), Algerian football player * M. Cherif Bassiouni (1937–2017), Muslim international United Nations war crimes expert *

Cherif Guellal Cherif Guellal (born 19 August 1932 in Constantine, Algeria – deceased 7 April 2009) was an Algerian businessman and diplomat, who fought in the Algerian independence movement and who was a citizen of the United States. Biography Cherif Gue ...

(1932–2009), Algerian businessman and diplomat who fought in the Algerian independence movement *

Cherif Mohamed Aly Aidara Cherif Mohamed Aly Aidara is a Senegalese-Mauritanian Shia religious leader who is known for his work on international development in West Africa. He is one of the primary Shia religious figures in Senegal and West Africa. Early life and famil ...

(born 1959), Senegalese-Mauritanian Shi'i religious leader * Chérif Oudjani (born 1964), former football player * Chérif Ousmane Sarr (born 1986), midfielder *

Chérif Souleymane Chérif Souleymane, also known as Chérif Soulegmane, (born 20 October 1944) is a former Guinean footballer. He is considered among the finest footballers Guinea has ever produced. He was named the France Football African Footballer of the Year a ...

(born 1944), former Guinean footballer * Chérif Touré Mamam (born 1978), Togolese footballer * Mohand Chérif Hannachi (born 1950), former Algerian football player and current chairman of Algerian club JS Kabylie *

Tahar Chérif El-Ouazzani Si-Tahar Chérif El-Ouazzani ( ar, سي الطاهر شريف الوزاني, born 10 July 1967 in Oran) is a former Algerian footballer. Career Chérif El-Ouazzani started his career with hometown MC Oran in 1983. In his first season, he woul ...

(born 1967), Algerian footballer and coach

Other uses

Sherif Sherif, also spelled Sharif (and, in countries where Francophone Romanisation is the norm, Cherif or Charif), is a proper name derived from the Arabic word (, 'noble', 'highborn', 'honorable'), originally a title designating a person descended f ...

Zawiyet Sidi Amar Cherif Zawiyet Sidi Amar Cherif ( ar, زاوية سيدي أعمر الشريف), or Zawiyet Sidi Daoud, is a zawiya school located in Boumerdès Province in Algeria. Construction The zawiya was built in 1745 in the eastern heights of the current tow ...

, zawiya in Boumerdès Province, Algeria * Aïn Sidi Chérif, town and commune in Mostaganem Province, Algeria * ''Cherif'' (TV series), a French police series which first aired in 2013 *

Cherif Al Idrissi Airport Cherif Al Idrissi Airport ( ar, مطار الشريف الإدريسي) is an airport serving Al Hoceima, Morocco. It is the second-busiest airport in the Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region of northern Morocco. The airport is named after the 12th c ...

(IATA: AHU, ICAO: GMTA), an airport serving Al Hoceima, Morocco, the capital city of the Taza-Al Hoceima-Taounate region in northern Morocco *'' Miss Webster and Chérif'', a novel by Patricia Duncker first published in 2006 * Moulay Ali Cherif Airport (IATA: ERH, ICAO: GMFK), an airport serving Errachidia (Er-Rachidia), a town in the Meknès-Tafilalet region in Morocco *Chérif Chekatt, the perpetrator of the 2018 Strasbourg attack {{DEFAULTSORT:Cherif