Chérif or Cherif may refer to:
People
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Ahmed Bey ben Mohamed Chérif
Ahmed Bey ben Mohamed Sherif, also known as Ahmed Bey or Hadj Ahmed Bey () (c. 1784 – c. 1850) was the last ''bey'' of Constantine, Algeria, Constantine in the Regency of Algiers, ruling from 1826 to 1848. He was the successor of Mohamed Menamen ...
(1784–1850), last Bey of Constantine, Algeria, ruling from 1826 to 1848
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Cipriano Rivas Cherif (1891–1967), Spanish playwright and director, owner of the Caracol Theatre Club
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Ilès Ziane Cherif (born 1984), Algerian football player
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Mahmoud Cherif (1912–1987), Algerian military leader and politician
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Moulay Ali Cherif (died 1659), allegedly a descendant of l-Hesn d-Dakhl, considered to have been the founder of the Alaouite Dynasty of Morocco
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Sid Ali Yahia-Chérif (born 1985), Algerian football player
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Wafa Cherif (born 1986), Tunisian handball goalkeeper
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Walid Cherif
Walid Cherif (born 9 March 1978) is a boxer from Tunisia, who won the gold medal in 2003 at the All-Africa Games in Abuja, Nigeria.
He also participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics, where he was beaten in the first round of the Flyweight (51 kg ...
(born 1978), Tunisian boxer
Given name
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Abdennour Chérif El-Ouazzani
Si-Abdennour Chérif El-Ouazzani (born 18 March 1986) 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 his career ...
(born 1986), Algerian football player
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Chérif Abdeslam (born 1978), Algerian football player
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M. Cherif Bassiouni (1937–2017), Muslim international United Nations war crimes expert
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Cherif Guellal (1932–2009), Algerian businessman and diplomat who fought in the Algerian independence movement
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Cherif Mohamed Aly Aidara (born 1959), Senegalese-Mauritanian Shi'i religious leader
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Chérif Oudjani
Chérif Oudjani (born 9 December 1964) is a former professional footballer who played as a striker, spending his career in France. Born in France, he played for the Algeria national team internationally, most notably winning the 1990 African C ...
(born 1964), former football player
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Chérif Ousmane Sarr (born 1986), midfielder
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Chérif Souleymane (born 1944), former Guinean footballer
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Chérif Touré Mamam
Cherif-Touré Mamam (born 13 January 1978) is a Togolese former professional footballer who played as a midfielder for the Togo national team.
Club career
During his time at Livingston, Touré wore number 91. This is said to be his lucky numbe ...
(born 1978), Togolese footballer
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Mohand Chérif Hannachi
Mohand Chérif Hannachi (2 April 1950 – 13 November 2020) was an Algerian football player and chairman of Algerian club JS Kabylie
Jeunesse Sportive de Kabylie (Kabyle grammar, Kabyle: Ilemẓiyen inaddalen n leqvayel; Berber languages, T ...
(born 1950), former Algerian football player and current chairman of Algerian club JS Kabylie
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Tahar Chérif El-Ouazzani
Si-Tahar Chérif El-Ouazzani (; born 10 July 1967) is an Algerian former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
Career
Born in Oran, Chérif El-Ouazzani started his career with hometown MC Oran in 1983. In his first seaso ...
(born 1967), Algerian footballer and coach
Other uses
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Sherif
Sherif, also spelled Sharif (and, in countries where Francophone Romanization 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 ...
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Zawiyet Sidi Amar Cherif
Zawiyet Sidi Amar Cherif (), or Zawiyet Sidi Daoud, is a Zawiya (institution), zawiya school located in Boumerdès Province in Algeria.
Construction
The zawiya was built in 1745 in the eastern heights of the current town of Boumerdès in the Kab ...
, zawiya in Boumerdès Province, Algeria
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Aïn Sidi Chérif, town and commune in Mostaganem Province, Algeria
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''Cherif'' (TV series), a French police series which first aired in 2013
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Cherif Al Idrissi Airport
Cherif Al Idrissi Airport () is an international airport serving Al Hoceima, Morocco. It is the second-busiest airport in the Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region of northern Morocco. The airport is named after the 12th century CE Moroccan geograp ...
(IATA: AHU, ICAO: GMTA), an airport serving Al Hoceima, Morocco, the capital city of the Taza-Al Hoceima-Taounate region in northern Morocco
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Miss Webster and Chérif'', a novel by Patricia Duncker first published in 2006
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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
On the evening of 11 December 2018, a terrorist attack occurred in Strasbourg, France, when a man attacked civilians in the city's busy (Christmas market) with a revolver and a knife, killing five and wounding 11 before fleeing in a taxi. Auth ...
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