Turay is an English transcription of a
West Africa
West Africa, also known as Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations geoscheme for Africa#Western Africa, United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Gha ...
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surname
In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give ...
(the French transcription is ''
Touré
Touré is the French transcription of a West African surname (English transcriptions are '' Turay'' and '' Touray''). The name is probably derived from ''tùùré'', the word for 'elephant' in Soninké, the language of the Ghana Empire. The clan ...
'', another English one is ''
Touray Touray is a common Gambian surname of Mandinka origin. As well as the family name Ceesay, it originally indicated the descent of its bearer from a Marabout, a West African Islamic dignitary.
Notable people with the name ''Touray'' include:
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''). Notable people with the name include:
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Andrew Turay
Andrew Turay is a Sierra Leonean politician. He competed in the 1996 presidential election as part of the National People's Party (NPP). He received 0.5% of the vote (3,925 total votes).
Turay was the candidate for the Convention People's Party ...
, politician in
Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered to the southeast by Liberia and by Guinea to the north. Sierra Leone's land area is . It has a tropical climate and envi ...
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Edward Turay
Edward Mohamed Turay (24 October 1945 – 25 June 2023) was a Sierra Leonean politician and diplomat. He was leader of the opposition All People's Congress (APC) from 1996 to 2002. He was the Sierra Leonean High Commissioner to the United Kingdo ...
, politician in Sierra Leone
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Fatmata Turay
Fatmata B. Turay, (born in 1987 in Freetown) is a Sierra Leonean doctor and beauty pageant titleholder who represented her country at Miss World 2007 in Sanya, China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in ...
, (born 1987), beauty queen who represented Sierra Leone in Miss World 2007 in Sanya, China
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Kemoko Turay
Kemoko Turay (born July 11, 1995) is an American professional American football, football linebacker for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played college football for the Rutgers Scarlet Knights football, Rutgers Scarlet Knig ...
, American football player
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Moses Turay
Moses Turay (born 11 February 2004) is a Sierra Leonean professional footballer who plays as a forward for the Sierra Leone national team.
Club career
In June 2022, Turay signed with French club Troyes.
In September 2023, he joined Egyptian Pr ...
, Sierra Leonean football player
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Samori Turay
Samori Ture ( – June 2, 1900), also known as Samori Toure, Samory Touré, or Almamy Samore Lafiya Toure, was a Malinke and a Soninke Muslim cleric, military strategist, and founder of the Wassoulou Empire, an Islamic empire that was stretched ...
(c. 1830 – 1900), the founder of the
Wassoulou Empire
The Samorian state, also referred to as the Wassoulou empire, Ouassalou empire, Mandinka empire or Samory's empire, was a short-lived West African state that existed from roughly 1878 until 1898, although dates vary from source to source. It span ...
, an Islamic state that resisted French rule in West Africa
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Sitta Umaru Turay
Sitta Umaru Turay (born December 24, 1978, in Freetown, Sierra Leone) is a Sierra Leonean journalist and current member of the editorial Board of the Freetown-based Sierra Express newspaper
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(born 1978), Sierra Leonean journalist and member of the editorial board of the Sierra Express newspaper
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Surnames of African origin