Chérif or Cherif may refer to:
People
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Ahmed Bey ben Mohamed Chérif (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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Fatima Zohra Cherif
Fatima Zohra Cherif (born November 8, 1986) is an Algerian volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under ...
(born 1986), Algerian volleyball player
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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
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
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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 March 9, 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 for his native North African country. There he was beaten in th ...
(born 1978), Tunisian boxer
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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
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Chérif Abdeslam (born 1978), Algerian football player
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M. Cherif Bassiouni
Mahmoud Cherif Bassiouni (Arabic: محمود شريف بسيوني ; 9 December 1937 – 25 September 2017) was an emeritus professor of law at DePaul University, where he taught from 1964 to 2012. He served in numerous United Nations position ...
(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
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 family ...
(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 Cu ...
(born 1964), former football player
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Chérif Ousmane Sarr (born 1986), midfielder
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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 ...
(born 1944), former Guinean footballer
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Chérif Touré Mamam (born 1978), Togolese footballer
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Mohand Chérif Hannachi (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 ( 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 would ...
(born 1967), Algerian footballer and coach
Other uses
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Sherif
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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 to ...
, 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 (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
Moulay Ali Cherif Airport ( ar, مطار مولاي علي الشريف) is an airport serving Errachidia (Er-Rachidia), a town in the Drâa-Tafilalet region in Morocco.
Facilities
The airport resides at an elevation of above mean sea level. It ...
(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. Authori ...
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