Touré is the French
transcription
Transcription refers to the process of converting sounds (voice, music etc.) into letters or musical notes, or producing a copy of something in another medium, including:
Genetics
* Transcription (biology), the copying of DNA into RNA, the fir ... of a West African surname (English transcriptions are ''
Turay Turay is an English transcription of a West African surname (the French transcription is ''Touré (surname), Touré'', another English one is ''Touray''). Notable people with the name include:
*Andrew Turay, politician in Sierra Leone
*Edward Turay ... '' and ''
Touray Touray is a common Gambian surname of Mandinka people, 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'' ... ''). The name is probably derived from ''tùùré'', the word for 'elephant' in
Soninké , the language of the
Ghana Empire
The Ghana Empire, also known as Wagadou ( ar, غانا) or Awkar, was a West African empire based in the modern-day southeast of Mauritania and western Mali that existed from c. 300 until 1100. The Empire was founded by the Soninke people, ... . The clan existed as kings of Zaghari on the middle
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People
Notable people with the name include:
*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 e ... Ahmed Touré
Ahmed Touré (born 17 July 1987) is a Burkina Faso, Burkinabé professional Association football, footballer, who currently plays for the Conoglese club AS Vita Club, AS Vita as a Forward (association football), striker. He also holds Côte d'Iv ... Ahmed Sékou Touré
Ahmed Sékou Touré (var. Sheku Turay or Ture; N'Ko: ; January 9, 1922 – March 26, 1984) was a Guinean political leader and African statesman who became the first president of Guinea, serving from 1958 until his death in 1984. Touré was am ... Aïda Touré
Aïda Touré is a Gabonese artist, Sufi poet, painter, and composer.
Biography
Touré was born in Gabon to a Gabonese mother and a Mali, Malian father, who was also Muslim. She later attended high school in France, where she generated a distin ... Al Hassan Toure
Al Hassan Toure (born 30 May 2000) is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a forward for Macarthur FC in the A-League.
Toure is eligible to represent Australia, Guinea and Liberia at national level. Toure was called up to th ... Alhassane Touré
Alhassane Ousmane Touré (born 5 February 1984 in Baguinéda
) is a Malian Football (soccer), footballer, who currently plays for FC La Chaux-de-Fonds.
Career
Touré started his career in the Centre Salif Keita and played from 2001 until 2003 f ... Ali Farka Touré
Ali Ibrahim "Ali Farka" Touré (31 October 1939 – 6 March 2006) was a Malian singer and multi-instrumentalist, and one of the African continent's most internationally renowned musicians. His music blends traditional Malian music and its deriv ... Alioune Touré
Alioune Kissima Touré (born 9 September 1978) is a French former professional footballer. He is an attacking midfielder but can play both as a forward or as a winger.
Playing career
Born in Saint-Denis, Alioune started his career in 1996 wi ... Almamy Touré
Almamy Touré (born 28 April 1996) is a Malian professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Defender (association football), right back for Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt.
Club career Monaco
Touré is a youth exponent from ... Amadou Touré
Amadou Touré (born September 27, 1982) is a Burundian- Burkinabé former footballer who last played in Luxembourg.
Career
The Burundi-born Touré began his career 1999 at USFRAN at Bobo Dioulasso in First ligue before joining ASFA. He played ... Amadou Toumani Touré
Amadou Toumani Touré (4 November 19489 November 2020) was a Malian politician. He supervised Mali's first multiparty elections as chairman of the transitional government (1991–1992), and later became the second democratically-elected Presiden ... Aminatou Maïga Touré
Aminatou Djibrilla Maiga Touré is a Nigerian diplomat. She was Niger's Ambassador to the United States from 2006 to 2010 and has served in the transitional government as Minister of Foreign Affairs since March 2010.
Touré began working at the Fo ... Ansu Toure
Ansu Toure (born 18 March 1981) is a professional Liberian association football, footballer that last played in the Indonesian league with Persiba Balikpapan, he is also a member of the Liberian national football team
Career
Youth and Amateur
To ... Askia M. Touré
Askia Muhammad Touré (Rolland Snellings) (born October 13, 1938 in Raleigh, North Carolina) is an African-American poet, essayist, political editor, and leading voice of the Black Arts Movement. Toure helped to define a new generation of black ... Assimiou Touré
Assimiou Touré (born 1 January 1988) is a Togolese association football, football Defender (association football), defender who plays for FC Leverkusen. He also holds a German passport.
Career
Born in Sokodé, Togo, Touré joined Bayer 04 Leve ... Bako Touré
Bassidiki Touré (7 December 1939 – 28 April 2001), commonly known as Bako Touré, was a Mali international football forward who played for clubs in Mali and France.
Playing career
Born in Bamako, Touré began playing club football for local ... Bassala Touré
Bassala Touré (born 21 February 1976) is a Malian former footballer who played at both professional and international levels as a midfielder.
Career
Born in Bamako, Touré began his career with hometown club Stade Malien, before moving to Moro ... Bassary Touré Bassary Touré (born February 1, 1950, in Thiès, Senegal) is a Malian economist and politician. Touré was the Minister of Finance of Mali from 1991 to 1992 and from 2002 to 2004. He has been an executive director with the World Bank. He is also pa ... Cheikh Touré
Cheikh Tidiane Touré (born January 25, 1970) is a Senegal-born French athlete who specialised in the long jump. He retired after the 2003 season.
His best international performance came in the 1997 World Championships, where he finished 7th.
H ... Chérif Touré Mamam (born 1978), Togolese footballer
*Clémentine Touré
Clémentine Touré (born 21 March 1977) is an Ivorian football manager and former footballer who coaches the Ivory Coast women's national football team. She has also previously coached Equatorial Guinea women's national football team.
Personal ... Demba Touré
Pape Demba Armand Tourézé (born 31 December 1984) is a Senegalese former professional footballer who played as a striker. He dropped the 'zé' part of his surname when he was 20, re-registering his name with FIFA as Demba Armand Touré.
Club ... Doudou Touré
Doudou Touré (born December 29, 1991) is a Mauritanian footballer.
Career
Youth
Touré grew up in Nouakchott, before moving to the United States in 1998, settling with his family in Atlanta, Georgia. He attended Joseph Wheeler High School, pla ... Hamadoun Touré
Hamadoun Ibrahim Touré (born September 3, 1953) of Mali was Secretary General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the specialized agency of the United Nations dedicated to information and communication technologies (ICTs), from 2 ... Hervé Touré
Hervé Touré (born 25 February 1982) is a French professional basketball player who currently plays for Guaros de Lara in Venezuela. After starting his career with Asvel Basket, he goes to play in Belgium, Italy and Spain for almost eight years. ... Ibrahim Touré (1985–2014), Ivorian footballer
*Ibrahima Touré
Ibrahima Touré (born 17 December 1985) is a Senegalese former footballer who last played as a striker for Gazélec Ajaccio in the Domino's Ligue 2.
He also played for Al Nasr , Chengdu Wuniu, Wydad Casablanca, Paykan, Persepolis, Sepahan, ... José Touré
José Touré (born 24 April 1961 in Nancy) is a French former professional football player.
Club career
On 11 June 1983, Touré scored a memorable goal for Nantes in the Coupe de France final to give his side the lead against Paris Saint-G ... Karidja Touré
Karidja Touré (born 14 February 1994) is a French actress best known for starring in the film '' Girlhood''.
Life and career
Karidja Touré was born in the Paris Suburb of Bondy, France, the daughter of an estate agent and a childcare worker. ... Kolo Touré (born 1981), Ivorian footballer
*Larsen Touré
Larsen Touré (born 20 July 1984) is a French-born Guinean professional footballer who plays as a winger or forward for SC Schiltigheim. He has represented the Guinea national team at international level.
Club career
Touré was born in Brest, ... Mohamed Toure (born 2004), Australian footballer
* Mohamed Touré (born 1997), Portuguese footballer
*Samori Toure (American football)
Samori David Toure (born March 24, 1998) is an American football wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Montana Grizzlies football, Montana before transferring to Nebraska Corn ... Samory Touré
Samory Toure ( – June 2, 1900), also known as Samori Toure, Samory Touré, or Almamy Samore Lafiya Toure, was a Muslim cleric, a military strategist, and the founder and leader of the Wassoulou Empire, an Islamic empire that was in present-day ... Sanoussi Touré Sanoussi Touré (born 1950?) is a Malian political figure and tax inspector, finance inspector who was appointed to the government of Mali as Minister of Finance of Mali, Minister of the Economy and Finance in April 2009.Sékou Touré (1934–2003), Ivorian footballer
*Sidi Touré
Sidi Touré (born 1959, Gao, Mali) is a singer/songwriter from Bamako, Mali. His music is a type of songhaï blues. He started his career in the Sonhaï Stars, a regional orchestra. In 1984 he won the award of best singer with a song of his own ha ... Sidya Touré
Sidya Touré (born 1945) is a Guinean politician. He was Prime Minister of Guinea from 1996 to 1999 and is currently the President of the Union of Republican Forces (UFR), an opposition party.
Prime minister
Having previously been in exile in Cà ... Thomas Touré
Thomas Touré (born 27 December 1993) is an Ivorian professional association football, footballer who plays as a Midfielder#Winger, winger. He made one international appearance for the Ivory Coast national football team, Ivory Coast national tea ... Vieux Farka Touré
Boureima "Vieux" Farka Touré (born 1981) is a Malian singer and guitarist. He is the son of Malian musician Ali Farka Touré.
Biography
Touré was born in Niafunké, Mali in 1981 to Ali Farka Touré. Despite his father's discouragement and hi ... Yaya Touré
Gnégnéri Yaya Touré (born 13 May 1983) is an Ivorian professional football coach and former player who played as a midfielder. He is an academy coach for Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur.
Touré aspired to be a striker during his yout ... Younoussi Touré
Younoussi Touré (27 December 1941 – 17 October 2022) was a Malian politician. He was Prime Minister of Mali from 9 June 1992 to 12 April 1993 and was the first Prime Minister appointed under President Alpha Oumar Konaré. Touré was the Presi ... Youssouf Touré
Youssouf Touré (born March 14, 1986, in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis) is a French professional Association football, footballer who currently plays for Becamex Bình Dương F.C., Becamex Bình Dương.
Individ ... Zargo Touré
Zargo Touré (born 11 November 1989) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for French club Dijon.
Career
Touré was born in Pikine, Senegal. He began his career at homeland club Sporting Dakar in the Senegalese cap ... See also
* Touré Embden (born 1966), Haitian American emcee known as MC Tee
*Touré Kunda
Touré Kunda is a Senegalese band, noted for their musical versatility and political activism. Their 40-year career encompasses recordings in over six languages and collaborations with well-known musicians such as Carlos Santana and Talking Head ... Toure' Murry
Toure' Ahmad Khalid-Murry (; born November 8, 1989) is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for Wichita State.
College career
Murry played college basketball at Wichita State University, leading the Sh ... Ture (disambiguation) Ture may refer to:
Names
*Ture (Zande character), a trickster character from North Central Africa Personal name
* Ture Hedman (1895–1950), Swedish gymnast
* Ture Malmgren (1851–1922), Swedish journalist and politician
* Ture Nerman (1886–1969 ... Notes
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Soninke-language surnames
Surnames of Malian origin
Surnames of Mauritanian origin
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