Turay is an English transcription of a
West African
surname
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(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 e ...
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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'' ...
''). 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 i ...
, politician in
Sierra Leone
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Edward Turay, politician in Sierra Leone
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Fatmata Turay
Fatmata B. Turay, (born in 1987 in Freetown) is Sierra Leonean beauty queen who represented her country at Miss World 2007 in Sanya, People's Republic of China, China.Kemoko Turay
Kemoko Turay (born July 11, 1995) is an American football defensive end who is a free agent. He played college football at Rutgers Scarlet Knights football, Rutgers and was drafted by the Colts in the second round of the 2018 NFL Draft.
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, American football player
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Samori Turay
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-d ...
(c. 1830 – 1900), the founder of the
Wassoulou Empire, 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