Cissé is a common
West Africa
West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mau ...
n name of
Soninke origin.
[Cahiers d'études africaines 2006 "Le nom Cissé au Mali fait partie des noms de famille maraboutiques, tout comme Touré que l'on retrouve en milieu peul, soninké, songhai et malinké." ("The name Cissé in Mali is one of a number of family names of marabout lineage, just as one finds Touré among the Fulani, Soninke, Songhai, and Mandinka.")]
Notable people with the surname include:
Sports
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Abdoulaye Cissé (b. 1983), Burkinabé footballer
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Aboubacar Cissé (b. 1969), Ivorian footballer
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Aliou Cissé (b. 1976), Senegalese footballer and coach
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Amadou Cissé
Amadou Boubacar Cissé (born 1948
, ''Afrique Express'', December 21, 1996 .
(b. 1975), Senegalese basketball player
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Brahima Cissé (b. 1976), Burkinabé footballer
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Djibril Cissé
Djibril Cissé (; born 12 August 1981) is a French former professional footballer who played as a forward.
He started his career at AC Arles in 1989, at the age of eight. After seven years at the club, he had a six-month spell at Nîmes Oly ...
(b. 1981), French footballer
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Édouard Cissé (b. 1978), French footballer
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Fousseyni Cissé
Fousseyni Cissé (born 17 July 1989) is a French professional football player of Senegalese and Chadian descent. He also holds Senegalese citizenship and represented Senegal at junior levels before switching to playing for France.
Early life
Cis ...
(b. 1989), French footballer
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Ibrahima Cissé (b. 1994), Belgian-Guinean footballer
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Kalifa Cissé (b. 1984), Malian footballer
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Mangué Cissé
Mangué Cissé Djibrila (17 November 1945 – 30 September 2009) was an Ivorian footballer who played as a defender. In 1970 he reached to semi-final of the Africa Cup of Nations
The Africa Cup of Nations referred to as AFCON (french: ...
(1945–2009), Ivorian footballer
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Mohamed Cissé
Mohamed Lamine Cisse (born 10 February 1982) is a Guinean footballer who currently plays for SK Lokeren-Doorslaar in Belgium, as a central defender.
After starting his football career with Horoya AC, Cisse made his professional debuts in 2003, w ...
(b. 1982), Guinean footballer
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Morlaye Cissé
Morlaye Cissé (born 19 December 1983 in Conakry) is a coach and a retired Guinean football defender.
He was a member of the Guinea squad for the 2006 African Nations Cup
The 2006 Africa Cup of Nations was the 25th edition of the Africa Cup o ...
(b. 1983), Guinean footballer
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Ousmane Cissé (b. 1982), Malian basketball player
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Papiss Cissé (b. 1985), Senegalese footballer
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Salim Cissé
Salim Cissé (born 24 December 1992) is a Guinean footballer who plays for Maltese club Marsaxlokk as a forward.
Club career Early years
Born in Conakry, Cissé started playing football when he was already 18. He moved to Italy with his parents ...
(b. 1992), Guinean footballer
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Sekou Cissé (b. 1985), Ivorian footballer
Other
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Abdoulkader Cissé (b. 1955) Burkinabé politician
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Amadou Cissé
Amadou Boubacar Cissé (born 1948
, ''Afrique Express'', December 21, 1996 .
, Malian politician
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Inna Sissoko Cissé
Moussoumakan "Inna" Sissoko Cissé, (née Sissoko, December 11, 1933 in Macina, Mali), is a Malian politician, nurse, and social worker who served as Secretary of State for Social Affairs (''secrétaire d’Etat aux Affaires sociales'') from 1968 ...
, Malian stateswoman
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Madjiguène Cissé
Madjiguène Cissé (26 September 1951 – 15 May 2023) was a Senegalese activist who was the spokeswoman of the undocumented immigrants movement and founder of the Women's Network for Sustainable Development in Africa.
Biography
Cissé was born ...
(b. 1951), Senegalese activist
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Shaykh Hassan Cissé
Sheikh (pronounced or ; ar, شيخ ' , mostly pronounced , plural ' )—also transliterated sheekh, sheyikh, shaykh, shayk, shekh, shaik and Shaikh, shak—is an honorific title in the Arabic language. It commonly designates a chief o ...
(1945-2008), Senegalese Islamic scholar
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Souleymane Cissé (b. 1940), Malian film director
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Soumaïla Cissé
Soumaïla Cissé (20 December 1949 – 25 December 2020) was a Malian politician who served in the government of Mali as Minister of Finance from 1993 to 2000. He thrice stood unsuccessfully as a presidential candidate, in 2002, 2013 and 2018; on ...
(b. 1949), Malian politician
See also
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Cisse (disambiguation) Cisse may refer to:
* Cisse (river), a river flowing into the Loire at Vouvray, France
* Cisse, Poland, a Polish village
* Cisse Cameron, American actress (''Space Mutiny'')
* ''Cisse'', a snout moth genus nowadays considered a junior synonym of '' ...
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Ceesay (spelling variant of the same surname)
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Cissé, Vienne, a French ''commune''
References
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Mandinka surnames