Personalities of Senegal

List personalities of Senegal by profession

Sheik Fall

Scientists

Sheik Anta Diop

Preachers and marabouts

Politicians

Civil society

Momar Ndao

Diaspora sénégalaise

The French singers of origin sénégalaise - and in particular rappeurs - are particularly numerous, for example Booba (Elie Yaffa), 13or (Skadrille), Disiz La Peste (Serigne Me Baye Gueye), Sefyu, Diesel (Alexandre Varela Da Veiga), member of the group KDD, Kephren (François Mendy), of the group IAM or Médar (Médar Niangandoumou), of the group Alliance Ethnik, to which one can add MC Solaar (Claude Me Barali), born in Dakar of parents Chad iens. Like Akon (Alioune Thiam), singer of American R&B, the French singer Tété (Ndaye) was born in Dakar. It is also the case of the actor Mouss Diouf, arrived to very young France.

At the 18th century, the Knight of Saint-George, fencer and talented musician, called “the black Mozart”, was the son of a slave sénégalaise off-set in Guadeloupe and of a French.

The dancer and choreographer Maurice Béjart, wire of Gaston Shepherd, is the great-grandson of a family of Saint-Louis.

If the French football clubs profit regularly from Senegalese reinforcements, certain players are of the French of long time, like Patrick Vieira, medium of the team of France, or Bernard Mendy (PSG), born in Normandy.

On the other hand the actor Richard Bohringer made the opposite course: born in Auvergne, it acquired nationality sénégalaise in 2002 after long years of stay.

Some personalities not sénégalaises were born in Senegal. It is the case of the French actress Clémentine Célarié, of Ségolène Royal, politicking Frenchwoman, member of the French Socialist party, or Jean-Michel Severino, French, directing senior official of the French Agence of development (AFD).

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