- male, 50 years old
- Idrissa Seck is a Senegalese politician who was Prime Minister of Senegal from November 2002 to April 2004. He was a leading member of the...
- male
- Thione Ballago Seck (born March 12, 1955) is one of Senegal's greatest singers and musicians in the mbalax genre, on par with Baaba Maal and...
- male, deceased (1998)
- Djibril Diop Mambéty was a Senegalese film director, actor, orator, composer and poet. Though he made only a small number of films, they received i...
- female, 68 years old
- Aminata Sow Fall is a Senegalese-born author. While her native language is Wolof, her books are written in French. She was born 1941 in...
- male
- Mor Thiam (born Mor Dogo Thiam in Dakar, Senegal) is a Senegalese drummer, cultural historian, and entertainment consultant. His surname is...
- female, 62 years old
- Ken Bugul is the pen name of the Senegalese Francophone novelist "Mariètou Mbaye Biléoma". The name derives from the Wolof language, in which it me...
- male, deceased (1930)
- Sheikh Ibrahima Fall was a disciple of Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba (Amadou Bamba), founder of the Mouride Brotherhood movement in West Africa. Well known...
- male, deceased (1975)
- Ibrāhīm Niass —also written Ibrahima Niasse in French, Ibrayima Ñas in Wolof, Shaykh al-'Islām al-Ḥājj Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥājj ʿAbd Allāh at-Tijānī...
- male, 60 years old
- Ibrahima Moctar Sarr (born 1949) is a Mauritanian journalist and politician. After studying in Cesti, Senegal, Sarr trained as a teacher before...
- male
- Sidi Ahmed al-Tidjani (1737-1815), in Arabic , founded the Tijānī Sūfī order (tarīqah) in the late eighteenth century in Fes, Morocco. The order...
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