List of Berbers

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This is a list of famous Berber people.

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[edit] In ancient times

[edit] Egyptian Pharaohs

  • Ramses II, according to L. Balout, C. Roubet and C. Desroches-Noblecourt, study titled 'La Momie de Ramsès II: Contribution Scientifique à l'Égyptologie (1985).' Balout and Roubet concluded that the "the anthropological study and the microscopic analysis" of the pharaoh's hair showed that Ramses II was "a fair-skinned man related to the Prehistoric and Antiquity Mediterranean peoples, or briefly, of the Berber of Africa."
  • Shoshenq I, Egyptian Pharaoh of Libyan origin, founder of the Twenty-second dynasty of Egypt[1].

[edit] Kings of Numidia

[edit] Roman emperors and generals

[edit] Writers

  • Terence, (Publius Terentius Afer), Roman writer[6]
  • Apuleius, Roman writer ("half-Numidian, half-Gaetulian")[2]
  • Priscian, Latin grammarian of the 5th Century, born in modern Algeria

[edit] Christians

[edit] Others

[edit] In medieval times

[edit] In modern times

[edit] Politicians

[edit] Figures of the Algerian resistance and revolution
  • Abane Ramdane, Algerian revolutionary fighter, assassinated in 1957 in an internal purge.
  • Krim Belkacem, Algerian revolutionary fighter, assassinated in 1970, allegedly by Algerian secret services.
  • Colonel Amirouche, Algerian revolutionary fighter, killed by French troops in 1959.
  • Lalla Fatma n Soumer, woman who led western Kabylie in battle against French troops.

[edit] Figures of the Libyan resistance and revolution

[edit] Artists

[edit] Writers
  • Jean Amrouche (1906-1962), writer and Taos Amrouche's brother.
  • Taos Amrouche (March 4, 1913 in Tunis, Tunisia - April 2, 1976 in Saint-Michel-l'Observatoire, France), Algerian writer and singer.
  • Mohamed Chafik, Moroccan writer and the dean of the IRCAM.
  • Salem Chaker, Berberist, linguist, cultural and political activist, writer, and director of Berber at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris.
  • Tahar Djaout, writer and journalist assassinated by the GIA in 1993.
  • Mouloud Feraoun, writer assassinated by the OAS.
  • Mouloud Mammeri, writer, anthropologist and linguist. His interest and work about Tamazight is behind the popular galvanization towards the Amazigh (Berber) culture and language.
  • Ali Yahya Mua'amar, Libyan Islamic Scholar of the Abathi School of Thought, was imprisoned and persecuted under the Gaddafi regime in Libya.

[edit] Sport

[edit] Others

[edit] Famous people who were either Berber or Punic[15]

[edit] French people who have some Berber ancestors

[edit] Other people with Berber ancestry

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ "He came from a line of princes or sheikhs of Libyan tribal descent", The New Encyclopaedia Britannica , Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2002, v.7, p.733.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Berbers : [...] The best known of them were the Roman author Apuleius, the Roman emperor Septimius Severus, and Augustine of Hippo, whose mother was a berber", Encyclopedia Americana, Scholastic Library Publishing, 2005, v.3, p.569
  3. ^ "Macrinus, by race a Moor, from Caesarea", Cassius Dio, Dio's Rome, Kessinger Publishing, 2004, v.6, p.21
  4. ^ "Lusius Quietus was a Moor, himself a leader of the Moors", Cassius Dio, Dio's Rome, Kessinger Publishing, 2004, v.5, p.117
  5. ^ "... a large Berber landowner like Lollius Urbicus governing Britain and conquering the Scottish lowlands", Colin Wells, The Roman Empire, Harvard University Press, 2004, p.151
  6. ^ "...the playwright Terence was a Berber", Suzan Raven, Rome in Africa, Routledge, 1993, p.122
  7. ^ André Berthier, L'Algérie et son passé (1951), Picard, 1951, p. 25
  8. ^ "Un Berbère converti...", Charles-André Julien, Histoire de l'Afrique du Nord (1951), Payot, 2001, p. 226
  9. ^ "L'insurrection du berbère Tacfarinas...", Charles-André Julien, Histoire de l'Afrique du Nord (1951), Payot, 1951, v.1, p. 126
  10. ^ Charles-André Julien, Histoire de l'Afrique du Nord (1951), Payot, 1951, v.1, p.219-222
  11. ^ Charles-André Julien, Histoire de l'Afrique du Nord (1951), Payot, 1951, v.1, p.219-222
  12. ^ "Abd-ar-Rahman had lived for some time with his Berber mother's tribe", William Montgomery Watt, A History of Islamic Spain, Edinburgh University Press, 1996, p.29.
  13. ^ "his mother was a Berber slave", The New Encyclopaedia Britannica , Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2002, v.7, p.793.
  14. ^ Philip Khuri Hitti, The Arabs, A Short History, Regnery Gateway, 1996, p.82
  15. ^ "Punics were a biological and cultural mix of Berbers and Phoenicians" (le punique est né de la rencontre de deux mondes, l'un autochtone, l'autre oriental, il est un métissage ethnique et culturel), Nacéra Benseddik, Thagaste, Souk Ahras, Patrie de saint Augustin, Inas, 2004, p. 25
  16. ^ Sa vie et son parcours sur agoravox.fr
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