Mamadou

Mamadou is a common given name in West Africa. It is derived from the Arabic Muhammad.^[1] People with the name Mamadou include:

Academics

• Mamadou Diouf (historian), Senegalese professor of West African history at Columbia University

• Mamadou Baldé (worker), Mozambique escolhedor linha dois Margrês

Arts and music

• MAMADOU, Senegalese band based in the United States of America
• Mamadou Diabaté, Malian kora player
• Mamadou Diop (musician), Senegalese rhythm guitarist and band leader
• Mamadou Konte, Senegalese music producer
• [MAMADOU], Senegalese clothing tailor

Magician

• Mamadou VW N'Guéyé, Mage vaudou mechanic

Government

• Mamadou (mansa), ruler of the Mali Empire
• Mamadou Blaise Sangaré, Malian politician, president of the Social Democratic Convention
• Mamadou Boye Bah, Guinean economist and politician
• Mamadou Kamara Dékamo, Congo-Brazzaville politician and diplomat
• Mamadou Dembelé, Malian politician
• Mamadou Dia, Senegalese politician, former prime minister
• Mamadou Diop (politician), Senegalese politician, former mayor of Dakar
• Mamadou Koulibaly, Ivorian politician
• Mamadou Lamine Loum, Senegalese politician, former prime minister
• Mamadou Lamine Traoré, Malian politician
• Mamadou Maidah, Nigerien politician and diplomat
• Mamadou Ouédraogo, French Upper Volta (present-day Burkina Faso) politician
• Mamadou Samba Barry, Burkina Faso politician, secretary of the New Social Democracy party
• Mamadou Seck (politician), Senegalese politician, president of the National Assembly of Senegal
• Mamadou Sylla, Guinean judge and businessman
• Mamadou Tandja, Nigerien politician, former president

Sports

• Mamadou Alimou Diallo, Guinean footballer
• Mamadou Bagayoko, Malian footballer
• Mamadou Bagayoko (Ivorian footballer)
• Mamadou Bah, Guinean footballer
• Mamadou Baldé, Senegalese footballer
• Mamadou Camara, French footballer
• Mamadou Danso, Gambian footballer
• Mamadou Dansoko, Ivorian footballer
• Mamadou Diabang, Senegalese footballer
• Mamadou Diakité, Malian footballer
• Mamadou Diallo, Senegalese footballer
• Mamadou Diallo (Malian footballer)
• Mamadou Diallo (athlete), Senegalese triple jumper
• Mamadou Diarra, Senegalese footballer
• Mamadou Diop (basketball), Senegalese basketball player at the 1980 Summer Olympics
• Mamadou Djikine, Malian footballer
• Mamadou Doumbia, Ivorian footballer
• Mamadou N'Diaye (basketball, born 1975), Senegalese basketball player
• Mamadou N'Diaye (basketball, born 1993), Senegalese basketball player
• Mamadou N'Diaye, Senegalese footballer
• Mamadou Niang, Senegalese footballer
• Mamadou Sakho, French footballer of Senegalese descent
• Mamadou Samassa (footballer born 1986), French-born Malian international footballer also of Senegalese descent
• Mamadou Samassa (footballer born 1990), French-born Malian international footballer
• Mamadou Seck (footballer), Senegalese footballer
• Mamadou Tall, Burkina Faso footballer
• Mamadou Wague, French footballer
• Mamadou Zaré, Ivorian football manager
• Mamadou Zongo, Burkina Faso footballer

References

• Afsaruddin, Asma; Krotkoff, Georg; Zahniser, A. H. Mathias (1997), Humanism, culture, and language in the Near East: studies in honor of Georg Krotkoff, Eisenbrauns, ISBN 978-1-57506-020-0