List of Comorians

This is a list of notable people from, or connected to, the Comoros.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by editing the page to add missing items, with references to reliable sources.

Academics and scientists

• Damir Ben Ali, first president of the University of the Comoros

Athletes and people in sports

• Jimmy Abdou, professional footballer currently playing for Millwall F.C & the Comoros national football team
• Kassim Ahamada, professional footballer

• Youssouf M'Changama, professional footballer currently playing for En Avant Guingamp
• El Fardou Ben, professional football player
• Toifilou Maoulida, professional footballer

• Waleed Al-Hammadi, professional footballer

• Nasser Mahmoud Noor, professional footballer
• Feta Ahamada, professional track and field sprint athlete
• Amed Elna, Olympic field athlete
• Fadane Hamadi, Olympic field athlete
• Denika Kassim, Olympic track and sprint athlete
• Hassanati Halifa, captain of the Comoros women's national football team in 2014
• Zaharouna Haoudadji, professional footballer
• Assimina Maoulida, professional footballer
• Ayouba Ali Sihame, Olympic swimmer
• Kanizat Ibrahim, business manager and football administrator

Authors and writers

• Hayatte Abdou, investigative journalist and founder of the National Magazine
• Coralie Frei, nurse and first published woman writer from the Comoros
• Touhfat Mouhtare, second published woman writer from the Comoros
• Faïza Soulé Youssouf, journalist, novelist, and union president
• Ali Zamir, novelist and winner of the Prix Senghor in 2016

Politicians and people in government

See also: List of Comorian politicians, List of sultans in the Comoros, and List of heads of state of the Comoros

• Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, President of Comoros
• Azali Assoumani, former President of Comoros
• Djoumbé Fatima, sultan of Mwali from 1842 to 1865 and 1874 to 1878
• Salima Machamba, sultan of Mwali from 1888 to 1909
• Djoueria Abdallah, politician and midwife from Mitsamiouli village
• Hadjira Oumouri, politician and midwife
• Rashid Mohamed Mbaraka Fatma, politician and doctor
• Sittou Raghadat Mohamed, politician and first women minister in the Comoros
• Roubani Kaambi, ambassador
• Mohamed Toihiri, ambassador and first published novelist from the Comoros

Visual and performance artists

• Hachimiya Ahamada, film director
• Zaïnaba Ahmed, traditional Comorian singer and women's rights advocate
• Lubaina Himid, painter and academic
• Nawal, singer-songwriter, musician
• Rohff, French rapper born In the Union of the Comoros, who lives in Vitry-sur-Seine
• Chamsia Sagaf, singer in Swahili

• Naïma, singer in the Zouk music genre

Other notable people

• Ayouba Iliassa, professional seaman deck officer (2nd Off)
• Ibrahim Ali, teenaged murder victim in France
• Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, Comorian-Kenyan member of al-Qaeda

See also

• List of Comorian politicians
• List of sultans in the Comoros
• List of heads of state of the Comoros