Cherif

Chérif or Cherif may refer to:

People

Surname

• Ahmed Bey ben Mohamed Chérif (1784–1850), last Bey of Constantine, Algeria, ruling from 1826 to 1848
• Cipriano Rivas Cherif (1891–1967), Spanish playwright and director, owner of the Caracol Theatre Club
• Fatima Zohra Cherif (born 1986), Algerian volleyball player
• Ilès Ziane Cherif (born 1984), Algerian football player
• Mahmoud Cherif (1912–1987), Algerian military leader and politician
• Moulay Ali Cherif (died 1659), allegedly a descendant of l-Hesn d-Dakhl, considered to have been the founder of the Alaouite Dynasty of Morocco
• Sid Ali Yahia-Chérif (born 1985), Algerian football player
• Wafa Cherif (born 1986), Tunisian handball goalkeeper
• Walid Cherif (born 1978), Tunisian boxer

Given name

• Abdennour Chérif El-Ouazzani (born 1986), Algerian football player
• Chérif Abdeslam (born 1978), Algerian football player
• M. Cherif Bassiouni (1937–2017), Muslim international United Nations war crimes expert
• Cherif Guellal (1932–2009), Algerian businessman and diplomat who fought in the Algerian independence movement
• Cherif Mohamed Aly Aidara (born 1959), Senegalese-Mauritanian Shi'i religious leader
• Chérif Oudjani (born 1964), former football player
• Chérif Ousmane Sarr (born 1986), midfielder
• Chérif Souleymane (born 1944), former Guinean footballer
• Chérif Touré Mamam (born 1978), Togolese footballer
• Mohand Chérif Hannachi (born 1950), former Algerian football player and current chairman of Algerian club JS Kabylie
• Tahar Chérif El-Ouazzani (born 1967), Algerian footballer and coach

Other uses

• Sherif
• Zawiyet Sidi Amar Cherif, zawiya in Boumerdès Province, Algeria
• Aïn Sidi Chérif, town and commune in Mostaganem Province, Algeria
• Cherif (TV series), a French police series which first aired in 2013
• Cherif Al Idrissi Airport (IATA: AHU, ICAO: GMTA), an airport serving Al Hoceima, Morocco, the capital city of the Taza-Al Hoceima-Taounate region in northern Morocco
• Miss Webster and Chérif, a novel by Patricia Duncker first published in 2006
• Moulay Ali Cherif Airport (IATA: ERH, ICAO: GMFK), an airport serving Errachidia (Er-Rachidia), a town in the Meknès-Tafilalet region in Morocco
• Chérif Chekatt, the perpetrator of the 2018 Strasbourg attack