Cissé (surname)
Cissé is a common West African name of Mandinka origin.[1][2]
Notable people with the surname include:
Sports
- Abdoulaye Cissé (b. 1983), Burkinabé footballer
- Aboubacar Cissé (b. 1969), Ivorian footballer
- Aliou Cissé (b. 1976), Senegalese footballer
- Amadou Cissé (b. 1985), French-Guinean footballer
- Babacar Cissé (b. 1975), Senegalese basketball player
- Brahima Cissé (b. 1976), Burkinabé footballer
- Djibril Cissé (b. 1981), French footballer
- Édouard Cissé (b. 1978), French footballer
- Fousseyni Cissé (b. 1989), French footballer
- Kalifa Cissé (b. 1984), Malian footballer
- Mangué Cissé (1945–2009), Ivorian footballer
- Mohamed Cissé (b. 1982), Guinean footballer
- Morlaye Cissé (b. 1983), Guinean footballer
- Ousmane Cissé (b. 1982), Malian basketball player
- Papiss Cissé (b. 1985), Senegalese footballer
- Salim Cissé (b. 1992), Guinean footballer
- Sekou Cissé (b. 1985), Ivorian footballer
Other
- Abdoulkader Cissé (b. 1955) Burkinabé politician
- Amadou Cissé (b. 1948), Nigerien politician, former Prime Minister of Niger (1995; 1996-97)
- Keba Birane Cissé (b. 1939), Senegalese Ambassador
- Shaykh Hassan Cissé (1945-2008), Senegalese Islamic scholar
- Souleymane Cissé (b. 1940), Malian film director
- Soumaïla Cissé (b. 1949), Malian politician
See also
- Cisse (disambiguation)
- Cissé, Vienne, a French commune
- Cissé, Burkina Faso, a Burkinabé commune
References
- ↑ Logiques identitaires, logiques territoriales Marie-José Jolivet - 2000 - Page 133 "... du XIXe siècle, une lignée arôo fait allégeance et prend le nom Cissé (les autres lignées conservent le nom Dikko). La lignée aînée des maîtres d'eau Pamanta prend la fuite et la charge est reprise par la lignée cadette qui prête allégeance ..."
- ↑ Cahiers d'études africaines 2006 "Le nom Cissé au Mali fait partie des noms de famille maraboutiques, tout comme Touré que l'on retrouve en milieu peul, soninké, songhai et malinké."
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