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