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This is a list of Kabyle people.
Musicians
- Abderrahmane Abdelli, singer
- Ferhat Mehenni, political singer
- Amour Abdenour, singer (active since 1969)
- Myriam Abel, singer
- Etienne Daho, singer, composer, Kabyle father, Pieds-noirs mother
- Malika Domrane, singer
- Kenza Farah, singer
- Idir, singer
- Marina Kaye, singer
- Nâdiya, singer
- Souad Massi, singer
- Lounes Matoub, Berber activist and secularist singer assassinated In 1998.
- Lounis Ait Menguellet, singer
- Kamel Messaoudi, singer
- Marcel Mouloudji, singer, actor, writer, artist, Kabyle father
- Daniel Prévost, actor, Kabyle father
- Hakim Rachek, music producer
- Rim'K, singer
- Rouiched, actor
- Soolking, singer
- Takfarinas, singer
- Tyssem, singer, one Kabyle parent
Actors
- Isabelle Adjani, actress, Kabyle father
- Karim Aïnouz, Brazilian film director and visual artist, Kabyle father
- Mhamed Arezki, actor
- Dany Boon, comedian, actor, director, Kabyle father
- Djamila, actress
- Fellag, comedian, actor
- Mohamed Hilmi, actor
- Erika Sawajiri, actress, Kabyle mother
- Yasmina, actress
Figures of the resistance and revolution
- Ali Boumendjel, Algerian revolutionary and lawyer, killed by French troops in 1957
- Mourad Didouche, Algerian revolutionary fighter, killed by French troops in 1955
- Colonel Amirouche, Algerian revolutionary fighter, killed by French troops in 1959
- Krim Belkacem, Algerian revolutionary fighter, assassinated in 1970
- Djamila Bouired, woman who led western Kabylia in battle against French colonizers
- Saïd Mohammedi, Algerian revolutionary fighter (1912–1994)
- Cheik Mohamed el Mokrani, hero of the 1871 uprising, executed by the French the same year
- Lalla Fatma N'Soumer, woman who led western Kabylia in battle against French colonizers.
- Belkacem Radjef, Algerian nationalist (1909–1989)
- Abane Ramdane, joined the revolution in 1956, assassinated in 1957
Politicians
- Ferhat Abbas, Algerian politician and revolutionary
- Belaïd Abrika, one of the spokesmen of the Arouch
- Hocine Aït Ahmed, Algerian revolutionary fighter and secularist politician
- Mohand Arav Bessaoud, Algerian revolutionary, founder of the Berber Academy and 'spiritual father' of Berberism
- Malek Boutih, French politician
- Hadja Lahbib, Belgium politician
- Ferhat Mehenni, Kabyle secularist politician, President of the Provisional Government of Kabylia
- Ahmed Ouyahia, Algerian politician
- Saïd Sadi, Algerian secularist politician
Sportspeople
- Mehdi Tahrat, Algerian footballer
- Mohand Chérif Hannachi, Algerian footballer
- Maghnes Akliouche, French footballer
- Salah Larbès, Algerian footballer
- Yacine Adli, French footballer
- Karim Benzema, French footballer, Kabyle father
- Mustapha Dahleb, Algerian footballer
- Rabah Madjer, Algerian footballer
- Kylian Mbappé, French footballer, Kabyle mother
- Camel Meriem, French footballer
- Moussa Saib, Algerian footballer
- Zinedine Zidane, French footballer
Writers
- Arezki Aït-Larbi, writer, journalist and editor, participated in the Berber Spring
- Mouloud Mammeri, writer, anthropologist, linguist and editor
- Taos Amrouche, writer and singer, Berber activist
- Tahar Djaout, writer and journalist assassinated by the GIA in 1993
- Mouloud Feraoun, writer assassinated by the OAS
- Mustapha Ourrad, copy editor at Charlie Hebdo and victim of attack on their offices
- Salem Zenia, novelist and poet; novels: Tafrara, Ighil d Wefru
- Alice Zeniter, writer, Harki Kabyle father