List of Famous people born in Abidjan Autonomous District
Martin Djetou
Martin Okelo Djetou is a French former footballer who played as a defender.
Isaach de Bankolé
Isaach or Isaac de Bankolé is an Ivorian-French-American actor.
Lago Júnior
Lago Junior Wakalible, known as Junior, is an Ivorian footballer who plays for Spanish club RCD Mallorca as a forward.
Katell Quillévéré
Katell Quillévéré is a French film director and screenwriter, known for directing the films Love Like Poison (2010) and Suzanne (2013). In 2015 she was selected to be a member of the jury for the International Critics' Week section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
Michel Soro
Michel Soro is a French professional boxer. He challenged for the WBO and IBO light middleweight titles in 2012, and the WBA interim super welterweight title in 2017. At regional level, he held the EBU European middleweight title, the WBO European junior middleweight title twice, and the WBA International super welterweight title. As of November 2020, Soro is ranked is the world’s eighth best active light middleweight by The Ring magazine and seventh best by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board.
Mohamed Koffi
Mohamed Koffi is an Ivory Coast-born Burkinabé footballer.
Abdou Razack Traoré
Abdou Razack Traoré is an Ivorian-born Burkinabe professional footballer who plays for Turkish club Giresunspor.
Amara Diané
Amara Salim Diané is an Ivorian former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Gauz
Gauz is the author name of Patrick Armand-Gbaka Brede. He was born in 1971 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
Serge Beynaud
Serge Beynaud is an Ivorian singer, songwriter and music producer, associated with styles such as Coupé-Décalé and Loko loko.