List of Famous people with last name Traore

Rokia Traoré is a Malian-born singer, songwriter and guitarist.

Abdou Razack Traoré is an Ivorian-born Burkinabe professional footballer who plays for Turkish club Giresunspor.

Sammy Traoré is a French and Malian football manager, as a player his preferred position was a defender. He made good use of the stepover technique, rarely seen in defenders, to maintain possession and also start attacking moves.

Adama Traoré is a Malian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Turkish club Hatayspor and the Mali national team.

Adama Traoré is an Ivorian professional footballer who plays for A-League club Melbourne Victory as a left back. Traoré is a dual national, possessing both an Ivorian passport and an Australian passport.

Aminata Dramane Traoré is a Malian author, politician, and political activist. She served as the Minister of Culture and Tourism of Mali from 1997 to 2000 and also worked as coordinator of the United Nations Development Programme. She is the current Coordinator of Forum pour l'autre Mali and Associate Coordinator of the International Network for Cultural Diversity and was elected to the board of the International Press Service in July 2005. She is a member of the scientific committee of the Fundacion IDEAS, Spain's Socialist Party's think tank.

Dioncounda Traoré is a Malian politician who was President of Mali in an interim capacity from April 2012 to September 2013. Previously he was President of the National Assembly of Mali from 2007 to 2012, and he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1994 to 1997. He was President of the Alliance for Democracy in Mali-African Party for Solidarity and Justice (ADEMA-PASJ) beginning in 2000, and he was also President of the Alliance for Democracy and Progress (ADP), an alliance of parties that supported the re-election of President Amadou Toumani Touré in 2007.

Aminata Traoré is an Ivorian taekwondo practitioner.