Editing Dakar (section)

== Notable people ==
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*[[Abdoulaye Faye]], footballer
*[[Akon]], R&B singer
*[[Baaba Maal]], singer and guitarist
*[[Babacar Khane]], yoga practitioner
*[[Boris Diaw]], basketball player
*[[Bouna Coundoul]], footballer
*[[Cheikh Anta Diop]], Historian, anthropologist, physicist, politician [[Cheikh Anta Diop University]]
*[[Cheikh Samb]], basketball player
*[[DeSagana Diop]], former basketball player, head coach of the [[Westchester Knicks]]
*[[Didier Raoult]], microbiologist and virologist, was born in Dakar in 1952
*[[Fatou Samba]], member of South Korean girl group [[Blackswan]]
*[[Hamady N'Diaye]], basketball player
*[[Ibou Badji]], basketball player
*[[Ibrahim Ba]], former footballer
*[[Ismaël Lô]], singer-songwriter
*[[Idrissa Gueye]], footballer
*[[Issa (Senegalese singer)|Issa]], R&B singer
*[[Macoumba Kandji]], footballer
*[[Mamadou N'Diaye (basketball, born 1975)|Mamadou N'Diaye]], former basketball player for [[Auburn Tigers men's basketball|Auburn University]] and the [[Toronto Raptors]]
*[[Mame Biram Diouf]], footballer
*[[Marc Lièvremont]], former [[rugby union|rugby]] player and former head coach of the [[France national rugby union team]]
*[[Marcel Lefebvre]], Founder of the [[SSPX]], Apostolic delegate to Pope [[Pius XII]], and [[Archbishop of Dakar]].
*[[Mbaye Diagne]], United Nations military observer and hero during the Rwandan genocide
*[[Mouhamed Gueye]], basketball player
*[[Ofeibea Quist-Arcton]], foreign correspondent for NPR News
*[[Orchestra Baobab]]
*[[Ousmane Barro]], basketball player
*[[Papa Amadou Kante]], basketball player
*[[Papa Bouba Diop]], former footballer
*[[Pape Paté Diouf]], football player
*[[Papiss Cisse]], footballer
*[[Patrice Evra]], former footballer,
*[[Patrick Vieira]], former footballer
*[[Pélagie Gbaguidi]], contemporary artist
*[[Sadio Mane]], footballer
*[[N'Goné Fall]], cultural consultant
*[[Sheck Wes]], rapper, songwriter, model
*[[Ségolène Royal]], French politician born in Dakar
*[[Souleyman Sané]], former footballer
*[[Tacko Fall]], basketball player
*[[Thione Seck]], singer and songwriter
*[[Wasis Diop]], musician
*[[Youssou N'Dour]], singer and percussionist
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