Sherif
Sherif, also spelled Sharif, is a proper name derived from the Arabic word [sharif|], originally a title designating a person descended from the family of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. More broadly, the title was historically applied to anyone of noble ancestry or political preeminence in Islamic countries.
The name has no etymological connection with the English term sheriff, which comes from the Old English word scīrgerefa, meaning "shire-reeve", the local reeve of the king in the shire.
Given name
- Sherif Abdel-Fadil, Egyptian footballer
- Sherif Ahmeti, commentator and translator of the Quran into Albanian
- Sherif Alaa, Egyptian footballer
- Sherif Arafa, Egyptian director, writer and producer
- Sherif Ashraf, Egyptian footballer
- Sherif Boubaghla, Algerian military resistance leader who led a struggle against the French colonial invasion
- Sherif Dabo, Egyptian footballer
- Sherif Desoky, Egyptian actor, director, author, and storyteller
- Sherif Ekramy, Egyptian goalkeeper
- Sherif El Bendary, Egyptian film director, writer and producer
- Sherif El-Digwy, Egyptian judoka.
- Sherif El-Erian, Egyptian modern pentathlete
- Sherif El-Khashab, Egyptian football manager
- Sherif El-Masri, Canadian soccer player
- Sherif El-Saket, Egyptian table tennis player.
- Sherif El Shemerly, Egyptian volleyball coach
- Sherif Farrag, Egyptian-American fencer
- Sherif Fawaz Sharaf, retired Jordanian administrator and ambassador
- Sherif Fawzy, Egyptian footballer
- Sherif Fouad Aboulkheir, Egyptian basketball player
- Sherif Gaber, Egyptian political activist and blogger who was arrested for atheist activism
- Sherif Genedy, Egyptian basketball player
- Sherif Ismail, Egyptian engineer who served as Prime Minister of Egypt between 2015 and 2018
- Sherif Jimoh, Ivorian footballer
- Sherif Kallaku, Albanian footballer
- Sherif Khalil, Egyptian water polo player
- Sherif Langu, Albanian politician and one of the founding fathers of Albania
- Sherif Medhat, Egyptian footballer
- Sherif Mohie El Din, Egyptian conductor and composer
- Sherif Moemen, Egyptian handball player
- Sherif Mounir, Egyptian actor
- Sherif Othman, Egyptian Paralympic powerlifter
- Sherif Sabri Pasha, Egyptian politician
- Sherif Sabry, Egyptian tennis player
- Sherif Sadiku, Albanian footballer
- Sherif Salama, Egyptian actor
- Sherif Saleh, Egyptian sports shooter
- Sherif Sonbol, Egyptian photographer
- Sherif Touré Coubageat, former Togolese footballer
- Sherif Voca, Albanian politician
Surname
- Abdusalam Al-Sherif, Saudi footballer
- Ahmed Sherif, Egyptian footballer
- Ali Pasha Sherif, Egyptian government official and breeder of Arabian horses
- Amro Sherif, Egyptian basketball player
- Basem Al-Sherif, Saudi footballer
- Carolyn Sherif, American social psychologist, helped to develop social judgment theory
- Feroz Sherif, former Indian footballer and coach
- Hassan Sherif, Ethiopian boxer
- Hoza'a Sherif, Lebanese diplomat
- Hussein Sherif, Egyptian taekwondo practitioner
- Ihab el-Sherif, Egyptian ambassador to Iraq, killed by Iraqi kidnappers in July 2005
- K. S. G. Haja Shareef, Indian politician
- Lamine Kaba Sherif, Guinean footballer
- Manal al-Sharif, Saudi women's right's activist
- Manar al-Sharif, Syrian peace activist
- Mayar Sherif, Egyptian tennis player
- Mohammed Ismail Sherif, known as Black Sherif, Ghanaian musician and performer
- Mohamed Saad El Din Sherif, Egyptian general and Chairman of the Arab Scout Parliamentary Union
- Mohamed Sherif Mohamed Ragaei Bakr, Egyptian footballer
- Muzafer Sherif, Turkish-American psychologist, one of the founders of social psychology
- Nahed Sherif, Egyptian actress
- Nour El-Sherif, Egyptian actor
- Rana Sherif Ahmed, Egyptian tennis player
- Safwat El-Sherif, Egyptian politician
- Saida Sherif, Pakistani-British broadcaster, educationalist, humanitarian and poet
- Seif Asser Sherif, Egyptian trampolinist
- Sultan Al-Sherif, Saudi footballer
- Uche Sherif, Nigerian footballer
- Vamba Sherif, Liberian-born writer
- Youssef El Sherif, Egyptian actor