People on Ivory-coast's street signs

Félix Houphouët-Boigny

4 Félix Houphouët-Boigny, affectionately called Papa Houphouët or Le Vieux, was a politician and physician who served as the first president of Ivory Coast, from 1960 until his death in 1993. A tribal...

Hassan II of Morocco

2 Hassan II was King of Morocco from 1961 until his death in 1999. A member of the Alawi dynasty, he was the eldest son of King Mohammed V, and his second wife Princess Abla bint Tahar.

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

2 Valéry René Marie Georges Giscard d'Estaing, also known as simply Giscard or VGE, was a French politician who served as President of France from 1974 to 1981.

Gabriel de Clieu

2 Gabriel-Mathieu Francois D'ceus de Clieu was a French naval officer and the governor of Guadeloupe from 1737 to 1752 and the founder of Pointe-à-Pitre. He was awarded the rank of commander of the...

Charles de Gaulle

2 Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces against Nazi Germany and Vichy France in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of...

Maurice Delafosse

2 Maurice Delafosse was a French ethnographer and colonial official who also worked in the field of the languages of Africa. In a review of his daughter's biography of him he was described as "one of...

Henri Terrasson de Fougères

2 Henri Terrasson de Fougères né le 20 février 1881[réf. nécessaire] à Beaucaire (Gard) et mort à Mâcon le 5 mai 1931, fut lieutenant-gouverneur du Haut-Sénégal-Niger puis gouverneur général du Soudan...

Émile Boga Doudou

2 Émile Boga Doudou was an Ivorian politician who was minister of state for the interior and decentralization from 2000 to 2002. He was killed in the failed coup attempt at the start of the Ivorian...