What is "cherif"

Cherif \Cher"if\ (sh[e^]r"[i^]f), n. See Sherif.

Chérif or Cherif may refer to:

• Aïn Sidi Chérif, town and commune in Mostaganem Province, Algeria
• Abdennour Cherif El Ouazzani (born 1986), Algerian football player
• Ahmed Bey ben Mohamed Chérif (1784–1850), the last Bey of Constantine, Algeria, ruling from 1826 to 1848
• Chérif Abdeslam (born 1978), Algerian football player
• Chérif Oudjani, (born 1964), former football player
• Chérif Ousmane Sarr (born 1986), midfielder
• Chérif Souleymane (born 1944), former Guinean footballer
• Cherif Al Idrissi Airport (IATA: AHU, ICAO: GMTA) is an airport serving Al Hoceima, Morocco, the capital city of the Taza-Al Hoceima-Taounate region in northern Morocco
• Cherif Guellal (1932–2009), Algerian businessman and diplomat who fought in the Algerian independence movement
• Cipriano Rivas Cherif (1891–1967), Spanish playwright and director, owner of the Caracol Theatre Club
• Fatima Zohra Cherif (born 1986), Algerian volleyball player
• Ilès Ziane Cherif (born 1984), Algerian football player
• M. Cherif Bassiouni (born 1937), Muslim international United Nations war crimes expert
• Mahmoud Cherif (1912–1987), Algerian military leader and politician
• Mamam Cherif Touré (born 1981), Togolese football midfielder
• Miss Webster and Chérif, novel by Patricia Duncker first published in 2006
• Mohand Chérif Hannachi (born 1950), former Algerian football player and current chairman of Algerian club JS Kabylie
• Moulay Ali Cherif (died 1659), allegedly a descendant of l-Hesn d-Dakhl, considered to have been the founder of the Alaouite Dynasty of Morocco
• Moulay Ali Cherif Airport (IATA: ERH, ICAO: GMFK), an airport serving Errachidia (Er-Rachidia), a town in the Meknès-Tafilalet region in Morocco
• Sid Ali Yahia-Chérif, (born 1985), Algerian football player
• Tahar Cherif El-Ouazzani (born 1967), in Oran is a former Algerian football midfielder and current head coach of MC Oran
• Wafa Cherif (born 1986), Tunisian handball goalkeeper
• Walid Cherif (born 1978), boxer from Tunisia, who won the gold medal in 2003 at the All-Africa Games in Abuja, Nigeria

Cherif is a French police television series produced by Lionel Olenga, Laurent Scalese and Stéphane Drouet, broadcast since October 25, 2013 on France 2.