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The Berber (also called Amazigh, "free men", pl. Imazighen) are a predominantly Muslim ethnic group living in northern Africa, speaking an Afroasiatic language. They most probably descend from the Capsian culture, which entered North Africa, probably from the African coast of the Red Sea (according to the historian Christopher Ehret) about 8000 BC.

The Berber is a horse breed developed by the Berber people.

Masinissa, King of Numidia, North Africa, present day Algeria and Tunisia.
Jugurtha, King of Numidia
Ibn Battuta (1304 - 1377), Moroccan traveller and explorer
Tariq ibn Ziyad, one of the leaders of the Moorish invasion of Spain in 711.
Abd el-Krim, leader of the Rif guerrillas against the Spanish and French colonizers.
Ibn Tumart, founder of a dynasty
Si Mohand, Kabyle folk poet
Ali Lmrabet, Moroccan journalist.
Zinedine Zidane (1972 - ), French football superstar.