title: Kalifa
text: # Kalifa
  
  Kalifa is a given name or a surname derived from caliph and caliphate
  
  Khalifa or Khalifah is a name or title which means "successor", "leader" or "ruler". It most commonly refers to the leader of a Caliphate, but is also used as a title among various Islamic religious groups and orders. Khalifa is sometimes also pronounced as "kalifa".
  
  ## People
  
  ### Given name
  
  * Kalifa Cissé (born 1984), Malian footballer
  * Kalifa Coulibaly (born 1991), Malian footballer
  * Kalifa Faifai Loa (born 1990), New Zealand rugby league footballer
  * Kalifa Kambi (1955–2011), Gambian politician and government minister. Also member of the African Union's Pan-African Parliament from Gambia
  * Kalifa Tillisi (1930–2010), Libyan historian, translator, and linguist
  * Kalifa Traoré (born 1991), Malian footballer
  
  ### Surname
  
  * Dominique Kalifa, French historian, professor
  * Moussa Mohamed Kalifa (born 1967), Libyan citizen who was charged with being a member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, and accused of participating in terrorism after he attempted to move to Canada as a refugee under a false name in 2001
  * Sahim Omar Kalifa (born 1980), Belgian-Kurdish filmmaker
  
  ## Fictional characters
  
  * Kalifa (One Piece), character in the manga and anime series One Piece
  
  ## House of Khalifa
  
  * Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa
  * Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain
  * Meriam Al Khalifa
  