Turay Explained

Turay is an English transcription of a West African surname (the French transcription is Touré, another English one is Touray). Notable people with the name include:

• Andrew Turay, politician in Sierra Leone
• Edward Turay, politician in Sierra Leone
• Fatmata Turay, (born 1987), beauty queen who represented Sierra Leone in Miss World 2007 in Sanya, China
• Kemoko Turay, American football player
• Samori Turay (c. 1830 – 1900), the founder of the Wassoulou Empire, an Islamic state that resisted French rule in West Africa
• Sitta Umaru Turay (born 1978), Sierra Leonean journalist and member of the editorial board of the Sierra Express newspaper