Lamine Guèye (20 September 1891 in Médine, French Sudan – 10 June 1968 in Dakar) was a Senegalese politician who became leader of the Parti Sénégalais de l'Action Socialiste ("Senegalese Party of Socialist Action"). In 1945 he and his associate, Léopold Sédar Senghor, were elected to represent Senegal in the French National Assembly. Gueye was also elected to the French Senate in 1958. He gave his name to the 1946 Lamine Guèye law (Loi Lamine Guèye) which granted French citizenship to all inhabitants of France's overseas colonies.
He died in Dakar on 10 June 1968. At the time, he was the President of the National Assembly.
He was the grandfather of Senegalese alpine skier Lamine Guèye.
Mural of Lamine Guèye in Dakar, Senegal
Mural of Lamine Guèye in Dakar, Senegal
Lamine Guèye (18 July 1960, Dakar) is a Senegalese skier, and the current president of the Senegalese Ski Federation, which he founded in 1979.
Guèye represented Senegal at the 1984, 1992 and 1994 Winter Olympics. He was the first Black African skier to take part in the Olympics, and has taken part twenty-five times in the Alpine skiing World Cup and five times in the Alpine World Ski Championships. He attempted to compete in the 2002 Winter Olympics, but was unable to do so when the qualification events which he was due to take part in were cancelled.
Guèye has been a prominent figure in drawing attention to what he considers to be discriminatory qualification rules for the Winter Olympics, and has written to the International Olympic Committee requesting that all countries be granted the right to participate in the Winter Games, as was the case up to 1992 (included), and as is still the case for the Summer Olympics. In 2001, he published the letter he had sent to Jacques Rogge, stating: