Cissé is a common West African name of Soninke origin, and the meaning of Cissé is the white horse in the same language.
Notable people with the surname include:
Sports
- Abdoulaye Cissé (b. 1983), Burkinabé footballer
- Aboubacar Cissé (b. 1969), Ivorian footballer
- Aliou Cissé (b. 1976), Senegalese footballer and coach
- Amadou Cissé (b. 1985), French-Guinean footballer
- Babacar Cissé (b. 1975), Senegalese basketball player
- Brahima Cissé (b. 1976), Burkinabé footballer
- Djibril Cissé (b. 1981), French footballer
- Édouard Cissé (b. 1978), French footballer
- Fousseyni Cissé (b. 1989), French footballer
- Ibrahima Cissé (b. 1994), Belgian-Guinean footballer
- Kalifa Cissé (b. 1984), Malian footballer
- Mangué Cissé (1945–2009), Ivorian footballer
- Mohamed Cissé (b. 1982), Guinean footballer
- Morlaye Cissé (b. 1983), Guinean footballer
- Ousmane Cissé (b. 1982), Malian basketball player
- Papiss Cissé (b. 1985), Senegalese footballer
- Salim Cissé (b. 1992), Guinean footballer
- Sekou Cissé (b. 1985), Ivorian footballer
Others
- Abdoulkader Cissé (b. 1955) Burkinabé politician
- Amadou Cissé (b. 1948), Nigerien politician, former Prime Minister of Niger (1995; 1996–97)
- Boubou Cissé, Malian politician
- Mohamed Cissé (b. 1998), Ivorian/Malian Investor
- Inna Sissoko Cissé, Malian government official
- Madjiguène Cissé (1951–2023), Senegalese activis
- Massata Cissé (b. 1961), Burkinabé woman, first female truck driver in West Africa
- Shaykh Hassan Cissé (1945–2008), Senegalese Islamic scholar
- Souleymane Cissé (1940–2025), Malian film director
- Soumaïla Cissé (1949–2020), Malian politician
- Tanja Cissé (born 1980), Liechtenstein politician
See also
- Cisse (disambiguation)
- Ceesay (spelling variant of the same surname)
- Cissé, Vienne, a French commune