Samory Toure (– June 2, 1900), also known as Samori Toure, Samory Touré, or Almamy Samore Lafiya Toure, was a Mandinka Muslim cleric, military strategist, and founder of the Wassoulou Empire, an Islamic empire that was stretched across present-day north and eastern Guinea, north-eastern Sierra Leone, southern Mali, northern Côte d'Ivoire and part of southern Burkina Faso.

Joseph Donald Ture Jr. (born February 7, 1951) is an American serial killer and kidnapper who was convicted of murdering six people and perpetrating numerous rapes in Minnesota between 1978 and 1980.