Dida Diafat (born 24 April 1970) is an Algerian-French Muay Thai kickboxer who became a world champion in Thai kickboxing or Muay Thai at age 21.

[1] A fictionalised version of his life is depicted in the 2005 movie Chok-Dee, in which he plays himself.

[2] At the age of 18, Dida Diafat left the town of Villiers le Bel (Val d'Oise) to join the Muay Thai training camps of Thailand and became 3 years later the first Algerian and Frenchman to be a Muay Thai world champion.

He became the first Thai kickboxing fighter to win a contract with a French television channel - specifically, Canal+ in 1994.

Following the release of Chok Dee he retired from kickboxing and decided to pursue a career in acting and in the clothing business.