List of people from Marrakesh

A List of people from Marrakesh. See also Category:People from Marrakesh.

  • Yusuf ibn Tashfin, prominent Almoravid king and founder of the city
  • Amine Amamou, footballer
  • Averroes, 12th-century Muslim philosopher
  • Abd al-Mu'min, first Almohad caliph
  • Qadi Ayyad, 12th-century Moroccan Maliki scholar
  • Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi, 13th-century Moroccan mathematician and astronomer
  • Ibn Idhari, 13th-century Moroccan historian
  • Abdelwahid al-Marrakushi, 13th-century Moroccan historian
  • Ahmad al-Mansur, prominent Saadi dynasty king
  • Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud, 16th-century Moroccan diplomat and ambassador to Elizabeth I of England; possible inspiration for Shakespeare's Othello character
  • Ahmad ibn Qasim Al-Hajarī, prominent 16th-century Morisco who escaped the Spanish Inquisition and worked as an ambassador for Morocco
  • Mohamed Abdelaziz, president of the Polisario Front
  • Juan Goytisolo, Spanish novelist
  • Yves Saint-Laurent, French designer and artist (1936–2008)
  • Jean-Paul Gaultier, French fashion designer and grand couturier
  • Elias Canetti, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981 (1905–1994)
  • Claude Auchinleck, British field marshal (1884–1981)
  • Josephine Baker, American-French singer and dancer (1906–1975)
  • Abdelali Mhamdi, professional goalkeeper.