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.