List of people from Tangier

This is a list of people from Tangier:

Born

 * Abdullah al-Ghumari – Muslim cleric
 * Ibn Battuta – Berber scholar and traveller
 * Ralph Benmergui – Canadian TV and radio host at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 * Alexandre Rey Colaço – Portuguese pianist
 * Karim Debbagh – Moroccan film producer
 * Roger Elliott – first British Governor of Gibraltar
 * Bibiana Fernández – Spanish actress and model
 * Antonio Fuentes – painter described as the 'Picasso of Tangier'
 * Sanaa Hamri – Moroccan music video director
 * Emmanuel Hocquard – French poet
 * Jean-Luc Mélenchon – French politician, currently MEP
 * Zakaria Ramhani – Moroccan visual artist
 * Alexander Spotswood – American Lieutenant-Colonel and Lieutenant Governor of Virginia
 * Heinz Tietjen – German music composer
 * Samuel Toledano – Spanish-Jewish leader
 * Abderrahmane Youssoufi – former Prime Minister of Morocco

Settled or sojurned

 * Lancelot Addison – English chaplain and the author of West Barbary, or a Short Narrative of the Revolutions of the Kingdoms of Fex and Morocco (1671)
 * José Luis Alcaine – Spanish-born cinematographer
 * William Bayer – American crime fiction writer, author of the novel Tangier
 * Bill Bird – American journalist and the founder of Tangier Gazette
 * Jane Bowles – American writer; wife of Paul Bowles
 * Paul Bowles – American writer and composer; lived in Tangier for 52 years and died there
 * Claudio Bravo – painter
 * William S. Burroughs – American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer; lived in Tangier four years
 * Truman Capote – American novelist and writer, who visited Tangier
 * João de Castro – Portuguese naval officer and fourth viceroy of the Portuguese Indies
 * Ira Cohen – American poet, publisher, photographer and filmmaker;  published one issue of a magazine called Gnaoua
 * Eugène Delacroix – French Romantic painter
 * Jim Ede – English art collector
 * Malcolm Forbes – publisher of Forbes magazine
 * Sean Gullette – American actor and writer
 * Brion Gysin – English writer and painter
 * Mohamed Hamri – Moroccan painter, described as the 'Picasso of Morocco'
 * Friedrich von Holstein – German statesman
 * Barbara Hutton – wealthy American socialite dubbed by the media as the "Poor Little Rich Girl" because of her troubled life, lived in Tangier during the summer months from 1947 to 1975
 * Gavin Lambert – American (British-born) biographer, novelist and Hollywood screenwriter(and close friend of Paul Bowles), who lived 15 years in Tangier
 * Bernard-Henri Lévy – French journalist and intellectual
 * Henri Matisse – French painter
 * Joseph McPhillips III – American theater director and the headmaster of The American School of Tangier; died in Tangier
 * Mohamed Mrabet – Moroccan storyteller
 * Joe Orton – British playwright
 * Ion Perdicaris – US-Greek playboy who was the centre of the Perdicaris incident, a kidnapping that aroused international conflict in 1904
 * George John Pinwell – English painter
 * Edward Reichmann – Austro-Hungarian and Canadian businessman
 * Reichmann family (including Edward) – rich immigrant Jewish family from Austro-Hungary and Canada
 * David Roberts – Scottish painter
 * Yves Saint-Laurent – French fashion designer
 * J. Slauerhoff – Dutch poet and novelist
 * Kenneth Williams – British humourist
 * Paula Wolfert – American food writer, author of two Moroccan cookbooks, lived in Tangier for eight years

Died

 * Abdullah al-Ghumari – Muslim cleric
 * Ibn Battuta – 14th-century traveller and diarist; born in Tangier in 1304 and is said to have been buried there in 1368
 * Paul Bowles – expatriate American writer and composer
 * Mohamed Choukri – Moroccan novelist; died in Rabat, buried in the Marshan, Tangier
 * George Elliott – probably the illegitimate son of Richard Eliot; Chirurgeon to the Earl of Teviot's Regiment at Tangier
 * George Fleetwood – one of the regicides of Charles I; brought to trial and sentenced to imprisonment in the Tower of London; may have been transported to Tangier
 * Paul Lukas – Hungarian actor
 * Joseph McPhillips III – American theater director and headmaster of the American School of Tangier
 * John Middleton, 1st Earl of Middleton – commander-in-chief of the troops in Scotland under the reign of Charles II