List of Famous people born in Casablanca-Settat, Morocco
Ayoub El Kaabi
Ayoub El Kaabi is a Moroccan footballer who currently plays as a forward or winger for Hebei China Fortune and the Morocco national team. He was the top goalscorer of the CHAN 2018 taking place on home soil with 9 goals, thus making him the first player to reach that tally in a single competition, having surpassed the previous record set by Zambia's Given Singuluma who had scored 5 goals in 2009.
Mohamed Chibi
Mohamed Chibi is a Moroccan professional footballer who plays as a right-back for AS FAR, and the Morocco national team.
Dounia Batma
Dounia Batma is a Moroccan singer who rose to popularity around the world as the runner-up of the first season of Arab Idol on MBC. She lost the title against Egyptian contestant Carmen Suleiman. She married Mohamed Al Turk the father of Bahrain's famous singer Hala Al Turke
Charlie Biton
Charlie-Shalom Biton is an Israeli social activist and former politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Hadash and the Black Panthers between 1977 and 1992.
Daniel Pennacchioni
Daniel Pennac is a French writer. He received the Prix Renaudot in 2007 for his essay Chagrin d'école.
Katherine Pancol
Katherine Pancol is a journalist and bestselling French novelist. Her books have been translated into some 30 languages, and sold millions of copies worldwide. In the United States, she is known as the author of The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles and its sequel, The Slow Waltz of Turtles, both translated by William Rodarmor.
Zineb Triki
Zineb Triki is a French actress of Moroccan descent, known for her role as Nadia El Mansour in the French television series The Bureau.
Hamza Mendyl
Hamza Mendyl is a Moroccan professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Schalke 04.
Robin Campillo
Robin Campillo is a Moroccan-born French screenwriter, editor and film director. He is known for his work on films such as The Class (2008), Heading South (2005), the French zombie film They Came Back (2004), Eastern Boys (2013), and Time Out (2001), the latter of which was placed at ninety-nine on Slant Magazine's best films of the 2000s, number nine of The Guardian's Best Films of the noughties, and number eleven at The A.V. Club's top fifty films of the 2000s. In 2017, he released 120 BPM which received mass acclaim and went on to garner many awards, including the Grand Prix and 2017 César Award for Best Film.
Virginie Ledieu
Virginie Ledieu is a French voice actress who specializes in dubbing. She is the daughter of Marion Game. She is the official dubbing voice of Alyson Hannigan.