List of Famous people born in Casablanca-Settat, Morocco
Bruno Delaye
Christine Orban
Arié Elmaleh
Titouan Lamazou
Titouan Lamazou is a French navigator, artist and writer, born on July 11, 1955 in Casablanca, Morocco. He was actually born Antoine Lamazou, he officially took the name Titouan Lamazou in 1986. After a stint at the Fine Arts, he went travelling at the age of 18 where he met with Eric Tabarly who encouraged him into adventure sailing winning the first Vendée Globe in 1991.
Sylvie Lancrenon
Philippe-Joseph Salazar
Philippe-Joseph Salazar, a French rhetorician and philosopher, was born on February 10, 1955 in Casablanca, then part of French Morocco. Salazar attended the Lycée Louis-le-Grand a prestigious secondary-school in Paris before studying philosophy, politics and literature at the École Normale Supérieure. Since 1999 Salazar is a Distinguished Professor in Rhetoric at the University of Cape Town, South Africa and presently affiliated to the Law School. Salazar writes a regular column in the French public intellectual online magazine Les Influences. Salazar's lifelong achievements made him the recipient of Africa's premier research award in 2008, the Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award. In 2015 he received a prestigious French literary prize for political non-fiction, Prix Bristol des Lumières, for his book on the rhetoric of jihadism: Paroles armées (2015), translated in four languages.
Pierre Fulla
Nawal El Moutawakel
Nawal El Moutawakel is a Moroccan former hurdler, who won the inaugural women's 400 metres hurdles event at the 1984 Summer Olympics, and was the inaugural female, Muslim, born in Africa, Moroccan to become an Olympic medalist (gold). In 2007, El Moutawakel was named the Minister of Sports in the upcoming cabinet of Morocco.
Delphine McCarty
Mohamed Benchaâboun
Mohamed Benchaaboun is a Moroccan banker, politician and diplomat. He has been Morocco's ambassador to France since 17 October 2021. He was Minister of Economy, Finance and Administration Reform of Morocco from 2018 to 2021.