List of Famous people born in Fès-Meknès, Morocco

Bernard Lugan is a French historian who specialised in African history. He is a professor at the Institut des hautes études de défense nationale (IHEDN) and the editor of the journal L'Afrique réelle. Lugan previously taught at Jean Moulin University Lyon 3 and at the special military school of Saint-Cyr until 2015. He served as an expert witness for Hutu defendants involved in the Rwandan genocide at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Close to the far-right, Lugan is a self-declared monarchist and right-wing anarchist.

Mostafa Terrab has been the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Moroccan state-owned phosphate-mining company OCP since 2006. Since 2019 Terrab has also been President of the International Fertilizer Organisation. He was an adviser to the late His Majesty King Hassan II and member of the G-14 think-tank, which counted figures such as Taieb Fassi-Fihri and Driss Jettou.

Eva Illouz is a professor of Sociology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. She was the first woman president of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design.

Mohammed Karim Lamrani was a Moroccan politician who was the Prime Minister of Morocco for three separate terms.

Naima El Bezaz was a Moroccan-Dutch writer, who also gave lectures and wrote stories, essays and columns.

Othman Slimani was a Moroccan economist and banker.

Aḥmad al-Badawī, also known as Al-Sayyid al-Badawī, or as al-Badawī for short, or reverentially as Shaykh al-Badawī by all those Sunni Muslims who venerate saints, was a 13th-century Moroccan Sunni Muslim mystic who became famous as the founder of the Badawiyyah order of Sufism. Originally hailing from Fes, al-Badawi eventually settled for good in Tanta, Egypt in 1236, whence he developed a posthumous reputation as "Egypt's greatest saint." As al-Badawi is perhaps "the most popular of Muslim saints in Egypt", his tomb has remained a "major site of visitation" for Muslims in the region.

Mohammed Kabbaj was the Wali (governor) of Greater Casablanca, one of the old 16 Regions of Morocco. He was Minister of Economy and Finance from February 1995 to August 1997.

Abdellatif Hammouchi is the head of the Moroccan national police directorate, the General Directorate for National Security or DGST as well as head of secret services, the General Directorate for Territorial Surveillance or DGST . He is also an advisor to Mohammed VI on terrorism-related affairs.

Taoufik Bouachrine is a Moroccan journalist and editor.