List of Famous people born in Morocco
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.
Salma Rachid
Salma Rachid is a Moroccan pop singer at the age of 18 following her participation in the second season of Arab Idol, broadcast on MBC. The youngest contestant, she earned fifth place and was praised for the strength of her voice, her ability to master various styles, and her charisma. She was nicknamed El Sultana by her fans and considers Umm Kulthum among her main inspiration.
Mounir el-Motassadeq
Mounir el-Motassadeq was convicted by a German court of being a member of al-Qaeda and of assisting some of the hijackers in the September 11 attacks. He was initially convicted of involvement in the attack, but his sentence was set aside on appeal, then reinstated on further appeal. On 8 January 2007, he was sentenced to serve 15 years by the court of Hanseatisches Oberlandesgericht, Hamburg, because of 246 counts of accessory to murder in coincidence with membership in a terrorist organisation. On 15 October 2018, el-Motassadeq was deported to Morocco after serving his sentence.
Achraf Bencharki
Achraf Bencharki is a Moroccan professional footballer who plays for Egyptian Club Zamalek SC. He can be deployed as a left winger or as a forward.
Céline Monsarrat
Céline Monsarrat is a French actress best known for her voice dubbing work. Monsarrat is the French dubbing voice of Julia Roberts in all of her films, the voice of Dory in the French dub of Finding Nemo, the French dubbing voice of Anne Heche, and the voice of Anastasia in the animated film of the same name. Monsarrat is also a playwright, and has contributed many plays to the world of theater.
Adel Mechaal
Adel Mechaal is a Morocco-born Spanish middle-distance runner. He competed in the 1500 metres event at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships and in the Men's 1500m at the 2015 and 2017 IAAF World Championships.
Amine
Amine Mounder best known with his mononym Amine is a French-Moroccan R&B singer. He is known for his singular music style, Raï'n'B, which is a mix of R&B and Raï.
Alain Badiou
Alain Badiou is a French philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École normale supérieure (ENS) and founder of the faculty of Philosophy of the Université de Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and Jean-François Lyotard. Badiou has written about the concepts of being, truth, event and the subject in a way that, he claims, is neither postmodern nor simply a repetition of modernity. Badiou has been involved in a number of political organisations, and regularly comments on political events. Badiou argues for a return of communism as a political force.
Abdelilah Benkirane
Abdelilah Benkirane is a Moroccan politician who was Prime Minister of Morocco from November 2011 to March 2017. After having won a plurality of seats in the 2011 parliamentary election, his party, the moderate Islamist Justice and Development Party formed a coalition with three parties that had been part of previous governments.