List of Famous people born in Morocco

Ghani Yalouz is a French former wrestler who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics, in the 1996 Summer Olympics, and in the 2000 Summer Olympics.

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.

Lahcen Daoudi is a Moroccan politician of the Justice and Development Party. Since 3 January 2012, he holds the position of Minister of "Higher Education and Scientific Research" in Abdelilah Benkirane's government.

Driss Lachgar is a Moroccan politician of the Socialist Union of Popular Forces (USFP) party. Between 2010 and 2012, he held the position of Minister of Relations with the Parliament in the cabinet of Abbas El Fassi.

Mohamed Lahyani is a Swedish tennis umpire. He is a Gold Badge Chair Umpire certified by the Association of Tennis Professionals. He is noted for presiding over the longest match in professional tennis history at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships. He was briefly suspended in 2018 for words of encouragement to Nick Kyrgios during a US Open match between Kyrgios and Pierre-Hugues Herbert.

Shatha Amjad Al-Hassoun, better known as Shatha Hassoun, is an Arab singer of Iraqi and Moroccan ancestry, who rose to fame as the winner of the 4th season of the pan-Arab television talent show Star Academy Arab World. She was the first Arab woman to win the competition. She is currently one of the most popular singers in both the Middle East and Maghreb region, and is referred to as the "daughter of Mesopotamia".

Abdelkebir Ouaddar is a Moroccan equestrian. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the individual jumping event, in which he tied for 50th place. He was the flag bearer for Morocco at the Parade of Nations.

Dina Bousselham is a Moroccan political advisor, candidate, and political scientist affiliated with the Spanish political party Podemos, and the director of the online newspaper La Última Hora! As a political science student at the Complutense University of Madrid she took classes with Pablo Iglesias Turrión, who was a lecturer there. When Iglesias founded Podemos in 2014 and won election as a Member of the European Parliament, he chose Bousselham as the head of his cabinet of advisors. Bousselham was later named as a manager of the Podemos party apparatus in Madrid, and she was chosen in a primary election as a Podemos candidate for the regional citizens council in 2019. However, after her application for Spanish citizenship was denied, she was not able to contest the general election. In 2020, she left Podemos to head the digital news service La Última Hora!

Mounir Majidi is a Moroccan businessman. He has been the personal secretary of King Mohammed VI since 2000 and president of the royal holding, SIGER, since 2002. He is also the president of Maroc Culture, the organization behind the Mawazine festival, of the Fath Union Sport (FUS) Rabat, of the Mohammed VI soccer academy, and of the Cheikh Zaid hospital’s foundation.

Asma Lamnawar is a Moroccan singer. She made her singing debut in 1995 with "Angham", a festival produced by Moroccan Radio and TV, where she won the prize for best interpretation, though she delayed beginning her musical career until 2002. She has recorded music for Moroccan television serials and films. She toured with the ensemble "Oriental Mood" in Denmark, Sweden and especially in Egypt.