List of Famous people born in Morocco

Mohammed Rabii is a Moroccan boxer. He won a bronze medal in the men's welterweight event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Hindi Zahra is a Moroccan singer and actress. When coming up with a stage name, she simply inverted her birth name. Her songs are mostly in English but some lyrics as in the song "Imik Si Mik" are in the Berber language.

Abdellah Taïa is a Moroccan writer and filmmaker who writes in the French language and has been based in Paris since 1998. He has published eight novels, many of them heavily autobiographical. His books have been translated into Basque, Dutch, German, English, Italian, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Danish and Arabic.

Samia Akario is a Moroccan actress and director born in Chefchaouen, Morocco.

Laurence de la Ferrière is a French mountaineer, explorer and writer. After breaking the woman's world record for altitude without oxygen on Mount Everest in 1992, in 1997 she became the first French woman to reach the South Pole alone, covering some 1,400 km in 57 days. More recently she has coordinated work at the French Antarctic station Dumont d'Urville.

Zeinab Suma Jammeh is the former First Lady of the Gambia and the main wife of the former President of the Gambia, Yahya Jammeh.

Fouad Ali El Himma is an influential Moroccan politician and senior advisor for Mohammed VI of whom he is said to be a very close friend. Since he became Secretary of State in the Ministry of the Interior in November 1999, he has played a prominent role in the Moroccan State. In 2008, he founded the Authenticity and Modernity Party. El Himma was a classmate of Mohammed VI at the Collège Royale and was the director of his cabinet when he was crown prince.

Christian de Portzamparc is a French architect and urbanist.

Najat Aâtabou is a Moroccan singer, songwriter and composer.

Hamid Chabat is a Moroccan politician and the previous Secretary-General of the Istiqlal Party. Hamid Chabat has been the mayor of Fes since October 2003 and was elected on 23 September 2003 to lead his party, defeating rival Abdelouahed El Fassi, a relative of former incumbent Abbas El Fassi and grandson of Allal El Fassi. Before holding office, Chabat forged a name for himself in his party's trade union.