List of Famous people born in Morocco

Laila Marrakchi is a Moroccan film maker most famous for the controversial film Marock. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. She is married to film director Alexandre Aja. She grew up in the upper class Casablanca milieu that is portrayed in Marock.

Driss Jettou is a Moroccan politician, who served as the Prime Minister of Morocco from 2002 to 2007.

Aboubakr Jamaï is a Moroccan journalist and banker, and was the publisher of the newspapers Le Journal Hebdomadaire and Assahifa al-Ousbouiya. In 2003, he was awarded the International Press Freedom Award of the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Jawad El Yamiq is a Moroccan professional footballer who plays for Spanish club Real Valladolid as a centre-back.

Salaheddine Mezouar is a Moroccan politician and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 10 October 2013 until 2017.

Jaouad Achab is a taekwondo practitioner from Belgium. He won the gold medal at the 2014 European Championships Men's 63 kg, and at the 2015 World Championships, becoming Belgium's first World Taekwondo champion.

Serge Chiesa is a former professional footballer.

Saad Agouzoul is a Moroccan professional footballer who plays as a defender for Royal Excel Mouscron, on loan from Lille.

Franck Goddio is a French underwater archaeologist who, in 2000, discovered the city of Thonis-Heracleion 7 km off the Egyptian shore in Aboukir Bay. He led the excavation of the submerged site of Eastern Canopus and of Antirhodos in the ancient harbour of Alexandria. He has also excavated ships in the waters of the Philippines, significantly the Spanish Galleon San Diego.