List of Famous people born in Morocco

Richard Virenque is a retired French professional road racing cyclist. He was one of the most popular French riders with fans for his boyish personality and his long, lone attacks. He was a climber, best remembered for winning the King of the Mountains competition of the Tour de France a record seven times and also for being one of the central figures in a widespread doping scandal in 1998: the Festina Affair.

Saad Lamjarred is a Moroccan pop singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, dancer, record producer and actor. He grew up in an artist family and became famous after his songs broke YouTube audience records, making him a major figure in Arab Pop, and the first singer to popularize Pop Music in Moroccan Dialect considered the most difficult to understand in the Middle East.

Adel Taarabt is a Moroccan professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger for Portuguese club Benfica and the Morocco national team.

Izza Génini is a Moroccan movie producer and director. She has lived and worked in Paris, France since 1960.

Fatima Zahra Mansouri is a Moroccan lawyer and politician of the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), and currently the mayor of Marrakesh as well as the Minister of National Planning, Urban Planning, Housing and Urban Policy.

Guy de Kerimel, born August 7, 1953, in Meknes in Morocco, is a French Roman Catholic, Bishop of Grenoble. He is the current bishop since 2006.

Jean Edouard Louis Schultheis, better known as Jean Schultheis is a Moroccan-born French singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. He was made famous by his single, "Confidence pour confidence", released in 1981.

Nabila Mounib, born in 1960 in Casablanca, is a Moroccan politician who currently serves as the General Secretary of the Unified Socialist Party (PSU). She is the first woman elected at the head of a Moroccan party.

Rachid Azzouzi is a Moroccan former football midfielder and current sporting director. Raised in Germany, he represented Morocco at international level.

Aziz Bouhaddouz is a Moroccan footballer who currently plays as a striker for SV Sandhausen.