List of Famous people born in Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, Morocco
Fatima Yvelain
Fatima Yvelain is a French long-distance runner. She competed in the women's 10,000 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Moncef Belkhayat
Moncef Belkhayat is a Moroccan entrepreneur who founded and developed various companies in Morocco under the holding H&S. A former politician, he left politics on 26 December 2019 to focus on his various businesses. He served as the Minister of Youth and Sports in Abbas El Fassi's government in 2009.
Princess Lalla Asma of Morocco
Princess Lalla Asma of Morocco is the second daughter and third eldest child of Hassan II of Morocco and his second wife, Lalla Latifa Hammou.
Omar Radi
Omar Radi is a Moroccan investigative journalist and human rights activist. He has worked at Lakome, Atlantic Radio, Media 24, TelQuel and Le Desk focusing on investigations about human rights, corruption and social movements. He was detained in Casablanca on 26 December 2019 for criticizing a judge in a tweet posted six months earlier. His arrest triggered a movement of solidarity among his sympathizers. He was handed a suspended four-month prison sentence, a verdict criticized by some NGOs and human rights groups.
Badr Boulahroud
Badr Boulahroud is a Moroccan international footballer who plays as a midfielder.
Ali Fassi-Fihri
Muteesa II
Sir Edward Frederick William David Walugembe Mutebi Luwangula Mutesa II was Kabaka of the Kingdom of Buganda in Uganda from 22 November 1939 until his death. He was the thirty-fifth Kabaka of Buganda and the first President of Uganda. The foreign press often referred to him as King Freddie, a name rarely used in Uganda.
Aboubakr Jamaï
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.
David Levy
David Levy is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1969 and 2006, as well as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Immigrant Absorption, Minister of Housing and Construction and as a Minister without Portfolio. Although most of his time as a Knesset member was spent with Likud, he also led the breakaway Gesher faction, which formed part of Ehud Barak's Labor-led government between 1999 and 2001.