List of Famous people born in Souss-Massa, Morocco
Aziz Akhannouch
Aziz Akhannouch is a Moroccan businessman and current Minister of Agriculture since 2007.
Moncef Slaoui
Moncef Mohamed Slaoui is a Moroccan-born Amazigh Belgian-American researcher and former head of GlaxoSmithKline's vaccines department. He worked at the company for thirty years, retiring in 2017. On May 15, 2020, President Donald Trump announced that Slaoui would manage the U.S. government's development of a vaccine used to treat coronavirus disease in Operation Warp Speed; Slaoui resigned on January 12, 2021.
Abdellatif Ouahbi
Abdellatif Ouahbi is a Moroccan lawyer and politician. He was elected General Secretary of Authenticity and Modernity Party on 9 February 2020.
Saadeddine Othmani
Saadeddine Othmani is a Moroccan politician. He has been Prime Minister of Morocco since 2017. Previously he served as foreign minister from 2012 to 2013.
Mustapha Hadji
Mustapha Hadji is a retired Moroccan footballer and the current assistant manager of the Morocco national team. He was named the 50th greatest African player of all time by the African football expert Ed Dove.
Mohamed Hassad
Mohamed Hassad is a Moroccan engineer and politician, formerly serving as Minister of the Interior in the government of Abdelilah Benkirane. He later served as Minister of Education before being fired in 2017.
Mohamed Lahyani
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.
Françoise Castex
Françoise Castex is a French politician.
Issam Chebake
Issam Chebake is a Moroccan professional footballer who plays for Turkish club Yeni Malatyaspor as a right-back.
Sana Akroud
Sana Akroud is a Moroccan actress, filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer.