List of Famous people born in Souss-Massa, Morocco

Marc-Olivier Strauss-Kahn is a French central banker and international economist whose career began at the French central bank, Banque de France (BDF), in 1978. He has twice been the Chief Economist of the French central bank. In 2017, Governor of Banque de France François Villeroy de Galhau named him Director General, Governor's Special Advisor.

Khalid Aït Taleb is a Moroccan medical professor and politician. He is currently the Minister of Health of Morocco.

Saphia Azzeddine is a French naturalized Moroccan writer, actress, and screenwriter.

Mohammed al-Mokhtar Soussi was a Moroccan Amazigh scholar, politician and writer who played an important role in the years before Morocco's independence in 1956. Born in the village of Illigh, he was a soufi and an expert on the history of the Sous region and the founder of a school in Marrakesh. From 1956 to 1963 he was minister of religious affairs and member of the Crown Council in the government of Mohammed V.

Ahmed Assid is a Moroccan Berber activist, a professor of philosophy, a poet, and a political activist, well known for being an active secularist.

Omar Hilale is a Moroccan career diplomat and misogynist. He has been Morocco's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York since he was appointed in this position in April 2014. He used to be the permanent representative of Morocco to the UN in Geneva.