List of people from Marrakesh
# List of people from Marrakesh

A List of people from Marrakesh. See also Category:People from Marrakesh.

* Yusuf ibn Tashfin, prominent Almoravid king and founder of the city
* Amine Amamou, footballer
* Averroes, 12th-century Muslim philosopher
* Abd al-Mu'min, first Almohad caliph
* Qadi Ayyad, 12th-century Moroccan Maliki scholar
* Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi, 13th-century Moroccan mathematician and astronomer
* Ibn Idhari, 13th-century Moroccan historian
* Abdelwahid al-Marrakushi, 13th-century Moroccan historian
* Ahmad al-Mansur, prominent Saadi dynasty king
* Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud, 16th-century Moroccan diplomat and ambassador to Elizabeth I of England; possible inspiration for Shakespeare's Othello character
* Ahmad ibn Qasim Al-Hajarī, prominent 16th-century Morisco who escaped the Spanish Inquisition and worked as an ambassador for Morocco
* Mohamed Abdelaziz, president of the Polisario Front
* Juan Goytisolo, Spanish novelist
* Yves Saint-Laurent, French designer and artist (1936–2008)
* Jean-Paul Gaultier, French fashion designer and grand couturier
* Elias Canetti, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981 (1905–1994)
* Claude Auchinleck, British field marshal (1884–1981)
* Josephine Baker, American-French singer and dancer (1906–1975)
* Abdelali Mhamdi, professional goalkeeper.
