List Of People From Marrakesh

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Marrakesh Marrakesh or Marrakech ( or ; ar, مراكش, murrākuš, ; ber, ⵎⵕⵕⴰⴽⵛ, translit=mṛṛakc}) is the fourth largest city in the Kingdom of Morocco. It is one of the four Imperial cities of Morocco and is the capital of the Marrakes ...

. See also :People from Marrakesh. * Yusuf ibn Tashfin, prominent

Almoravid The Almoravid dynasty ( ar, المرابطون, translit=Al-Murābiṭūn, lit=those from the ribats) was an imperial Berber Muslim dynasty centered in the territory of present-day Morocco. It established an empire in the 11th century that s ...

king and founder of the city *

Amine Amamou Amine Amamou is a Moroccan footballer. He usually plays as forward Forward is a relative direction, the opposite of backward. Forward may also refer to: People * Forward (surname) Sports * Forward (association football) * Forward (bask ...

, footballer * Averroes, 12th-century Muslim philosopher * Abd al-Mu'min, first Almohad caliph *

Qadi Ayyad ʿIyāḍ ibn Mūsā (1083–1149) ( ar, القاضي عياض بن موسى, formally Abū al-Faḍl ʿIyāḍ ibn Mūsā ibn ʿIyāḍ ibn ʿAmr ibn Mūsā ibn ʿIyāḍ ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mūsā ibn ʿIyāḍ al-Yaḥṣubī ...

, 12th-century Moroccan

Maliki The ( ar, مَالِكِي) school is one of the four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam. It was founded by Malik ibn Anas in the 8th century. The Maliki school of jurisprudence relies on the Quran and hadiths as primary ...

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 The Saadi Sultanate (also rendered in English as Sa'di, Sa'did, Sa'dian, or Saadian; ar, السعديون, translit=as-saʿdiyyūn) was a state which ruled present-day Morocco and parts of West Africa in the 16th and 17th centuries. It was l ...

king *

Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud Abd al-Wahid bin Mas'ud bin Mohammed Anun ( ar, عبد الواحد بن مسعود بن محمد عنون) was principal secretary to the Moroccan ruler Mulay Ahmad al-Mansur, and ambassador to the court of Queen Elizabeth I of England in 1600, ...

, 16th-century Moroccan diplomat and ambassador to

Elizabeth I of England Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was List of English monarchs, Queen of England and List of Irish monarchs, Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. Elizabeth was the last of the five House of Tudor monarchs and is ...

; possible inspiration for

Shakespeare William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ...

Othello ''Othello'' (full title: ''The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice'') is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare, probably in 1603, set in the contemporary Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–1573) fought for the control of the Island of Cypru ...

character *

Ahmad ibn Qasim Al-Hajarī Ahmad ibn Qāsim Al-Hajarī ( ar, أحمد بن قاسم الحجري) also known as Al-Hajari, Afoukay, Chihab, Afokai ( ar, أفوكاي) or Afoqai ( ar, أفوقاي) (c.1570, Andalusia–c.1640, Tunis), was a Muslim Morisco who worked as a tran ...

, prominent 16th-century

Morisco Moriscos (, ; pt, mouriscos ; Spanish for "Moorish") were former Muslims and their descendants whom the Roman Catholic church and the Spanish Crown commanded to convert to Christianity or face compulsory exile after Spain outlawed the open p ...

who escaped the Spanish Inquisition and worked as an ambassador for Morocco * Mohamed Abdelaziz, president of the Polisario Front *

Juan Goytisolo Juan Goytisolo Gay (6 January 1931 – 4 June 2017) was a Spanish poet, essayist, and novelist. He lived in Marrakesh from 1997 until his death in 2017. He was considered Spain's greatest living writer at the beginning of the 21st century, yet ...

, Spanish novelist * Yves Saint-Laurent, French designer and artist (1936–2008) * Jean-Paul Gaultier, French fashion designer and grand couturier *

Elias Canetti Elias Canetti (; bg, Елиас Канети; 25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994) was a German-language writer, born in Ruse, Bulgaria to a Sephardic family. They moved to Manchester, England, but his father died in 1912, and his mother took her t ...

, winner of the

Nobel Prize in Literature ) , image = Nobel Prize.png , caption = , awarded_for = Outstanding contributions in literature , presenter = Swedish Academy , holder = Annie Ernaux (2022) , location = Stockholm, Sweden , year = 1901 , ...

in 1981 (1905–1994) * Claude Auchinleck, British field marshal (1884–1981) *

Josephine Baker Josephine Baker (born Freda Josephine McDonald; naturalised French Joséphine Baker; 3 June 1906 – 12 April 1975) was an American-born French dancer, singer and actress. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in her adopted Fran ...

, American-French singer and dancer (1906–1975) *

Abdelali Mhamdi Abdelali Gluja Mhamdi ( ar, عبدالعالي محمدي; born 29 November 1991) is a Moroccan professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper. Honours Club ;Nahdat Berkane *Morocco ...

, professional goalkeeper.