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
• 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)