title: List of people from Marrakesh
text: # 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.
  