List of people from Marrakesh

rdf:langString List of people from Marrakesh

rdf:langString 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.