- Jean Reno
Jean Reno (born Juan Moreno y Herrera Jiménez while French sources spell it as Don Juan Moreno Errere y Rimenes. on July 30, 1948) is a French actor. Working in both French and English, he has appeared in numerous successful Hollywood productions, but also European productions such as the 2005 Italian film "The Tiger and the Snow".
- Maurice Ohana
Maurice Ohana (born June 12, 1913 in Casablanca, Morocco; died November 13, 1992 in Paris) was a French composer of Jewish Sephardic origin. Ohana originally studied architecture, but abandoned this in favour of a musical career, initially as a pianist. He studied under Alfredo Casella in Rome, returning to France in 1946. Around this time he founded the "Groupe Zodiaque", which fought against prevailing musical dogma.
- Hicham Arazi
Hicham Arazi is a professional male tennis player from Morocco. He turned pro in 1993. The lefthander reached his highest singles ranking in the ATP Tour on November 5, 2001, when he became reached number 22 in the world. During his career, Arazi captured one singles title, in Casablanca. He is retiring at the end of the year when he'll be 34. He has been particpating in the moroccon tennis tour lately.
- Gad Elmaleh
Gad Elmaleh (born April 19 1971, Casablanca, Morocco) is a Moroccan Jewish one man show humorist and actor who lives in France. His latest show is called "L'autre c'est moi" (The other one: that's me).
- Nawal el Moutawakel
Nawal El Moutawakel (born on April 15, 1962 in Casablanca) is a Moroccan hurdler, who won the inaugural women's 400 m hurdles event at the 1984 Summer Olympics, thereby becoming the first Muslim and African female Olympic champion. Although she had been a quite accomplished runner, the victory of El Moutawakel, who studied at Iowa State University at the time, was a surprise.
- Alain Souchon
Alain Souchon (born Alain Kienast on May 27, 1944, Casablanca, Morocco) is a French singer, songwriter and actor. He has released 15 albums and has played roles in seven films. Six months after Souchon was born his family returned to France. When he was 15 his father died in an accident. Souchon signed his first contract in 1971, but had no success until he began to collaborate with composer/arranger Laurent Voulzy (b. 1948); they would write together, …
- Nadia Yassine
Nadia Yassine (born Casablanca, Morocco, December 1958) is the founder and head of the feminine branch of the Moroccan banned Islamist movement Al Adl Wa Al Ihssane (Justice and Charity). She is also the daughter of the founder of the same organization Cheikh Abdesslam Yassine.
- Noureddine Naybet
Noureddine Naybet is a retired Moroccan international football player and captain. His position was central defender. Naybet has earned 115 caps with the Moroccan national team and scored 2 goals. In August 1999 Naybet agreed a move to Treble winning Manchester United. However Naybet failed a medical and United subsequently signed Mikael Silvestre He was signed by Tottenham Hotspur on August 13th - and made his English Premiership debut 24 hours later.
- Larbi Benbarek
Larbi Benbarek or Larbi Ben Barek (also known as the Black Pearl) (June 16, 1914 - September 16, 1992) (Casablanca, Morocco) was a Moroccan football player. He was the first player to bear the nickname of "Black Pearl". The first African star and the first to bear the nickname of "Black Pearl", Ben Barek blazed a trail to the European, and particularly French and Spanish, leagues.
- Guy Forget
Guy Forget (born January 4, 1965 in Casablanca, Morocco) is a former French professional tennis player. During his career, he helped France win the Davis Cup in both 1991 and 1996. Since retiring as a player, he has served as France's Davis Cup team captain.
- Richard Virenque
Richard Virenque (born November 191969 in Casablanca, Morocco) is a retired French professional bicyclist. Height : 1m79. Weight 65kg. He is known as a climbing specialist and for his role in a highly-publicized doping scandal. From 1994 to 1998, he was in team Festina. His top placing in the general classification of the Tour de France and his multiple wins of the Polka dot jersey placed him at the top of the French hopefuls as a potential winner of the Tour de France.
- Karim Alami
Karim Alami is a tennis player from Morocco, who turned professional in 1990. He represented his native country as a qualifier at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, where he was defeated in the first round by Switzerland's eventual winner Marc Rosset. The righthander won two career titles in singles (Atlanta and Palermo, both in 1996). He reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on February 21, 2000, when he became the number 25 of the world.
- Jean-Charles de Castelbajac
Jean-Charles de Castelbajac is a fashion designer and, as the Marquis de Castelbajac, a french nobleman. He launched his fashion career at the age of 20. He has enjoyed international success with one of his creations, a coat of teddybears, being worn by pop star Madonna_(entertainer) and later by supermodel Helena Christensen in the film Prêt-à-Porter_(film). In 1979 de Castelbajac married fashion journalist and model Katherine Lee Chambers.
- Mehdi Ballouchy
Mehdi Ballouchy (born April 6, 1983 in Casablanca) is a Moroccan football (soccer) midfielder, who currently plays for the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer. Ballouchy moved to the United States in 2000 and played a year of college soccer at Creighton and two at Santa Clara, where he was named first team All-American in 2005. He then signed a Generation adidas contract with MLS. Ballouchy was taken second overall by Real Salt Lake at the 2006 MLS SuperDraft.
- Hicham Mesbahi
Hicham Mesbahi (born December 4, 1980 in Casablanca) is a boxer from Morocco, who participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native North African country. There he was stopped in the second round of the Flyweight (51 kg) division by Poland's Andrzej Rzany. Four years earlier, when Sydney hosted the Summer Olympics, he also fell in the second round.
- Abdallah Zrika
Abdallah Zrika is one of the most famous poets of Morocco. His poetry is free, based on spoken language and unrivalled in contemporary Arabic literature in its spontaneity. Zrika grew up in the poor neighbourhood Ben Msik. At the age of twelve he wrote his first poems. In 1977 he published "Dance of the head and the rose". For the Morocccan youth, he represents the ideal of poetry, of freedom of living and expressing yourself.
- Salaheddine Bassir
Salaheddine Bassir (born 5 September, 1972) is a former Moroccan football player. He played for a few clubs, including Raja Casablanca, Al Hilal (Saudi Arabia) and Deportivo La Coruña in Spain. He then played for OSC Lille (France) and Aris Thessaloniki (Greece). He retired at the end of 2005 season. He played for the Morocco national football team and was a participant at the 1998 FIFA World Cup, where he scored 2 goals.
- Hakim Noury
Hakim Noury is a Moroccan television and film director.
- Merieme Chadid
Merieme Chadid (born October 11, 1969) is a Moroccan astronomer and researcher at Dome C, Concordia Research Station in Antarctica. She is considered the first astronomer in the world to have been committed to install a large astronomical observatory in Antarctica.
- Jean-Paul Bertrand-Demanes
Jean-Paul Bertrand-Demanes (born May 23, 1952 in Casablanca, Morocco) is a former football goalkeeper from France, who earned eleven international caps for the French national team during the 1970s. A player of FC Nantes (1969-1987), he was a member of the French team in the 1978 FIFA World Cup.
- Mostafa Nissaboury
El Mostafa Nissaboury is a poet and one of the pioneers of modern Moroccan poetry. Nissaboury (born in Casablanca in 1943) was one of the co-founders of the magazine "Anfas/Souffles" ("Breaths"), an avant-garde bilingual quarterly that published essays, poetry, and fiction. (The magazine was banned in 1971.) Together with Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine, Mostafa Nissaboury wrote the manifest "Poésie Toute" in 1964, …
- Laila Marrakchi
Laila Marrakchi (born in 1978, in Casablanca) is Moroccan film maker, she's most famous for the controversial film Marock.
- Zakaria Aboub
Zakaria Aboub (born 3 June, 1980 in Casablanca) is a Moroccan football (soccer) midfielder. He currently plays for FC Istres. He joined FC Istres in January 2006.
- Imad Kotbi
Imad Kotbi (born June 8, 1978 in Casablanca) is a Moroccan radio presenter and a disk jockey. He is currently working for Casa FM radio station presenting a show called "Ze Kotbi Show". Kotbi is a Guinness World Record holder after broadcasting during 50 hours non-stop between December 29 at 20h 15 and December 31 2006 at 12h 15 GMT.
- Sofia Essaïdi
Sofia Essaïdi is a Franco-Moroccan singer. She was born in Casablanca, Morocco.
- Abraham Serfaty
Abraham Serfaty is an internationally prominent Moroccan dissident, militant, and political activist, who has been imprisoned for years by King Hassan II of Morocco, for his political actions in favor of democracy and development’s regime, during the Years of Lead. He paid a high price for such actions: fifteen months living underground, seventeen years of imprisonment and eight years of exile.
- Abdelkrim Merry Krimau
Abdelkrim Merry Krimau (born 13 January, 1955 in Casablanca) is a Moroccan former professional football (soccer) player. He spent his entire professional career in France, reaching the 1978 UEFA Cup Final, with SC Bastia.He was also part of the Moroccan squad at the 1986 FIFA World Cup.
- Laarbi Batma
Laarbi Batma (1948, in Oulad Bouziri [Chaouia] - 1998) was a Moroccan artist and the charismatic leader of the group Nass El Ghiwane. Laarbi Batma was very much influenced by the music style of the Moussems (festivals) of his native region Abda oulad El masnaoui, he used to go to as a child. Loving words and rhymes, he was known to never put away his pencil, as he conceived writing as a way of life and an art in itself.
- Amine
Amine Mounder is a French R&B singer born in Casablanca, Morocco. He is known for his singular music style, Raï'n'B, which is a mix of R&B and Raï. His biggest hits are "Sobri (notre Destin)," a duet with French singer Leslie, and "J'voulais." Both reached the #1 spot on the French singles chart.
- Aziz Bouderbala
Abdelaziz El Idrissi Bouderbala (born December 26 1960 in Casablanca) is a former Moroccan footballer. Aziz Bouderbala started his professional career at Wydad Casablanca, before moving to FC Sion, Switzerland and French Olympique Lyon later. Currently the former player works as a technical director at his first club Wydad Casablanca. In 1986 Aziz Bouderbala was runner-up for an African Footballer of the Year award. Bouderbala was known for his pace and dribbling skills.
- Abdullah Tabarak Ahmad
Abdullah Tabarak Ahmad is a citizen of Morocco, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. Ahmad's Guantanamo detainee ID is 56. The Department of Defense reports that Ahmad was born on December 12 1955, in Casablanca, Morocco. Tabarak is alleged to have been one of Osama bin Laden's guards. He is alleged to have volunteered to have taken bin Laden's satellite phone, in order to sacrifice himself, …
- Mohammed Kabbaj
Mohammed Kabbaj is the Wali (governor) of Grand Casablanca, one of the 16 Regions of Morocco.
- Abdallah Ibrahim
Abdallah Ibrahim was the left-wing Prime Minister of Morocco between December 16 1958 and May 20 1960.
- Tayeb Seddiki
Tayeb Seddiki is a Moroccan playwright, writing in both Arabic and French. He was born in Essaouira in 1938. He grew up in Casablanca in a neighboorhood between el Habous and l'Hermitage. At the age of 17 he decided to go to France to study architecture. When he followed a course on stage design he became interested in theater and started working as a designer and translator. When one of the actors fell ill, Seddiki took over the part and since then continued acting, …
- Christine Hocq
Christine Hocq (born August 12, 1970 in Casablanca, Morocco) is an athlete from France, who competes in triathlon. Nicknamed "Titi", Hocq competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She took eighth place with a total time of 2:03:01.90. Her split times were 19:43.78 for the swim, 1:05:33.90 for the cyling, and 0:37:44.22 for the run.
- Mohamed Zafzaf
Mohamed Zafzaf was a Moroccan novelist and poet from Kenitra writing in Moroccan Arabic. In 2002, one of the most prestigious Arab literature awards created the "Mohamed Zafzaf Prize for Arabic Literature" in his honour. Born in Souk Larbaa El Gharb in 1942, Zafzaf settled in Casablanca where he started writing stories and articles, as well as translating world masterpieces. He lived a lifestyle that focused on writing, the work he loved most.
- Jeff
just ask.
- Reda Radi
Somebody who's lost in his thought and seek harmony in life. But for the moment I'm trying to enjoy my life a max, to experience what seems interesting and exciting, and fix my karma so can enjoy more my next life ;) ... What ? who told you live just once ? ... and you believed it :)
- Rokia
i'm from morocco,exactly from Casablanca and i'm 21 years old i love laughing,travelling,,listennig to music,watching movies i'm real fan of nature!!
- Le
Life is fun. The type of fun that needs to be taken seriously.