- Wilmer Valderrama
Wilmer Valderrama (born January 30, 1980) is a Venezuelan/American comic actor best known for the role of Fez in the sitcom "That '70s Show" and as the host of the MTV series "Yo Momma."
- Leo Africanus
Leo Africanus was the Christianised name of Hasan bin Muhammed al-Wazzan al-Fasi (Hasan, son of Muhammed, the Weigher from Fez) (Granada 1488? - 1554?). A former inhabitant of Granada, his family left the city sometime after the Christian conquest of the Muslim kingdom in 1492. The family settled in Fez, Morocco, where Leo studied at the University of Al Karaouine.
- Fatema Mernissi
Fatema Mernissi is a Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist. Born in Fez in 1940, she studied political science at the Sorbonne and at Brandeis University, where she earned her doctorate. She is a notable Islamic feminist. Mernissi is largely concerned with Islam and women's roles in it, analyzing the historical development of Islamic thought and its modern manifestation. Through a detailed investigation of the nature of the succession to Muhammad, …
- Jackie Beat
Jackie Beat is the drag persona of actor, singer, songwriter and screenwriter Kent Fuher. Beat has appeared in a number of independent feature films both in and out of drag, including "Wigstock: The Movie", "Flawless" and "Adam & Steve" (for which she also wrote and performed the song "Dance Off").
- Allison Munn
Allison Munn (born October 7, 1974) is an American actress, perhaps best known for her role in The WB sitcom "What I Like About You".
- Maqqari
Maqqari, or Makkari, full name Ahmed bin Mohammed al-Maqqari, (c. 1591-1632), Arabian historian, was born at Tlemcen in Algeria and studied at Fez and Marrakesh, where he remained engaged in literary work until he made the pilgrimage to Mecca in 1618. In the following year he settled in Cairo. In 1620 he visited Jerusalem and Damascus, and during the next six years made the pilgrimage five times.
- Joanna Canton
Joanna Canton (born 1978) is an American actress. She had the recurring role of Nina, Fez's boss and love interest at the DMV on That '70s Show during its fifth season.
- Ibn Bajjah
Abū-Bakr Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn al-Sāyigh, known as Ibn Bājjah, was an Andalusian-Arab Muslim philosopher, poet and physician who was known in the West using his Latinized name, Avempace. He was born in Saragossa in what is today Spain and died in Fez in 1138. His thoughts had a clear effect on Ibn Rushd and Albertus Magnus. Most of his writings and book were not completed (or well organized) because of his early death.
- Mohammed Bennis
Mohammed Bennis was born in Fez in 1948. He is an important modern poet and literary essayist. He holds a Ph.D. and teaches literature at the University Mohammed V, faculty of letters, Rabat. In 1971 he founded the literary review Attakafa Aljadida. He is president of the House of Poetry in Morocco, and one of its founders. He also co-founded éditions Toubkal in 1985.
- Mohammed Berrada
Mohammed Berrada (Arabic:محمد برادة), also transliterated Muhammad Baradah is a Moroccan novelist, literary critic and translator writing in Arabic. He is considered one of Morocco's most important modern authors. From 1976 to 1983 he was the president of Morocco's writers union. He teaches Arab literature at the faculté des lettres of the Mohammed V University in Rabat.
- Al-Marrakushi
Abd al Wahid Al-Marrakushi (b. 1185) was a renowned Muslim historian, scientist, astronomer, and mathematician from Marrakech, in present day Morocco. From any early age he was engrossed in various academic pursuits, studying in both Marrakech and Fez until he was twenty-three and left for al-Andalus (Spain). Arriving there in 1208, he stayed for nine years before returning to the Maghreb. In 1224 he completed "Kitab al-mujib fi talkhis akhbar ahl al-Maghrib", …
- Muhammad Al-Jazuli
Sidi Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Jazuli al-Simlali was a Moroccan Muslim of Berber tribe of Jazulah which was settled in the Sus area of Morocco between the Atlantic Ocean and the Atlas Mountains. He is most famous for compiling the Dala'il al-Khayrat, an extremely popular Muslim prayer book and is known by many Moroccans as one the seven saints of Marrakesh.
- Abdessalam Benjelloun
Abdessalam "Benji" Benjelloun (born 28 January 1985 im Fez, Morocco) is a Moroccan footballer, currently playing for Scottish Premier League club Hibernian. He also plays at international level for the Moroccan Olympic (Under-23) team.
- Mohamed Moumou
Mohamed Moumou (born July 30, 1965) is a Swedish citizen of Moroccan descent who on December 7, 2006, was put on the United Nations list of foreign terrorists. He is the fourth Swedish citizen to be put on the list. His is also known as Mohamed Mumu, Abu Shrayda, Abu Amina, Abu `Abdallah and Abou Abderrahman. Moumou was born in Fez, Morocco.
- Mustapha Hadji
Mustapha Hadji is former a Moroccan international footballer. His younger brother, Youssouf Hadji, is also a Moroccan international and currently plays for AS Nancy. Hadji, nicknamed "Mous", immigrated with his family at an early age to France. They first settled at Saint-Etienne, then Monceau, and finally Creutzwald. Mustapha Hadji began playing football there.
- Ahmad Ibn Idris Al-Fasi
Ahmad Ibn Idris Al-Fasi (1760-1837) was a Neo-Sufi reformer, active in Morocco, North Africa, and Yemen, who bypassed the ulama and tried to bring a more vibrant form of Islam directly to the people. Ahmad Ibn Idris was the founder of the Idrisi order and travelled extensively in North Africa and the Yemen, instructing the ordinary people in their dialect, and teaching them how to perform such basic as the salat. He came to Cairo in 1799 and, in 1818, …
- William Lithgow
William Lithgow, traveller, writer and alleged spy, born at Lanark, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, claimed at the end of his various peregrinations to have tramped 36,000 miles on foot. Prior to 1610 he had visited Shetland, Switzerland, and Bohemia. In that year he set out for Palestine and Egypt. His next journey, 1614-16, was in Tunis and Fez; but his last, 1619-21, to Spain, ended unfortunately in his apprehension at Malaga and torture as a spy.
- Abdelaziz Of Morocco
Abdelaziz of Morocco succeeded his father Hassan I of Morocco as the sultan of Morocco from 1894 at the age of ten until he was deposed in 1908. He was a member of the Alaouite dynasty. By the action of Si Ahmad bin Musa, the chamberlain of El Hasan, Abd-el-Aziz's accession to the sultanate was ensured with little fighting. Si Ahmad became regent and for six years showed himself a capable ruler. On his death in 1900 the regency ended, …
- Ismail Ibn Sharif
Mulai Ismail Ibn Sharif the Bloodthirsty was the second ruler of the Moroccan Alaouite dynasty. Like others of the dynasty, Ismail claimed to be a descendant of Muhammad through his grandson Hassan ibn Ali. He is also known in his native country as the "Warrior King." He ruled from 1672 to 1727 succeeding his brother Moulay Al-Rashid who died after a fall from his horse.
- Abraham Saba
Abraham Saba (1440-1508) was a preacher in Castile who became a pupil of Isaac de Leon. At the time of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain he took refuge in Portugal, where he met with further misfortune; for scarcely had he settled in Oporto when King Manuel I of Portugal ordered all Jews to be expelled from Portugal, all Jewish children to become Christians, and all Hebrew books to be burned (December 24, 1496). Saba's two sons were forcibly taken from him, …
- Fez Whatley
"Fez Marie Whatley" is a talk radio host and comedian who co-hosts The Ron and Fez Show. Fez originally became well known after becoming a producer and contributor for The Ron and Ron Show in Florida. After the show disbanded, Fez teamed up with Ron and Ron host Ron Bennington to create The Ron and Fez Show, then entitled "Ron and Fez Dot Com." Fez, whose real name is Todd Hilliard, grew up in Pinellas Park, Florida, …
- Abraham Azulai
Abraham Azulai (Hebrew: אברהם בן מרדכי) was a Kabbalistic author and commentator born at Fez about 1570.
- Yusef Of Morocco
Sultan Yusef ben Hassan ruled the French Protectorate of Morocco from 1912 until his death in 1927. Born in the city of Meknes to Sultan Hassan I, he inherited the throne from his brother, Sultan Abdelhafid, who abdicated after the Treaty of Fez (1912), which made Morocco a French protectorate. He was a member of the Alaouite Dynasty. Yusef's reign was turbulent and marked with frequent uprisings against the royal family for giving up the country's independence to France.
- Abou Fares Abdallah
Abou Fares Abdallah was a ruler of the Saadi dynasty. He was one of the three sons of Ahmad I al-Mansur and reigned in different parts of the country (1603–1608), the South, Marrakesh and Fez. He especially fought his brother Zidan Abu Maali(r.1603–1627).
- Said Belqola
Said Belqola (born August 30, 1956 - died June 15, 2002) was the football referee from Morocco in the 1998 FIFA World Cup final between Brazil and France. By so being he was the first African referee to officiate in the final. Belqola's international career began when he was appointed to the international list in 1993, going onto referee the France v England match at Le Tournoi in 1997 and went onto referee the African Nations' Cup in 1998.
- Muhammed V, Sultan of Granada
Muhammed V was a Nasrid ruler of the Kingdom of Granada in the South-East of the Iberian Peninsula. He ruled between 1354–1359 and 1362–1391, and is best known for completing the royal palace of the Alhambra with the Palace of the Lions and the Mexuar, or "Cuarto Dorado". He inherited the throne from Yusuf I but was overthrown in 1359 by his nephew Ismail II and sought protection with the Marinid sultan of Fez, …
- Mourad Mghizrat
Mourad Mghizrat (born 7 september 1974 in Fez is an Dutch/Moroccan footballer who currently without a club after his contract with FC Emmen expired in Summer 2007. Mghizrat started his professional career in 1996 playing for Sparta Rotterdam. In the 1998/1999 season he was loaned to FC Utrecht. In January 2000, he signed for relegation candidate FC Den Bosch. In that season he could not keep FC Den Bosch in the Eredivisie.
- Chris Addison
Chris Addison (born 1971, Manchester) is an English writer, stand up comedian, and actor, with a career that has spanned over a decade. His BBC radio work includes the anthropological lecture series "The Ape That Got Lucky" with Dan Tetsell, and the political satire "The Department" with John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman. Addison has also appeared in the BBC television satire "The Thick of It" as the character of Oliver "Ollie" Reeder.
- Juan de Valladolid
Juan de Valladolid (English: "John of Valladoid") (1420-?), also known as Juan Poeta ("John the poet"), was a Castilian poet. Born Jewish, he converted to Christianity later in life. As a Marrano, or baptized Jew, he married a Christian woman named Jamila. Some say he later married a Moorish woman in Fez.
- Abu Bakr Effendi
Sheikh Abu Bakr Effendi (1835-1880) was a "qadi" who was sent to the Cape of Good Hope to teach the Muslim community of the Cape Malays. He was from an aristocratic Quraishi family from Mecca. At the request of the British government, the sultan of the Ottoman empire sent a religious teacher from Istanbul to the Cape Colony in 1862.
- Sheikh Ahmed Zarruq
Sheikh Ahmed Zarruq (1442-1493) was a Shadhili Sufi Sheikh and founder of the Zarruqiyye branch of the Shadhili Sufi order (Tariqa). He was born on the 7th June 1442 (846 of the Islamic 'Hijra' calendar) in according to Sheikh Abd Allah Gannun in a village in the region of Tiliwan, a mountain area of Morocco. his full name was Shihab ud-Din Abu al-Abbas Ahmed b Ahmed b Muhammad b Isa al-Barnusi al-Fasi.
- Dunash Ibn Tamim
Dunash ibn Tamim was a Jewish tenth century scholar, and a pioneer of scientific study among Arabic-speaking Jews. His Arabic name was أبو سهل "Abu Sahl"; his surname, according to an isolated statement of Moses ibn Ezra, was "Al-Shafalgi," perhaps after his (unknown) birthplace. Another name referring to him is "Adonim". His family name seems to have been native to North Africa; the younger contemporary of Ibn Tamim, Dunash ben Labrat, for instance, …
- Isaac Uziel
Isaac ben Abraham Uziel (Hebrew: יצחק בן אברהם עזיאל) was a Spanish physician and poet born at Fez. At one time he held the position of rabbi at Oran, but late in life he left that city to settle in Amsterdam, where he opened a Talmudical school which counted among its pupils Manasseh ben Israel. Dissatisfied with the laxity in religious matters which he noticed among many members of the Sephardic community, …
- Muhammad Al-Arabi Al-Darqawi
Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Arabi al-Darqawi (1760-1823) was a Moroccan Sufi reformer and "Da'ee". He stressed noninvolvement in wordly affairs ("Dunya") and spoke against other Sufi orders exploiting claims of "barakah" (blessings). He was imprisoned by the Moroccan ruler Mulay Slimane (r.1792-1822) for supporting revolts against the throne, but was released by Abderrahmane (r.1822-1859).
- Issachar Ben Mordecai Ibn Susan
Issachar ben Mordecai ibn Susan (Hebrew: יששכר בן מרדכי אבן שושן) was a Jewish mathematician, living in Palestine. In early youth he removed from the Maghreb, perhaps from Fez, to Jerusalem, where he became a pupil of Levi ibn Ḥabib. From there he went to Safed, where, under great hardship, he continued his studies. But his increasing poverty induced him, in 1539, to leave Safed and seek a living elsewhere.
- Samuel ben Hofni
Samuel ben Hofni was the last gaon of Sura. His father was a Talmudic scholar and chief judge ("ab bet din," probably of Fez), one of whose responsa is extant (see Zunz, "Ritus," p. 191; Steinschneider, "Hebr. Bibl." xx. 132), and on whose death Samuel wrote an elegy. Samuel was the father-in-law of Hai ben Sherira Gaon, who is authority for the statement that Samuel, like many of his contemporaries, zealously pursued the study of non-Jewish literature.
- Ahmed Mohammed al Makkari
Abu-l-'Abbas Ahmad ibn Mohammed-ul-Maqqari, or Al-Maḳḳari, was an Arabian historian. He was born at Tlemcen in Algeria and studied at Fez and Marrakesh, where he remained engaged in literary work until he made the pilgrimage to Mecca in 1618. In the following year he settled in Cairo. In 1620 he visited Jerusalem and Damascus, and during the next six years made the pilgrimage five times.
- Mohammed el Ifrani
Mohammed el Ifrani (1670-1747) was a Moroccan historian. Little is known about the life of Muhammad al-Saghir b. al-hajj Muhammad b. 'Abd Allah al-Ifrani al-Marakkushi, as his full name is. He was born in Marrakesh 1669/1670, studied there and in Fez, and may have held a post in the entourage of Mulay Ismael Alawi sultan of Morocco (1645-1727), on whose reign he wrote a now lost chronicle.
- Siham Benchekroun
Siham Benchekroun is a Moroccan novelist and poet. She was born in Fes, Morocco and studied medicine at the University of Casablanca. When she had become a medical doctor and a pioneer in medical journalism, she was for twelve years the head of a press group specialising in health issues. She had various jobs: she was general secretary of the "Société marocaine d’étude de la douleur" (study of pain), president of the "Commission Santé", …
- Jacob Hagis
Jacob Hagis (or Hagiz was a Palestinian Talmudist born of a Spanish family at Fez. Ḥagiz's teacher was David Karigal ("Ḳorban Minḥah," No. 105), who afterward became his father-in-law. About 1646 Ḥagiz went to Italy for the purpose of publishing his books, and remained there until after 1656, supporting himself by teaching. Samuel di Pam, rabbi at Leghorn, calls himself a pupil of Ḥagiz.