- Esteve Rabat
Esteve Rabat (born 25 May 1989 in Barcelona, Catalonia) is a Spanish motorcycle racer who currently run in 125cc in the Motorcycle World championship. He started to run professionally in 2005.
- Dominique de Villepin
Dominique René Galouzeau de Villepin simply known as Dominique de Villepin, is a French diplomat, politician and writer. He was Prime Minister of France, having served in that capacity from 31 May 2005 to 17 May 2007. A career diplomat, Villepin rose through the ranks of the French right as one of Jacques Chirac's protégés. He came into the international spotlight as Foreign Minister, with his opposition to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, …
- Driss Basri
Driss Basri is a Moroccan politician. Basri was born in Settat in 1938. He began his career as a police officer in Rabat and in 1974 he was appointed as secretary of state for interior affairs. In 1979, Driss Basri was promoted to the post of interior minister in the government of Ahmed Osman, a post he held in all successive governments until [1999]. He later held the post of minister of communication as well. He won the confidence of King Hassan II, and in his term, …
- Ali Lmrabet
Ali Lmrabet (born 1959) is a Moroccan journalist of Berber origin, and is a member of the Moroccan Association for Human Rights. He came from a modest family, was born in a small village near Al-Hoceima in north Morocco. He was schooled at the International Israelite Alliance which sponsored people from underprivileged backgrounds. He then passed his baccalaureate in Kenitra and Rabat. He then headed for France, where he pursued a literature major.
- Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami is a Moroccan American author and essayist. Lalami was born and raised in Rabat, Morocco, where she earned her B.A. in English from Université Mohammed V. In 1991, she received a British Council fellowship to study in England, and she went on to complete a M.A. in Linguistics at University College London. After graduating she returned to Morocco and worked as a journalist for the French-language newspaper Al-Bayane, …
- Fathallah Oualalou
Fathallah Oualalou (born in Rabat in 1942) is the Finance and Economy minister of Morocco since 1998. He is a member of the Socialist Union of Popular Forces party (USFP) and its president at the Assembly of Representatives of Morocco where the USFP counts 50 seats out of 325.
- Fatima Houda-Pepin
Fatima Houda-Pepin is a Quebec politician and a member of the National Assembly of Quebec, Canada. She represents the La Pinière electoral district (the city of Brossard) and is a member from the Quebec Liberal Party. She was born in Morocco and is the first female Muslim member of the National Assembly. After doing studies in political sciences at Mohammed V University in Rabat and earning a bachelor's degree in commerce at Lycée Al Khansa in Casablanca, …
- Samira Said
Samira Said ((native name: Samira Bensaïd) ; born jan 10, 1959) is an Arabic singer. She was born and raised in Rabat, Morroco. Said lives in Cairo, Egypt with her husband Moustapha Naboulssi. The couple has a son.
- 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, …
- Philippe Troussier
Omar Troussier is a former French football (soccer) player and now a manager. Known as the "White Witch Doctor" for his success with African club teams such as Asec Abidjan of the Côte d'Ivoire and the national teams of Nigeria, South Africa and Burkina Faso, Troussier is best known as a coach for his time spent with the Japanese national team. Troussier coached Japanese national team from 1998 to 2002, winning the 2000 Asian Cup, …
- 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.
- 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.
- Ahmed Sefrioui
Ahmed Sefrioui was a Moroccan novelist and pioneer of Moroccan literature in the French language. He was born in Fes in 1915 of Berber parents. Sefrioui was founder of the Al Batha museum in Fes, a town that is present in almost all of his writings. After the Qur'an school and the schools of Fes Sefrioui has made French his own. As a young journalist for "Action du Peuple" and as writer of historical articles as a curator for the "Addoha" museum he mastered the language.
- Rachid O.
Rachid O. (born 1970) is a Moroccan writer. He was born in Rabat; after studying in Morocco, he went to live in France. He currently writes mainly about the equilibrium between the Muslim world and homosexuality.
- Ignacio Ramonet
Ignacio Ramonet (born May 5, 1943, Redondela (Galicia) is a Spanish journalist and writer. He is the editor-in-chief of "Le Monde diplomatique" since 1991. An editorial published by Ramonet on December 1997 resulted in the launching of ATTAC. In addition, Ramonet is one of the founders of the NGO Media Watch Global, and currently he is president of this organization.
- Mohamed Oufkir
General Mohammad Oufkir (1920? - Rabat, August 16, 1972) was a Moroccan Berber politician. As the right hand man of king Hassan II in the 1960s and early 1970s, Oufkir led government supervision of politicians, unionists and the religious establishment. He forcefully repressed political protest through police and military clampdowns, pervasive government espionage, show trials, and numerous extralegal measures such as killings and forced disappearances.
- Claude Nougaro
Claude Nougaro was a French songwriter and singer. Born in Paris to an opera singer and an Italian piano teacher (Liette), he was raised by his grandparents in Toulouse, where he heard Glenn Miller, Édith Piaf and Louis Armstrong (among others) on the radio. In 1947 he failed his baccalaureat and commenced a career in journalism, writing for various journals including "Le Journal des Curistes" at Vichy and "L'Echo d'Alger".
- Rachid Boudjedra
Rachid Boudjedra (b. 1941) is an Algerian writer and educator who has published numerous poems, essays and novels. Before 1982, these were generally in French, but since then he has concentrated on writing in Arabic. He was born in Aïn Beïda, Algeria, where he was active in the independence movement. He received his degree in philosophy from the Sorbonne, where he did research on Celine. Upon receiving his degree, he returned to Algeria to teach at Blida, …
- Robert Assaraf
Robert Assaraf (born in Rabat, 1936 -) is a Moroccan Jewish historian and writer. He resides in Paris, France.
- Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine
Mohammed Khair-Eddine is a legend in Moroccan literature. He was born in 1941 in Tafraout. As a young writer he joins the circle of writers of the Amitiés littéraires et artistiques in Casablanca. In 1964 Khair-Eddir founded the movement "Poésie Toute". In 1965 he was exiled to France. He spent years working in factories in France. In 1967 he started publishing again. He wrote for "Lettres nouvelles" and "Présence africaine". He moves back to Morocco in 1979.
- Yaqub Al-Mansur
Abu Yusuf Ya'qub al-Mansur (also known as Moulay Yacoub), was the third Almohad caliph, succeeding his father Abu Ya'qub Yusuf. The historian Abou Mohammed Salah ben Abd el-Halim of Grenada, writing in 1326, says in his Roudh el-Kartas (History of the Rulers of Morocco, French translation by A. Beaumier, 1860, PDF, p. 155) "He was the son of a black woman." Yakub al-Mansur reigned from 1184 until 1199. He died in Marrakech, Morocco.
- Abdelhadi Tazi
Abdelhadi Tazi was born the 15th June, 1921 in Fès (Morocco), primary and secondary studies at the same town. Since his youth he has contributed to the Nationalist Movement and thus experienced exile and prison. 1947: Obtained the High degree Diploma in Theological studies from the University of Al Karaouine with "Honores".<br /> 1948: Teacher in the same University<br /> 1953: Graduated from Moroccan Institute of High Studies.<br /> 1957: After Independence, …
- Leila Abouzeid
Leila Abouzeid is a Moroccan author. She is a pioneer among her Moroccan contemporaries in that she writes in Arabic rather than in French and is the first Moroccan woman writer of literature to be translated into English. She was born in 1950. After studying at the Mohamed V University in Rabat and The University of Texas, Austin, Leila Abouzeid began her career as a radio and TV journalist, …
- Hicham Zerouali
Hicham Zerouali (17 January, 1977 - 4 December, 2004) was a Moroccan footballer who played for Aberdeen. 'Zero' (as he was nicknamed by the Aberdeen fans) was a striker signed by Ebbe Skovdahl in 1999. He became the first player in Scotland to wear the shirt number '0' in 2000 and in one of his more memorable outings scored a hat-trick against Dundee. In 2000, Hicham was injured during a match against Motherwell, …
- Youssef Chippo
Youssef Chippo (born May 10, 1973 in Rabat) is a footballer from Morocco. He was a renowned midfielder on the national squad during the 1990s, and was a member of the team that participated in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. He also spent 3 seasons in FC Porto where he began to display his talent in Europe. Then he moved to the English Premiership with Coventry City before their relegation in 2001, playing with them until 2003.
- Prince Moulay Rachid Of Morocco
His Royal Highness Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco, also Prince Moulay Rachid ben al-Hassan was born on June 20, 1970 in Rabat as the youngest child of late King Hassan II. He is a doctor in international politics and diplomat.
- Alof de Wignacourt
Fra Alof de Wignacourt was Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller of St. John from 1601 to 1622. He was of the "langue" of France. His reign was notable for the construction of a number of coastal fortifications and of the aqueduct that brought water from the plateau above Rabat to Valletta. His parade armour survives and is one of the treasures of the Palace Armoury in Valletta. He was a patron of the painter Caravaggio.
- Nadia Chafik
Nadia Chafik (born 1962 in Casablanca) is a Morrocan novelist. Chafik lives in Morocco. She teaches French language and communication at the Faculty of Law at Mohammed V University of Rabat. She has published short stories and three novels. "Nos jours aveugles" (Our blind days) is her first collection of short stories.
- Halima Ferhat
Halima Ferhat is a Moroccan historian, specialist in the middle ages of the Maghreb, member of the "comité scientifique des Rendez-vous de l'Histoire de Rabat" and professor at the Mohammed V University. She was also Director of the Institute of African Studies in Rabat. Books *(With A. Sebti), Al Mujtama' Al Hadari wa al Sulta bi al Maghrib (texts on urban society and power in Morocco, 15th-18th century), 2007 * Le soufisme et les zaouias au Maghreb, Casablanca, Ed.
- Ali Bourequat
Ali Bourequat was a French citizen of Moroccan origins living in Rabat, Morocco. He is a writer and former forcibly disappeared. A successful businessman, he came from a rich family of Turkish origin close to the court of king Hassan II. In 1973 he was, with his two brothers Midhat and Bayazid, abducted by the Moroccan secret police, tortured and jailed without trial for reasons he claims unknown even to himself. He was originally incarcerated in facilities close to Rabat, …
- Arturo Mercieca
Arturo Mercieca was born in Rabat, Gozo, Malta, on June 14, 1878. He was educated at the Gozo Seminary and at the University of Malta, graduating MA (1897) and LLD (1901). He pursued further studies in London and Rome (1902–1903).
- Yassine Bensghir
Yassine Bensghir (born 3 January 1983 in Rabat) is a Moroccan middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres. His personal best time over the distance is 3:42.58 minutes, achieved in February 2006 in Valencia.
- Falaba Issa Traoré
Falaba Issa Traoré was a Malian writer, comedian, playwright, and theatre and film director. Born in Bougouni, Traoré directed an amateur theater troupe before taking over direction of the regional troupe of Bamako between 1962 and 1968. From 1969 to 1973, he created and directed the Yankadi troupe for folklore and the dramatic arts. In 1973, he traveled to Germany to study cinema direction.
- Bahaa Trabelsi
Bahaa Trabelsi was born in Rabat and went to secondary school in Maroc, emigrated to France. After her graduation in France (troisième cycle) she returned to Morocco for some time. She now holds a PhD in economic studies from the University of Aix en Provence. She is the author of the successful novel "Une femme simplement" (1995). "Une Vie à trois" is her second novel.
- Marc Perrin de Brichambaut
Marc Perrin de Brichambaut (born 29 October 1948) is a French career judge and diplomat, and the current Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Marc Perrin de Brichambaut was born in Rabat, Morocco. He graduated from France's Ecole Nationale d'Administration in Paris in 1974. Prior to his appointment as OSCE Secretary General in June 2005, …
- André Elbaz
André Elbaz is a famous Moroccan painter and filmmaker. Elbaz studied art and theatre in Rabat and Paris from 1950 to 1961. He started painting only at the age of 21, until which age he had been interested mainly in theatre. A few years later, he managed to combine his two passions into a new approach in art-therapy, inventing together with his wife, a psychiatrist, the Pictodrame, which brought him world recognition.
- Bouabid Bouden
Bouabid Bouden (born February 1, 1982 in Rabat) is a Moroccan football player who, as of 2006 was playing for Odense BK. He previously played for French team RC Lens. He was part of the Moroccan and he BANG IT 2004 Olympic football team, who exited in the first round, finishing third in group D, behind group winners Iraq and runners-up Costa Rica. In total Bouden has been capped 7 times for the Moroccan national team.
- Mohammed Abed Al-Jabri
Mohammed Abed Al-Jabri (b. Figuig, Morocco / December 27, 1936 - present), is a contemporary Moroccan critic and professor of philosophy and Islamic thought in Mohammed V University in Rabat. He is also an expert in Arabic and Arabic literature. He is considered one of the major intellectual figures in the contemporary Arab world. He is also known for his academic project "The critique of the Arab Mind".
- Princess Lalla Salma Of Morocco
Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco is the wife of King Mohammed VI of Morocco and the first wife of a Moroccan ruler to have been publicly acknowledged and given a royal title. She is styled as Her Royal Highness The Princess Consort. She was born Salma Bennani on May 10, 1978 in Fez, Morocco. Her father is a primary school teacher; her mother died when she was three years old. She was raised by her maternal grandmother.
- Lalla Abla Bint Tahar
Lalla Abla bint Tahar was the wife of former king Mohammed V of Morocco and mother of former king Hassan II. She married Mohammed V in 1929. She died in Rabat in March 1, 1992.