List of people from Tangier

This is a list of people from Tangier:

Born

• Abdullah al-Ghumari – Muslim cleric
• Ibn Battuta – Berber scholar and traveller
• Ralph Benmergui – Canadian TV and radio host at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
• Alexandre Rey Colaço – Portuguese pianist
• Karim Debbagh – Moroccan film producer
• Roger Elliott – first British Governor of Gibraltar
• Bibiana Fernández – Spanish actress and model
• Antonio Fuentes – painter described as the 'Picasso of Tangier'^[1]
• Sanaa Hamri – Moroccan music video director
• Emmanuel Hocquard – French poet
• Jean-Luc Mélenchon – French politician, currently MEP
• Zakaria Ramhani – Moroccan visual artist
• Alexander Spotswood – American Lieutenant-Colonel and Lieutenant Governor of Virginia
• Heinz Tietjen – German music composer
• Samuel Toledano – Spanish-Jewish leader
• Abderrahmane Youssoufi – former Prime Minister of Morocco

Settled or sojourned

• Lancelot Addison – English chaplain and the author of West Barbary, or a Short Narrative of the Revolutions of the Kingdoms of Fex and Morocco (1671)
• José Luis Alcaine – Spanish-born cinematographer
• William Bayer – American crime fiction writer, author of the novel Tangier
• Bill Bird – American journalist and the founder of Tangier Gazette
• Jane Bowles – American writer; wife of Paul Bowles
• Paul Bowles – American writer and composer; lived in Tangier for 52 years and died there
• Claudio Bravo – painter
• William S. Burroughs – American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer; lived in Tangier four years
• Truman Capote – American novelist and writer, who visited Tangier
• João de Castro – Portuguese naval officer and fourth viceroy of the Portuguese Indies
• Ira Cohen – American poet, publisher, photographer and filmmaker; published one issue of a magazine called Gnaoua
• Eugène Delacroix – French Romantic painter
• Jim Ede – English art collector
• Malcolm Forbes – publisher of Forbes magazine
• Sean Gullette – American actor and writer
• Brion Gysin – English writer and painter
• Mohamed Hamri – Moroccan painter, described as the 'Picasso of Morocco'^[2]
• Friedrich von Holstein – German statesman
• Barbara Hutton – wealthy American socialite dubbed by the media as the "Poor Little Rich Girl" because of her troubled life, lived in Tangier during the summer months from 1947 to 1975
• Gavin Lambert – American (British-born) biographer, novelist and Hollywood screenwriter(and close friend of Paul Bowles), who lived 15 years in Tangier
• Bernard-Henri Lévy – French journalist and intellectual
• Henri Matisse – French painter
• Joseph McPhillips III – American theater director and the headmaster of The American School of Tangier; died in Tangier
• Mohamed Mrabet – Moroccan storyteller
• Joe Orton – British playwright
• Ion Perdicaris – US-Greek playboy who was the centre of the Perdicaris incident, a kidnapping that aroused international conflict in 1904
• George John Pinwell – English painter
• Edward Reichmann – Austro-Hungarian and Canadian businessman
• Reichmann family (including Edward) – rich immigrant Jewish family from Austro-Hungary and Canada
• David Roberts – Scottish painter
• Yves Saint-Laurent – French fashion designer
• J. Slauerhoff – Dutch poet and novelist
• Josep Tapiró Baró – Spanish painter
• Kenneth Williams – British humourist
• Paula Wolfert – American food writer, author of two Moroccan cookbooks, lived in Tangier for eight years

Died

• Abdullah al-Ghumari – Muslim cleric
• Ibn Battuta – 14th-century traveller and diarist; born in Tangier in 1304 and is said to have been buried there in 1368
• Paul Bowles – expatriate American writer and composer
• Mohamed Choukri – Moroccan novelist; died in Rabat, buried in the Marshan, Tangier
• George Elliott – probably the illegitimate son of Richard Eliot; Chirurgeon to the Earl of Teviot's Regiment at Tangier
• George Fleetwood – one of the regicides of Charles I; brought to trial and sentenced to imprisonment in the Tower of London; may have been transported to Tangier
• Paul Lukas – Hungarian actor
• Joseph McPhillips III – American theater director and headmaster of the American School of Tangier
• John Middleton, 1st Earl of Middleton – commander-in-chief of the troops in Scotland under the reign of Charles II