# 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'
* 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 sojurned

* 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'
* 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
* 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