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]
• Walter Burton Harris – English journalist, writer, traveller and socialite
• 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

References

1. La Gazette Du Maroc. "La Gazette du Maroc". Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 31 January 2011.
2. The Guardian, 28 April 2008