Editing Tangier (section)

== Notable people ==
{{main|List of people from Tangier}}
* [[Ibn Battuta]] (1304–1378), Moroccan scholar and traveler who went on a worldwide quest.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle = Ibn Batuta |volume= 14 |first1=Henry |last1=Yule |author-link1=Henry Yule |first2=Charles Raymond |last2=Beazley |author-link2=Raymond Beazley|pages=219-220|short=1}}</ref>
* [[Roger Elliott (governor)|Roger Elliott]] ({{Circa|1665}}–1714), first British Governor of Gibraltar
* [[Alexander Spotswood]] (1676–1740), American Lieutenant-Colonel and Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Spotswood, Alexander |volume= 25 | page = 735 |short=1}}</ref>
* [[Ion Hanford Perdicaris]] (1840–1925), Greek-American author, lawyer and painter; he became the unofficial head of Tangier's foreign community
* [[Alexandre Rey Colaço]] (1854–1928), Portuguese pianist
* [[Walter Burton Harris]] (1866–1933), journalist, writer, traveller and socialite 
* [[Heinz Tietjen]] (1881–1967), German music composer
* [[Abdullah al-Ghumari]] (1910–1993), Muslim cleric, scholar of hadith, jurist and theologian
* [[Paul Bowles]] (1910–1999), American writer, composer and ethnomusicologist
* [[William S. Burroughs]] (1914–1997), Beat Generation writer, wrote ''[[Naked Lunch]]'' during the 1950s in Tangier.
* [[Abderrahmane Youssoufi]] (1924–2020), former Prime Minister of Morocco
* [[Ahmed Yacoubi]] (1928–1985), international painter and storyteller 
*[[Samuel Toledano]] (1929–1996), Spanish-Jewish prominent leader of the Jewish community in Spain
* [[Claude-Jean Philippe]] (1933–2016), French film critic
* [[Emmanuel Hocquard]] (1940–2019), French poet
* [[Ignacio Ramonet]] (1943), Spanish academic, journalist, and writer. He was not born in Tangier, but he did spend his childhood and youth in the city
* [[Shlomo Ben-Ami]] (born 1943), Israeli diplomat, politician, and historian
* [[Jean-Luc Mélenchon]] (born 1951), French politician, currently MEP
* [[Ralph Benmergui]] (born 1955), Canadian TV and radio host at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
* [[Helena Maleno]] (born 1970), human rights defender, journalist and writer
* [[Karim Debbagh]] (born 1972), Moroccan film producer
* [[Yasser Harrak]] (born {{Circa|1975}}), writer and human rights activist. 
* [[Sanaa Hamri]] (born 1977), Moroccan music video director.
* [[Ali Boussaboun]] (born 1979), former international footballer with 12 caps for [[Morocco national football team|Morocco]]
* [[Zakaria Ramhani]] (born 1983), visual artist
* [[Muslim (rapper)|Muslim]] (born 1981), Moroccan rapper and songwriter