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When he was seven years old Michel Qissi began training in boxing. He soon met and befriended a young Jean-Claude Van Varenberg (Jean-Claude Van Damme) who was studying Shotokan Karate, and the two traded techniques in their systems. They grew up together and shared the same love of action films and dreamed of being action stars themselves one day. In 1982, Qissi and Jean-Claude went to Hollywood together to look for a career in action movies. landing their big break in 1986. After obtaining an interview with Menahem Golan of Cannon Pictures they secured a three-picture deal, the first of which was the highly successful Bloodsport. In Cyborg (1989), Qissi worked as Van Damme's personal trainer but had no part in the cast. In the picture, Kickboxer (1989), Qissi was working as a choreographer when he overheard the production crew say they needed a tall Asian-looking guy who had a background in Muay Thai. Qissi had studied Muay Thai years before in Thailand so he volunteered and got the part of Tong Po. Michel Qissi was not credited; however, he was dubbed as Tong Po and even given a make-up job to make him look Asian. His final picture with Van Damme was Lionheart (1990) (AWOL), playing a legionnaire sent to bring Van Damme back to the army. Since then, he returned to his role of Tong Po in the sequel Kickboxer 2: The Road Back (1991). Qissi also did a few of his own flicks including Terminator Woman (1993) which he directed; he also had a relative Jeanette Agaronoff as the writer for this movie. Extreme Force (2001) was a movie directed by him along side Hector Echavarria as once again looking just like Tong Po but under the moniker Kong Li.

Nathalie Delon was born on 1 August 1941 in Oujda, French Protectorate Morocco [now Morocco]. She was an actress and writer, known for Le Samouraï (1967), They Call It an Accident (1982) and The French Dispatch (2021). She was married to Alain Delon and Guy Barthelemy. She died on 21 January 2021 in Paris, France.

Imposingly large, 6' 2" Abdel Qissi was born in Morocco on 20 January 1960 and he is best known for playing some of the leading bad guys to Jean-Claude Van Damme.

He grew up in Brussels, where he was trained in boxing at sports center in Ixelles, there he also met Jean-Claude Van Damme. Van Damme, Abdel and his younger brother Michel Qissi (later best known as another Van Damme bad guy - Tong Po in "Kickboxer") and traveled to Los Angeles to begin a movie career.

Abdel debuted as monstrous fighter Attila in Lionheart (1990) and from that moment he was besides Van Damme in two more films, The Quest (1996), perhaps the best known film with Damme, where Abdel played the Mongolian fighter, also opposite Roger Moore, James Remar and Janet Gunn, and The Order (2001), this time in smaller role of big Arab on market place, opposite Charlton Heston and Brian Thompson. Other films that Abdel appeared are Shadow Boxing (1993) and Silver Tears (2007).

Philippe Faucon was born on 26 January 1958 in Oujda, Morocco. He is a director and writer, known for Amin (2018), Fatima (2015) and Samia (2000).

Younes Megri was born in Oujda, Morocco, on November 15, 1951. He studied music at the Moroccan national conservatory of music in Rabat, as well as at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Malesherbe in Paris. At the start of his career, he performed with his brothers and sister in a group, Les Frères Megri, that reflected in Morocco the change in international music during the late Sixties. In the beginning of the Seventies, he composed a song, "Leli Touil", that made him famous in the Arab world and in Europe and was also song by the group Boney M and the French singer Maria De Rossi. He received a Golden Record for this song, and performed at the Olympia in 1985 during his solo career. During the nineties he also began to compose film music for Moroccan and international films, most notably Gabriel Axel's "Leila la pure" and "8MM" for which he worked with Michael Dana as a consultant. The Moroccan casting director Ahmed Boulane began to promote him as an actor during the Nineties for Moroccan and international films, but Boulane's first feature film, "Ali, Rabia et les autres" (2000), shot him to the forefront as a leading man in Moroccan films.

Brahim Badiar (Oujda, Morocco, November 13, 1998) Also known as iBosBraHim, is a streamer, internet celebrity, Actor, YouTuber.

In 2015, I live in Morocco, I went to Spain to live with my mother and there in Spain I studied computer science and got a degree in computer science. I also have a YouTube Creator Certification, I want to finish studying but I have no money, I plan to work to finish the study, I went to several hotels and cafes and I don't advise any work, I think a lot but I want to start being a famous Youtuber on the Internet from all social networks like Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, etc. I also want to be a famous actor. Now I am doing LiveStream on Facebook and also several videos on YouTube.

Abdelkrim Derkaoui was born on 3 April 1945 in Oujda, French Protectorate in Morocco [now Morocco]. He is a cinematographer and director, known for Le Jour du Forain (1982), Les Griffes du Passé (2015) and Rue le Caire (1994).

Letrech Abderahim Well-known as "Letrech A " born in 1994. Letrech A is a Moroccan Singer-songwriter / producer and director, who debuted on YouTube in 2012. He rose to fame by covering songs , as well as some original songs such as "Koulchi Mcha ", medleys, and mashups, along with frequent collaborations with other artists. Today, he has over 30 Musical Videos online , he also directed more than 12 music video and YouTube content.

Hafid Bouazza was born on 8 March 1970 in Oujda, Morocco. He died on 29 April 2021 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

Hassnae Bouazza was born in 1973 in Oujda, Morocco. She is known for Wide Angle (2002), De wereld draait door (2005) and Buitenhof (1995).

Gérard Soler was born on 29 March 1954 in Oujda, Morocco.

Abdelaziz Bouteflika was born on 2 March 1937 in Oujda, French Protectorate in Morocco [now Morocco]. He was married to Amal Triki. He died on 17 September 2021 in Zéralda, Algeria.