Editing Ceuta (section)

==Notable people from Ceuta==
=== up to 1800 ===
* [[Qadi Ayyad]] (1083 in Ceuta{{Snd}} 1149) born in Ceuta, then belonging to the [[Almoravids]] was the great imam of that city
* [[Muhammad al-Idrisi]] (1100 in Ceuta{{Snd}} 1165 in Ceuta) was a Muslim geographer, cartographer and Egyptologist. He lived in Palermo at the court of King [[Roger II of Sicily]], known for the {{Lang|la|[[Tabula Rogeriana]]}}.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Idrisi |volume= 14 |last= Beazley |first= Charles Raymond |author-link= Charles Raymond Beazley | pages = 289-290 |short= 1}}</ref>
* [[Abu al-Abbas as-Sabti]] (1129 in Ceuta{{Snd}} 1204 in Marrakesh) the main [[Wali]] of [[Marrakesh]]
* [[Joseph ben Judah of Ceuta]] ({{Circa|1160}}{{Snd}} 1226) a Jewish physician and poet, and disciple of [[Moses Maimonides]]
* [[Abu al-Abbas al-Azafi]] (1162 in Ceuta{{Snd}} 1236) a religious and legal scholar, member of the Banu al-Azafi who ruled Ceuta
* [[Mohammed ibn Rushayd]] (1259 in Sabta{{Snd}} 1321) a judge, writer and scholar of [[Hadith]] 
* [[Álvaro of Braganza]] (1440&ndash;1504) a president of Council of Castile.
* [[George Camocke]] (1666&ndash;1732) a Royal Navy captain and former admiral for Spain who was exiled to Ceuta to live out the last years of his life.
* Don [[Fernando de Leyba]] (1734 in Ceuta{{Snd}} 1780) a Spanish officer who served as the third governor of [[Upper Louisiana]] from 1778 until his death.
* Brigadier General [[Francisco Antonio García Carrasco]] Díaz (1742 in Ceuta{{Snd}} 1813 in Lima, Peru) a Spanish soldier and [[Royal Governor of Chile]]
* [[Sebastián Kindelán y O'Regan]] (1757 in Ceuta{{Snd}} 1826 in Santiago de Cuba) a colonel in the Spanish Army who served as governor of East Florida 1812/1815, of Santo Domingo 1818/1821 and was provisional governor of Cuba 1822/1823
* [[Isidro de Alaix Fábregas]] Count of Vergara and Viscount of Villarrobledo, (1790 in Ceuta{{Snd}} 1853 in Madrid) a Spanish general of the [[First Carlist War]] who backed [[Isabella II of Spain]]

=== since 1800 ===
* General [[Francisco Llano de la Encomienda]] (1879 in Ceuta{{Snd}} 1963 in Mexico City), a Spanish soldier. During the Spanish Civil War (1936&ndash;1939) he remained loyal to the Second Spanish Republic
* General [[Antonio Escobar Huertas]] (1879 in Ceuta{{Snd}} executed 1940 in Barcelona), a Spanish military officer
* [[África de las Heras]] Gavilán (1909 in Ceuta{{Snd}} 1988 in Moscow), a Spanish Communist, naturalized Soviet citizen, and [[KGB]] spy who went by the code name ''Patria''
* [[Eugenio Martín]] (born 1925 in Ceuta), a Spanish film director and screenwriter <ref>{{Cite web|title=Eugenio Martín|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0554632/|access-date=2023-01-14|website=IMDb|language=en-US}}</ref>{{user-generated inline|date=August 2023}}
* [[Jacob Hassan]], PhD (1936 in Ceuta{{Snd}} 2006 in Madrid), a Spanish [[philologist]] of Sephardic Jewish descent
* [[Manuel Chaves González]] (born 1945 in Ceuta), a Spanish politician of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party. He served as the Third Vice President of the Spanish Government from 2009 to 2011
* [[Ramón Castellano de Torres]] (born 1947 in Ceuta), a Spanish artist, thought by some to be an expressionist painter
* [[Ignacio Velázquez Rivera]] (born 1953), first Mayor-President of [[Melilla]]
* [[Juan Jesús Vivas]] Lara (born 1953 in Ceuta), became the Mayor-President of Ceuta in Spain in 2001 
* [[Pedro Aviles|Pedro Avilés Gutiérrez]] (born 1956 in Ceuta), a Spanish novelist from Madrid.
* [[Eva Isanta|Eva María Isanta Foncuberta]] (born 1971 in Ceuta), a Spanish actress <ref>{{Cite web|title=Eva Isanta|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0410706/|access-date=2023-01-14|website=IMDb|language=en-US}}</ref>{{user-generated inline|date=August 2023}}
* [[Mohamed Taieb Ahmed]] (born 1975 in Ceuta), a Spanish-Moroccan drug lord <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.interviu.es/reportajes/articulos/vuelve-el-nene|title=Vuelve 'El Nene'|date=14 January 2008|website=Interviu|language=es|access-date=20 October 2017|archive-date=11 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190911075451/http://www.interviu.es/reportajes/articulos/vuelve-el-nene|url-status=dead}}</ref> responsible for trafficking hashish across the Strait of Gibraltar and into Spain.

===Sport ===
* [[Francisco Lesmes]] (1924–2005) and [[Rafael Lesmes]] (1926–2012), brothers and Spanish footballers.
* [[Pirri|José Martínez Sánchez]] (born 1945 in Ceuta), nicknamed ''Pirri'', a retired Spanish footballer, mainly played for Real Madrid, appearing in 561 competitive games and scoring 172 goals
* [[José Ramón López]] (born 1950), a sprint canoer, silver medallist at the [[1976 Summer Olympics]]
* [[Migueli|Miguel Bernardo Bianquetti]] (born 1951 in Ceuta), known as ''Migueli'', a Spanish retired footballer, 391 caps for [[FC Barcelona]] and 32 for [[Spain men's national football team|Spain]]
* [[Nayim]] (born 1966 in Ceuta), a retired Spanish footballer; he scored a last-minute goal for Real Zaragoza in the 1995 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Final.
* [[Lorena Miranda]] (born 1991 in Ceuta), a Spanish female water polo player, silver medallist at the [[2012 Summer Olympics]].
* [[Anuar Tuhami]] (born 1995 in Ceuta), a Spanish-Moroccan footballer, played one game for [[Morocco national football team|Morocco]]