He founded the nationalist Istiqlal party which was a driving force in the Moroccan struggle for independence from French colonial rule.
He was such an icon in the sport that when the comic character Snoopy adopted an alter ego as a figure skating coach (appearing, for example, in the 1980 TV special She's a Good Skate, Charlie Brown), it was clearly modelled upon Fassi.
Ramiro Fernando Fassi is an Argentine football player currently playing in Platense.
His second wife was Hind Al Fassi, a member of the Saudi Arabian al-Fassi family and daughter of Sheikh Shams ed-din Al Fassi, a Sufi religious leader from the Shadhili order, and grandson of Moroccan Sufi Imam al-Fassi, who had settled in Mecca in the late 18th-century.