List of Famous people born in Algeria

Robert Castel was a French actor.

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji is a French physicist. He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics with Steven Chu and William Daniel Phillips for research in methods of laser cooling and trapping atoms. Currently he is still an active researcher, working at the École normale supérieure (Paris).

Marcel Pérès is a French musicologist, composer, choral director and singer, and the founder of the early music group Ensemble Organum. He is an authority on Gregorian and pre-Gregorian chant.

Emmanuel de Buretel is a French music executive best known as the founder of Because Music, and his work with Virgin Records.

Mohamed Belouizdad, was an Algerian militant and chief "responsible" (manager) of Special Organisation (OS), the military branch of the Algerian People's Party, (PPA).

Régine Chopinot, born at Fort-de-l'Eau in Algeria, is a French dancer and choreographer of Contemporary Dance.