List of Famous people born in Algeria

Tayeb Meziani is an Algerian footballer who plays for Espérance Sportive de Tunis.

Jean Benguigui is a French actor. He is of Jewish-Algerian descent. In 2006 and 2007 he played the role of impresario Cartoni in a new adaptation of the operetta Le Chanteur de Mexico at the Théâtre du Châtelet.

Hamid Cheriet, better known by his stage name Idir, was an Algerian Kabyle singer-songwriter and musician. Referred to as the "King of Amazigh music", he is regarded as one of the more significant modern day figures in Algerian and Amazigh culture, history, and struggle. Along with musicians like Ferhat Mehenni and Lounis Aït Menguellet, Idir helped popularize Raï folk music.

Daniel Lévi is a French singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.

Jean-Pierre Elkabbach is a French journalist.

Bruno Bonnell is a French businessman and politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who was elected to the French National Assembly on 18 June 2017. He is co-founder of Infogrames Entertainment SA.

Annie Cohen-Solal, is a French historian and writer. For ever, she has been tracking down interactions between art, literature and society with an intercultural twist. After Sartre : A Life (1987) became an international success, she became French cultural counselor in the US, where she held her position from 1989 to 1992. At the crossroads of disciplinary fields, she focuses on the agents responsible for modern symbolic circulations.

Jean-Paul Enthoven is a French publisher and journalist.

Wassyla Tamzali is an Algerian writer, lawyer, and feminist.

Hélène Cixous is a professor, French feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher, literary critic and rhetorician. Cixous is best known for her article "The Laugh of the Medusa", which established her as one of the early thinkers in post-structural feminism. She founded the first centre of feminist studies at a European university at the Centre universitaire de Vincennes of the University of Paris.