List of Famous people born in Algiers Province, Algeria
Lyna Khoudri
Lyna Khoudri is an Algerian-French actress. For her role in the Sofia Djama-directed film Les Bienheureux (2017), she won the Orizzonti Award for Best Actress at the 74th Venice International Film Festival and received a César Award nomination for Most Promising Actress.
Marthe Villalonga
Marthe Villalonga is a French actress. She was born in Fort-de-l'Eau, Algeria.
Paul Belmondo
Paul Belmondo was a French sculptor. He is the father of the actor Jean-Paul Belmondo.
Henri Parot
Henri Parot is a member of the Basque separatist group ETA. He was born in Algiers in 1958, the son of a Basque-French marriage that migrated to Algeria. When the Algerian War ended and he was three years old, he returned to France and in the Basque-French city of Bayona when he was 16 years old, where he learned the Basque language.
Elizabeth Teissier
Élizabeth Teissier, née Germaine Élizabeth Hanselmann is a French astrologer and former model and actress. Between 1975 and 1976, she created a daily horoscope on French television channel Antenne 2, and in 1981, she launched the Astro Show television programme in Germany. Her personal clients included former President of France François Mitterrand, and she has published several books on astrology. A test that compared her predictions against common sense and chance failed to show any evidence of her having any special powers.
Mehdi Cerbah
Mehdi Cerbah was an Algerian footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Didier Bourdon
Didier Bourdon is a French Algerian-born actor, screenwriter and film director.
Tayeb Meziani
Tayeb Meziani is an Algerian footballer who plays for Espérance Sportive de Tunis.
Bruno Bonnell
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
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.