List of Famous people born in Oran Province, Algeria
Amel Bouchoucha
Amel Bouchoucha also known as Amal Bouchoucha is an Algerian actress.
Anne Alvaro
Anne Alvaro is a French actress whose work spans from the early 1970s through 2012. She is probably best known for her role as Eleonore in the 1983 biopic Danton. She won one César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for The Taste of Others in 2001 and another for The Clink of Ice in 2011.
Laurence Tubiana
Laurence Tubiana is a French economist, academic and diplomat. She served as France's Climate Change Ambassador and Special Representative for the 2015 COP21 Climate Change Conference in Paris, and is recognised as a key architect of the resulting Paris Agreement.
Blaoui Houari
Blaoui Houari was an Algerian singer-songwriter, composer and conductor. Over the course of his career, he recorded over 900 songs and released over 100 albums.
Francine Faure
Francine Faure was a French pianist specializing in Bach and a mathematician. She was the second wife of Albert Camus, whom she met in 1937 in Algiers. They were married in Lyon on 3 December 1940. She came from a middle-class French family in Oran, Algeria, which was a French colony at the time. She also taught mathematics, sometimes as a supply teacher.
Thierry Pastor
Thierry Pastor is a French singer and composer known for his 1980s hits "Le Coup de folie" and "Sur des Musiques Noires". He was also a former musician of Gilbert Montagné and his first single was produced by Roland Magdane.
Catherine Destivelle
Catherine Monique Suzanne Destivelle is a French rock climber and mountaineer. In 1992 she became the first woman to complete a solo ascent of the Eiger's north face. She completed the climb in winter in 17 hours. Her other notable climbs include the Bonatti Route on the north face of the Matterhorn and the southwest pillar of the Aiguille du Dru. Destivelle has been the subject of several documentaries, including French director Rémy Tezier's, Beyond the Summits, which won the award for best feature-length mountain film at the 2009 Banff Mountain Film Festival.
Henri Stambouli
Henri Stambouli is an Algerian former football player and manager.
Réda Halaïmia
Mohamed Réda Halaïmia is an Algerian football player. He currently plays for K Beerschot VA in the Belgian First Division A and the Algeria national team.
Guy Mardel
Guy Mardel is a French singer, best known for his participation in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest.