List of Famous people born in Oran Province, Algeria

Hicham Belkaroui is an Algerian professional footballer who plays for MC Oran and the Algeria national team. He plays primarily as a centre-back.

Jean-Paul Benzécri was a French mathematician and statistician. He studied at École Normale Supérieure and has been professor at Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie in Paris. He is most famous for the development of the Correspondence analysis, a statistical technique for analyzing contingency tables. It is widely used in sociological studies of categorical data. Benzécri was also one of the inventors of the nearest-neighbor chain algorithm for agglomerative hierarchical clustering.

Kouider Morabet, better known as Cheb Kader, is a Moroccan singer, songwriter, composer and pioneer of raï music. He is born in 1966 in Oran, Algeria.

Kaddour Bekhloufi was a professional footballer who played as a forward and also as a defender. He played international football for FLN football team and Algeria.

Cheba Zahouania, born Halima Mazzi is an Algerian Moroccan singer known for raï music. She has lived in France since her singing partner, Cheb Hasni, was murdered in 1994.

Mokhtar Kechamli was an Algerian football manager and player.

Fatiha Boudiaf is an Algerian activist, widow and second wife of former Algerian President Mohamed Boudiaf. After his assassination in 1992, she set up the Boudiaf Foundation to spread her husband's message of peace. She has been an outspoken critic of the conviction of Lambarek Boumaarafi, saying that a larger conspiracy was involved in the death of her ex-husband and has demanded that the investigation is reopened.

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.