List of Famous people born in Sétif Province, Algeria

Fodil El Ouratilani was an Algerian Muslim Brotherhood member. He is considered a prominent member of the Islamic Movement in Algeria, for he had an important role in founding the Association of Algerian Muslim Ulema in 1931, as he was very close to Imam Abdelhamid Ben Badis and Imam Bashir Al-Ibrahimi. He also contributed greatly to the empowerment of the principles of the Association in Algeria and then in France beside Algerian workers there.

Adlène Hicheur is a particle physicist with dual Algerian and French citizenship. After his master of theoretical physics in Lyon, he joined LAPP to work on the BaBar experiment, located at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. His thesis, defended in 2003, was about the production of high energy Eta prime mesons in the decays of B mesons. After that he was a Postdoctorate in England at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, where he worked on the ATLAS experiment at LHC. He then joined the high energy physics department of École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and works currently on the LHCb experiment.

Rachid Mekhloufi is a French-Algerian former football striker. He later became a manager and coached the Algeria national football team.

Kheïreddine Madoui is an Algerian football former player and the current manager of MC Oran.