Famous people born in Algeria
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Abdelhamid Ben Badis
Abdelhamid Ben Badis was an emblematic figure of the Islamic Reform movement in Algeria. In 1931, Ben Badis founded the Association of Algerian Muslim Ulema, which was a national grouping of many Islamic scholars in Algeria from many different and sometimes opposing perspectives and viewpoints. The Association would have later a great influence on Algerian Muslim politics up to the Algerian War of Independence. In the same period, it set up many institutions where thousands of Algerian children....
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Martine Barrat
Martine Barrat is a FrenchAlgerian photographer, actress, dancer and writer.....
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Louis Althusser
Louis Pierre Althusser was a French Marxist philosopher. He was born in Algeria and studied at the cole Normale Suprieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy.....
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H l ne Cixous
Hlne Cixous is a professor, AlgerianFrench 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 mothers of poststructuralist feminist theory. She holds honorary degrees from Queens University and the University of Alberta in Canada University College Dublin in Ireland the University of York and University College London in the UK and Georgetown University, Northwestern U....
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Isaac Alfasi
Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi haCohen also known as the Alfasi or by his Hebrew acronym Rif , was an Algerian Talmudist and posek . He is best known for his work of halakha, the legal code Sefer Hahalachot, considered the first fundamental work in halakhic literature. He was born in the Algerian city of Qalaat Beni Hammad, but spent the majority of his career in Fes, and is therefore known as Alfasi .....
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Bernard Amsalem
Bernard Amsalem is a French organizer of athletics. He was vicepresident of the French Athletics Federation from 1997 to 2001, and is now the president since 2001.....
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Benjamin Stora
Benjamin Stora is a French historian, expert on North Africa, who is widely considered one of the worlds leading authorities on Algerian history. He was born in a Jewish family which left the country following its War of Independence in 1962. Stora holds two PhDs and a Doctorate of the State . His books and articles have been translated into several languages, including English, Arabic, Spanish, German, Russian and Vietnamese.....
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Fernand Sastre
Fernand Sastre was a French football official who was President of the French Football Federation from 1972 to 1984.....
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Fran oise Fabian
Michle Cortes de Leone y Fabianera, better known as her stage name Franoise Fabian , is a French film actress. She has appeared in more than 80 films since 1956.....
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Elias Zerhouni
Elias A. Zerhouni is an Algerianborn American radiologist and medical researcher. He was the 15th director of the National Institutes of Health, appointed by George W. Bush in May 2002. He served for 6 years, stepping down in October, 2008.....
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Jean Pierre Bacri
JeanPierre Bacri is a French actor and screenwriter who frequently works in collaboration with Agns Jaoui.....
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Jacques Benoit
Born in Algiers in the French Algeria, Jacques Benoit left for France at the age of seven, after the Algerian independence war. He attended high school at Orleans and Nice, eventually settling in Paris, where he studied Graphic Arts at the Met de Penninghen Art School in the early 1970s.....
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Nicole Garcia
Nicole Garcia is a French actress, film director and screenwriter. Her film Charlie Says was entered into the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. Her film Going Away was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. She was the President of the Jury for the Camra dOr section of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.....
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Cherif Guellal
Cherif Guellal was an Algerian businessman and diplomat, who fought in the Algerian independence movement and citizen of the United States.....
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Patrick Bruel
Patrick Bruel is a French singer, actor, and professional poker player of Jewish descent.....
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