Famous people born in Algeria
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Kad Merad
Kad Merad is a FrenchAlgerian filmmaker and actor who has acted both on stage and on screen.....
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Ali Dilem
Ali Dilem is an Algerian cartoonist. On 11 February 2006, he was sentenced to one year in jail and a 50,000 dinar fine by an Algerian court for a dozen cartoons printed in the newspaper Libert in 2003 depicting President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Dilem has been frequently the subject of legal action and condemned to death in fatwas.....
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Henri Hauser
Henri Hauser was a French historian, geographer, and economist. A pioneer in the study of the economic history of the early modern period, he also wrote on contemporary economic issues and held the first chair in economic history to be established at a French university. He was born in Oran into a middleclass Jewish family who had moved to French Algeria for health reasons but returned to France when Hauser was four years old. Hauser was educated at the Lyce Condorcet in Paris and then at the c....
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus 7 November 1913 4 January 1960 was a French philosopher, author, and journalist. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. He wrote in his essay The Rebel that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957.....
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Omar Derdour
Omar Derdour , full name Abou El Kacem Omar Derdour , was an Algerian Muslim leader, nationalist, and political worker.....
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Hadj Abderrahmane
Hadj Abderrahmane was an Algerian actor from Tlemly, Algiers. He was best known for his portrayal of Inspector Tahar alongside his shorter sidekick Yahia Ben Mabrouk, in the Adventures of Inspector Tahar film comedy series in the late 1960s and 1970s.....
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Bernard Henri L vy
BernardHenri Lvy is a French public intellectual, media personality, and author. Often referred to in France simply as BHL, he was one of the leaders of the Nouveaux Philosophes movement in 1976. In 2010, The Jerusalem Post named Lvy 45th on a list of the worlds 50 most influential Jews. The Boston Globe has said that he is perhaps the most prominent intellectual in France today. He frequently writes on the subject of antiSemitism.....
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Boughera El Ouafi
Ahmed Boughra El Ouafi was an Algerian athlete during the time Algeria was part of France. In 1928, he won the Olympic gold medal in the marathon.....
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Marcel Cerdan
Marcellin Marcel Cerdan was a French pied noir world boxing champion who was considered by many boxing experts and fans to be Frances greatest boxer, and beyond to be one of the best to have learned his craft in Africa. His life was marked by his sporting achievements, social lifestyle and ultimately, tragedy.....
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Hocine A t Ahmed
Hocine At Ahmed was an Algerian politician. He was founder and leader until 2009 of the historical political opposition in Algeria.....
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