People on Algeria's street signs
Larbi Ben M'hidi
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Mohammed Larbi Ben M'hidi, commonly known as Si Larbi, was an Algerian revolutionary and prominent figure during the Algerian War of Independence. He is one of the six founding members of the...
Emir Abdelkader
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Abd al-Qadir ibn Muhyi al-Din, known as the Emir Abdelkader or Abd al-Qadir al-Hassani al-Jaza'iri, was an Algerian religious and military leader who led a struggle against the French colonial...
Mohamed Khemisti
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Mohamed Khemisti was an Algerian politician. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Algeria for nine months, from 1962 prior to his assassination in 1963. He was married to Fatima...
Mourad Didouche
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Mourad Didouche was an Algerian revolutionary, and a political and military figure of the Algerian War of Independence.
Abane Ramdane
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Abane Ramdane was an Algerian political activist and revolutionary. He played a key role in the organization of the independence struggle during the Algerian war. His influence was so great that he...
Krim Belkacem
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Krim Belkacem was an Algerian revolutionary and politician who was a notable figure during the Algerian War. As vice-president of the GPRA, he was the sole signatory of the Évian Accords on the...
Houari Boumédiène
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Houari Boumédiène was an Algerian military officer, revolutionary and politician who was the second head of state of independent Algeria from 1965 until his death in 1978. He served as Chairman of...
Louis Pasteur
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Louis Pasteur was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the last of which was...
Aïssat Idir
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Aïssat Idir, né le 11 juin 1915 à Djemâa Saharidj en Kabylie et mort, tué par la France, entre le 25 et 27 juillet 1959 à l'hôpital militaire d'Alger, est un syndicaliste algérien, fondateur de...
Hassiba Ben Bouali
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Hassiba Ben Bouali was an Algerian militant and revolutionary figure of the Algerian War.
Colonel Amirouche
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Amirouche Aït Hamouda, better known by his nom de guerre Colonel Amirouche, was an Algerian military leader and revolutionary during the Algerian War. He organized the irregular military of the...
Benali Boudghène
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Benali Dghine Boudghene, commonly known as Colonel Lotfi, was born on 5 May 1934 in Tlemcen in Algeria.
Benali was an Algerian leader in the Algerian War, organising the Wilaya V from 1958 to...
Mohammed V of Morocco
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Mohammed al-Khamis bin Yusef bin Hassan al-Alawi, better known simply as Mohammed V, was the last Sultan of Morocco from 1927 to 1953 and from 1955 to 1957, and first King of Morocco from 1957 to...
Larbi Tbessi
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Larbi Tbessi, whose real name was Larbi Ferhati, born in 1891 in Cheria Tébessa Province, was a revolutionary and reformist Algerian, president of the Association of Algerian Muslim Ulema. He...
Mohamed Boudiaf
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Mohamed Boudiaf, also called Si Tayeb el Watani, was an Algerian politician and statesman, and one of the founders of the revolutionary National Liberation Front (FLN) that led the Algerian War of...
Victor Hugo
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Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician.
Youcef Zighoud
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Youcef Zighoud, also known as Colonel Si Ahmed, was an Algerian FLN fighter during the Algerian War of Independence. On August 20, 1955, he planned an attack against the French in Philippeville and...
Si El Haouès
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Ahmed Ben Abderrazak Hamouda, plus connu sous son nom de guerre, Colonel Si El Haouès, est né en 1923 à M'Chouneche, dans les Aurès et mort au combat le 28 mars 1959 à Djebel Thameur près d'Aïn...
Khalid ibn Hashim
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Khalid ibn al-Hashimi ibn Abd al-Qadir was the grandson of the military leader Abd al Qadir and was for a time a prominent opponent of the nature of French colonial rule in Algeria.