List of Famous people born in Oran Province, Algeria

Yves Saint Laurent

Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent
First Name Yves
Born on August 1, 1936
Died on June 1, 2008 (aged 71)

Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent, professionally known as Yves Saint-Laurent, was a French fashion designer who, in 1961, founded his eponymous fashion label. He is regarded as being among the foremost fashion designers in the twentieth century. In 1985, Caroline Rennolds Milbank wrote, "The most consistently celebrated and influential designer of the past twenty-five years, Yves Saint Laurent can be credited with both spurring the couture's rise from its 1960s ashes and with finally rendering ready-to-wear reputable." He was able to adapt his style to accommodate the changes in fashion during that period. He approached fashion in a different perspective by wanting women to look comfortable yet elegant at the same time. He is also credited with having introduced the tuxedo suit for women and was known for his use of non-European cultural references, and non-white models.

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Étienne Daho

First Name Étienne
Last Name Daho
Born on January 14, 1956 (age 68)

Étienne Daho is a French singer, songwriter and record producer. He has released a number of synth-driven and rock-surf influenced pop hit singles since 1981.

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Valérie Benguigui

Valérie Clotilde Benguigui
First Name Valérie
Last Name Benguigui
Born on July 8, 1961
Died on September 2, 2013 (aged 52)

Valérie Benguigui was a French actress and theater director. Born in Oran, Algeria, she took acting courses at the Cours Florent and the National Chaillot Theatre School. Her first film role was in Francis Huster's On a volé Charlie Spencer (1986).

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Nicole Garcia

First Name Nicole
Last Name Garcia
Born on April 22, 1946 (age 77)

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 Caméra d'Or section of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.

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Robert Ménard

First Name Robert
Last Name Ménard
Born on July 6, 1953 (age 70)

Robert Ménard is a French politician and former journalist serving as Mayor of Béziers since 2014. A founder of the Paris-based international non-governmental organisation Reporters Without Borders, he was its general-secretary from 1985 to 2008. He subsequently participated in the launch of the information website Boulevard Voltaire in 2012. An Independent since 1981, Ménard joined the Les Amoureux de la France alliance in 2017.

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Baghdad Bounedjah

First Name Baghdad
Last Name Bounedjah
Born on November 24, 1991 (age 32)
Height 184 cm | 6'0

Baghdad Bounedjah is an Algerian professional footballer. He plays for Qatar Stars League side Al Sadd and the Algeria national team as a striker. Throughout his club career, he has played for Algerian sides RCG Oran and USM El Harrach, and Tunisian side Étoile du Sahel, before joining Qatari club Al Sadd in 2015. In the 2018–19 Qatar Stars League season, he scored a league record of 39 goals in one season, and was the world's leading goalscorer during the 2018 calendar year with 58 goals overall.

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Alain Chabat

First Name Alain
Born on November 24, 1958 (age 65)

Alain Chabat is an Algerian-born French actor, comedian, director, screenwriter, producer and television presenter. He was originally known for his work in the comedy group Les Nuls, including as the co-writer and lead actor of La Cité de la peur (1994). He has since then become a notable filmmaker of his own, typically both writing and starring in the movies he directed, which include cult comedy films such as Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra, RRRrrrr!!!, Houba! On the Trail of the Marsupilami and Santa & Cie.

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Khaled

Born on February 29, 1960 (age 64)

Khaled Hadj Ibrahim, better known by his mononym Khaled, is an Algerian musician, singer and songwriter born in Oran. He began recording in his early teens under the name Cheb Khaled. He was crowned "King of Raï" in the first Raï festival in Oran and has since become the world's best-known Arab singer ever. Khaled helped transform the rai music in his native Algeria, and then went on to make it a part of the global music scene. And with 10 diamond, platinum, and gold albums, as well as the highest-selling Arab album in history, he's the star all other rai singers aspire to be,His most famous songs are "Didi", "El Arbi", "Abdel Kader (song)", "La Poupée qui fait non", "Wahran Wahran", "Bakhta", "Aïcha" and "C'est la vie" as well as "Alech Taadi", which was prominently featured in the 1997 film The Fifth Element.

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Louis Bertignac

Louis Laurent Bertignac
First Name Louis
Last Name Bertignac
Born on February 23, 1954 (age 70)

Louis Bertignac is a French guitarist, vocalist and songwriter. An ex Shakin' Street member and a founding member in 1976 of the rock band Téléphone, he formed Bertignac et les Visiteurs after Téléphone split in 1986. Tony Visconti produced his first solo album, Elle et Louis (1993) and Chris Kimsey the second, '96.

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Julien Dray

First Name Julien
Last Name Dray
Born on March 5, 1955 (age 69)

Julien Dray is a French politician. He is a member of the French Socialist Party, member of the regional council of Île-de-France and was a member of the National Assembly of France between 1988 and 2012. He was a Trotskyist activist till 1981 and a cofounder with his friend Harlem Désir of SOS Racisme, of which he was vice president from 1984 to 1988.

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