Notable Algerian Jews
- Daniel Bensaïd, philosopher and trotskyist
- Jean-Pierre Bacri, an actor
- Maurice Benayoun, an artist
- Michel Benita, a double bass player
- José Aboulker, member of the anti-Nazi resistance
- Franck Amsallem, jazz pianist and composer
- Yvan Attal, film director, actor (Algerian parents)
- Jacques Attali, economist, writer
- Baruj Benacerraf, immunologist, Nobel prize (1980) (Algerian mother)
- Paul Benacerraf, philosopher (Algerian mother)
- Jean Benguigui, actor
- Richard Berry, actor
- Lili Boniche, musician
- Patrick Bruel, singer, actor
- Alain Chabat, actor
- André Chouraqui, writer
- Élie Chouraqui, French film director and scriptwriter
- Hélène Cixous, feminist writer
- Robert Cohen, boxer: World Bantamweight Champion
- Annie Cohen-Solal, academic and biographer of Jean-Paul Sartre
- Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, physicist, Nobel prize (1997)
- Jean-François Copé, (Algerian mother), President of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) Group in the French National Assembly
- Cy Curnin, lead singer of The Fixx (Jewish Algerian mother, non-Jewish father)
- Gérard Darmon, actor
- Jacques Derrida, deconstructionist philosopher
- Jean-Pierre Elkabbach, journalist
- Alphonse Halimi, boxer: World Bantamweight Champion
- Roger Hanin, film actor & director
- Bernard-Henri Lévy, philosopher
- Claude Lelouch, film director (Algerian father)
- Enrico Macias, singer
- Reinette L'Oranaise, singer
- Martial Solal, jazz pianist and composer
- Benjamin Stora, historian
- Patrick Timsit, humorist, actor
- Eric Zemmour, journalist
- Claude Zidi, film director
- Marlène Jobert, an actress
- Danny Ayalon, a politician
- Alon Abutbul, an actor
- Françoise Atlan, French singer.
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