page_title: List of foreign recipients of the Légion d'Honneur by country
section_title: Algeria
hierarchical_section_title: List of foreign recipients of the Légion d'Honneur by country / Algeria
caption_attribution_description: English: Si Bouaziz Ben Gana Caid of Zibans, AlgeriaFrançais&#160;: Les grands chefs arabes. Sidi Bouaziz Ben Gana, Caïd des Zibans. Carte postale.
context_page_description: The following is a list of notable foreign recipients of the Légion d'Honneur by their country of origin. The Order of Légion d'Honneur is the highest decoration in France and is divided into five degrees: Chevalier, Officier, Commandeur, Grand Officier and Grand Croix.
  Membership in the Légion d'Honneur is restricted to French nationals. Foreign nationals who have served France or the ideals it upholds may, however, receive a distinction of the Légion, which is nearly the same thing as membership in the Légion. Foreign nationals who live in France are submitted to the same requirements as Frenchmen. Foreign nationals who live abroad may be awarded a distinction of any rank or dignity in the Légion.
  A complete, chronological list of the members of the Legion of Honour nominated from the very first ceremony in 1803 to now does not exist. The number is estimated at one million. Among them about 3000 were decorated with the Grand Cross.
context_section_description: Algeria was part of France from 1830 to 1962
  Grand Cross
  Abdelkader El Djezairi (1860), Algerian religious and military leader who led a struggle against the French colonial invasion in the mid-19th century. In 1860, Abdelkader, who was living in exile in Syria, fought to save thousands of Christians in Damascus during the conflict between the Druze and Maronites. The French government then bestowed on him the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur
  Si Kaddour Benghabrit (1939), official and founder of the Muslim Institute of the Great Mosque of Paris
  Grand Officer
  Said Boualam (1978), colonel in the French Army, and the founder of the Front Algérie Française, a political and militant movement in favour of French Algeria
  Chevalier
  Saïd Cid Kaoui (1904), berberologist, lexicographer and interpreter officer of the 1st class.
caption: Si Bouaziz Ben Gana, Caid of Zibans, Algeria
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