The National Order of Merit () is an order of merit awarded for all manner of services to Algeria. It was instituted 2 January 1984 and is quite complex, with three classes of 'Dignity' - each with collar, sash with badge and star - as well as Commander, Officer and Knight grades.
Recipients
Sadr
Ahmed Ben Bella
Houari Boumédiène (posthumously) Rabah Bitat Ali Kafi Abdelmadjid Tebboune, December 19, 2019 Abdelkader Bensalah, December 19, 2019 Ahmed Gaid Salah, December 19, 2019
Athir
Foreign personalities:
Jean-Luc de Cabrières, French writer, December 3, 2000
Émile Lahoud, President of the Lebanese Republic, July 23, 2002
Juan Carlos I, King of Spain, October 2, 2002
Thomas Klestil, Federal President of the Republic of Austria, June 14, 2003
Rudolf Schuster, President of the Slovak Republic, June 14, 2003
Jorge Sampaio, President of the Portuguese Republic, December 2, 2003
Joaquim Chissano, President of the Republic of Mozambique, December 9, 2004
Fatima bint Mubarak Al Ketbi, President of the General Union of Women of the State of the United Arab Emirates, March 16, 2005 Alejandro Toledo, President of the Republic of Peru, May 7, 2005 Ricardo Lagos, President of the Republic of Chile, May 7, 2005 Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President of the Federative Republic of Brazil, February 7, 2006 Roh Moo-hyun, President of the Republic of Korea, March 11, 2006 Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian Director of the IAEA, January 7, 2007 László Sólyom, President of the Republic of Hungary, June 2, 2007 Hazza bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, National Security Advisor to the UAE President, October 17, 2007 Costa-Gavras, Greek-French film director and screenwriter, 4 November 2018 Kais Saied, President of Tunisia, February 2, 2020 Sergio Mattarella, President of Italy, November 6, 2021 Abdullah II, King of Jordan, December 2022 Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, President of Portugal, May 23, 2023 Algerian personalities:
, Mujahideen, July 22, 1992 (posthumously) , Trade unionist, February 20, 2006 (posthumously) Abdelhak Benhamouda, Trade unionist, February 20, 2006 (posthumously) Zinedine Zidane, French footballer, December 11, 2006 Smaïn Lamari, Major-General, September 11, 2007 (posthumously) Warda Al-Jazairia, Singer, the 1 st November 2004 M'Hamed El Anka, Singer, July 4, 2009 (posthumously) Fadhéla Dziria, Singer, July 4, 2009 (posthumously) , Writer, July 4, 2009 Bachir Mentouri, Physician, July 4, 2009
Achir
Roger Hanin, French actor, December 3, 2000
Algeria national football team, Winners of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, July 21, 2019