Mouloud Mammeri (Kabyle: Mulud At Mɛammar) was an Algerian writer, anthropologist and linguist.

He was born on December 28, 1917 in Ait Yenni, in Tizi Ouzou Province, French Algeria. He attended a primary school in his native village, then emigrated to Morocco to live in his uncle's house in Rabat. Four years later he returned to Algiers and pursued his studies at Bugeaud College, before continuing his education at Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, intending to join the École Normale Supérieure. Conscripted in 1939 and discharged in October 1940, Mammeri registered at the Faculté des Lettres d’Alger. Re-conscripted in 1942 after the American landing, he participated in the allied campaigns in France, Italy, and Germany.

Mouloud Mammeri (en kabyle: Lmulud At Mɛemmeṛ), né le  28  décembre 1917 à Ait Yenni, Kabylie (Algérie) et mort le 26 février 1989 dans un accident de voiture à Aïn Defla en Algérie, est un écrivain algérien, anthropologue, linguiste spécialiste de la langue et de la culture berbères (amazigh).