| width="40%" align=left|Incumbent | width="5%" align=left|Affiliation | width="15%" align=left|Notes | olspan="4"|The Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic
''Gouvernement Provisiore de la Rpublique Algrienne (GPRA)'' |
| small>28 March 1962 to 3 July 1962 | Abdur Rahman Fars, President of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic
(Abderrahman Fars) | | | |
| olspan="4"|Algerian State ('Etat Algrienne') |
| small>3 July 1962 to 4 August 1962 | Abdur Rahman Fars, President of the Provisional Executive Council
(Abderrahman Fars) | | |
| small>September 20 1962 to September 25 1962 | Ferhat Abbas, President of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic
| valign=top|FLN | |
olspan="4"|The Peoples Democratic Republic of Algeria
الجمهوريّةالجزائرية ('Al-Jumhūriyya al-Jazā’iriyya ad-Dimuqratiyya ash-Sha’biyya') |
| small>September 25 1962 to September 15 1963 | Ferhat Abbas, President of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic | valign=top|FLN | |
| small>September 15 1963 to June 19 1965 | Ahmed Ben Bella, President
احمد بن بلة | valign=top|FLN | valign=top|(Muhammad Ahmad Bin Balla); deposed in a coup d'detat |
| small>June 19 1965 to December 10 1976 | Colonel Houari Boumdinne, President of the Revolutionary Council
هواري بومدين, اسمه الحقيقي محمد بوخروبة | rowspan="2"|Mil/FLN | (Originally Mohammed Brahim Boukarouba) |
| small>December 10 1976 to December 27 1978 | Colonel Houari Boumdinne, President
هواري بومدين, اسمه الحقيقي محمد بوخروبة | Elected 10 Dec 1976; died in office |
| small>December 27 1978 to February 9, 1979 | Rabah Bitat, interim President
رابح بيطاط | FLN | |
| small>February 9 1979 to January 11 1992 | Colonel Chadli Bendjedid, President
شاذلي بن جديد | FLN | valign=top|Elected 7 Feb 1979; re-elected February 1984 |
| small>January 14 1992 to June 29 1992 | Mohamed Boudiaf, Chairman of the High Council of State
محمد بوضياف | PRF | Assassinated |
| small>June 29 1992 to January 31 1994 | Ali Kafi, Chairman of the High Council of State
علي كاف | PRS | |
| small>January 31 1994 to April 27 1999 | Liamine Zroual, Head of State
اليمين زروال | valign=top|n-p/RND | |
| small>April 27 1999 to present | Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President
عبد العزيز بوتفليقة | valign=top|n-p | |