1290) Houari Boumédiène

Houari Boumédiène, also transcribed Boumediene, Boumedienne (1932 – 1978). Chairman of the Revolutionary Council of Algeria from 19 June 1965 until 12 December 1976 and thereafter as the second President of Algeria until his death on 27 December 1978.
His real name was Mohammed Ben Brahim Boukharouba and, according to the Encyclopaedia of Islam, his family is Arabic speaking of Berber origins.
He was educated at the Islamic Institute in Constantine. He joined the National Liberation Front (FLN) in the Algerian War of Independence in 1955, adopting Houari Boumédiène as his nom-de-guerre (from Sidi Boumediène, the name of the patron saint of the city of Tlemcen in western Algeria, where he served as an officer during the war, and Sidi El Houari, the patron saint of nearby Oran). 

- "His borrowed first name, Houari, mean 'the red-haired one' in the Algerian Arabic dialect."  https://books.google.de/books…

- "Boumediene had none of the charisma which his predecessor possessed, but gradually, as success marked his regime, this gaunt, red-haired ascetic developed into a self-confident head of state and gained popularity."  https://biography.yourdictionary.com/houari-boumediene

- "A gaunt, intense, chain‐smoking revsolutionary with wavy reddish‐brown hair and intent green eyes, the President made little attempt to clear up his back ground."  https://www.nytimes.com/…/houari-boumediene-president-of-al…

- "One of seven children born to an impoverished wheat-farmer, Houari Boumédienne had a “curiously gaunt, high-cheekboned face, reddish hair, harshly intense green eyes and wispy moustache [which made him look] more like a starving Irish poet than a guerrilla veteran'', Horne writes."  https://gulfnews.com/…/houari-boumedienne-guardian-of-freed…
 
- "In person Boumédienne was lean, ascetic and gaunt, with high cheekbones, intense green eyes and red hair."  https://books.google.de/books…