Rabah Bitat (Arabic: رابح بيطاط‎; ALA-LC: Rābaḥ Bīṭāṭ; 19 December 1925 – 10 April 2000) was an Algerian nationalist and politician.

He served as interim President of Algeria from 1978 to 1979, after Houari Boumédiène's death.

[2] Bitat served as President of the People's National Assembly from April 1977 to October 1990 and was the interim President of Algeria from 27 December 1978 to 9 February 1979[3] after the sudden death of Houari Boumédiènne and before the election of Chadli Bendjedid.

He held the transportation portfolio under Houari Boumédiène and later became the first president of the ANP (by the constitution of 1976).

[5] He is survived by his wife Zohra Drif, a member of the Council of the Nation.