Wassyla Tamzali (born 1941) is an Algerian writer, lawyer, and feminist.

[1] The daughter of an Algerian father of Turkish origin,[2] and a Spanish mother,[3] she was born in Béjaïa.

In 1979, she joined UNESCO, responsible for the program dealing with violations of women's rights.

In 2001, she became vice-president of the Forum international des Femmes de la Méditerranée.

[1] Tamzali self-identifies as a "woman, bourgeois, Francophone, feminist and freethinker, if not atheist.