Noureddine Meziane (in arabic : نور الدين مزيان) born in 1918 and died in August 1999, known as Cheikh Noureddine, is an Algerian singer, poet, actor and writer. Born in 1918 in the village of Aguemoun in the commune of Larbaâ Nath Irathen (ex-Fort-National) in Grande Kabylie, he is the son of Si Mohand Tahar Ouguemoun, a village teacher (Sidi Abderrahman school).

He attended Koranic school until the age of 16. In 1935, he landed with his brother Mohamed Noureddine in Algiers, where he was hired as a waiter in various establishments. In 1936, while he was singing while doing the dishes in a tavern, Meziane was noticed by the director of Pathé Marconi who lived not far from there and offered to record his songs.