Tighennif is a town and commune in Mascara Province, Algeria. According to the 2002 census it has a population of 55,800.

Personalities

• Ternifine or Tighennif is the home of a fossil human jawbone dating to the Middle Pleistocene, which French vertebrate paleontologist Camille Arambourg classified as Atlantanthropus mauritanicus in 1955.
• Charles Guillaume Marie Appollinaire Antoine Cousin Montauban, comte de Palikao is a famous person associated with Tighennif.
• Henri Akoka French-Algerian clarinetist.