List of Famous people born in Tunis Governorate, Tunisia

Moufida Tlatli was a Tunisian film director, screenwriter, and editor. She is noted for her breakthrough film The Silences of the Palace in 1994, which won several international awards. She went on to direct two more films: The Season of Men (2000) and Nadia and Sarra (2004).

Ahmed Mathlouthi is a Tunisian swimmer. He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2016 Summer Olympics. As well as being a multiple times All-Africa Games medalist, he has also won 3 medals at Swimming World Cup events.

Rami Jridi is a Tunisian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for ES Tunis in the Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1.

Muhammad al-Ṭāhir ibn ʿĀshūr was a graduate of University of Ez-Zitouna and a well known Islamic scholar. He studied classical Islamic scholarship with reform-minded scholars. He became a judge then Shaikh al-Islām in 1932. He was a writer and author on the subject of reforming Islamic education and jurisprudence. He is best remembered for his Qur'anic exegesis, al-Tahrir wa'l-tanwir.

Radhia Haddad was a Tunisian feminist activist, and former chairperson of the National Union of Women of Tunisia for fifteen years.

Pierre Haski is a French journalist, co-founder of Rue 89. He was deputy editor of Libération from January 2006 till his departure in 2007 from the daily.

Noureddine Ben Yahmed, known as Noureddine Diwa, was a Tunisian professional footballer who represented Tunisia on 23 occasions. Diwa played as a striker.

Hedi Turki was a Tunisian artist of Turkish origin. He is considered to have been the pioneering force of abstract painting in Tunisia and was an influential member of the School of Tunis. His younger brother was Zoubeir Turki, who died in 2009.

Paul Boujenah, is a French-Tunisian Jewish film director.

Maram Ben Aziza, is a Tunisian actress, Model and entrepreneur, best known for her role of Selima in the Tunisian series Maktoub.