List of Famous people born in Tunisia
Saber Rebaï
Saber Rebaï is a Tunisian pan-Arab singer and composer. He is known for his song "Sidi Mansour". Some albums carry the variant transliteration Saber el Rebaii. He has been signed since 2004 to the pan-Arab record label Rotana.
Lotfi Bouchnak
Lotfi Bouchnak is a Tunisian singer, oud player, composer and public figure. He is considered one of the best tenors in the Middle East, North Africa, and the Arab world and has been dubbed as Tunisia's "Pavarotti". He also played in Tunisian TV series and movies including Maktoub, La boîte magique, Halou u mer and El paraíso ya no es lo que era.
Habiba Ghribi
Habiba Ghribi is a Tunisian middle- and long-distance runner who specialises in the 3000 metres steeplechase. She won the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics, giving her country its first Olympic medal by a woman. She is also the Tunisian record holder in the event, having run 9:05.36 at the Memorial van Damme in Brussels in September 2015.
Yazid Zerhouni
Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni was the interior minister of Algeria. He was born in Tunis. In 2000, he was hospitalized in Baltimore, Maryland with an undisclosed condition. and died in Algiers on 18 December 2020.
Rym Saidi
Rym Saidi Breidy is a Tunisian International topmodel and actress.
Nikola Bilyk
Nikola Bilyk is an Austrian handball player for THW Kiel and the Austrian national team.
Aïcha Ben Ahmed
Aïcha Ben Ahmed is a Tunisian actress who has performed in film, on the stage and on television. She became widely known in Tunisia in 2012 when she appeared in the series Pour les beaux yeux de Catherine. More recently, she has appeared in several Egyptian films including Saint Augustin, La cellule and Zizou. For her appearance as Hind in Narcisse, Aziz Rouhou, she won the award for best actress at the 2016 Al Hoceïma Film Festival in Morocco.
Christian de la Mazière
Christian de la Mazière was a journalist and member of the Charlemagne Division of the Waffen-SS. He is known for discussing his role in the documentary The Sorrow and the Pity and also wrote a book titled The Captive Dreamer. At the start of the war, he served in the French Army and remained in the military of Vichy France until 1942. After being discharged, he worked for the fascist newspaper Le Pays Libre, joining the Charlemagne Division just before the Liberation of Paris in 1944. He was taken prisoner in Pomerania by Polish forces in the Red Army.
Charley Marouani
Charley Marouani was a Tunisian impresario and talent agent.
Habib Essid
Habib Essid is a Tunisian politician who was Head of Government of Tunisia from 6 February 2015 to 27 August 2016. He was the first Head of Government to be appointed following the adoption of the new constitution and thus considered to be the first Head of Government of the Second Tunisian Republic. He previously served as Minister of the Interior in 2011.