List of Famous people born in Tunisia
Kamel Omrane
Kamel Omrane was a Tunisian scholar of Islam and politician. He was the Tunisian Minister of Religious Affairs.
Sophie El Goulli
Sophie el Goulli was a Tunisian writer and art historian.
Nejib Ben Khalfallah
Nejib Ben Khalfallah was a Tunisian dancer and choreographer.
Abderraouf Ben Aziza
Abderraouf Ben Aziza is a Tunisian football forward who played for Tunisia in the 1978 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Étoile Sportive du Sahel. He also played for Al-Nassr for 3 years from 1978 until 1981 and won the Saudi League twice, in 1980 and 1981.
Hatem Ben Salem
Mohamed Hatem Ben Salem is a Tunisian politician. He was the Minister of Education under former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
Ahmed Akaïchi
Ahmed Akaïchi is a Tunisian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Kuwaiti club Kuwait SC.
Carlos Marcello
Carlos Joseph Marcello was an American crime boss of the New Orleans crime family from 1947 until the late 1980s. G. Robert Blakey and other conspiracy theorists have asserted that Marcello along with Santo Trafficante Jr. and Sam Giancana masterminded the 1963 assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy in retaliation for federal prosecution that threatened their secret criminal organization's multibillion-dollar international organized crime empires.
Mohamed Masmoudi
Mohamed Masmoudi was a Tunisian politician who was the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 12 June 1970 until 14 January 1974. He died on 7 November 2016, aged 91.
Radhi Jaïdi
Radhi Ben Abdelmajid Jaïdi is a Tunisian former footballer who played as a centre back. He is currently an assistant coach at Belgian side Cercle Brugge and was previously head coach of the under-23 team at Southampton and head coach of USL Championship team Hartford Athletic.
Moufida Tlatli
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).