List of Famous people born in Tunisia

Selma Elloumi Rekik is originally from Tunis. She is a businesswoman, Tunisian politician and was a member of Nidaa Tounes, though she currently is part of Al Amal.

Saâdeddine Zmerli was a Tunisian urologist and politician. He spent twelve years in France, ten years in Algeria and eighteen years in Tunisia.

Ismaïl Khelil was a Tunisian politician.

Mohamed Ali Yacoubi is a Tunisian professional footballer who plays as a defender for ES Tunis.

Nabil Bechaouch was a Tunisian footballer.

Saint Restituta is a Berber saint and martyr of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. She was said to have been born in Carthage or Teniza and martyred under Roman Emperor Diocletian. The location and date of her martyrdom are not precisely known. She sometimes is considered one of the Martyrs of Abitinae, Roman Province of Africa, a group of North Africans including St. Dativus, St. Saturninus, et alia, who were martyred in AD 304.

Ahmed Achour ‎ was a Tunisian composer and conductor. He led the Tunisian Symphony Orchestra from 1979 to 2010 and taught at the Higher Institute of Music in Tunis. He died in Tunis after a long illness, aged 75.

Fatima bint Muhammad Al-Fihriyya Al-Qurashiya was an Arab woman who is credited with founding the al-Qarawiyyin mosque in 859 CE in Fez, Morocco. She is also known as "Umm al-Banayn". Al-Fihri died around 880 AD. The Al-Qarawiyyin mosque subsequently developed a teaching institution, which became the University of al-Qarawiyyin in 1963.

Ahmed Friaa was the Minister of the Interior of Tunisia for two weeks in January 2011, during the peak of Tunisian revolution.

Serge Bramly is a French-language writer and essayist.