List of Famous people born in Tunisia
Fakhreddine Ben Youssef
Fakhreddine Ben Youssef is a Tunisian footballer, who currently plays for Al-Ismaily. He plays for Tunisian national team as a Striker.
Georges Fenech
Georges Fenech is a French judge and politician.
Hend Sabry
Hend Sabry is an Egyptian Tunisian actress working in Egypt.
Bertrand Delanoë
Bertrand Delanoë is a French retired politician who served as Mayor of Paris from 2001 to 2014. A member of the Socialist Party (PS), he previously served in the National Assembly from 1981 to 1986 and Senate from 1995 until 2001.
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, commonly known as Ben Ali or Ezzine, was a Tunisian politician who was the second President of Tunisia from 1987 until his fall in 2011. Ben Ali was appointed Prime Minister in October 1987. He assumed the Presidency on 7 November 1987 in a bloodless coup d'état that ousted President Habib Bourguiba by declaring him incompetent. Ben Ali was subsequently reelected with enormous majorities, each time exceeding 90% of the vote; his final re-election coming on 25 October 2009. Ben Ali was the penultimate surviving leader deposed in the Arab Spring who was survived by Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, the latter dying in February 2020.
Abu al-Qasim al-Shabbi
Aboul-Qacem Echebbi was a Tunisian poet. He is probably best known for writing the final two verses of the current National Anthem of Tunisia, Humat al-Hima, which was originally written by the Egyptian poet Mustafa Sadik el-Rafii.
Michel Boujenah
Michel Boujenah is a French-Tunisian Jewish actor, comedian, film director, and screenwriter.
Chokri Belaïd
Chokri Belaïd, also transliterated as Shokri Belaïd, was a Tunisian lawyer and politician who was an opposition leader with the left-secular Democratic Patriots' Movement. Belaïd was a vocal critic of the Ben Ali regime prior to the 2011 Tunisian revolution and of the then Islamist-led Tunisian government. On 6 February 2013, he was fatally shot outside his house in El Menzah, close to the Tunisian capital, Tunis. As a result of his assassination, Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali announced his plan to dissolve the existing national government and to form a temporary "national unity" government.
Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel
Mohamed Salmene Lahouaiej-Bouhlel was a Tunisian Muslim terrorist living in France who carried out the 2016 Nice truck attack, in which he drove a truck into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France, killing 86 people and injuring 458. Immediately after the attack, Lahouaiej-Bouhlel was shot dead by responding French police officers.
Tewhida Ben Sheikh
Tewhida Ben Sheikh was the first modern Tunisian woman in North Africa to become a physician. She was also a pioneer in women's medicine, in particular contraception and abortion access.