List of Famous people born in Tunisia

Lionel Duroy de Suduiraut is a French writer and journalist born in Bizerte (Tunisia) into an impoverished family of aristocratic origin who long shared extreme right-wing ideas. His youth in this environment left a profound mark on him and was the breeding ground for many of his books. . Lionel Duroy was first a delivery man, a courier, a worker, then a journalist at Libération and at L'événement du jeudi. Since the publication of his first novel in 1990, he has devoted himself entirely to writing novels with an essentially autobiographical content. He is happy to talk about his mother, the family trauma linked to his father's war wounds and the legal expulsion of his family from their home in 1955 - following a lack of solidarity from the rest of the family.

Elyes Fakhfakh is a Tunisian politician. He served as the Minister of Tourism and, starting on 19 of December 2012, as the Minister of Finances as well, under Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali. He served as the Prime Minister of Tunisia from 27 February to 2 September 2020.

Faten Fazaâ is a Tunisian novelist and the first woman to write a novel in Tunisian Arabic.

Ali Maâloul is a Tunisian professional footballer who plays as a left back for Al Ahly and the Tunisia national team.

Hamza Rafia is a Tunisian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Italian club Juventus U23 and the Tunisia national team.

Abdelkrim Zbidi is a Tunisian politician.

Youssef Chahed is a Tunisian politician who served as the 14th Prime Minister of Tunisia from 27 August 2016 to 27 February 2020. Previously he was Secretary of State for Fishing from 2015 to 2016 and Minister of Local Affairs in 2016. He was a member of the Nidaa Tounes party until he formed Tahya Tounes. By profession he is an agricultural engineer, researcher and university professor. He was elected president of the newly founded Tahya Tounes party on 2 June 2019.

Nabil Maâloul, is a Tunisian football coach currently in charge of Syria and former footballer who was capped 74 times for his country, and participated in 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. He is currently the coach of Al-Duhail SC. He spent most of his playing career with his home club, ES Tunis and won it a historic treble as a coach in 2011. During his managerial career, he was in charge of three national teams: the Tunisian, Kuwaiti, and Syrian national football teams, but he also managed clubs in Tunisia and Qatar.

David Galula was a French military officer and scholar who was influential in developing the theory and practice of counterinsurgency warfare.

Ibn Manẓūr was a Maghrebi Arab lexicographer of the Arabic language and author of a large dictionary, Lisān al-ʿArab. His full name was Muhammad ibn Mukarram ibn `Alī ibn Ahmad ibn Manzūr al-Ansārī al-Ifrīqī al-Misrī al-Khazrajī Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Fadl