
Samir Ayadi (1947-2008) was a Tunisian playwright.

Mhamed Hachemi Baccouche, known as Hachemi Baccouche was a Tunisian writer, humanist, and psychosociologist. The nephew of former grand vizier Slaheddine Baccouche, he was exiled in France from 1957 to 2000, but returned to Tunis in 2006. He was a communist in his youth.

Mohamed Fadhel Ben Achour was a Tunisian theologian, writer, trade unionist, intellectual and patriot born in La Marsa.

Mohamed Salah Ben Mrad (1881–1979) was a Tunisian theologian, journalist and intellectual. In 1931 he published Mourning on Haddad's Woman objecting to the expanded rights for women which were advocated by Tahar Haddad in his book Our Women in the Sharia and Society published one year earlier.

Jacob Chemla (1858-1938) was a Tunisian Jewish ceramic artist, as well as an author, journalist and translator in Judeo-Tunisian Arabic.
Hichem Djait, is a prominent historian and scholar of Islam.

André Djaoui is a producer, painter, writer and film director.