Abdelhamid Escheikh (10 March 1935 – 8 November 1999), was a General officer, diplomat and Tunisian politician.

[1] When Tunisia gained independence in 1956, he began studying law before being sent for training to the Special Military School of Saint-Cyr in France with other executives of the future Tunisian Armed Forces (Bourgiba promotion).

He was then the youngest senior officer to have been promoted to the highest military rank, that of lieutenant general.

Following the congress of the Socialist Destourian Party in 1979, the organization of which was entrusted to the Tunisian Army, he joined diplomacy.

He was also responsible for chairing the organizing committee for the 2001 Mediterranean Games held in Tunisia, but died two years before the event following a long illness; the function is then attributed to Habib Ammar.