Hamed Karoui (Arabic: حامد القروي; 30 December 1927 – 27 March 2020) was Prime Minister of Tunisia from 27 September 1989 to 17 November 1999.

Born in Sousse, he was a member of the Constitutional Democratic Rally party,[1] and the longest-serving president of Étoile Sportive du Sahel from 1961 to 1981.

Back in Tunisia in 1957, he was assigned to the regional hospital of Sousse to exercise the function of specialist physician in pneumology and head of department.

[2] During the same period, Karoui was head of Sousse-Ville's Destourian bureau from 1957 and 1988 and was elected several times as a member of the Sousse Coordinating Committee.

From 1983 to 1986, he served as vice-president before he was appointed head of the Socialist Destourian Party, which later became the Constitutional Democratic Rally by Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on 17 October 1987.