Mehmet Munir Ertegun was a Turkish legal counsel in international law to the "Sublime Porte" of the late Ottoman Empire and a diplomat of the Republic of Turkey during its early years. Ertegun married Emine Hayrünnisa Rüstem in 1917 and the couple had three children, two of whom were Nesuhi and Ahmet Ertegun, the brothers who founded Atlantic Records and became iconic figures in the American music industry.
Hammamizade İsmail Dede Efendi was a composer of Ottoman classical music.
Mehmet Cemaleddin Efendi (1848–1917) was a senior judge of the Ottoman Empire.
Tatyos Eñserciyan, or Tatyos Efendi, was a famous composer of classical Turkish music, and his works continue to be among the most played and revered examples of the genre.
Tamburi Cemil Bey or Tanburi Cemil Bey, was an Ottoman tanbur, Turkish tambur, yaylı tambur, kemençe, and lavta virtuoso and composer, who has greatly contributed to the taksim genre in Ottoman classical music. His son, Mesut Cemil Bey, was an equally renowned Turkish tambur virtuoso.
The tambur is a fretted string instrument of Turkey and the former lands of the Ottoman Empire. Like the ney, the armudi kemençe and the kudüm, it constitutes one of the four instruments of the basic quartet of Turkish classical music. Of the two variants, one is played with a plectrum and the other with a bow. The player is called a tamburî.
Tamburi Ali Efendi, (1836–1902) was a Turkish tambur virtuoso and composer, one of the most famous among 19th-century composers, who was also notable for having greatly contributed to Tamburi Cemil Bey's development in music.
The saz semai is an instrumental form in Ottoman classical music. It was typically the closing movement of a fasıl. The saz semai is metered and typically uses the usul called aksak semai.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Ottoman Empire:
This list includes fleet organisations of the Ottoman Navy during the Balkan Wars.
Ahmet Mithat was an Ottoman journalist, author, translator and publisher during the Tanzimat period. In his works, he was known as Ahmet Mithat Efendi, to distinguish him from the contemporary politician Midhat Pasha. Ahmet Mithat Efendi took his name from Ahmed Şefik Midhat Pasha, as he worked for a time as an official and newspaper editor in Midhat Pasha's Vilayet of the Danube.
Bedriye Hoşgör was a Turkish composer.
Bîmen Şen was a Turkish composer and lyricist of Armenian descent. He was born in 1873 and died in Istanbul, Turkey on 26 August 1943.
Buhûrizâde Abdülkerim Efendi was a Turkish poet, composer and Sufi prayer leader. In his compositional work, poetry or music, Buhûrizâde wrote under the name Kemter, a Sufi pseudonym meaning"poor", or "pitiful".
Ayşe Sultan was an Ottoman princess, the only daughter of Mihrimah Sultan and Rüstem Pasha. She was granddaughter of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (1520–1566) and his favorite consort and legal wife, Hurrem Sultan.
Mehmet Suphi Ezgi was an Ottoman-born Turkish military physician who specialized in neurology, and a musician, musicologist and composer. He is best known for his studies of Ottoman classical music.
Gulçin Yahya Kaçar is a Turkish musician, Oud master, composer, singer, and academic