List of people from Ankara

This is a list of notable people from Ankara, Turkey.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by editing the page to add missing items, with references to reliable sources.

Musicians and music bands

• Mazhar Alanson
• Funda Arar
• İdil Biret
• Çilekeş
• Hande Dalkılıç
• Ayşedeniz Gökçin
• Nil Karaibrahimgil
• maNga
• Peter Murphy
• Erkan Oğur
• Zerrin Özer
• Yağmur Sarıgül
• Fazıl Say
• Joe Strummer
• Özlem Tekin

Others

• Ahmet Altan, journalist
• Mahmud A. Asrar, comic book artist
• Metin Arditi, French-speaking Swiss writer of Turkish Sephardi origin.
• Tekin Dereli, physicist
• Boran Kuzum, actor
• Filiz Akın, actress
• Ekrem Bora, actor
• Yıldıray Çınar, comic book artist
• Emin Çölaşan, journalist
• Burak Dakak, actor
• Yasemin Dalkılıç, free diver
• Vedat Dalokay, architect
• Ordal Demokan, physicist
• Cansu Dere, actress
• Can Dündar, journalist
• Enes Hocaoğulları, human rights activist
• Burak Sergen, actor
• Burhan Sönmez, novelist and president of PEN International
• Melih Gokcek, mayor
• Erdal İnönü, politician and physicist
• Orhan Karaveli, journalist and writer
• Vehbi Koç, pioneer industrialist
• Kartal Tibet, actor
• Tunc Ucyildiz, surfer
• Dilan Yeşilgöz, politician, born in Ankara
• Michael Linhart, Austrian diplomat and politician

See also

• Turkeyportal