This is a list of notable people from Sivas, Turkey .
(in alphabetical order)
Ali Suat Hayri Ürgüplü was a Turkish politician who served a brief term as Prime Minister of Turkey in 1965. He was also the last Prime Minister to be born outside the territory of present-day Turkey, being born in Damascus, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire.
Yıldırım Akbulut was a Turkish politician, who was a leader of the Motherland Party (ANAP), the Prime Minister of Turkey, and twice the Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
İsmail Safa Giray was a Turkish civil engineer and politician from the Motherland Party. He was a member of the Turkish parliament and served as Minister of Public Works and Housing, Minister of National Defense, and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Mustafa Abdülhalik Renda was a Turkish civil servant and politician of Tosk Albanian descent. He is infamously known for Armenian genocide.
Mehmet Naki Yücekök also known as Nakiyüddin Yücekök, Nakiyüddin Bey was a Turkish career officer, politician and secularist. He served as a military officer of the Ottoman Army and as a politician of the Republic of Turkey. He was a French teacher of Mustafa Kemal at the Salonica Military School.
Kara Vâsıf Bey, later known as Mustafa Vasıf Karakol, was an officer of the Ottoman Army, and a politician of the Republic of Turkey. He was one of the founding members of the Karakol society and his family took the surname "Karakol" after his death.
Ömer Lütfi Yasan was a Turkish officer of the Ottoman Army, and a politician of the Republic of Turkey. He became the Minister of the Public Works in the cabinet of Mustafa Kemal Pasha (Atatürk).
Armenian Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Nareg in the United States of America and Canada is an Armenian Catholic Church ecclesiastical territory or eparchy of the Catholic Church located in Glendale, California, United States and is immediately subject to the Holy See. It was created by John Paul II on July 3, 1981, as the Apostolic Exarchate of United States of America and Canada for the Armenians. It was elevated to an eparchy on September 12, 2005. The seat of the eparchy is St. Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral in Glendale, California. The eparchy has also been known as Eparchy of Our Lady of Nareg in New York and Eparchy of Our Lady of Nareg in Glendale.
Hasan FehmiAtaç was a Turkish politician and a member of both the Grand National Assembly of the Republic of Turkey and the earlier Chamber of Deputies of the Ottoman Empire. As a member of both parliaments, Hasan Fehmi was a deputy representing Gümüşhane, the place of his birth.
Mikail Nersès Sétian was a bishop of the Catholic Church in the United States. He served as the first exarch of the Apostolic Exarchate of United States of America and Canada of the Armenian Catholic Church from 1981 to 1993.
Ali Şahin is a Turkish politician who has been Deputy Minister of European Union Affairs since January 2016. He served as a Member of Parliament for Gaziantep from Justice and Development Party (AKP) between 2011–2015. He was candidated for MP at June 2015 and November 2015 general elections. He could get on the AKP's Gaziantep candidates' lists but didn't succeed to be MP again. He was elected as the TGNA XXVII. period AK Party Gaziantep Deputy in during the 24 June 2018 parliamentary elections He served as the AK Party Deputy Chairman of Social Policies, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Parliament, and a member of the PACE Turkish Group The Sitara-i-Pakistan was Conferred upon him in 2020 by the President of Pakistan, Dr. Arif Alvi. He is on duty as the Chairman of the Turkiye - Pakistan Parliamentary Friendship Group. He was selected as the Administrative Chief of the Presidency of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey on 9 July 2020 On January 6, 2022, he was selected as the Head of the Turkish Delegation of the Latin American and Caribbean Parliament (Parlatino) in the Turkish Grand National Assembly
Serkan Bayram is a Turkish politician and lawyer. He is currently serving as an MP in the Turkish Grand Assembly with the Justice and Development Party.
Fatma Kaplan Hürriyet is a Turkish lawyer and politician from the Republican People's Party (CHP) who served as the Member of Parliament for Kocaeli from June 2015 till her election as Mayor of İzmit in the 2019 local elections.
Ahmet Ferit Tek was an Ottoman-born Turkish military officer, academic, politician, government minister and diplomat.
Aysel Baykal l was a Turkish female jurist, politician and former government minister.
Işılay Saygın was a Turkish architect, politician, and four-time government minister between 1995 and 1999.
Bahir Bediş Morova Aydilek was a Turkish artist and politician. She was one of the first eighteen women elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
Mustafa Ferit Arsan was a Turkish politician who represented Gaziantep in the 2nd and 3rd Parliaments of Turkey, and was the leader of the local Association for Defence of National Rights in Aintab, which organized the Turkish militias against the French siege.