List of people from Sivas

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

(in alphabetical order)

Pir Sultan Abdal - Alevi poet
Nebahat Albayrak - Dutch politician and former state secretary in the Netherlands government
Hatice Aslan - actress
Ahmet AyÃÂ±k - world and Olympic champion wrestler
Selda Bagcan - musician
Mustafa Balel - short story writer and novelist
Saint Blaise - Armenian saint, bishop of Sebaste
Mustafa ÃÂaÃÂrÃÂ±cÃÂ± - Islamic theologian
Harutyun Kalents - Armenian artist
Erdal Keser - footballer
Refik Koraltan - politician, speaker of the Grand National Assembly
Hasan HÃÂ¼seyin Korkmazgil - poet
Mekhitar of Sebastia - founder of the Mekhitarist Order of Armenian Catholic monks
Murad of Sebastia - Armenian fedayee leader
TÃÂ¼lin ÃÂahin - model and presenter
AÃÂÃÂ±k Veysel ÃÂatÃÂ±roÃÂlu - poet of the Turkish folk literature
Torkom Saraydarian - Armenian spiritual teacher, author, composer born in Sivas, 1917
Emel SayÃÂ±n - singer of Turkish classical music
AbdÃÂ¼llatif ÃÂener - politician, Deputy Prime Minister and state minister
Nurettin SÃÂ¶zen - politician, former mayor of ÃÂ°stanbul
ÃÂetin Tekindor - actor
Yasin Temel - neurosurgeon
ÃÂ°brahim Toraman - football player
Ali Turan - politician representing Sivas
Ukhtanes of Sebastia - Armenian historian and prelate
Taniel Varouzhan - Armenian poet
Muhsin YazÃÂ±cÃÂ±oÃÂlu - politician who was the president of the BBP party
Cem YÃÂ±lmaz - stand-up comedian, actor, cartoonist and screenwriter
Hakan YÃÂ±lmaz - weightlifter
ÃÂ°smet YÃÂ±lmaz - politician representing Sivas
ÃÂ°smail YK - musician
Sarkis Zabunyan - Armenian conceptual artist

List of people from Sivas

References