List of people from Ankara

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

Musicians and music bands

• Mazhar Alanson
• Funda Arar
• Ä°dil Biret
• Çilekeş
• Hande Dalkılıç
• Ayşedeniz Gökçin
• Nil Karaibrahimgil
• maNga
• 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 Ä°nönü, 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
• Chris McVoy, American architect

See also