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This is a list of notable people hailing from the city of
Istanbul.
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Hrant Dink (1954-2007), editor of an Armenian newspaper
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Halide Edib Adıvar, novelist, politician
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Müjde Ar, actress
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Oğuz Aral, cartoonist
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Bülent Arel, music producer
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Duygu Asena, women's rights activist
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Hulusi Behçet, dermatologist
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Semiha Berksoy, opera singer
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Orhan Boran, radio and TV host
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Aydın Boysan, architect, academic, author and essayist
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Yaşar Büyükanıt, Chief of the Turkish General Staff
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Eylül Cansın, transgender sex worker
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Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek-French political philosopher
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Hakan Celik, journalist, TV anchorman, radio producer
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Hande Berktan, journalist, TV presenter
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Nuri Bilge Ceylan, filmmaker
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Manuel Chrysoloras, Greek academic, diplomat
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Tansu Çiller, former prime minister
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Volkan Diyaroğlu, artist
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Bülent Ecevit, former prime minister
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Neşe Erberk, Miss Europe 1984
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of Turkey
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Sertab Erener, singer
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Ahmet Ertegün, co-founder and executive of
Atlantic Records and the
New York Cosmos
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Nesuhi Ertegün, co-founder and executive of Atlantic Records and the New York Cosmos
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Yonca Evcimik, pop singer
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Shlomo Gazit (1926–2020), Israeli head of
IDF
military intelligence, President of
Ben-Gurion University
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Leyla Gencer, opera singer
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Fatma Girik, actress
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Münir Göle, writer and photographer
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Ali Ferit Gören (1913-1987), Austrian-Turkish Olympic sprinter
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Gregory V, Greek Patriarch of Constantinople
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Ara Güler, photographer
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Tunç Hamarat, correspondence chess world champion 2004
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Tunch Ilkin, former American football player, TV anchor
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Ertuğrul Işınbark, stage magician
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Nihat Kahveci, football player
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İrem Karamete (born 1993), Olympic fencer
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Elia Kazan, director, producer, screenwriter, novelist, actor
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Hülya Koçyiğit, actress
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Fahri Korutürk, former president of Turkey
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Lefter Küçükandonyadis, football player
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Mike Lazaridis, founder of
Research in Motion
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Nasuh Mahruki, first Turkish person to summit Mt. Everest
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Barış Manço, musician
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Andrew Mango, British author
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Arif Mardin, music producer
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Kleanthis Maropoulos, Greek footballer
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Alexander Mavrocordatos, Greek dragoman to Sultan Mehmed IV
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Iskouhi Minas (1884–1951), French poet and novelist of Armenian descent, born in Istanbul
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Leone Minassian (1905–1978), Italian painter of Armenian descent, born in Istanbul
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Kostas Negrepontis, Greek footballer
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Aziz Nesin, novelist
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Marika Nezer, Greek singer
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Altay Öktem, Turkish poet, writer, researcher and doctor
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Irfan Orga, Turkish Air Force fighter pilot, diplomat, writer
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Leon Walerian Ostroróg, jurist of Polish descent, adviser to the
Ottoman government
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Orhan Pamuk, novelist
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Sadettin Pasha, Ottoman pasha
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Pekinel sisters, twin pianists
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Ajda Pekkan, singer
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Athinodoros Prousalis, Greek actor
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Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, opera singer
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Alexandros Soutsos, Greek poet and partisan
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Haldun Taner, playwright
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Hidayet Türkoğlu, basketball player
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Antonietta Gambara Untersteiner, composer
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Orhan Veli, poet
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Stavros Xenidis, Greek actor
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Hamza Yerlikaya, wrestler and Olympic gold medalist
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Erol Yesilkaya, Turkish-German screenwriter
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Cem Yılmaz, stand-up comedian, actor
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Gönül Engin Yılmaz, artist
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Alexander Ypsilantis (senior), Greek diplomat
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Alexander Ypsilantis (junior), Greek military commander
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Constantine Ypsilantis, Greek revolutionary
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