This is a list of notable people hailing from the city of Istanbul.
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Halide Edib Adıvar, novelist, politician Müjde Ar, actress Oğuz Aral, cartoonist Bülent Arel, music producer Duygu Asena, women's rights activist Hulusi Behçet, dermatologist Semiha Berksoy, opera singer Orhan Boran, radio and TV host Aydın Boysan, architect, academic, author and essayist Yaşar Büyükanıt, Chief of the Turkish General Staff Eylül Cansın, transgender sex worker Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek-French political philosopher Hakan Celik, journalist, TV anchorman, radio producer Nuri Bilge Ceylan, filmmaker Manuel Chrysoloras, Greek academic, diplomat Tansu Çiller, former prime minister Hrant Dink (1954-2007), editor of an Armenian newspaper Volkan Diyaroğlu, artist Bülent Ecevit, former prime minister Neşe Erberk, Miss Europe 1984 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of Turkey Halit Ergenç, actor Sertab Erener, singer Ahmet Ertegün, co-founder and executive of Atlantic Records and the New York Cosmos Nesuhi Ertegün, co-founder and executive of Atlantic Records and the New York Cosmos Yonca Evcimik, pop singer Shlomo Gazit (1926–2020), Israeli head of IDF military intelligence, President of Ben-Gurion University Leyla Gencer, opera singer Fatma Girik, actress Ali Ferit Gören (1913–1987), Austrian-Turkish Olympic sprinter Gregory V, Greek Patriarch of Constantinople Ara Güler, photographer Tunç Hamarat, correspondence chess world champion 2004 Tunch Ilkin, former American football player, TV anchor Ertuğrul Işınbark, stage magician Nihat Kahveci, football player İrem Karamete (born 1993), Olympic fencer Adila Khanum, wife of Hussein bin Ali, King of Hejaz Berç Keresteciyan Türker, Ottoman-Turkish bank executive and politician Hülya Koçyiğit, actress Bergüzar Korel, actress Fahri Korutürk, former president of Turkey Lefter Küçükandonyadis, football player Mike Lazaridis, founder of Research in Motion Nasuh Mahruki, first Turkish person to summit Mt. Everest Barış Manço, musician Andrew Mango, British author Arif Mardin, music producer Giulio Mongeri, Turkish Levantine architect Kleanthis Maropoulos, Greek footballer Alexander Mavrocordatos, Greek dragoman to Sultan Mehmed IV Iskouhi Minas (1884–1951), French poet and novelist of Armenian descent, born in Istanbul Leone Minassian (1905–1978), Italian painter of Armenian descent, born in Istanbul Kostas Negrepontis, Greek footballer Aziz Nesin, novelist Marika Nezer, Greek singer Altay Öktem, Turkish poet, writer, researcher and doctor Irfan Orga, Turkish Air Force fighter pilot, diplomat, writer Leon Walerian Ostroróg, jurist of Polish descent, adviser to the Ottoman government Orhan Pamuk, novelist Gustaf Palm, Swedish supercargo for the Swedish East India Company Elisabeth Palm, Swedish etcher and printmaker Sadettin Pasha, Ottoman pasha Pekinel sisters, twin pianists Ajda Pekkan, singer Veronica of the Passion, ottoman-born English Catholic nun who founded the Sisters of the Apostolic Carmel Athinodoros Prousalis, Greek actor Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, opera singer Michael Babington Smith, British banker, sportsman and soldier from the Babington family Alexandros Soutsos, Greek poet and partisan Tariq bin Taimur Al Said, was a member of the Omani royal family Haldun Taner, playwright Hidayet Türkoğlu, basketball player Fatih Tutak, chef Antonietta Gambara Untersteiner, composer Sevgi Uzun, WNBA player Orhan Veli, poet Stavros Xenidis, Greek actor Hamza Yerlikaya, wrestler and Olympic gold medalist Erol Yesilkaya, Turkish-German screenwriter Cem Yılmaz, stand-up comedian, actor Gönül Engin Yılmaz, artist Alexander Ypsilantis (senior), Greek diplomat Alexander Ypsilantis (junior), Greek military commander Constantine Ypsilantis, Greek revolutionary
See also List of people from Constantinople (between the 3rd century and 1453 CE) Notable people from Byzantium (before the 3rd century CE) List of museums and monuments in Istanbul List of urban centers in Istanbul List of universities in Istanbul List of schools in Istanbul List of architectural structures in Istanbul List of columns and towers in Istanbul List of libraries in Istanbul List of mayors of Istanbul
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