Category
page 1Turkish emigrants to the United States
Fethullah Gülen
Turkish preacher and imam (1941–2024)
Aziz Sancar
Turkish geneticist; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015
Hakan Şükür
Turkish association football player (born 1971)
Daron Acemoğlu
Turkish-American economist and receiver of the 2024 Nobel Prize in economic sciences (born 1967)
Enes Kanter Freedom
Turkish-American basketball player (born 1992)
Ahmet Ertegün
Turkish-American businessperson (1923–2006)
Muzaffer Şerif
Turkish psychologist (1906–1988)
Janet Akyüz Mattei
Turkish astronomer (1943–2004)
Cenk Uygur
Turkish-American online news show host (born 1970)
Arif Mardin
Turkish-American record producer (1932–2006)
Soner Çağaptay
Turkish political scientist (born 1970)
Kemal Karpat
Turkish historian (1923–2019)
Feza Gürsey
Turkish physicist (1921–1992)
Hamdi Ulukaya
Turkish businessperson of Kurdish ancestry (born 1972)
Edip Yüksel
Turkish–American translator and writer of Kurdish descent (born 1957)
Vahakn Dadrian
American academic (1926–2019)
Grigoris Vlastos
Greek scholar of ancient philosophy (1907–1991)
Osman Soykut
Turkish-American actor (born 1957)
Merve Kavakcı
Turkish academic and statesperson (born 1968)
Arif Dirlik
Turkish-American historian (1940–2017)
Zeynep Tüfekçi
Turkish sociologist and writer (born 1970)
Pınar Toprak
Turkish composer (born 1980)
Hafize Gaye Erkan
Turkish economist (born 1979)
Nasuhi Ertegün
Turkish-American record producer (1917–1989)
Khajag Barsamian
Armenian archbishop
Şahan Arzruni
Armenian musician
Archbishop Iakovos of America
Greek Orthodox Archbishop (1911-2005)
Sibel Edmonds
American whistleblower
Eugen Merzbacher
physicist (1921–2013)
Burçin Mutlu Pakdil
Turkish astrophysicist
Yusuf Ziya Kavakcı
Turkish professor of law (born 1938)
Ida Kavafian
American violinist
Melih Abdülhayoğlu
American technologist and entrepreneur
Ani Kavafian
American violinist
Refik Anadol
Turkish artist (born 1985)
Bernard Cornfeld
American financier playboy (1927-1995)
Behram Kurşunoğlu
Turkish physicist (1922–2003)
Bülent Arel
Turkish composer (1919–1990)
Atilla Engin
Turkish-American musician (1946–2019)
Nona Balakian
literary critic & editor, co-founder of the National Book Critics Circle (1918-1991)
Sabri Ergun
Turkish-American chemical engineer (1918–2006)
Gülru Necipoğlu
Turkish art historian (born 1956)
Tunç İlkin
Turkish-American gridiron football player and sports broadcaster (1957–2021)
Hubert Cornfield
film director (1929-2006)
Ahmet Mücahid Ören
Turkish-American businessperson (born 1972)
Anna Balakian
renowned authority on symbolism and surrealism
Mete Sözen
Turkish-American structural engineer (1930–2018)
Lerna Ekmekçioğlu
Turkish historian of Armenian ancestry (born 1979)
Peter Harzem
American psychologist
Eren Özmen
Turkish businesswoman
İlhan Fuat Akyıldız
Turkish computer scientist (born 1954)
Haydar Aşan
Turkish sprinter (1906–1996)
Hakkı Ögelman
Turkish astrophysicist (1940–2011)
John Gidding
Turkish-American architect (born 1977)
Mehmet Aga-Oglu
Turkish-American art historian (1896–1949)
Dave Coskunian
Turkish-American association football player (born 1948)