List of sons and daughters of the city of Ankara

The list of sons and daughters of the city of Ankara contains - without claiming to be exhaustive - an overview of personalities born in today's Ankara , listed in alphabetical order.

A.

Onur Acar (born 1983), football player
Ertan Adatepe (* 1938), football player
Artun Akçakın (* 1993), football player
Filiz Akın (born 1943), actress
Bülent Akıncı (* 1967), film director and screenwriter
Levent Aktoprak (* 1959), writer, radio and television journalist
Engin Aktürk (* 1983), soccer player
Çağlayan Alpsatan (* 1993), football player
Saadet İkesus Altan (1916–2007), opera singer and Turkey's first female opera director
Eser Altın (* 1980), football player
Metin Altınay (* 1962), football player and coach
Mehmet Altıparmak (* 1969), football player and coach
Ahmet Altun (* 1958), long-distance runner
Garabed Amadouni (1900–1984), Armenian Catholic Exarch
Funda Arar (* 1975), pop singer
Caner Arıcı (* 1986), football player
Emre Arolat (* 1963), architect
Osman Arpacıoğlu (born 1947), football player
Ercüment Aslan (* 1976), boxer
Erendiz Atasü (* 1947), writer
Can Atilla (* 1969), composer and musician
Metin Aydın (* 1993), football player
Soner Aydoğdu (* 1991), football player
Serkan Aykut (* 1975), football player
Behçet Aysan (1949–1993), poet

B.

Ali Babacan (* 1967), politician and minister of Turkey
Mustafa Bahadır (* 1969), football player and coach
Oğuzhan Bahadır (* 1979), football goalkeeper
Ahmet Bahçıvan (* 1996), football player
Muhammed Bayır (* 1989), football player
Ali Eren Beşerler (* 1975), football player and coach
Anıl Bilgen (* 1989), jazz musician
Tayfur Bingöl (* 1993), soccer player
Şükrü Birant (1944–2019), football player
İdil Biret (* 1941), pianist
Rıdvan Bolatlı (born 1928), football player
Emrah Bozkurt (* 1980), football player

C.

Cem Can (born 1981), football player
André Couteaux (1930–1986), writer

Ç

Mehmet Çakır (* 1984), football player
Ahmet Yılmaz Çalık (* 1994), football player
Kemal Çanak (* 1991), football player
Can Çelebi (* 1990), handball player
Aykut Çeviker (* 1990), football player
Atabey Çiçek (* 1995), football player
Mehmet Cansın Çiçek (* 1992), football player
Şenol Çorlu (* 1961), soccer player and coach

D.

Beril Dedeoğlu (1961–2019), politician
Renan Demirkan (* 1955), writer and actress
Özcan Deniz (* 1972), singer and actor
Rıza Doğan (1931-2004), wrestler

E.

Nazlı Eray (* 1945), writer
Nurkan Erpulat (* 1974), theater director and author
Ekrem Ekşioğlu (* 1978), football player
Fikri Elma (1934–1999), football player
Mustafa Ertan (1926–2005), football player and coach
İsa Ertürk (* 1955), soccer player and coach

F.

Muvaffak Maffy Falay (* 1930), jazz musician

G

Atilla Aybars Garhan (* 1991), football player
Hasan Gerçeker (* 1946), lawyer and President of the Court of Cassation of Turkey since 2008
Volkan Geyik (* 1991), soccer player
Deniz Gezmiş (1947–1972), member of the Turkish 1968 movement
Melih Gökçek (* 1948), politician and mayor of Ankara since 1994
Hürriyet Gücer (* 1981), football player
Zümrüt Gülbay (* 1970), lawyer and professor of business law
Yusuf Emre Gültekin (* 1993), football player
Orhan Güner (* 1954), film and theater actor
Haluk Güngör (* 1970), soccer player and coach
Erman Güraçar (* 1974), football player and coach
Lilâ Gürmen (* 1966), actress
Erhan Güven (* 1982), soccer player

İ

Kenan İmirzalıoğlu (* 1974), actor and model
Erdal İnönü (1926–2007), physics professor, ex-foreign minister of Turkey
Ozan İpek (* 1986), football player
Galip İyitanır (born 1950), director

K

Hasan Kabze (* 1982), soccer player
Akgün Kaçmaz (* 1935), football player
Tolunay Kafkas (* 1968), football player
Ercüment Kafkasyalı (born 1985), football player
Bülent Kalecikli (* 1989), football player
Birkan Kanber (* 1992), football player
Fulya Kantarcıoğlu (* 1948), lawyer and full member of the Turkish Constitutional Court
Özkan Karabulut (* 1991), football player
Burak Karaduman (born 1985), football player
Nil Karaibrahimgil (* 1976), pop rock singer
Doğa Kaya (* 1984), football player
Abdülkadir Kayalı (* 1991), football player
Mustafa Keçeli (* 1978), football player
Ergi Kırkın (* 1999), tennis player
Sanem Kleff (* 1955), educator
Fırat Kocaoğlu (* 1988), football goalkeeper
Savaş Koç (born 1963), football player
Vehbi Koç (1901–1996), businessman
Alev Korun (* 1969), politician
Pietro Kojunian (1857–1937), Armenian Catholic bishop
Ramazan Köse (* 1988), football player

L.

Markus Linhart (* 1959), Austrian politician and mayor of the state capital Bregenz
Michael Linhart (* 1958), Austrian diplomat, Ambassador of the Republic of Austria to France

N

Erhan Namlı (* 1974), football player
Barbara Nichtweiß (* 1960), German Roman Catholic theologian

O

Orhan Onar (1923–2009), lawyer and from 1986 to 1988 President of the Turkish Constitutional Court

Ö

Vural Öger (* 1942), entrepreneur and politician
Eser Özaltındere (* 1954), football player and coach
Ümit Özat (* 1976), soccer player and coach
Vahap Özbayer (* 1943), soccer player and coach
Gökhan Özen (* 1979), pop singer
Tolga Özgen (* 1980), soccer player
Onur Özkaya (* 1980), double bass player

S.

Burhan Sargın (* 1929), football player
Fazıl Say (* 1970), pianist and composer
Ramazan Selçuk (* 1963), politician (SPD)
Halil Mete Soner (* around 1959), mathematician
Joe Strummer (1952–2002), punk musician

Ş

Faruk Şen (* 1948), head of the Center for Turkish Studies Foundation
Zafer Şenocak (* 1961), writer
Turgay Şeren (1932–2016), soccer goalkeeper, soccer coach and commentator

T

Cansu Tanrıkulu (* 1991), jazz singer
Zerrin Taşpınar (* 1947), poet and writer
Nurcan Taylan (* 1983), weightlifter
Şirin Tekeli (1944–2017), feminist author and activist
Kartal Tibet (* 1938), actor, director and screenwriter
Ali Ertan Toprak (* 1969), 2nd chairman of the Alevi community in Germany and member of Alliance 90 / The Greens
Tülay Tuğcu (* 1942), lawyer
İhsan Turnagöl (* 1957), musician
Kürşad Tüzmen (* 1958), politician and minister of state

U

Yıldırım Uran (1955–2019), football coach

Ü

Gökhan Ünal (* 1982), football player
Aykut Ünyazıcı (* 1936), football player

Y

Harun Yahya (* 1956), author
Atagün Yalçınkaya (* 1986), boxer
Meriç Yavuz (* 1965), football player
Ethem Yilmaz (* 1952), Turkish-German publisher of phrasebooks
Selçuk Yula (1959-2013), football player