List of Famous people born in Ankara Province

Beren Saat is a Turkish actress born and raised in Ankara. Since the beginning of her career, she has received critical acclaim and numerous accolades for her acting. While studying at Başkent University, she participated in the acting competition Türkiye'nin Yıldızları and was discovered by Turkish director Tomris Giritlioğlu, launching her professional acting career.

Nevşin Mengü is a Turkish journalist and television presenter.

Adnan Oktar, also known as Adnan Hoca, Harun Yahya, is a Turkish religious cult leader, self-proclaimed Mahdi, creationist, and conspiracy theorist. In 2007, he sent thousands of unsolicited copies of his book, The Atlas of Creation, which advocates Islamic creationism, to American scientists, members of Congress, and science museums. Oktar runs two organizations of which he is also the Honorary President: Bilim Araştırma Vakfı, which promotes creationism and Milli Değerleri Koruma Vakfı which works domestically on a variety of moral issues.

Filiz Akın is a Turkish actress, writer and TV presenter. Known as Yeşilçam Turkish cinema's "noble, modern, urban and elegant face", Filiz Akın won a huge fan base in Turkey.

Mehmet Kemal Ağar is a Turkish former police chief, politician, government minister and leader of the Democratic Party. He was a police officer who rose to General Director of the General Directorate of Security, serving from 1993 to 1995, before entering parliament and serving as a government minister in 1996. After being sentenced to several years in prison for criminal activities relating to the Susurluk scandal, he was released on probation in April 2013.

İbrahim Melih Gökçek is a Turkish politician who served as the Mayor of Ankara from 1994 to 2017. From 1991 to 1994, he was an MP. Gökçek has won municipal elections in 1994, 1999, 2004, 2009, and was controversially also declared the winner in 2014. He is a member of the governing Justice and Development Party.

Serenay Sarıkaya is a Turkish actress and model. She made her cinematic debut by acting in the movie Plajda (2008).

Özcan Deniz is a Turkish actor, singer, composer, writer and director, who is of Kurdish descent.

Can Dündar is a Turkish journalist, columnist and documentarian. Editor-in-chief of center-left Cumhuriyet newspaper until August 2016, he was arrested in November 2015 after his newspaper published footage showing the State Intelligence MİT sending weapons to Syrian Islamist fighters.

İrfan Can Kahveci is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for İstanbul Başakşehir.