List of Famous people born in Ankara Province
Yeliz Ay
Yeliz Ay is a Turkish female racewalker. She studied at Süleyman Demirel University.
Beril Böcekler
Beril Böcekler is a Turkish competitive swimmer in freestyle. She is a member of Enka SK in Istanbul.
Seda Tokatlıoğlu
Seda Tokatlıoğlu is a Turkish volleyball player. She is 192 cm tall and plays as an outside spiker. However, she played as an opposite both in Turkey women's national volleyball team and Beijing from China. Tokatlıoğlu has a block height of 304 cm and spike height of 312 cm and played more than 200 times for the national team. She studied at Gazi University.
Bülent Bezdüz
Bülent Bezdüz is a Turkish operatic tenor.
Tülay Tuğcu
Tülay Tuğcu is a retired Turkish judge. She was the President of the Constitutional Court of Turkey, Chief Justice of Turkey. She retired on June 12, 2007.
Rukiye Yıldırım
Rukiye Yıldırım is a European champion Turkish female taekwondo practitioner competing in the finweight division. She is a graduate student in the School of Sports science at Selçuk University in Konya.
Jawad Saleem
Jewad Selim (1919–1961) was an Iraqi painter and sculptor born in Ankara (Turkey) in 1919. He became an influential artist through his involvement with the Iraqi Baghdad Modern Art Group, which encouraged artists to explore techniques that combined both Arab heritage and modern art forms. He is considered to be one of Iraq's greatest 20th-century sculptors.
Efe Aydan
Ahmet Efe Aydan is a Turkish former professional basketball player. He is regarded by many as the best Turkish basketball player ever, with a total of 224 caps with the senior Turkish national team. He was Turkey's national team captain in 89 games, and he scored 2,195 points with the senior Turkish national team.
Selma Gürkan
Selma Gürkan (1961) is a Turkish unionist and politician who has been the chairwoman of the Labour Party (EMEP) since 21 May 2011.
Tekin Dereli
Tekin Dereli is a Turkish theoretical physicist.