List of Famous people born in Artvin Province

Doğan Akhanlı is a Turkish-German writer. Since the 1990s he has lived in Cologne.

Cengiz Kurtoğlu is a Turkish music artist. He worked as a civil servant at a tea factory in Artvin and moved to Istanbul in 1984.

Kadir Topbaş was a Turkish architect, businessman and politician who served as Mayor of Istanbul from 2004 to 2017.

Faruk Çelik is a Turkish politician and a Member of Parliament for Bursa of the ruling Justice and Development Party. He served in various ministerial roles from 2009 to 2017, most recently as the Minister of Work and Social Security. He was the Minister of Food, Agriculture and Livestock.

Şener Özbayraklı is a Turkish footballer who plays as a right back for Galatasaray.

Adem Büyük is a Turkish professional footballer who currently plays as a striker for Yeni Malatyaspor. He is a former international for Turkey, also earning caps with the U-18 and U-21 squads.

Mehmet Nazif Günal is a Turkish billionaire property developer who is the founder and sole owner of conglomerate Mapa Group, which he controls through a wholly owned holding company.

Tolga Zengin is a Turkish football goalkeeper who most recently played for Beşiktaş.

Turgay Ciner is a Turkish industrialist whose investments are located in Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States. Ciner Group is a conglomerate which carries out its activities in four main groups; Energy and Mining, Glass and Chemicals, Shipping and Maritime, Media.

Resul Dindar is a Turkish singer. In 2008, he founded the music group Karmate with friends, and made the two albums Nani and Nayino. He went solo after 2012, and his first solo album called Divane came out in 2013.