List of Famous people born in Erzincan Province

Osman Nuri Koptagel was an officer of the Ottoman Army and a general of the Turkish Army.

Sadık Perinçek was the deputy Chief Prosecutor of the Supreme Court of Turkey and a parliamentary deputy in the 1950s and 1960s. He was the father of politician Doğu Perinçek.

İrfan Özaydınlı was a Turkish soldier and politician.

Umran Savaş İnan is a scientist at Koç University and Stanford University in the field of geophysics and very low frequency radio science. He received his PhD from Stanford in 1977 under the tutelage of Robert Helliwell. Since Fall 2009, İnan has been the president of Koç University.

Mehmet Şemsettin Günaltay was a Turkish historian, politician, and Prime Minister of Turkey from 1949 to 1950.

Cihan Aktas is a Turkish writer, researcher and journalist. She is the sister of Turkish poet and writer Umit Aktas.