List of Famous people born in Hatay

Ammianus Marcellinus was a Roman soldier and historian who wrote the penultimate major historical account surviving from antiquity. His work, known as the Res Gestae, chronicled in Latin the history of Rome from the accession of the Emperor Nerva in 96 to the death of Valens at the Battle of Adrianople in 378, although only the sections covering the period 353 to 378 survive.

İsmail Köybaşı is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Turkish Süper Lig club Çaykur Rizespor.

Selami Sahin is a Turkish musician of Arabic descent, singer and songwriter.

Simge Tertemiz is a Turkish model, actress and television hostess.

Sadullah Ergin is a Turkish politician.

Yalçın Küçük is a Turkish socialist writer, economist, historian and media pundit, recognized for his historical studies on the late-Ottoman and Republican periods in the history of Turkey and Soviet economic development from a Marxist perspective and also his interest in crypto-Judaism in Turkey (Sabbateanism) and criticism of the Justice and Development Party. He was detained for 682 days in relation to the Odatv case of the Ergenekon trials. In August 2013 he was sentenced to 22 years and six months, later to be released on 12/12/13.

Vettius Valens was a 2nd-century Hellenistic astrologer, a somewhat younger contemporary of Claudius Ptolemy.

Gökhan Zan is a retired Turkish footballer.

Tolga Güleç is a Turkish actor. He started studying Business Administration at the Çukurova University. However, he decided to pursue a different path in fine arts and left Çukurova University to study and graduate from Dokuz Eylül University's Faculty of Fine Arts Theater Department, Acting Department.

Hilmi Yarayıcı is a Turkish musician best known as the vocalist of Grup Yorum. In 1993, he joined the Istanbul Technical University (ITU) Turkish Music State Conservatory.