List of Famous people born in Isparta Province
Süleyman Demirel
Sami Süleyman Gündoğdu Demirel was a Turkish statesman and political leader who served as the 9th President of Turkey from 1993 to 2000. He previously served as the Prime Minister of Turkey seven times between the years 1965 and 1993. He was the leader of the Justice Party (AP) from 1964 to 1980 and the leader of the True Path Party (DYP) from 1987 to 1993.
Erkan Mumcu
Erkan Mumcu is a Turkish politician and the sixth leader of the Motherland Party.
Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu
Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu is a medical doctor (pulmonologist), human rights activist and an MP for the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).
Hüseyin Avni Coş
Hüseyin Avni Coş is a Turkish bureucrat and the former governor of Sakarya Province in Turkey.
Hikmet Uluğbay
Hikmet Uluğbay is a Turkish politician.
Margaret the Virgin
Margaret, known as Margaret of Antioch in the West, and as Saint Marina the Great Martyr in the East, is celebrated as a saint on 20 July in the Western Rite Orthodoxy, Catholic Church and Anglicanism, on 17 July by the Eastern Orthodox Church and on Epip 23 and Hathor 23 in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria.
Zeki Demirkubuz
Zeki Demirkubuz is a contemporary Turkish film director, screenwriter, producer and film editor.
Hussein Avni Pasha
Hüseyin Avni Pasha was an Ottoman governor-general and statesman. He was Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 15 February 1874 to 26 April 1875. He was killed by Çerkess Hassan the younger brother of Neşerek Kadın Efendi, who accused him of the murder of Ottoman Sultan Abdülaziz, on 15 June 1876 during a cabinet meeting of Ottoman Sultan Murad V at the residence of Midhat Pasha near Beyazıt in Fatih, Istanbul. The foreign affairs minister Mehmed Rashid Pasha was also killed in the attack.
Yusuf Erdoğan
Yusuf Erdoğan is a Turkish footballer who plays as a winger for Kasımpaşa. He can also play as a left back.
Emre Aydın
Emre Aydın is a Turkish rock singer-songwriter. The singer won the MTV Europe Music Awards 2008 in the "Europe's Favourite Act" category. He is also the former lead singer for the Turkish rock band 6. Cadde.