List of Famous people born in Istanbul, Istanbul Province

Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, was a basso opera singer of mixed Italian-Russian parentage.

Arcadia was the third daughter of the Roman emperor Arcadius and Aelia Eudoxia and a member of the Theodosian dynasty.

Count Pavel Nikolayevich Ignatiev was an Imperial Russian politician who served as Education Minister for Tsar Nicholas II. He was the son of Count Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev, who was the Minister of the Interior under Tsar Alexander III. After the October Revolution brought the Bolsheviks into power, Ignatieff fled Russia with his family, ultimately ending up in Canada.

St. Ignatius or Ignatios, was a Patriarch of Constantinople from July 4, 847, to October 23, 858, and from November 23, 867, to his death on October 23, 877. In the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches, he is regarded as a saint, with a feast day of October 23.

Jacques Natteau was a French director of photography.

Jacques Rémy (1911–1981) was the pen name of Rémy Assayas or Raymond Assayas a Turkish-born Jewish French screenwriter.

Gisèle Prassinos is a French writer of Greek heritage, associated with the surrealist movement.