List of Famous people born in Istanbul, Istanbul Province

Gregoria was the Byzantine empress as the wife of Constantine III. She participated in the minor regency government of her son, Constans II, in 641-650.

Anastasia was the Empress consort of Constantine IV of the Byzantine Empire.

John III Megas Komnenos or Grand Comnenus was emperor of Trebizond from September 4, 1342, to May 3, 1344. He was a son of Emperor Michael of Trebizond and Acropolitissa, a daughter of Constantine Acropolites.

Osman Fuad, was the 39th Head of the Imperial House of Osman from 1954 to 1973.

Sarkis Zabunyan, known as Sarkis, is a French conceptual artist.

Guillaume Emmanuel Guignard, vicomte de Saint-Priest was a French émigré general who fought in the Russian army during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.

Alexandros Mavrokordatos was a Greek statesman and member of the Mavrocordatos family of Phanariotes.

Leone Minassian was an Italian painter and printmaker of Armenian descent. His work is an important representative of European post-war abstract painting. Minassian lived in Venice for more than 40 years.

Amalia Fleming, Lady Fleming, née Koutsouri-Vourekas was a Greek physician, bacteriologist, human rights activist and politician.

Andronikos V Palaiologos was co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire with his father John VII Palaiologos.