List of Famous people born in Istanbul Province

Hayrettin Demirbaş is a Turkish former international footballer and current coach. He spent majority of his career playing at Galatasaray.

Şebnem Paker is a Turkish guitarist, singer and music teacher.

Güven Kıraç is a Turkish actor. He won the IFFI Best Actor Award (Male) at the 41st International Film Festival of India.

Akasya Asıltürkmen is a Turkish acting coach, film, stage, television and voice actress. She studied Theatre at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul. Asıltürkmen is of mixed Circassian, Georgian, Laz and Turkish origin.

Nouriel Roubini is an American economist. He teaches at New York University's Stern School of Business and is chairman of Roubini Macro Associates LLC, an economic consultancy firm.

Zekeriya Alp is a Turkish former international association football player and, current businessman and sports executive. He represented Turkey at senior level in 22 international encounters. Alp formerly took role of "Head of Central Referee Commission" at TFF.

Hakan Çelik is a Turkish journalist, columnist, radio and television presenter.

Hasan Iğsız is a retired General in the Turkish Army. He was Commander of the First Army of Turkey from 2009 to 2010. He was formerly a defendant in the Internet Memorandum trial, where he was tried together with Turkey's former Chief of Staff, İlker Başbuğ. Later this trial was merged into the controversial Ergenekon trials. Iğsız was subsequently acquitted in 2016. The Ergenekon trials targeted a very heterogeneous group of people, merged different trials into one, and mobilized conspiracies tainted with fabricated evidence in the struggle to dominate Turkey's institutions.

Eşref Armağan is a blind painter of Turkish origin. Born without sight to an impoverished family, he taught himself to write and print. He has painted using oil paints for roughly thirty-five years.