List of Famous people born in Mardin Province

Aziz Sancar is a Turkish molecular biologist specializing in DNA repair, cell cycle checkpoints, and circadian clock. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Tomas Lindahl and Paul L. Modrich for their mechanistic studies of DNA repair. He has made contributions on photolyase and nucleotide excision repair in bacteria that have changed his field.

Abdullah Öcalan, also known as Apo, is a Kurdish nationalist and one of the founding members of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

Sultan Kösen is a Turkish man who holds the Guinness World Record for tallest living male at 251 centimetres.

Masum Türker is a Turkish politician and leader of the Democratic Left Party from 2009 until 2015. He was a minister of state in the 57th cabinet of Turkey.

Mithat Sancar is a Turkish professor of public and constitutional law, columnist and translator. He has been an MP for the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in the Turkish parliament since the June 2015 general election and was elected Co-Chair of the party in February 2020.

Orhan Miroğlu is a Turkish politician of Mhallami descent from his father's side, and of Kurdish descent from his mother's side. He is a columnist for the Taraf daily newspaper as well as Today's Zaman.

Ahmet Türk is a Kurdish politician in Turkey and was born into a family of Kurdish clan and tribal chiefs in southeastern Turkey.

Muammer Güler is a Turkish politician. He is a member of parliament from the Justice and Development Party (AKP). He was formerly the Governor of Istanbul Province and the Minister of the Interior under Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's government.

Namık Tan was the ambassador of Turkey to the United States. He held that office from February 2010 until May 2014. He was a former ambassador of Turkey to Israel between 2007 and 2009. He also served in the United Arab Emirates, Russia, and in senior positions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Meral Danış Beştaş is a Turkish politician from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), who has served as a Member of Parliament for Adana since 7 June 2015.