List of Famous people born in Mersin Province

Danyal Topatan was a Turkish-Armenian actor.

Ümit Yaşar Oğuzcan was a Turkish poet.

Fikri Sağlar is a Turkish social democrat politician. He was Minister of Culture in the early 1990s, and a member of the parliamentary commission which investigated the Susurluk scandal. He has been a columnist for Birgün.

Sema Meray is a German-Turkish actress and author.

Fatma Toptaş is a Turkish actress.

Muğdat Çelik is a Turkish footballer who currently plays for Kayserispor.

Bülent Eken was a Turkish footballer and coach. He played most of his career at Galatasaray SK, but also played for Salernitana and Palermo in Italy. After his career he became a manager and he coached in Italy, In 1967, he went to Turkey as an assistant coach for Galatasaray SK. He coached the Turkey national football team during 1962. He represented his country at the 1948 Summer Olympics and the 1954 FIFA World Cup. Eken died on 25 July 2016, nineteen days after the death of his teammate Turgay Şeren.

Konca Kuriş was a Turkish feminist writer who was murdered in Konya, Turkey, on 20 July 1999 after having disappeared in 1998.

Nevin Yanıt is a Turkish female sprinter specializing in high hurdling. She is a European champion in the 100m hurdles.

Atıf Yılmaz Batıbeki was a renowned Kurdish film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He was very much a legend in the film industry of Turkey with 119 movies directed. He also wrote 53 screenplays and produced 28 movies since 1951. He was active in almost every period of the Turkish film industry.