List of Famous people born in Turkey

Sena Nur Çelik is a Turkish politician and member of the Turkish Parliament for the Justice and Development Party.

Glaphyra was a hetaera, a form of courtesan, who lived in the 1st century BC. Glaphyra was famed and celebrated in antiquity for her beauty, charm and seductiveness. Her marriage to Archelaus the elder of Cappadocia gave her political power. Her later affair with Mark Antony occasioned a vulgar poem from Octavian Caesar.

Mehmet Terzi is a medal-winning former long-distance runner from Turkey, who specialized in running marathons. He served as the president of the Turkish Athletic Federation (TAF) for nine years between 2004 and 2013.

Fethi Heper is a retired Turkish professional footballer who was the top goal scorer of Eskişehirspor. Following retirement, he became a university finance professor.

Hasip Kaplan I(born 1 January 1954, Harapseref, Sirnak, Turkey) a Turkish politician of Kurdish origin and former member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for several parties, in 2015 he represented the Peoples Democratic Party (HDP) in the Turkish Parliament.