List of Famous people born in Turkey

Mehmet Arif Onat Kutlar, also known as Onat Kutlar, was a prominent Turkish writer and poet, founder of the Turkish Sinematek and one of the founders of the Istanbul International Film Festival.

Şenay Akay is a Turkish actress and former model.

Levent Yüksel is a Turkish pop singer and multi instrumentalist. He has been active in live music industry since 1993.

Dorukhan Toköz is a Turkish professional footballer who last played as a midfielder for Beşiktaş.

Pythodorida or Pythodoris of Pontus was a Roman client queen of Pontus, the Bosporan Kingdom, Cilicia, and Cappadocia.

Muzaffer Tekin is a former member of Turkey's Special Warfare Department, and a suspect in the Ergenekon trials as well as the Turkish Council of State shooting. In August 2013 Tekin was sentenced to consecutive life sentences.

Kerem Gönlüm is a Turkish former professional basketball player for Sigortam.net İTÜ Basket of the Turkish Basketball League. In 2019 January, he started punditry on a local radio station.

Semih Özakça is a Turkish teacher and activist.

Archelaus was a Roman client prince and the last king of Cappadocia.

Ariarathes V Eusebes Philopator was a son of the preceding king Ariarathes IV of Cappadocia and queen Antiochis. He was distinguished by his contemporaries for his excellence of his character and his cultivation of philosophy and the liberal arts and is considered by some historians to have been the greatest of the kings of Cappadocia.