List of Famous people named Aziz
Aziz Ansari
Aziz Ismail Ansari is an American actor, writer, producer, director, and comedian. He is known for his role as Tom Haverford on the NBC series Parks and Recreation (2009–2015) and as creator and star of the Netflix series Master of None (2015–) for which he won several acting and writing awards, including two Emmys and a Golden Globe, which was the first award received by an Asian American actor for acting on television.
Aziz Sancar
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.
Aziz Akhannouch
Aziz Akhannouch is a Moroccan businessman and current Minister of Agriculture since 2007.
Aziz Nesin
Aziz Nesin was a Turkish writer, humorist and the author of more than 100 books. Born in a time when Turks did not have official surnames, he had to adopt one after the Surname Law of 1934 was passed. Although his family carried the epithet "Topalosmanoğlu", after an ancestor named "Topal Osman", he chose the surname "Nesin". In Turkish, Nesin? means, What are you?.
Aziz Yıldırım
Aziz Yıldırım was the 36th chairman of the Turkish multi-sport club Fenerbahçe SK. He lost the election held on 3 June 2018 to Ali Koç which made him the 37th president of the Turkish club. He served the club as the president from 1998 to 2018. He has a degree in civil engineering.
Aziz Behich
Aziz Eraltay Behich is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a left back and left winger for Turkish club Kayserispor on loan from İstanbul Başakşehir.
Aziz Shavershian
Aziz Sergeyevich Shavershian, better known by his Internet handle Zyzz, was a Russian-born Australian bodybuilder, personal trainer and model. He established a cult following after posting multiple videos of himself on YouTube, starting in 2007.
Aziz Bouhaddouz
Aziz Bouhaddouz is a Moroccan footballer who currently plays as a striker for SV Sandhausen.
Aziz Ali
Aziz Ali is a Kenyan amateur boxer who qualified for the 2008 Olympics at light-heavyweight at the 2nd AIBA African 2008 Olympic Qualifying Tournament despite being knocked out by Bastie Samir in the last fight. At the Olympics, he lost his first bout 3:8 to Turkey's Bahram Muzaffer.
Aziz Syamsuddin
Azis Syamsuddin is an Indonesian politician who is currently a Deputy Speaker of the People's Representative Council.