List of Famous people named Canan
Canan Bayram
Canan Bayram is a German lawyer and politician of Kurdish-Turkish origin. She is a member of the 19th German Parliament (Bundestag). She was a member of the House of Representatives of Berlin from 2006 to 2017, when she was directly elected to the Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg – Prenzlauer Berg East electoral district in the 2017 federal election. She is currently the only Alliance 90/Green member of parliament to hold a direct mandate rather than being elected from the party list.
Canan Kaftancıoğlu
Canan Kaftancıoğlu is a Turkish physician and politician. She is the Republican People's Party's current provincial president in Istanbul.
Canan Ergüder
Canan Ergüder is a Turkish actress.
Canan Dağdeviren
Canan Dağdeviren is a Turkish academic, physicist, material scientist, and assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she currently holds the LG Career Development Professorship in Media Arts and Sciences. Dagdeviren is the first Turkish scientist in the history of the Harvard Society to become a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. As a faculty member, she directs her own Conformable Decoders research group at the MIT Media Lab. The group works at the intersection of materials science, engineering and biomedical engineering. They create mechanically adaptive electromechanical systems that can intimately integrate with the target object of interest for sensing, actuation, and energy harvesting, among other applications. Dagdeviren believes that vital information from nature and the human body is “coded” in various forms of physical patterns. Her research focuses on the creation of conformable decoders that can “decode” these patterns into beneficial signals and/or energy.
Canan Güllü
Canan Güllü is a Turkish activist who is the President of the Federation of Women Associations of Turkey (TKDF). She was awarded the International Women of Courage Award in 2021.
Canan Karatay
Mutia Canan Karatay, Turkish Medical Doctor, Heart and Internal Medicine Professor, former rector of İstanbul Bilim Üniversitesi and Internal Medicine and Cardiology Sciences Main Banch teacher, heart and internal medicine specialist.