From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of famous people from
İzmir,
Turkey.
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Rita Abatzi (1914–1969) – Greek rebetiko singer
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Kayahan Açar (1949–2015), singer, composer and lyricist
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Sezen Aksu – (born 1954), Turkish
singer–songwriter,
musician,
record producer; born in
Sarayköy,
Denizli and raised in central İzmir
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Ekrem Akurgal – (1911–2002), Turkish archaeologist born in
Tulkarem, explorer of
Old Smyrna,
Pitane,
Phocaea and
Erythrai
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Furkan Aldemir – Turkish basketball player
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Bahadır Alkım (1915–1981), archaeologist
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George K. Anderson –
U.S. Air Force general
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Necati Ateş – Turkish soccer player
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Alexander Balas – ruler of the Greek
Seleucid kingdom in 150–146 BC
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Édouard Balladur – (born 1929), former
French Prime Minister
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Halil Berktay – (born 1947), Turkish historian
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Haluk Bilginer (born 1954), theater and film actor
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Can Bonomo – Turkish singer of
Sephardic
Jewish descent; represented Turkey in the
Eurovision Song Contest 2012
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Mahir Çağrı – Turkish
Internet phenomenon
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Olcay Çakır – Turkish basketball player
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Demetrios Capetanakis (1912–1944) – Greek poet, essayist and critic
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Anton Christoforidis (1918–1985) – Greek light heavyweight boxer
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Salvator Cicurel (1893–1975) – Egyptian Olympic fencer and Jewish community leader
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Hüsamettin Cindoruk – (born 1933), Turkish politician, former party leader and
Speaker of the Parliament
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Mehmet Culum – Turkish novelist born in
Çeşme who worked in İzmir as an IT specialist
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Necati Cumalı – Turkish novelist born in
Florina, raised in nearby
Urla
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Meltem Cumbul – (born 1969), actress
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Cybele (1888–1978), Greek actress
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Anestis Delias (1912–1941), Greek bouzouki player, rebetiko composer and singer
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Michel Elefteriades – Greek-Lebanese composer, producer, politician, and Emperor of Nowheristan
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Stéphan Elmas (1862–1937)- Armenian composer and pianist
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Nehir Erdoğan – (born 1980), actress
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Gül Gölge – (born 1981), TV show host, model and actress
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Homer – Greek epic poet
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Attilâ İlhan – Turkish poet, novelist, essayist, journalist, and reviewer
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İsmet İnönü – (1884–1973), second President of Turkey
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Irenaeus (2nd–3rd century) – theologian, bishop of Lugdunum
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Sir Alec Issigonis – (1906–1988), Greek-British car designer whose most famous work is the
Mini
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Manolis Kalomiris (1883–1962) – Greek composer
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Selâhattin Kantar – Turkish archaeologist who pioneered
Smyrna excavations
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Semih Kaplanoğlu (born 1963), film director, screenwriter and filmproducer
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Semih Kaya – Turkish soccer player
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Erkut Kızılırmak (born 1969), author
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Vedat Kokona – Albanian writer and translator
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Adamantios Korais (1748–1833) – Greek humanist scholar
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Çağla Kubat – (born 1978), Turkish
fashion model
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Alex Manoogian – Armenian-American industrialist; philanthropist; founder and CEO of MASCO Corporation
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Darío Moreno –
Turkish-
Jewish singer who made a career in France
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James Justinian Morier – (1780–1849), British diplomat, traveler and writer
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Magali Noël – (1931–2015), French actress and singer
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Metin Oktay – Turkish soccer player
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Aristotle Onassis (1906–1975) – Greek tycoon
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Alpay Özalan – Turkish soccer player
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Hüsnü Özyeğin (born 1944), banker
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Leonidas Paraskevopoulos (1860–1936) – Greek military man and politician
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Ambrosios Pleianthidis, (1872–1922), metropolitan bishop
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Polycarp – overseer of a Christian congregation
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Giacomo Pylarini – gave the first smallpox inoculation outside of Turkey
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Ahmed Adnan Saygun – Turkish composer, musician and writer
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Giorgos Seferis (1900–1971) – Greek poet;
Nobel laureate; born in nearby
Urla
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Quintus Smyrnaeus – Greek epic poet
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Yavuz Tatış – (born 1947), private collector
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Yıldız Tilbe – (born 1966), musician and pop singer
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Tryfon Tzanetis (1918–2001) – Greek footballer and coach
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Bilge Umar – Turkish jurist and writer
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Latife Uşşaki (1898–1976), wife of
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
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Birsel Vardarlı – Turkish basketball player
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Sabbatai Zevi – (1626–1676), self-proclaimed
messiah and founder of the community of
Sabbateans
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