38.4135° N, 27.1376° E
IZMIR
Most Famous People Born in Izmir, Turkey
- Notable people
- 607
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- Median birth year
- 1970
- Most distinctive
- Rabbi 11.8×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Izmir during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Izmir Is Known For
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Football is Izmir's biggest profession — 31% of all notables (190).
Izmir over-indexes on rabbi — 11.8× the global rate.
Izmir under-produces politician — only 0.4× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Izmir's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Sports
- Film & TV
- Politics & Law
- Music
- Writing
- Science
- Other
Aristotle Onassis
1906 - 1975
Irenaeus
130 - 202
İsmet İnönü
1884 - 1973
Édouard Balladur
Born 1929
Polycarp
69 - 155
Sabbatai Zevi
1626 - 1676
Adamantios Korais
1748 - 1833
Magali Noël
1932 - 2015
Henri Langlois
1914 - 1977
Muzafer Sherif
1906 - 1988
Darío Moreno
1921 - 1968
Alec Issigonis
1906 - 1988
Ahmet Adnan Saygun
1907 - 1991
Quintus Smyrnaeus
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Semih Şentürk
Born 1983
Semih Kaplanoğlu
Born 1963
Haluk Bilginer
Born 1954
Alpay Özalan
Born 1973
Alexander Balas
Died -145
Nubar Pasha
1825 - 1899
Necati Ateş
Born 1980
Şükrü Saracoğlu
1887 - 1953
Cenk Gönen
Born 1988
Meltem Cumbul
Born 1969
Theon of Smyrna
70 - 135
Çağlar Söyüncü
Born 1996
Şahan Gökbakar
Born 1980
Okay Yokuşlu
Born 1994
Furkan Aldemir
Born 1991
Bion of Smyrna
-120 - -50
Can Bonomo
Born 1987
Yıldız Tilbe
Born 1966
Manolis Kalomiris
1883 - 1962
Mehmet Batdal
Born 1986
Albinus (philosopher)
Died 150
Yekta Kurtuluş
Born 1985
Ezgi Asaroğlu
Born 1987
James Justinian Morier
1780 - 1849
Bengü
Born 1979
Cansel Elçin
Born 1973
Vahide Perçin
Born 1965
John Burgon
1813 - 1888
Latife Uşşaki
1898 - 1975
İbrahim Akın
Born 1984
Hussein Dey
1765 - 1838
Ufuk Ceylan
Born 1986
Halit Refiğ
1934 - 2009
Ece Temelkuran
Born 1973
Metin Oktay
1936 - 1991
Chaim Nahum
1872 - 1960
Ersun Yanal
Born 1961
Kayahan
1949 - 2015
Robert Pogue Harrison
Born 1954
Engin İpekoğlu
Born 1961
Çağdaş Atan
Born 1980
Engin Altan Düzyatan
Born 1979
Ayhan Işık
1929 - 1979
Gökşin Sipahioğlu
1926 - 2011
Petek Dinçöz
Born 1980
Mustafa Fehmi Kubilay
1906 - 1930
Noetus
-
Rıdvan Şimşek
Born 1991
Kaan Urgancıoğlu
Born 1980
Dimitris Glinos
1882 - 1943
Kostas Giannidis
1903 - 1984
Baskın Oran
Born 1945
Berry Sakharof
Born 1957
Halil Berktay
Born 1947
George E. Mylonas
1898 - 1988
Nazan Öncel
Born 1956
Hüseyin Beşok
Born 1975
Yiğit Özşener
Born 1972
Yiğit Gökoğlan
Born 1989
Theodoros G. Orphanides
1817 - 1886
David Josiah Brewer
1837 - 1910
Togan Gökbakar
Born 1984
Olcay Çakır
Born 1993
Benignus of Dijon
-
Nehir Erdoğan
Born 1980
Sercan Kaya
Born 1988
Jamshid Momtaz
Born 1942
Şahika Tekand
Born 1959
Murat Dalkılıç
Born 1983
Çolpan İlhan
1936 - 2014
Şükrü Özyıldız
Born 1988
Nejat Eczacıbaşı
1913 - 1993
Haim Palachi
1788 - 1869
Rıza Kocaoğlu
Born 1979
Egemen Güven
Born 1996
Pavlos Kalligas
1814 - 1896
Emre Can (chess player)
Born 1990
Alex Manoogian
1901 - 1996
Georgios Tsitas
1872 - 1940
Turgut Özatay
1927 - 2002
Mehmet Yağmur
Born 1987
Theodor Axenfeld
1867 - 1930
Merter Yüce
Born 1985
Georgios Orphanidis
1859 - 1942
Mustafa Necati
1894 - 1929
Tamer Levent
Born 1950
Bahar Toksoy
Born 1988
Halil Akbunar
Born 1992
Athanase Apartis
1899 - 1972
Yiğit İncedemir
Born 1985
Bahar Çağlar
Born 1988
Tuğçe Canıtez
Born 1990
Jean Balladur
1924 - 2002
Arda Mandikian
1924 - 2009
Melis Sezer
Born 1993
Sakıb Aytaç
Born 1991
Begüm Kütük
Born 1980
Metin Altıok
1941 - 1993
Fehmi Koru
Born 1950
Onur Güntürkün
Born 1958
Hüsamettin Cindoruk
Born 1933
Flavio Vopisco
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Max Maxudian
1881 - 1976
Alexander Dinghas
1908 - 1974
Ertuğrul Özkök
Born 1947
Ercüment Olgundeniz
Born 1976
Nihat Şahin
Born 1989
Şenay Gürler
Born 1966
Öner Erkan
Born 1980
Charles Dédéyan
1910 - 2003
Birsel Vardarlı
Born 1984
Stéphan Elmas
1864 - 1937
Cenk Ahmet Alkılıç
Born 1987
Çağla Kubat
Born 1979
Erhan Önal
Born 1957
Demetrios Capetanakis
1912 - 1944
Cemal Nalga
Born 1987
Şükrü Sina Gürel
Born 1950
André Tubeuf
Born 1930
Selen Soyder
Born 1986
Recep Biler
Born 1981
Gökhan Değirmenci
Born 1989
Pythodorida of Pontus
-30 - 38
Filippos Margaritis
1810 - 1892
Sertan Vardar
Born 1982
Ferhat Arıcan
Born 1993
Bekir Yılmaz
Born 1988
İsmail Haktan Odabaşı
Born 1991
Asa Jennings
1877 - 1933
Konstantinos Despotopoulos
1913 - 2016
Ahmet Burak Solakel
Born 1982
Klara Milch
1891 - 1970
Rita Abatzi
1914 - 1969
Ioannis Despotopoulos
1903 - 1992
Elijah ben Solomon Abraham ha-Kohen
1650 - 1729
Mehmet Sak
Born 1990
Bora Körk
Born 1980
Ümit Kayıhan
1954 - 2018
Bahadır Alkım
1915 - 1981
Ushan Çakır
Born 1984
Ali Şaşal Vural
Born 1990
Ozan Evrim Özenç
Born 1993
Tolga Doğantez
Born 1975
Panagiotis Toundas
1886 - 1942
Gönül Yazar
Born 1936
Konstantinos Nikolopoulos (composer)
1786 - 1841
Berk Yıldız
Born 1996
Itzhak Bars
Born 1943
Elena Nikolaidi
1909 - 2002
Tanju Okan
1938 - 1996
Johannes Sykutris
1901 - 1937
Sinan Reis
1492 - 1546
Levent Üzümcü
Born 1972
Onur Özsu
Born 1982
Ali Artuner
1944 - 2001
Oğuzhan Berber
Born 1992
Burcu Güneş
Born 1975
Zafer Çevik
Born 1984
Şakir Eczacıbaşı
1929 - 2010
Özgür İleri
Born 1989
Vedat Kokona
1913 - 1998
Koray Çölgeçen
Born 1985
İbrahim Çolak (gymnast)
Born 1995
Erkan Taşkıran
Born 1985
Anestis Delias
1912 - 1944
Tuna Üzümcü
Born 1982
Victor Tevah
1912 - 1988
John Barker (diplomat)
1771 - 1849
Çağlar Şahin Akbaba
Born 1995
Ömer Kandemir
Born 1993
Yasemin Anagöz
Born 1998
Saint Thyrsus
Died 251
Dilek Serbest
Born 1981
Işık Koşaner
Born 1945
Gül Gölge
Born 1981
Zeynep Gedizlioğlu
Born 1977
Ahmet Ali Çelikten
1883 - 1969
Ramazan Kurşunlu
Born 1981
Antoine Marc Gaudin
1900 - 1974
Julio Murat
Born 1961
Ramazan Kahya
Born 1984
Emrecan Afacanoğlu
Born 1991
Alev Croutier
Born 1945
Levent Eriş
Born 1962
Sinem Barut
Born 1986
Andeolus
Died 208
Ebru Polat
Born 1983
Güldeniz Önal
Born 1986
Göktuğ Bakırbaş
Born 1996
Kâzım Orbay
1887 - 1964
Mehmet Al
Born 1983
Elçin Sangu
Born 1985
Murat Sözgelmez
Born 1985
Orhan Ovacıklı
Born 1988
Süleyman Özdamar
Born 1993
Dimitrios Tomprof
Born 1878
Yüksel Pazarkaya
Born 1940
Lale Oraloğlu
1924 - 2007
Saffet Gurur Yazar
Born 1987
Aristeidis Moraitinis
1806 - 1875
Chiaretta Gelli
1925 - 2007
Hasan Erbey
Born 1991
Nikos Loverdos
-
Gülşah Kocatürk
Born 1986
John Philip Morier
1778 - 1853
Aslı Güngör
Born 1979
Nevzat Güzelırmak
1942 - 2020
Ece Uslu
Born 1974
Feti Okuroğlu
Born 1971
Engin Benli
Born 1970
Ismail Tipi
Born 1959
Nilay Özdemir
Born 1985
Ibrahim Sirkeci
Born 1972
Stavros Zurukzoglu
1896 - 1966
Hüsnü Özyeğin
Born 1944
Sevim Tekeli
1924 - 2019
Bulut Basmaz
Born 1984
George C. McVittie
1904 - 1988
Hüseyin Hilmi
1885 - 1922
Yusuf Tepekule
Born 1968
Funda Kılıç
Born 1988
Hans Humann
1878 - 1933
Burak Akyıldız
Born 1985
Riccardo Barthelemy
1869 - 1955
Şahin Irmak
Born 1981
Ethem Menderes
1899 - 1992
Caner Ağca
Born 1984
Berke Özer
Born 2000
Hi Jolly
1828 - 1902
Yiğitcan Gölboyu
Born 1992
Osman Engin
Born 1960
Cem Uluğnuyan
Born 1989
Turgut Uçar
1964 - 2019
Mehmet İncebacak
Born 1992
Kamran Usluer
1937 - 2004
Ayhan Elmastaşoğlu
Born 1941
Taner Taşkın
Born 1972
Aaron Alfandari
1700 - 1774
Harutiun Alpiar
1864 - 1919
Keti Tenenblat
Born 1944
Serkan Yalçın
Born 1982
Gabriel III of Constantinople
Died 1707
Sedat Yüce
Born 1976
A. Tryfiatis-Tripiaris
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Gupse Özay
Born 1984
Erdi Öner
Born 1986
Aptullah Kuran
1927 - 2002
Ceylan Arısan
Born 1994
Mas'ud Hai Rakkah
1690 - 1768
Cansu Özbay
Born 1996
Ektor Doukas
1885 - 1969
Erhan Erentürk
Born 1995
Jason John Nassau
1893 - 1965
Livio Missir Mamachi de Lusignan
1931 - 2015
Yakovos Bilek
1917 - 2005
Ebru Destan
Born 1977
Tacettin Bayır
Born 1960
René Albrecht-Carrié
1904 - 1978
Bilge Umar
Born 1936
Sait Karafırtınalar
Born 1969
Ergün Acuner
1941 - 2002
Cybele Andrianou
1888 - 1978
Evrim Akyigit
Born 1977
Elvan Akyıldız
Born 1977
Akif Başaran
Born 1956
Spyros Peristeris
1900 - 1966
Damla Colbay
Born 1993
Abdi Aktaş
Born 1975
Maria Rita Epik
Born 1958
Raphael Demos
1892 - 1968
Mehmet Coral
Born 1947
Muharrem Gürbüz
Born 1957
Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin
1957 - 2007
Louis Nalpas
1884 - 1948
Jean Varda
1893 - 1971
Sedat Karaoğlu
1960 - 2014
Buse Tosun
Born 1995
Aslı Perker
Born 1975
Platon Rodocanakis
1883 - 1919
Georgios A. Chatziantoniou
1904 - 1995
Koray İçten
Born 1987
Geoffrey Willans
1911 - 1958
Friedrich Schubert
1897 - 1947
Aylin Vatankoş
Born 1970
Beyza Arıcı
Born 1995
Kemal Okuyan
Born 1962