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.
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Şehnaz Dilan
Born 1960
Nez (singer)
Born 1979
Saint Ferréol et saint Ferjeux de Besançon
Died 212
Bora Paçun
Born 1987
Bahri Altıntabak
Born 1939
Tamer Şahin
Born 1981
Coşkun Büktel
1950 - 2018
Kenan Aslanoğlu
Born 1982
Erman Okay
Born 1939
Deniz Baysal
Born 1991
Georg Joachimoglu
1887 - 1979
Seren Şirince
Born 1988
Caner Erdeniz
Born 1987
Erman Yıldırım
Born 1983
Yunus Emre Yalçın
Born 1994
Lena Erdil
Born 1989
Akın Açık
Born 1993
Didem Sarıca
Born 1977
Oğulcan Gökçe
Born 1992
Ayşe Kilimci
Born 1954
Tufan Ersöz
Born 1980
Hasan Mutlucan
1926 - 2011
Yusuf Acer
Born 1997
Arif Kocabıyık
Born 1958
Joannes Karasoutsas
1824 - 1873
İlker Sayan
Born 1993
Dilhan Eryurt
1926 - 2012
Özge Samanci
Born 1975
Ezgi Çağlar
Born 1991
Safa Giray
1931 - 2000
Salih Bademci
Born 1984
Henry Carlton Cumberbatch
1900 - 1966
Neophytus VII of Constantinople
Died 1801
Batuhan İşçiler
Born 1995
Ümit Turmuş
Born 1960
Ebru Şallı
Born 1977
Cem Belevi
Born 1987
Onur Okan
Born 1984
Ali Ölmez
Born 1983
Salvator Cicurel
1893 - 1975
Burcu Dolunay
Born 1984
Naşide Gözde Durmuş
Born 1985
Timuçin Aşcıgil
Born 1986
Henri Filipacchi
1900 - 1961
Salah Bey ben Mostefa
1725 - 1792
Gözde Dal
Born 1988
Gabriel IV of Constantinople
Died 1785
Bediha Gün
Born 1994
Giorgos Sikeliotis
1917 - 1984
Serkan Boydak
Born 1987
Léon Castro
1884 - 1954
Alev Tekinay
Born 1951
Özkan Baltacı
Born 1994
Ümit Türkoğlu
Born 1981
Irmak Atuk
Born 1985
Alp Ergin
Born 1987
Üner Kırdar
Born 1933
Ali Okur
Born 1992
Şehrîbana Kurdî
Born 1973
Melih Vardar
1993 - 2020
Dinç Bilgin
Born 1940
Türker Demirhan
Born 1983
Derya Uluğ
Born 1986
Tahir Karapınar
Born 1967
Can Taylanlar
1981 - 2010
Volkan Özcan (Fußballspieler)
Born 1986
Cüneyd Düzyol
Born 1964
İnci Türkay
Born 1976
James Ferguson (general)
1913 - 2000
Murat Karakoç
Born 1979
Erdi Yokuşlu
Born 1992
Yasin Avcı (footballer, born 1984)
Born 1984
Senem Kuyucuoğlu
Born 1990
Ufuk Esin
1933 - 2008
Gökhan Keser
Born 1987
Merguir Bardisbanian
1897 - 1969
Ceyda Aslı Kılıçkıran
Born 1968
Saadet Özkan
Born 1978
Tayfun Erülkü
Born 1994
Cecil John Cadoux
1883 - 1947
Deniz Çınar
Born 1984
Erdinç Dinçer
1935 - 2013
Cüneyt Dumlupınar
Born 1980
Peter Kemble
1704 - 1789
Erdi Kasapoğlu
Born 1990
Dilara Büyükbayraktar
Born 1989
Özgür Gürbulak
Born 1981
Ateş Çınar
Born 1986
İbrahim Arat
Born 1988
Levent Gürel
Born 1964
Tryfon Tzanetis
1918 - 1998
Reşat Karakuyu
Born 1928
Habib Uzun
Born 1992
Akın Kanat
Born 1966
İlknur Bahadır
Born 1972
Onur Nasuhoğulları
Born 1983
Şenay Düdek
-
Cenk Özbey
Born 1991
Taylan Uzunoğlu
Born 1982
Mustafa Mümin Aksoy
1892 - 1948
Tunçay Kulaoğlu
Born 1966
Kadir Atkın
Born 1989
Anıl Özönerli
Born 1992
Geórgios Baltatzís
1868 - 1922
Gökdeniz Varol
Born 1995
Erkut Kızılırmak
Born 1969
Boghos Yousefian
1775 - 1844
Remzi Başakbuğday
Born 1989
İlkay Dikmen
Born 1981
Hüseyin Çapkın
Born 1951
Ahmet Yakak
Born 1979
Tayfun Belet
-
Turgut Berkes
1953 - 2018
Rudolf Brinckmann
1889 - 1974
Kamil Okyay Sındır
Born 1962
Tolga Çavdar
Born 1984
Fatma Şahin (footballer)
Born 1990
Hüseyin Zan
1930 - 2011
Serhat Çağlar
Born 1988
Semra Aksu
Born 1962
Hüsnü Başkurt
Born 1990
Ergüder Yoldaş
1939 - 2016
Alper Ulusoy
Born 1981
Murat Cömert
Born 1987
Mustafa Tahir Babaoğlu
Born 1992
Hasan Bülent Paksoy
Born 1948
Mustafa Ergücü
Born 1955
Egemen Gençalp
Born 1987
Evrim Demirel
Born 1977
Élise la Flotte
1779 - 1815
Aylin Yıldızoğlu
Born 1975
Moshe Sardines
1917 - 1984
Benal Nevzat İstar Arıman
1903 - 1990
Josef Almas
1896 - 1948
Salim İyik
Born 1998
İbrahim Turhan
-
Samet Göker
Born 1994
Abraham Palacci
1810 - 1898
Dimitrios Karabatis
1899 - 1964
Giulietta De Riso
1898 - 1990
Pinar Tartan
Born 1997
Kerem Gülbahar
Born 1984
Mahmut Özgener
Born 1963
Berin Menderes
1905 - 1994
Egecan Çevir
Born 1992
Kutluhan Bilgiç
Born 1981
Ambrosios Pleianthidis
1872 - 1922
Didem Taş
Born 1992
Ufuk Ateş
Born 1978
Emmanouil Dadaoglou
Died 1870
Melisa Kerman
Born 1994
Yom Tov Algazi
1727 - 1802
Tan Sağtürk
Born 1969
Alparslan Yenal
Born 1935
Yiğit Gülmezoğlu
Born 1995
Rahamim Nissim Palacci
1813 - 1907
Moreno Cicurel
Born 1864
Iraklis Sakellaropoulos
Born 1888
Ferruccio di Besançon
Died 212
Alexis Liatis
1906 - 1985
Ayse Birsel
Born 1964
Gamze İskeçeli
Born 1983
Ayça Aykaç
Born 1996
Gonca Nahcıvanlı
Born 1979
Avni Akgün
Born 1932
Fatih Aktay
Born 1997
Hicri Fişek
1918 - 2002
Ayhan Salar
Born 1967
Ahmet Önder
Born 1996
Özge Özel
Born 1991
Bahar Kol
Born 1995
Metin Lütfi Baydar
Born 1960
Mahir Çakar
Born 1945
Cihangir Gümüştürkmen
Born 1964
Gökçen Efe
1881 - 1919
Yaşam Göksu
Born 1995
Philipp Meyer (Theologe, 1883)
1883 - 1963
İlyas Has
1945 - 1984
Oğuz Sarvan
Born 1955
Müslüm Aydoğan
Born 1989
Hekim Ismail Pasha
1807 - 1880
Nurullah Esat Sümer
1899 - 1973
John Eren
Born 1964
Mehmet Hulusi Conk
1881 - 1950
Thodoros Kefalopoulos
1894 - 1987
Ufuk Süer
Born 1972
Büşra Ün
Born 1994
Feriha Sanerk
1923 - 2010
Selâhattin Kantar
1878 - 1949
Adem Somyurek
Born 1967
Ali Kemal Özkan
Born 1993
Hanife Demiryol
Born 1992
Selcuk Yorgancioglu
Born 1967
Elif Turan
Born 1984
Noël-Georges Castellan
1764 - 1812
Orhan Eralp
1915 - 1994
Efe Cadircioglu
Born 1982
Ayşe Önal (footballer)
Born 1996
Fitnat Ahrens
Born 1963
Joseph Palacci
1815 - 1896
Kadir Bilimlier
Born 1997
Cemil Gürgen Erlertürk
1918 - 1970
Eitel Friedrich Moellhausen
1913 - 1988
Ümran Özev
Born 1995
İsmet Gökseloğlu
Born 1994
Neslihan Şenocak
Born 1976
Nihat Kesen
Born 1961
Gülten Taranç
Born 1990
Füruzan İkincioğulları
Born 1933
Tuncay Yılmaz
-
Osman Zati Korol
1880 - 1946
Ayhan Kartal
1966 - 2000
Hasan Lütfî Şuşud
1902 - 1988
Yasemin Güler
Born 1994
Kayhan Erciyeş
Born 1956
Yiannis Maltezos
1915 - 1987
İsmet Kavuştu
Born 1994
Sude Mihri Çınar
Born 1995
Metin Peker
Born 1993
Esin Sağdıç
Born 1988
Cihan Topaloğlu
Born 1992
Emrah Umut
Born 1982
Mateo Alaluf
-
Aytaç Deniz
Born 1989
Enis Durak
Born 1998
Muharrem Candaş
1921 - 2009
Aslı Köprülü
Born 1986
Yalçın Kayan
Born 1999
Bartu Umut
Born 1994
Louis Quilicot
1896 - 1981
Hüseyin Akmaz
Born 1987
Alican Özfesli
Born 1997
Berkant Taşkıran
Born 1995
Hakan Kutucuoğlu
Born 1961
Ali Say
Born 1993
Çağrı Coşkun
Born 1984
Seydi Kayasoy
Born 1998
Carlo Maria Alberto Aliotti
1870 - 1923
Nuri Adıyeke
Born 1963
Cenk Yılmaz
Born 1993
Atakan Cankaya
Born 1998
Onur Parlar
Born 1997
Melis Özçiğdem
Born 1982
Deniz Kurtel
-
Aslı Karataş
Born 1990
Fuat Göztepe
Died 1991
Furkan Tuşik
Born 1993
Sadettin Dilbilgen
-
Erdal Alıcı
Born 1996
Ebru Aydın (footballer)
Born 1992
Anıl Çetin
Born 1992
Rabia Özşahan
Born 1990
Jacobo Danón
-
Kerim Alıcı
Born 1997
Sercan Karagöz
Born 1993
Alex Nalpas
1887 - 1944
Ragıp Atar
Born 1997
Willy Sperco
1887 - 1978
Soli Pardo
1955 - 2012
Ahmet Melih Ulueren
Born 1955
Samuel Abravaya Marmaralı
1875 - 1954
Livio Missir di Lusignano
1931 - 2015
İhsan Türemen
1902 - 1993
Barış Türkmen
Born 1993
Hasan Kaan Özgönenç
Born 1976
Nikolaos Tsourouktsoglou
1861 - 1922
Policarpo Scagliarini
1884 - 1946
Serdar Gümüş
Born 1957
Hakan Ceylan
Born 1979
Fatma Özlem Tursun
Born 1988
Richardos Brousalis
Born 1917
Burak Çebi
Born 1985
Ali Emre Yanar
Born 1998
Pamuk Güllü Yılmaz
Born 1993
Rida Erlalelitepe
Born 1996
Ali Alanç
Born 1959
Cem Kargın
Born 1978
Duygu Fırat
Born 1990
Yağızer Uluğ
Born 1972
Ceyhun Tendar
Born 1987
Merve Sarı
Born 1994
John W. L. Spence
1870 - 1930
Giannis Chasavetis
1899 - 1943
Hippi Perihan
1952 - 1970
Tuğba Toprak
Born 1985
Tuğçe Murat
Born 1991
Gianni Pavovich
1897 - 1982
Francesco Bidischini
1835 - 1907
Serdar Sabuncu
Born 1977
Hüseyin Emre Sakçı
Born 1997
Yağız Kaba
Born 1989
Nuran Tanrıverdi
-
Onur Şengül
Born 1979
Apollonide
-
Ahmet Nuri Eren
1918 - 2000
Alphons von Cramer
1834 - 1884
Giannis Dragatsis
1886 - 1958
Nachman Castro
Born 1948
Apollonide di Smirne
-
Emre Yavuz (Pianist)
Born 1990