Çelebi (disambiguation)

Çelebi (also rendered as Čelebi in Bosnian and Chalabi in some Arabic transliterations) is a traditional Turkish honorific, used in the Ottoman period after the given name of a male person and roughly meaning "gentleman", originally indicating nobility but later generalized to well-bred educated men.

It may also refer to:

Fiction

• Celebi (Pokémon), a Pokémon species

Place

• Çelebi, a district of Kırıkkale Province of Turkey

Ethnicity

• Çelebi (tribe)

People

• Asaf Halet Çelebi (1907–1958), 20th century Turkish poet
• Ahmed Chalabi (born 1944), spelt differently as the pronunciation differs in Arabic; Al-Chalabi (الجلبي)
• Evliya Çelebi (1611–1682), 17th century Ottoman traveller
• Gazi Çelebi, pirate and 14th century ruler of Sinop
• Hasan Çelebi (born 1937), Turkish master of Arabic calligraphy
• Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi, 17th century Ottoman aviator
• Hoca Çelebi, 15th century Ottoman Grand Mufti
• Katip Çelebi (1609–1657), 17th century Ottoman scholar
• Lagâri Hasan Çelebi (died 17th-century), brother of Hezarfen, 17th century Ottoman aviator
• Sons of Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I (see Ottoman Interregnum)
  • Süleyman Çelebi (1377–1411)
  • İsa Çelebi (died 1406)
  • Musa Çelebi (died 1413)
  • Mehmed I Çelebi (later Sultan)
  • Mustafa Çelebi (died 1522)
• Süleyman Çelebi (poet), (?–1422), a poet, see Turkish folk literature
• Mehmet F. Celebi, former president of the Turkish American Cultural Association
• Noman Çelebicihan (1885–1918), Crimean Tatar leaders
• Salem Chalabi (born 1963)
• Selma Chalabi
• Yirmisekiz Mehmed Çelebi (died 1732)