List of British Turks

This is a list of notable British Turks.

Academics

• Ciğdem Balim, Professor, University of Manchester
  
• Süleyman Başak, Professor at London Business School
• Yenal Dündar, Research Fellow, School of Population, Community and Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Liverpool
  
• Maureen Freely
• Bülent Gökay, Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Director of European Studies Programme SPIRE, Keele University
  
• Deniz Kandiyoti, Reader, School of Oriental and African Studies,
  
• Gülnur Muradoğlu, Professor in Finance, Cass Business School, City University
  
• Ibrahim Sirkeci, Senior Lecturer in Business and Management, European Business School London, Regent's College
  
• Mehmet Uğur, Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Economics, University of Greenwich
  

Art

• Sumer Erek

Barrister

• Onur Gorgulu

Business

• Ali Bakir, Entrepreneur
• Feyaz Cinar, Entrepreneur
• Ramazan Cinar, Entrepreneur
• Canan Ediboglu
• Asil Nadir
• Huseyin Ozer, Entrepreneur

Cinema

• Nej Adamson, actor
• Pelim Ahmet, actress
• Ishia Bennison, actress
• Feri Cansel, actress
• Ali Eraslan, actor
• Mem Ferda, actor
• Sienna Guillory, actress
• Tamer Hassan, actor
• Billy Hassan, actor
• Alp Haydar, actor
• Metin Hüseyin, film director, editor
• Mustafa Hüseyinoğlu, actor, plays as Blane Whittaker in CBBC series M.I.High
• Eddie Izzet, actor
• Mine Keylan, actress
• Erkan Mustafa, actor
• Omer Mustafa Salih, actor
• Eren Ozker, puppeteer on The Muppet Show
• Hal Ozsan
• Meliz Serman, Singer, Finalist on The British Reality Show, "How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?"
• Tolga Safer, actor
• Ayse Tezel, actress
• Ümit Ünal, film director, screenwriter and author
• Anatol Yusef

Critics

• Violet Berlin

Doctors

• Dr Yenal Dündar, Specialty Training Registrar in Psychiatry
• Dr Fatma Aksak Pentikaeinen, Specialty Training Registrar in Psychiatry
• Dr R. Füsun Sirkeci, Obstetrician and Gynaecologist.

Editor

• Murat Kebir, director

Fashion

• Mustafa Aslanturk
• Hussein Chalayan, fashion designer
• Zeynep Fadıllıoğlu, fashion designer
• Mert and Marcus, fashion photographer
• Rifat Özbek, fashion designer

Illustrator

• Hüseyin Çakmak
• Flint Hasbudak

Journalist

• Emrah Aydınalp
• Sertan Baykara
• Ali Cimen
• Alkan Çağlar
• Bilge Ebiri

Music

• Adem, musician
• Erol Alkan, DJ and producer
• Emre Araci, music historian, composer
• Abs Breen, DJ and musician, formerly a singer and rapper in the boy band Five.
• Necmi Cavli, DJ and musician Oojami.
• Kemal and Rob Data, Drum & Bass DJ/production duo
• Eylem, Turkish singer
• Adem Ilhan, musician
• Işın Karaca, singer
• Tolga Kashif Musical Conductor, Composer, Orchestrator, Producer and Arranger.
• Ates Orga writer, academic, record producer, artistic director
• Ziynet Sali
• Pamela Spence

Painters

• Meltem Quinlan

Poets

• Osman Türkay

Politics

• Joshua Hassan, politician
• Boris Johnson, politician and journalist and former editor of The Spectator.
• Rachel Johnson, journalist and writer
• Stanley Johnson, politician and author
• Ayfer Orhan, Councillor in the London Borough of Enfield
• Lawrence Rustem, Chairman of the Ethnic Liaison Committee of the British National Party

Sports

• Orkan Avci, football player
• Adem Atay, football player
• Erdem Artun, football player
• Atif Bashir, football player (British Pakistani father and a Turkish German mother)
• Sami Berik, professional mixed martial artist
• Leon Osman, football player
• Murat Erdoğan, football player
• Ilker Gorgulu, football player
• Hakan Hayrettin, football player
• Muzzy Izzet, football player (played for Turkey in Euro 2000)
• Kemal Izzet, football player
• Jem Karacan, football player
• Colin Kazim-Richards, football player(played for Turkey in Euro 08)
• Billy Mehmet, football player
• Dave Mehmet, football player
• Sam Mussabini, athletics coach
• Ömer Rıza, football player
• Lev Yalcin, football player
• Ismail Ozsoy, football player famous for taking part in the glades battle.

Television

• Kemal Shahin, Big Brother 2005 (UK)
• Peter Simon, shopping television presenter
• Sezer Yurtseven, housemate in the Big Brother 2007 (UK)

Theatre

• Coşkun Büktel, playwright, screenwriter, novelist and theatre critic
• Mehmet Ergen, director, producer and entrepreneur

Translator

• Peter Constantine

Others

• Ali Kemal Bey
• George Blake, former British spy
• Arifs (gang)

See also

• List of Turkish people
• Turkish British