List of people from Gaziantep

This is a list of notable people from Gaziantep, Turkey.^[1]

Ülkü Tamer - poet and journalist
Seza Kutlar Aksoy - children's literature writer
Kemal Aslan - footballer
Abdullah Atalar - scientist
Babken I of Cilicia - Armenian Catholicos Coadjutor
Şahin Bey - war hero; the Şahinbey borough is named after him
Mustafa Ferit Arsan - one of the leaders of the Turkish militia in the Siege of Aintab
Murat Ceylan - footballer
Kenan Doğulu - singer
Mehmet Görmez - head of the Religious Affairs Directorate
Ebru Gündeş - musician
Nedim Gürsel - writer
Asım Güzelbey - mayor of Gaziantep
Aram Karamanoukian - Syrian Armenian military general
Hazal Kaya - actress
Onat Kutlar - writer, poet
Kamil Ocak - politician
Yılmaz Onay - director
Kadri Pasha - Ottoman Grand Vizier, 1880
Nurullah Sağlam - footballer
Luther George Simjian - Armenian American inventor
Simon Simonian - Armenian author, poet
Sinan Tuzcu - actor
Ahmet Ümit - writer, poet
Necdet Yaşar - musician

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