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Academics
- Kamer Daron Acemoğlu, Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and winner of the 2005 John Bates Clark Medal.
- Taner Akçam, University of Minnesota professor, historian specializing in the Armenian Genocide[1]
- Ilhan Aksay, Professor, Princeton University[2]
- Yasemin Aksoy, an associate professor of operations management at the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University in New Orleans and the founding director of the Tulane Consortium for Supply Chain Management[3]
- Asım Orhan Barut, University of Colorado-Boulder physicist[4]
- Aydin Y. Durgunoglu, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota Duluth.[5]
- Ozlem Kahyaoglu Equils, Dr., researcher[6]
- Faruk Gül, Professor of Economics, Princeton University[7]
- Dr. Murat Gunel, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery[8]
- Feza Gürsey, mathematician and physicist
- M. Şükrü Hanioğlu, Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
- Merve Kavakçı, current George Washington University Professor and former Refah Party Parliamentarian exiled from Turkey for violating the Public Head Scarf Ban
- Comert Kural, Scientist[9]
- Mihri Ozkan, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering
- Hasan Pirkul, Dean of the School of Management at the University of Texas[10]
- Nouriel Roubini, professor of economics at New York Universityand chairman of Roubini Global Economics.
- Ozgur Sahin
- Mehmet Toner, world renowned cryobiologist, professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School, and professor of biomedical engineering at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology[11]
- Turgay Üzer, Georgia Institute of Technology Physicist[12]
- Vamık Volkan,[13] Princeton University Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry
- Nur Yalman,[14] octolingual Harvard University Professor of Social Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies
- Osman Yasar, a professor and chair of the computational science (CPS) department at State University of New York (SUNY) College at Brockport.[15]
- K. Aslıhan Yener,[16] University of Chicago Archaeologist who uncovered a new source of Bronze Age Anatolian tin mines
- Zeynep Üstünol, Associate Professor in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Michigan State University
Architects
- John Gidding, architect and former actor and fashion model
- Mihran Mesrobian, architect
Artists
- Mustafa Kemal Abadan, a partner of one of the world’s largest architect firms Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM)[17]
- Metin Bereketli, painter [18]
- Burhan Doğançay, painter, photographer, and former soccer player
- Sururi Gümen, Illustrator and ghost artist behind Alfred Andriola's comic strip Kerry Drake
- Murad Gümen, Illustrator, Caricutarist, and Animator known for his work on Disney and Warner Cartoons characters such as Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Donald Duck, Betty Boop, and the Tasmanian Devil. Filmmaker known for productions such as Renald Rap's Rambling With Renald Rap.
- Serhat H Sonmez, illustrator
- Jeff Treves, animator[19]
- Cosku Turhan, animator
Astronomers
- Janet Akyüz Mattei, astronomer and director of the AAVSO
Authors
- Bülent Atalay, physicist and author
- Umut Ozturk
Business people
- Harry Ablak, Varol Ablak & Seckin Ablak, founders of Vocelli Pizza[20][21]
- Sait Akarlilar, businessman, founder of Mavi Jeans[22]
- Abdullah Akyuz, President of TUSIAD-US Inc[23]
- Mehmet Mustafaoğlu, Businessman, Honorary Consul of the Republic of North Cyprus
- Huseyin Ozyurtcu is founder of Picasso Travel with his late wife Esin.[24]
- Melek Portillo, founder of one of three largest wholesale Spanish-language music distributors in USA[25]
- Emel Singer, businesswoman[26]
- Sel Erder Yackley, author, businesswoman, journalist[27]
- Emre Erturk, leather goods designer
- Ahmet Sandikci is owner of the first banknote collection showroom, Arcade Currency Palace, in the U.S. [28]
- Nevin Sanli, the founder and principal owner of Sanli Pastore & Hill, the largest business appraisal firm in California and one of the five largest firms in the US in this industry. [29]
- İpek Yavuz & Armağan Yavuz, creators of “Mount&Blade” PC game
Cinema
- Turgut Turk Adiguzel, director[30]
- Hayati Akbas, actor [31]
- Can Ansay, actor [32]
- Resmine Atis, actress [33]
- Aclan Bates, director [34]
- Richard Bey, TV and Radio personality, former host of The Richard Bey Show, has also hosted radio shows with WABC, Sirius Satellite Radio, and The Wall Street Journal's This Morning
- Turhan Bey, 1940s and 1950s film star
- Süleyman "Sully" Geldzvek Boyar, actor best known for his work on Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico, Car Wash, and The Sopranos
- Charles Bronson, action movie star, best known for his Death Wish movies
- ilkay Canitez, actor
- David Chokachi, actor best known for his work on Baywatch
- Tülin Daloğlu, Washington Correspondent for Turkey’s Star TV [35]
- Alex Demir, actor [36]
- Traci Dinwiddie, actress
- Bilge Ebiri,journalist and filmmaker
- Gokhan Ekremoglu, director [37]
- Sinan Germirli, director [38]
- Serdar Kalsin, [39]
- Corina Marie, actress
- Emre Sahin, film director
- Francesca O'Keefe, Actress, singer, writer and producer [40]
- Erol Onaran, founder of Erol's TV, Erol's Video and Erol's Internet
- Ose Oyamendan, director
- Emre Şahin director, cinematographer (He is currently the director and creator of the new series “Cities of the Underworld” for the History Channel)
- Tiffani Amber-Thiessen, actress best known for her work on Saved by the Bell and Beverly Hills 90210
- Ertuğ Tüfekçioğlu, movie director [41]
- Eric Shaun Williams, actor
- Tunç Yalman, artistic director of the Milwaukee Repertory Theater
Composer
- Munir Beken
- Alper Cakir
- Emir Isilay, composer and pianoist
- Yener Korkut
Choreographer
Digital Video Artists
Doctors
- Yucel Atakent, Doctor of Medicine
- Tuvana L. Bain, American Board of Internal Medicine
- Caner Z. Dinlenç, Doctor of Medicine
- Güldeniz Doğanay
- Ozgen Doğan, practices Cardiology and Internal Medicine in Brooklyn, New York. Dr. Ozgen Dogan graduated with an MD.
- Umit Emre, Doctor of Medicine
- Doruk Erkan, is an Assistant Attending Rheumatologist and Clinical Researcher at Hospital for Special Surgery and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Medical College of Cornell University.
- Nilufer Guleyupoglu, MD Assistant Attending, Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, Beth Israel
- Guler Karcioglu, Doctor of Medicine
- Behram Kurşunoğlu, physicist and one of the founders of the University of Miami Center for Theoretical Studies.
- Aslan Oktay, Doctor of Medicine
- Mehmet Öz, cardiothoracic surgeon and award-winning author who has made frequent appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show, NBC, ABC, CBS, and CNN
- Zeynel A. Karcioglu, M.D., ophthalmic oncology and orbital diseases specialist, surgeon
- Dr. Hasan Özbekhan, Professor Emeritus at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, founding member and first director of the think tank The Club of Rome, systems scientist, cyberneticist, philosopher, and planner[42]
- Yusuf Yazici, is Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine in the New York University School of Medicine
- E. MURAT TUZCU M.D. Professor of Medicine, Director of the Intravascular Ultrasound Laboratory, a staff physician, and an interventional cardiologist at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
Editors
Fashion Designers
- Rana Solaker, Fashion designer
Graphic Designers
- Levent Buyukgural, Leo graphics
House of Osman
- Ertuğrul Osman, the 43rd Head of the Imperial House of Osman
Judges
- Halil Süleyman Özerden, United States District Judge for the Southern District of Mississippi [1]
- Ali B. Paksoy, Jr., District Court Judge for North Carolina District 27B [2]
Music
- Bülent Arel, composer of contemporary classical music and electronic music
- Burak Bilgili, bass
- Sean Michael Beck, musician
- Latif Bolat, Turkish Singer, Composer and Scholar of Turkish Music and Folklore
- Bob Dylan, folk-rock pioneer
- Ilhan Ersahin, saxophonist and composer
- Ahmet Ertegün, founder of Atlantic Records, chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, and co-founder of the New York Cosmos soccer team of the North American Soccer League
- Nesuhi Ertegün, record producer and executive of Atlantic Records
- Meral Güneyman, Pianist
- Kamran İnce, composer
- Erim Kardes, musician
- Yener Korkut, award winning instrumental songwriter/guitarist
- Arif Mardin, music producer
- Neil Sedaka, pop singer, pianist, and songwriter
- Sinem Saniye, singer
- Pamela Spence, Turkish Pop-rock singer
- Özlem Tekin, Turkish singer
- Pınar Toprak, composer
- Hakan Yildizeli
NASA
- Ismail Akbay, served in various managerial capacities during NASA’s Apollo,Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz projects.[3]
- Neva Çiftçioğlu, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, NASA
Poets
Politics
- Zeyno Baran, scholar on issues on US-Turkey relations
- Osman "Oz" Bengür, Maryland Democratic Party Congressional Candidate
- Jak Jacob Karako , running as Democrat for New York City Council, D4
- Nurten Ural, the Honorary Consul General of the Republic of Turkey for the State of Michigan
Producers
Sports
- Dave Coskunian, soccer player
- Korel Engin, basketball player
- Gülşah Günenç, swimmer, All-American honors recipient
- Tunç İlkin, former Pittsburgh Steelers player and Sports Commentator
- Ersan İlyasova, Milwaukee Bucks player
- Şebnem Kimyacıoğlu, basketball player
- Yasemin Kimyacıoğlu, basketball player
- Mehmet Okur, Utah Jazz player and 2007 NBA All-Star
- Hidayet Türkoğlu, Orlando Magic player
- Emre Ucal, tennis player for the wildcats
- Nevriye Yılmaz, basketball player
Talk show hosts
- Diane Rehm, public radio talk show host/; The Diane Rehm Show
- Cenk Uygur, host of the liberal talk radio show The Young Turks on Air America Radio, and a regular blogger on The Huffington Post
Writers
- Anastasia M. Ashman, essayist
- Judy Light Ayyildiz, writer, activist, presenter
- Jennifer Eaton Gokmen
Other
- Esra Akbulut, famous cook
- Marc D. Angel
- Asım Orhan Barut, theoretical physicist.
- Alp Berker, Programmer
- Orkut Büyükkökten, software engineer
- Tantek Çelik, computer scientist
- Brandon Davis, society figure and the grandson of oil magnate Marvin Davis
- Bilge Ebiri, a New York Magazine film critic
- Sibel Deniz Edmonds, former FBI translator
- Engin Elitok, Builder/Developer
- Rabiye Kadir, Uygur Human Rights Activist fighting for a peaceful solution to end the Chinese suppression of Eastern Turkistan who earned the Rafto Prize and was nominated for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize
- Sema Karaoglu, founded an organization called Daughters of Ataturk
- Selma Kenter, Master Quilter
- Kenan Şahin, Establishing Partner in Lucent Technologies
- Barbaros Tapan, Voice Over Artist
- Reha Uzsoy, Industrial Engineer
- Lisa Marie Varon, Wrestling Star known as Victoria
- Ahmet Yildiz biophysicist, GE/Science Young Scientist Award winner
- Farah Yurdozu, psychic
See also
References
- ^ http://www.chgs.umn.edu/histories/turkishArmenian/
- ^ http://chemeng.princeton.edu/people/aksay.shtml
- ^ http://www.freeman.tulane.edu/faculty/vitas/aksoy.htm
- ^ http://phys.lsu.edu/~jdowling/barut.html
- ^ http://www.d.umn.edu/currents/2001-2002/19-10C.html
- ^ http://www.dofa.org/bios/us-c/equils.html
- ^ http://www.econ.princeton.edu/faculty/permfaculty.html
- ^ http://med.yale.edu/neurosur/faculty/gunel.html
- ^ http://www.wearetheturks.org/?p=169
- ^ http://som.utdallas.edu/faculty/faculty_pirkul.htm
- ^ http://www.voanews.com/turkish/archive/2005-01/2005-01-09-voa1.cfm
- ^ http://www.turkishnews.com/gencitu/other.html
- ^ http://prok.princeton.edu/2-2/comptes_rendus/translations/itzkowitz/
- ^ http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/uvwxyz/yalman_nur.html
- ^ http://hub.mspnet.org/index.cfm/11135
- ^ http://www.dofa.org/awards/2003_awards_pictures.html
- ^ http://www.robcol.k12.tr/alumni/rcq/23/graduates.pdf
- ^ http://www.lightmillennium.org/newyear_03/mbereket_amber.html
- ^ http://bbs.imdb.com/name/nm2667010/
- ^ http://www.buyerzone.com/professional_services/franchises/rbic-call-center.html
- ^ http://www.chainleader.com/archives/2004/03/vocelli.asp
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/global/turkey/sakarlilar.html
- ^ http://www.tusiad.us/about.cfm?TEMPLATE=2
- ^ http://www.turkishcoalitionofamerica.com/success.html
- ^ http://www.monitorlatino.com/convencion/
- ^ http://www.turkey-now.org/Default.aspx?pgID=100&langid=1
- ^ http://www.wearetheturks.org/?p=304
- ^ http://www.turkofamerica.com/article.php?action=showarticle&id=201&language=tr&module=magazines&template=magazines_showarticle
- ^ http://www.sphvalue.com/people.html
- ^ http://imdb.com/name/nm2038177/
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1707681/
- ^ http://resumes.actorsaccess.com/print_resume.cfm?actor=318885-751367
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1742686/
- ^ http://movies.nytimes.com/person/1380314/Aclan-Bates
- ^ http://www.theglobalist.com/DBWeb/AuthorBiography.aspx?AuthorId=322
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0218513/
- ^ http://imdb.com/name/nm2043304/
- ^ http://www.stardustmovies.com/scheda_attore.php?titolo=Sinan%20Germirli
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1224135/
- ^ http://www.francescaninaokeefe.com/
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1442969/
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/26/us/26ozbekhan.html?ex=1330146000&en=b39a10d439fc95c5&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss