List of Crimean Tatars

A partial list of notable Crimean Tatars, in alphabetical order:

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Civil rights activists

• Reşat Amet – murdered activist
• Mustafa Dzhemilev – leader of the Mejlis
• Emir-Usein Kuku – human rights defender
• Musa Mamut – committed self-immolation in protest of being forced to leave Crimea
• Server Mustafayev – human rights defender
• Yuri Osmanov – one of the founders of the National Movement of Crimean Tatars; assassinated
• Ayshe Seitmuratova – activist for right of return who was deported as young child

Military personnel

• Alime Abdenanova – Soviet spy during World War II
• Teyfuq Abdul – battalion commander in the Red Army during World War II; Hero of the Soviet Union
• Seitnebi Abduramanov – platoon commander in the Red Army during World War II
• Uzeir Abduramanov – sapper in the Red Army during World War II; Hero of the Soviet Union
• Fetislyam Abilov – regimental commander during World War II; belatedly declared Hero of the Soviet Union in 1990
• Umer Adamanov – partisan detachment leader who defended Polish villages from the SS
• Ismail Bulatov – Major-general
• Emir Chalbash – flying ace
• Amet-khan Sultan – flying ace, test pilot, and double Hero of the Soviet Union
• Kenan Kutub-zade – Red Army World War II cameraman who filmed scenes in Auschwitz used in the Nuremberg trials
• Refat Mustafaev – battalion commissar and partisan leader
• Mansur Mazinov – first Crimean Tatar pilot
• Abdraim Reshidov – decorated Pe-2 pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union; told KGB that he would commit self-immolation during a public holiday if he was forced to remain in exile.
• Yakup Satar – the last Turkish veteran of the First World War
• Faik Türün – general, the Chief of Operations for the Turkish Brigade in the Korean War

Politicians

• Ruslan Balbek – Member of the Russian Duma
• Noman Çelebicihan – first President of the Crimean People's Republic
• Refat Çubarov – Chairman of the Mejlis
• Cemil Çiçek – Speaker of the Parliament of Turkey
• Dimitrie Cantemir – voivode of Moldova
• Fahrettin Kerim Gökay – governor of Istanbul
• Ahmed İhsan Kırımlı – president of the Crimean Tatar Society of Turkey
• Adnan Menderes – first democratically elected Prime Minister of Turkey
• Ahmet Tevfik Pasha – last Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
• Hasan Polatkan – Minister of Labor and Finance of Turkey
• Zeki Sezer – politician and former chairman of the Democratic Left Party (DSP)
• Sevil Shhaideh – Deputy Prime Minister of Romania
• Hafsa Sultan – first valide sultan of the Ottoman Empire as mother of Suleiman the Magnificent

Entrepreneurs

• Feyzi Akkaya – one of the founders of STFA Construction Group
• Yıldırım Demirören – businessman, president of the Turkish Football Federation

Athletes

• Djamolidine Abdoujaparov – Cyclist, three time winner of Green Jersey in the Tour de France
• Denis Alibec – Romanian footballer
• Server Djeparov – professional soccer player
• Ersan İlyasova – professional basketball player
• İlhan Mansız – former professional soccer player

Artists, musicians, and popular culture personalities

• Melek Amet – first Crimean Tatar fashion model in Romania
• Cüneyt Arkın – film actor, producer and director
• Gürer Aykal – conductor and Adjunct Professor at Bilkent University; the musical director and principal conductor of the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra
• Erol Büyükburç – singer-songwriter, pop music composer
• Adaviye Efendieva – master weaver and embroiderer
• Esin Engin musician, composer, arranger and film actor
• Erol Evgin – pop singer and composer
• Enver İzmaylov – folk and jazz musician
• Jamala – winner of 2016 Eurovision Song Contest representing Ukraine
• Evelina Mambetova – international supermodel
• Aybüke Pusat – actress and model
• Aydan Şener – 1981 Miss Turkey
• Akhtem Seitablayev – director of the film Haytarma
• Nilüfer Yumlu – pop singer and Eurovision contestant
• Selda Bağcan – musician
• Orhan Gencebay – musician and actor

Writers and intellectuals

• Ayshe Seitmuratova – dissident
• Ahatanhel Krymsky – scientist
• Shamil Aladin – newspaper editor, poet, and novelist
• Şevqiy Bektöre – textbook writer, linguist, and gulag detainee
• Usein Bodaninsky – historian, museum director, and ethnographer
• Muazzez İlmiye Çığ archaeologist, sumerologist, assyriologist, writer
• Bekir Çoban-zade – poet and professor; victim of the Great Purge
• Cengiz Dağcı – novelist and poet
• Emel Emin – poet, translator, Turkologist, and educator
• Seitumer Emin – writer and poet
• Necip Hablemitoğlu – writer and historian; assassinated
• Halil İnalcık – historian
• Murat Bardakçı – journalist
• Ismail Gaspirali – founder of the Jadid movement
• Abdulla Latif-zade – literary critic, poet, and writer
• Aziz Nesin – humorist and writer of over 100 books
• Mehmet Niyazi – poet, journalist, academic and activist
• İlber Ortaylı – historian
• Septar Mehmet Yakub – lawyer, thinker, Mufti of Romania
• Çetin Altan – writer, politician

See also

• List of Crimean khans