Notable people from Ankara

Filiz Akın, actress Mazhar Alanson, musician Huseyin Bahri Alptekin, artist, writer, educator and curator Emre Araci, music historian, composer, conductor Funda Arar, musician Bülent Atalay, author, scientist and artist Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder and first President of the Republic of Turkey Bedri Baykam, artist Bülent Bezdüz, tenor İdil Biret, concert pianist, recording artist André Couteaux, writer and scenarist Emin Çölaşan, journalist Hande Dalkılıç, musician Yasemin Dalkılıç, free diver Vedat Dalokay, architect Ordal Demokan, physicist Can Dündar, journalist Moris Farhi, writer Gizem Girişmen, archer Erdal İnönü, politician and physicist Nil Karaibrahimgil, musician Vehbi Koç, pioneer industrialist Yasemin Mori, musician Aydın Örs, basketball coach Yeliz Özel, famous handball player Zerrin Özer, musician Eren Özker, puppeteer (Jim Henson's Muppets), actress and founder of SAG Puppeteers' Caucus Beren Saat, actress Yağmur Sarıgül, musician Fazil Say, concert pianist, composer Joe Strummer, lead singer, guitarist and lyricist of the English band The Clash Özlem Tekin, musician Kartal Tibet, actor Buket Uzuner, writer Religious figures Hacı Bayram-ı Veli, Islamic mystic, humanist and philosopher St. Theodotus of Ancyra, Christian martyr and saint St. Nilus of Ancyra, Christian saint Clement of Ancyra, Christian hieromartyr and bishop Theodotus of Ancyra, Christian saint and bishop Marcellus of Ancyra, Christian bishop Basil of Ancyra, Christian priest