List of people from Sivas
This is a list of notable people from Sivas, Turkey.
(in alphabetical order)
- Pir Sultan Abdal - Alevi poet
- Nebahat Albayrak - Dutch politician and former state secretary in the Netherlands government
- Hatice Aslan - actress
- Ahmet Ayık - world and Olympic champion wrestler
- Selda Bagcan - musician
- Mustafa Balel - short story writer and novelist
- Hilmi Bilgin - politician representing Sivas[1]
- Saint Blaise - Armenian saint, bishop of Sebaste
- Mustafa Çağrıcı - Islamic theologian
- Harutyun Kalents - Armenian artist[2]
- Erdal Keser - footballer
- Refik Koraltan - politician, speaker of the Grand National Assembly
- Hasan Hüseyin Korkmazgil - poet
- Mekhitar of Sebastia - founder of the Mekhitarist Order of Armenian Catholic monks
- Nursuna Memecan - politician representing Sivas[3]
- Murad of Sebastia - Armenian fedayee leader
- Malik Ecder Özdemir - politician representing Sivas[4]
- Tülin Şahin - model and presenter
- Aşık Veysel Şatıroğlu - poet of the Turkish folk literature
- Torkom Saraydarian - Armenian spiritual teacher, author, composer born in Sivas, 1917
- Emel Sayın - singer of Turkish classical music
- Abdüllatif Şener - politician, Deputy Prime Minister and state minister
- Mikail Nersès Sétian - Armenian Catholic bishop in the United States[5]
- Nurettin Sözen - politician, former mayor of İstanbul
- Çetin Tekindor - actor
- İbrahim Toraman - football player
- Ali Turan - politician representing Sivas[6]
- Ukhtanes of Sebastia - Armenian historian and prelate
- Taniel Varouzhan - Armenian poet
- Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu - politician who was the president of the BBP party
- Cem Yilmaz - stand-up comedian, actor, cartoonist and screenwriter
- Hakan Yılmaz - weightlifter
- İsmet Yılmaz - politician representing Sivas[7]
- İsmail YK - musician
- Sarkis Zabunyan - Armenian conceptual artist
References
- http://www.tbmm.gov.tr/develop/owa/milletvekillerimiz_sd.bilgi?p_donem=24&p_sicil=6887
- http://www.encyclopedia.am/pages.php?bId=2&hId=1233 Harutyun Kalents at Armenian Encyclopaedia
- http://www.tbmm.gov.tr/develop/owa/milletvekillerimiz_sd.bilgi?p_donem=24&p_sicil=6620
- http://www.tbmm.gov.tr/develop/owa/milletvekillerimiz_sd.bilgi?p_donem=24&p_sicil=6405
- "Bishop Mikail Nersès Sétian". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2014-02-24.
- http://www.tbmm.gov.tr/develop/owa/milletvekillerimiz_sd.bilgi?p_donem=24&p_sicil=6886
- http://www.tbmm.gov.tr/develop/owa/milletvekillerimiz_sd.bilgi?p_donem=24&p_sicil=6374
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