List of Istanbul Technical University people
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Template:Short description Template:Alumni This is a list of people associated with Istanbul Technical University in Turkey.
Politics
- Ahmet Arslan (born 1962) — Minister of Transport, Maritime and Communication and a Member of Parliament for Kars
- Fatih Birol (born 1958) — Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (2015–present), Chief Economist of the International Energy Agency (1995-2015)
- Bedrettin Dalan (born 1941) — Former Mayor of Istanbul (1984–1989)
- Vedat Ali Dalokay (1927–1991) — Former Mayor of Ankara (1973–1977)
- Süleyman Demirel (1924-2015) — Former President of Turkey (1993–2000) and Prime Minister
- Aytaç Durak (1938-2014) — Mayor of Adana (1994–2014)
- Necmettin Erbakan (1926-2011) — Former Prime Minister (1996–1997) and former President of TOBB (1969)
- Veysel Eroğlu (born 1948) — Former Minister of Environment and Head of State Hydraulic Works
- Safa Giray (1931-2011) — Former Minister of Foreign Affairs (1991)
- Recai Kutan (born 1930) — President of Felicity Party
- Turgut Özal (1927–1993) — Former President of Turkey (1989–1993) and Prime Minister (1983–1989)
- Ruhsar Pekcan (born 1958) — Minister of Trade (2018-2021)
- Binali Yıldırım (born 1955) — Prime Minister, maritime engineer and former Minister of Transport, Maritime and Communication
- Taner Yıldız (born 1962) — Minister of Energy and Natural Resources (2009-2015)
- İsmet Yılmaz (born 1961) — Minister of National Education of Turkey and former Speaker of the Grand National Assembly
Business
- İshak Alaton (born 1927) — Co-founder of Alarko Holding
- Selçuk Bayraktar (born 1979) — Chief Technology Officer of Baykar
- Halil Boztepe (born 1970) — CEO of Tepe Kimya
- Üzeyir Garih (1929–2001) — Co-founder of Alarko Holding
- Sadi Gülçelik (born 1929) — Co-founder of ENKA Holding
- Mehmet Hacim Kamoy (1922-2004) — Founding CEO of ASELSAN
- Temel Kotil (born 1959) — CEO of Turkish Airlines
- Volkan Sevilgen (born 1980) — CTO and co-founder of Temblor, Inc.
- Şarık Tara (born 1930) — Co-founder of ENKA Holding
- Faruk Yarman (born 1954) — CEO of HAVELSAN
Science and technology
- Zeynep Ahunbay (born 1946) — Architect
- Ali Akansu (born 1958) — Electrical & computer engineering and scientist, professor at NJIT
- Attila Aşkar (born 1944) — Civil engineer and applied mathematician, former President and Rector of the Koç University. (2001-2009)[1]
- Ivet Bahar — Computational biologist, professor at the University of Pittsburgh
- Ali Erdemir — Material scientist[2][3]
- A. Cemal Eringen (1921-2009) — Civil engineer and applied mathematician; professor at Princeton University
- Doğan Kuban (born 1926) — Architectural historian
- Emin Halid Onat (1908–1961) — Architect of Anıtkabir and first dean of ITU School of Architecture[4]
- Hürriyet Sırmaçek (1912 - 1983) — Turkey's first female bridge engineer[5]
- Celâl Şengör (born 1955) — Geologist
- Karl von Terzaghi (1883–1963) — Mechanical engineer, founder of soil mechanics
- Mehmet Toner (born 1958) — Biomedical engineering and scientist, professor at MIT
Art
- Funda Arar (born 1975) — Pop singer
- Ahmet Aslan (born 1968) — Musician
- Oğuz Atay (1934–1977) — Novelist[6]
- Murat Boz — Pop singer
- Güler Duman (born 1967) — Turkish folk music
- Berke Hatipoğlu (born 1976) — Guitarist of the rock band Redd
- Erkan Oğur (born 1954) — Musician
- Ziynet Sali — Singer
- Ahmet Yalçınkaya (born 1963) — Poet
Sports
- Zehra Öktem — Olympic archer
- Çağla Kubat — Windsurfer
Political activisism
- Harun Karadeniz (1942–1975) — 1970s student leader
Others
- Behruz Çinici — Architect of METU Ankara Campus and Atatürk University Campus
- Mehmet Gümüşburun — Bureaucrat
- Sabiha Gürayman — First Turkish woman engineer
- Waleed A. Samkari — Commander of Jordan Royal Maintenance Corps
- Ateşan Aybars (Class of 1973) — Economist, TV celebrity, biomedical engineer and commodity trading advisor
- Alper Derinboğaz — Architect
Dropouts
- Yılmaz Erdoğan (born 1967) — Actor
- Orhan Pamuk (born 1952) — Novelist, Nobel Laureate in Literature (2006)
References
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- ↑ Attila Aşkar received his Engineering Diploma from the Technical University of Istanbul in 1966.
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