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Template:Short description The following is a list of notable graduates of Robert College and Robert Academy (RA), American College for Girls (ACG), Robert Yuksek, which were the subsections of Robert College until the merger of 1971. Template:Compact ToC
A
- Halide Edib Adıvar, novelist
- Hranoush Agaganian (Madame Bey), wife of a diplomat and operator of a center for boxing in the U.S.[1][2]
- Zeki Alasya, actor
- Safiye Ali, first Turkish woman to become a medical doctor
- Engin Ardıç, writer
- Tomur Atagok, artist, painter
- Türkkaya Ataöv, academic and columnist
B
- Henri Barki, professor of management information systems
- Selçuk Bayraktar, engineer and businessperson
- Mihri Belli, socialist politician, author
- Izak Benbasat, professor of management information systems
- Nihat Berker, professor of physics
- Feyyaz Berker, businessperson
- Halil Berktay, historian
- Serdar Bilgili, businessperson
- Refika Birgül, food writer
- Behice Boran, politician
- Cem Boyner, businessman, politician
- Ayşe Buğra, sociologist, economist
- Serdar Bulun, physician, professor and researcher of gynecology
C
- Alper Çağlar, Turkish film director
- Tuncer Cebeci, Turkish-American engineer and academic
- Alev Lytle Croutier, ACG 63, novelist
- Halet Çambel, archaeologist, first female Turkish olympian
- Zeynep Çelik, architect, architectural historian
- İsmail Cem, politician, former foreign minister of Turkey
- Engin Cezzar, actor, director
- Tansu Çiller, first female Turkish prime minister
D
- Arwa Damon, journalist, CNN correspondent
- Xhafer Deva, entrepreneur
- Agop Dilaçar, linguist
- Abidin Dino, artist
- Michalis Dorizas, sportsperson, bronze medal winner for stone throw and javelin throw in the 1906 Summer Olympics
- Haldun Dormen, actor, playwright
- Tsanko Dyustabanov, Bulgarian revolutionary
E
- Bülent Ecevit, former Turkish prime minister
- Rahşan Ecevit, politician
- Nejat Eczacıbaşı, entrepreneur
- Neşe Erberk, businessperson, Miss Europe '84
- Marcel Erdal, linguist
- Refik Erduran, playwright, columnist and writer
- Aslı Erdoğan, writer
- Tunç Erem, academic
- Genco Erkal, actor, playwright
- Münir Ertegün, diplomat
- Şenes Erzik, UEFA vice president
- Evgenios Evgenidis, Greek shipping businessperson and benefactor (died 1954)
F
- Moris Farhi, vice-president of International PEN
- Maureen Freely, ACG 71, journalist, novelist, translator-notably of Orhan Pamuk's works
G
- Emre Gönensay, politician
- Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, president of the National Geographic Society (1920–1954)
- Kasım Gülek, politician, secretary general of the Republican People's Party
- Calouste Gulbenkian, British-Armenian businessman and philanthropist
H
- Talat Sait Halman, Turkey's first minister of culture, academic
- Erdem Helvacıoğlu, composer, sound designer, musician
- Agop Hacikyan, academic, writer
I
- Ahmet İsvan, politician
- Todor Ivanchov, former Bulgarian prime minister
K
- Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı, writer
- Cemal Kafadar, professor of Middle-Eastern history at Harvard University
- Nur al-Din Kahala, Syrian politician
- Cem Karaca, musician
- Mehmet Emin Karamehmet, entrepreneur
- Osman Kavala, philanthropist
- Ömer Kavur, movie producer
- Hagop Kevorkian, historian of art, orientalist
- Suna Kıraç, businessperson
- Ömer Koç, businessperson
- Rahmi Koç, businessperson
- Göksel Kortay, actress, voice actress, translator, and lecturer
- Vasif Kortun, musician, curator
- Spiro Kostof, architectural historian, chronicler of urban form
- Karolos Koun, Greek theater director
- Shavarsh Krissian, Armenian writer and athlete
- Ayşe Kulin, Writer, columnist
- Aptullah Kuran, academic
- Timur Kuran, academic, economics professor
- Pınar Kür, writer, professor
L
- Levon Larents, Armenian writer and journalist
M
- Perihan Mağden, RC 79, writer and commentator
- Etyen Mahçupyan, columnist, journalist
- Mangasar Magurditch Mangasarian, rationalist and secularist writer in the United States
- Roni Margulies, poet, author, translator and political activist
- Mgirdiç Migiryan, Olympian
- Konstantin Vladov Muraviev, former Bulgarian prime minister
- Lale Müldür, poet and writer
N
- Gülru Necipoğlu, historian of Islamic art
- Leyla Neyzi, anthropologist, historian
- Apostolos Nikolaidis, track and field athlete and founder of Panathinaikos
- Sevan Nişanyan intellectual, travel writer, and researcher
O
- Kamil Ocak, former minister of state
- Hakkı Ögelman, physicist and astrophysicist
- Cemil Özbal, musician and doctor
- A. Sumru Özsoy, academic and linguist
- Hüsnü Özyeğin, businessperson
P
- Orhan Pamuk, RA 70, writer (2006 Nobel Laureate in Literature)
- Şevket Pamuk, professor of economic history at Boğaziçi University, former president of European Historical Economics Society
- Vahram Papazyan, Olympic athlete
- Mihri Pektaş, politician, one of the first 18 female parliament members of Turkey
- Mustafa Pultar, academic and writer
- Stefan Panaretov, Bulgarian diplomat and professor
Q
- Parashqevi Qiriazi, Albanian teacher and member of the Congress of Monastir, which decided the Albanian alphabet
R
- Halit Refiğ, film director, writer, producer
- Dani Rodrik, professor of international political economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
S
- Vasileios Sachinis, leader of the Greek World War II resistance in southern Albania/Northern Epirus
- Selim Sarper, ambassador to the U.N., Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Nevra Serezli, film, stage, television and voice actress
- Ayşe Soysal, former president of Boğaziçi University
- Mete Avni Sözen, structural engineer
- Konstantin Stoilov, former Bulgarian prime minister
- Eve Sussman, artist
- Kenan Şahin, entrepreneur, scientist
- Celâl Şengör, RA 73, geologist
- Bülent Şenver, businessperson
T
- Çiğdem Talu, composer
- Ülkü Tamer, poet, journalist, actor and translator
- Tosun Terzioğlu, president of Sabancı University, mathematician
U
- Mîna Urgan, academic, translator, author and socialist politician
V
- Gregory Vlastos, writer, scholar of ancient philosophy
- İhsan Emre Vural, RC 04, athlete (rowing), the only Turkish world champion in rowing
Y
- Alp Yalman, businessperson, ex-president of the Galatasaray Sports Club
- Nur Yalman, social anthropologist
- Nihal Yeğinobalı, writer
- K. Aslihan Yener, archaeologist
References
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- ↑ Kuneralp, Sinan. "Ottoman Diplomatic and Consular Personnel in the United States of America, 1867–1917." In: Criss, Nur Bilge, Selçuk Esenbel, Tony Greenwood, and Louis Mazzari (editors). American Turkish Encounters: Politics and Culture, 1830–1989 (EBSCO Ebook Academic Collection). Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 12 July 2011. Template:ISBN, 9781443832601. pp. 100-108. CITED: p. 103. "[...]Mrs Sıdky Bey,[...]Educated at the Constantinople College for Girls[...]
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