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
• Saint Blaise - Armenian saint, bishop of Sebaste
• Mustafa Çağrıcı - Islamic theologian
• Harutyun Kalents - Armenian artist^[1]
• 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
• Murad of Sebastia - Armenian fedayee leader
• 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^[2]
• Nurettin Sözen - politician, former mayor of İstanbul
• Çetin Tekindor - actor
• İbrahim Toraman - football player
• Ali Turan - politician representing Sivas^[3]
• Ukhtanes of Sebastia - Armenian historian and prelate
• Taniel Varouzhan - Armenian poet
• Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu - politician who was the president of the BBP party
• Cem Yılmaz - stand-up comedian, actor, cartoonist and screenwriter
• Hakan Yılmaz - weightlifter
• İsmet Yılmaz - politician representing Sivas^[4]
• İsmail YK - musician
• Sarkis Zabunyan - Armenian conceptual artist

References

This page was last edited on 14 March 2023, at 23:09