List of Turkish philosophers and scientists

Notable Turkish philosophers, scientists and scholars include:

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A

• Ahmet Yesevi, mystic and philosopher
• Ahmet Resmi, historian
• Ahi Çelebi, physician
• Silahdar Fındıklılı Mehmed Ağa, historian
• Ali Akansu, electrical engineer
• Zeynep Akata, scientist
• İsmail Akbay, engineer
• Selman Akbulut, mathematician
• Cezmi Akdis, medical researcher in the field of immunology. He is director of the Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research
• Akshamsaddin, scholar, poet, mystic, and scientist
• Abdülkadir Topkaç, astronomer
• Alev Alatlı, economist
• Mustafa Âlî, historian
• Ahmet Alkan, economist
• Cahit Arf, mathematician
• Yılmaz Argüden, is a Turkish strategist, governance expert and economist
• Erdal Arikan, electrical engineer
• Oruç Aruoba, poet, philosopher
• Huseyin Arslan, engineer
• Mete Atatüre, physicist
• Aşıkpaşazade, historian
• 'Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk, mathematician
• Alper Gezeravcı, pilot and astronaut
• Ahi Evran, mystic

B

• Aykut Barka, earth scientist
• Asım Orhan Barut, physicist
• Turhan Baytop, botanist
• Fatih Birol, economist and energy expert
• Hulusi Behçet, dermatologist, physician and scientist
• Besim Ömer Akalın, physician
• Orkut Büyükkökten, software engineer

C

• Tantek Çelik, computer scientist
• Erhan Çınlar, probabilist
• Cahit Arf, mathematician

D

• Hilmi Volkan Demir, scientist
• Asli Demirguc-Kunt, economist
• Arda Denkel, philosopher
• Naşide Gözde Durmuş, geneticist

E

• Ahmed Resmî Efendi, historian and diplomat
• Gelenbevi İsmail Efendi, mathematician
• Hoca Sadeddin Efendi, historian
• Yunus Emre, poet, mystic and philosopher
• Osman Nuri Eralp, veterinary scientist and microbiologist
• Ali Erdemir, scientist
• Sabri Ergun, chemical engineer. He is known for the Ergun equation
• Elza Erkip, electrical and computer engineer
• Ayşe Erzan, theoretical physicist
• İbrahim Hakkı Erzurumi, philosopher and mystic

F

• Molla Şemseddin Fenari, logician, Islamic theologian
• Nusret Fişek, physician
• Farabi, philosopher and music theorist

G

• Erol Gelenbe, computer scientist
• Feza Gürsey, mathematician and physicist
• Metin Gürses, founded The Science Academy Society of Turkey
• Nüzhet Gökdoğan, astronomer and mathematician
• Fatin Gökmen, astronomer

H

• Osman Hamdi Bey, archaeologist
• Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi, polymath
• Halil İnalcık, historian

I

• Fatih Ömer İlday, physicist
• Ataç İmamoğlu, physicist
• Umran Inan, scientist
• Erdal İnönü, physicist, politician
• Ahmet Mete Işıkara, seismologist
• İlber Ortaylı, historian
• İlter Turan, was the president of International Political Science Association

K

• Nami Kartal, wood scientist
• İhsan Ketin, geologist
• Osman Kibar, engineer and founder of Biosplice
• Ioanna Kuçuradi, Professor of Philosophy, President of Turkish Philosophy Association
• Behram Kurşunoğlu, physicist
• Yalçın Küçük, economist, historian and sovietologist
• Çetin Kaya Koç, engineer
• C. Emre Koksal, electrical and computer engineer
• Kâtip Çelebi, polymath and author
• Mahmud Kashgari, scholar and lexicographer

L

• Lagâri Hasan Çelebi, scientist, engineer and aviator

M

• Mirim Çelebi, astronomer
• Janet Akyüz Mattei, astronomer
• Frederick Akbar Mahomed, his Turkish father was Dean Mahomed Frederick was an internationally known British physician
• Müneccimbaşı Ahmed Dede, astronomer, astrologer and historian
• Takiyettin Mengişoğlu, philosopher
• Molla Fenari, logician, theologian, scholar, and philosopher

N

• Mustafa Naima, historian
• Matrakçı Nasuh, mathematician, historian, geographer, cartographer, swordmaster, and miniaturist
• Leyla Neyzi, anthropologist, sociologist and historian

O

• Hakkı Ögelman, physicist and astrophysicist
• Mehmet Öz, surgeon and author
• Feryal Özel, astrophysicist
• Hasan Özbekhan, scientist, cyberneticist, philosopher and planner who was professor emeritus
• Aslı Özyürek, linguist, cognitive scientist and psychologist

P

• Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil, astrophysicist
• Şevket Pamuk, economics and economic History
• Ahmet Cevdet Pasha, sociologist, legist and historian
• İbrahim Peçevi, historian
• Kadrî of Pergamon, linguist

Q

• Ali Qushji, astronomer, mathematician, physicist and scientist
• Yusif Qarabaghi, scientist, doctor, and philosopher

R

• Piri Reis, cartographer and admiral
• Kemal Reis, cartographer
• Bursalı Kadızade Rumi, mathematician
• Seydi Ali Reis, cartographer

S

• Gülsün Sağlamer, architect
• Aziz Sancar, biochemist
• Aydın Sayılı, historian of science
• Hu Sihui, he was the first to empirically discover and clearly describe deficiency diseases.
• Mustafa Selaniki, historian
• Muzafer Sherif, social psychologist
• Oktay Sinanoğlu, theoretical chemist and molecular biologist
• Uğur Şahin, cancer research, immunology, CEO of BioNTech
• Celâl Şengör, geologist
• Sabuncuoğlu Şerafeddin, physician
• İbrahim Adnan Saraçoğlu, chemistry, biochemist, microbiologist and researcher.

T

• Takiyüddin, Ottoman polymath, astronomer
• Semih Tezcan, civil engineer
• Hüseyin Tevfik Pasha, mathematician
• Mehmet Toner, cryobiologist, biomedical engineer
• Özlem Türeci, physician, scientist and entrepreneur; co-founded the biotechnology company BioNTech
• ibn Turk, ninth-century mathematician

U

• Turgay Üzer, physicist
• Ulugh Beg, astronomer and mathematician
• Ulus Baker, sociologist

V

• Vamık Volkan, psychiatrist and author

Y

• Nur Yalman, anthropologist
• Gazi Yaşargil, father of modern microneurosurgery
• Muhammed Hamdi Yazır, theologian
• Cem Yıldırım, mathematician
• Cemal Yıldırım, philosopher of science
• Yusuf Has Hacip, political scientist, astronomer, author