Çelebi
Çelebi was an Ottoman title of respect, approximately corresponding to "gentleman", "well-mannered" or "courteous". Çelebi also means "man of God", as an i-suffixed derivative from çalab, which means "God" in Ottoman Turkish. German linguist and Turkologist Marcel Erdal, citing Baron Tiesenhausen, traces çalab back to Arabic djellaba "importer, trader, merchant" > "high social positions"; jallāb is derived from root j-l-b "to have brought, to import", ultimately from West Semitic root g-l-b "to catch, to fetch".
List of notable people
Title
Notable people with the title include, in approximate chronological order:- Gazi Çelebi, early-14th-century Turkish pirate and ruler of Sinop
- The sons of Ottoman sultan Bayezid I, who fought one another for the throne in the Ottoman Interregnum of 1402 to 1413:
- * İsa Çelebi
- * Musa Çelebi
- * Mehmed Çelebi, who won the civil war, being crowned sultan Mehmed I
- * Mustafa Çelebi
- * Süleyman Çelebi
- Suzi Çelebi of Prizren, Ottoman epic poet
- Nishandji Tadji-zade Dja'fer Çelebi, Ottoman statesman and a diwan poet
- Hoca Çelebi, Ottoman Grand Mufti
- Seydi Ali Reis, or Sidi Ali Ben Hossein, an Ottoman admiral and nautical writer.
- Kınalızâde Ali Çelebi, Ottoman jurist and writer
- Aşık Çelebi, Ottoman poet and biographer
- Kınalızâde Hasan Çelebi, Ottoman poet and bibliographer, son of Kınalızâde Ali Çelebi
- Kinalizâde Fehmi Çelebi, Ottoman poet, son of Kınalızâde Ali Çelebi
- Anton Çelebi, Armenian merchant magnate, Ottoman and Tuscan official
- Abro Chelebi, Armenian merchant, Ottoman army purveyor
- Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi, alleged Ottoman aviator and polymath, brother of Lagâri Hasan Çelebi
- Lagâri Hasan Çelebi, alleged 17th-century Ottoman aviator and polymath, brother of Hezârfen Ahmed
- Katip Çelebi, Ḥājjī Khalīfa, Ottoman polymath and encyclopaedist
- Evliya Çelebi, Ottoman explorer and travel writer
- Eremia Chelebi, Ottoman Armenian intellectual and travel writer
- Yirmisekiz [Mehmed Çelebi], Ottoman statesman
- , namesake of Seyit-Settar Mosque, Simferopol, Crimea
Seljuk & Ottoman Sufi family
Çelebi is a family of descendants of Rumi, who established and led the Sufi Mevlevi Order for over 700 yearsSurname (post-Ottoman)
- Alpay Çelebi, Turkish footballer
- Asaf Halet Çelebi, Turkish poet
- Hasan Çelebi, Turkish calligraphist
- Huseyin Çelebî, Kurdish activist and writer
- Nilgün Çelebi, Turkish academic
As part of surname
- Âmil Çelebioğlu, Turkish researcher and professor
- Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor, born Celebidachi