List of Robert College alumni

A

• Halide Edib Adıvar, novelist
• Hranoush Agaganian, wife of a diplomat and operator of a center for boxing in the U.S.
• 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

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
• 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
• Şevket Pamuk, professor of economic history at Boğaziçi University, former president of European Historical Economics Society
• Vahram Papazyan, Olympic athlete
• Mihriban Pekgüleryüz, metallurgist and professor in Canada
• 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, 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