List of people from İzmir
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This is a list of famous people from İzmir
In alphabetical order
- 6. Cadde - rock band that had won the Sing Your Song music contest aired on a major music televioson channel
- Rita Abatzi (1914-1969) Greek rebetiko singer
- Ekrem Akurgal - Turkish archaeologist born in Tulkarem, explorer of Old Smyrna, Pitane, Phocaea and Erythrai
- Necati Ateş - Turkish soccer player for Galatasaray
- Pınar Aylin - Turkish singer
- Édouard Balladur - Former French Prime Minister
- Halil Berktay - Turkish historian
- Demetrios Capetanakis (1912-1944) Greek poet, essayist and critic
- Anton Christoforidis (1918-1985) Greek light heavyweight boxer
- Hüsamettin Cindoruk - Turkish politician, former party leader and Speaker of the Parliament
- Necati Cumalı - Turkish novelist born in Florina, raised in nearby Urla
- Meltem Cumbul - Actress
- Mahir Çağrı - Turkish internet phenomenon
- Cybele (1888-1978) Greek actress
- Nehir Erdoğan - Actress
- Gül Gölge - TV show host, model and actress
- Homer - Greek epic poet, see discussion above
- Attila İlhan - Turkish poet, novelist, essayist, journalist, and reviewer.
- İsmet İnönü - 2nd President of Turkey
- Irenaeus (2nd-3rd century), theologian, bishop of Lugdunum
- Sir Alec Issigonis - Greek-British car designer whose most famous work is the Mini
- Michel Elefteriades - Greek-Lebanese composer/producer/politician/Emperor of Nowheristan
- Manolis Kalomiris (1883-1962) Greek composer
- Ertan Kayıtken - Turkish Fashion Designer
- Adamantios Korais (1748-1833) Greek humanist scholar
- Çağla Kubat - Turkish fashion model
- Mario Levi - Turkish-Jewish novelist
- Alex Manoogian - Armenian-American industrialist, philanthropist, and founder/CEO of MASCO Corporation.
- Udi Marko Melkon (1895-1963) - Armenian oud player and singer of Turkish, Greek, Armenian music; made his career in New York.
- Darío Moreno - Turkish-Jewish singer who made a career in France;
- James Justinian Morier - British diplomat, traveler and writer
- Magali Noël - French actress and singer
- Metin Oktay - Footballer
- Aristotelis Onassis (1906-1975) Greek tycoon
- Alpay Özalan - footballer
- Leonidas Paraskevopoulos (1860-1936) Greek military man and politician
- Polycarp - Overseer of a Christian congregation
- Ahmet Adnan Saygun - Turkish composer, musician and writer
- Giorgos Seferis (1900-1971) Greek poet, a Nobel laureate, born in nearby Urla
- Quintus Smyrnaeus - Greek epic poet
- Yavuz Tatış - Private collector
- Yıldız Tilbe - Singer
- Dr. Andrew Turnbull - 18th century British Consul at Smyrna, founder of New Smyrna Colony, Florida, United States
- Tryfon Tzanetis (1918-2001) Greek footballer and coach
- Bilge Umar - Turkish jurist and writer
- Esin Uner - Miss Aegean 1968, famous fashion model
- Ece Uslu - Turkish actress
- Lâtife Uşaklıgil - Wife of Atatürk (founder of modern Turkey)
- Sabbatai Zevi - Self-proclaimed messiah and founder of the community of Sabbateans
Famous personalities with connections to İzmir include Greek diva Haris Alexiou, granddaughter of Anatolian Greeks from Bulgurca village near İzmir, whose discography deals with the city. A branch of the Forbes family lived in İzmir in mid-19th century, exporting Aydın figs to the United States and opium to China, and their mansion (Forbes köşkü) stands intact in Buca. David Josiah Brewer, Associate Justice US Supreme Court 1890-1910, born Izmir June 20, 1837.
