This is a list of notable Turkish Americans, are people who have Turkish ancestry (or have or had Turkish citizenship for those of non-Turkish ethnic descent) and are citizens of the United States.
To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Turkish American or must have references showing they are Turkish American and are notable.
Daron Acemoğlu
Taner Akçam, University of Minnesota professor, historian specializing in the Armenian Genocide
İlhan Aksay, professor, Princeton University
Yasemin Aksoy, associate professor of operations management at the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University in New Orleans and the founding director of the Tulane Consortium for Supply Chain Management
Özalp Babaoğlu, professor of computer science at University of Bologna
Ciğdem Balım
Asım Orhan Barut, University of Colorado-Boulder physicist
Aydin Y. Durgunoglu, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota Duluth
Özlem Kahyaoğlu Equils, doctor, researcher
Faruk Gül, Professor of Economics, Princeton University
Dr. Murat Günel, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
Feza Gürsey, mathematician and physicist
M. Şükrü Hanioğlu, Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
Alp Ikizler, nephrologist, holder of the Catherine McLaughlin Hakim chair in Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Merve Kavakçı, George Washington University Professor and former Fazilet Party Parliamentarian exiled from Turkey for violating the Public Head Scarf Ban
Comert Kural, scientist
Hasan Özbekhan
Hasan Pirkul, Dean of the School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas
Cagan Hakki Sekercioglu, Assistant Professor at the Department of Biology, University of Utah, one of the most cited 1% of scientists in the past decade in ecology and environmental science, named 2011 Scientist of the Year by a Turkish media consortium, one of National Geographic's 14 uniquely gifted "Emerging Explorers"
Mehmet Toner, cryobiologist, professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School, and professor of biomedical engineering at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Turgay Üzer, Georgia Institute of Technology Physicist
Vamık Volkan, Princeton University Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry
Nur Yalman, octolingual Harvard University Professor of Social Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies
Osman Yaşar, professor and chair of the computational science department at State University of New York College at Brockport
K. Aslıhan Yener, University of Chicago archaeologist who uncovered a new source of Bronze Age Anatolian tin mines
Mustafa Kemal Abadan, partner of one of the world’s largest architect firms Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM)
Haluk Akakçe
Metin Bereketli, painter
Burhan Doğançay, painter, photographer, and former soccer player
Sururi Gümen, Illustrator and ghost artist behind Alfred Andriola's comic strip Kerry Drake
Jeff Treves, animator
Tümay Günaydin, Interior Designer and artist
Janet Akyüz Mattei, astronomer and director of the AAVSO
Feryal Özel, astrophysicist
Bülent Atalay, physicist and author
Yalman Onaran, financial journalist and author
Melih Abdulhayoğlu, founder, CEO, and president of Comodo Group
Harry Ablak, Varol Ablak, and Seçkin Ablak, founders of Vocelli Pizza
Sait Akarlılar, founder of Mavi Jeans
Ahmet Ertegün, founder and president of Atlantic Records
Nesuhi Ertegün, executive at Atlantic Records, brother of Ahmet
James Ben Ali Haggin, investor and founder of the Ben Ali Stakes
Muhtar Kent, CEO and chairman of The Coca-Cola Company
Murat Köprülü, investment professional and chairman of the American Turkish Society, and founder and chairman of the American Immigrant Society
Tarkan Maner, CEO of Nexenta Systems
Erol Onaran, founder of Erol's
Hamdi Ulukaya, founder and owner of Chobani
Turgut Türk Adıgüzel, director
Hayati Akbaş, actor
Can Ansay, actor
Resmine Atış, actress
Jack Bannon
Aclan Bates, director
Bea Benaderet
Turhan Bey, 1940s and 1950s film star
Süleyman "Sully" Geldzvek Boyar, actor best known for his work on Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico, Car Wash, and The Sopranos
Tülin Daloğlu, Washington correspondent for Turkey’s Star TV
Alex Demir, actor
Traci Dinwiddie, actress
Bilge Ebiri, journalist and filmmaker
Gökhan Ekremoğlu, director
Ayda Field, actress, married to British singer-songwriter Robbie Williams
Sinan Germirli, producer
Isabella Damla Güvenilir, child actress best known for her work on Elif
Nicholas Kadi
Serdar Kalsın
Francesca O'Keefe, actress, singer, writer and producer
Erol Onaran, founder of Erol's TV, Erol's Video and Erol's Internet
Eren Özker, puppeteer on The Muppet Show
Paul Shenar
Ertuğ Tüfekçioğlu, movie director
Emir Işılay, composer and pianist
Ibrahim Ben Ali, doctor, casualty in a Baltimore yellow fever epidemic
Doruk Erkan, assistant attending rheumatologist and clinical researcher at the Hospital for Special Surgery, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Zeynel A. Karcıoğlu, M.D., ophthalmic oncology and orbital diseases specialist, surgeon
Behram Kurşunoğlu, physicist, co-founder of the Center for Theoretical Studies, University of Miami
Mehmet Öz, cardiothoracic surgeon and award-winning author who has made frequent appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show, NBC, ABC, CBS, and CNN
Dr. Hasan Özbekhan, Professor Emeritus at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, founding member and first director of the think tank The Club of Rome, systems scientist, cyberneticist, philosopher, and planner
Yusuf Yazici, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine in the New York University School of Medicine
Kamer Daron Acemoğlu - Turkish economist of Armenian descent
Nouriel Roubini
Arif Dirlik
Ertuğrul Osman, the 43rd Head of the Imperial House of Osman
Halil Süleyman Özerden, United States District Judge for the Southern District of Mississippi [1]
Ali B. Paksoy, Jr., District Court Judge for North Carolina District 27B [2]
Bülent Arel, composer of contemporary classical music and electronic music
Ahmet Ertegün, founder of Atlantic Records, chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, and co-founder of the New York Cosmos soccer team of the North American Soccer League
Nesuhi Ertegün, record producer and executive of Atlantic Records
Eydie Gormé
Isaac Guillory
Kamran İnce, composer
Tolga Katas, singer, songwriter, and record producer
Arif Mardin, music producer
Neil Sedaka, pop singer, pianist, and songwriter
Pamela Spence, pop-rock singer
Deniz Tek
Özlem Tekin, singer
Pınar Toprak, composer
Ismail Akbay, served in various managerial capacities during NASA’s Apollo, Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz projects[3]
Sevgi Çağal
Nathan Salmon
Zeyno Baran, scholar on issues on US-Turkey relations
Osman "Oz" Bengür, Maryland Democratic Party Congressional candidate
Fetullah Gülen, leader of the Gülen Movement
Kollin Rice, Attorney and political activist, leader of the Oregon Democratic Club
Leslie Bates-Büyüktürkoğlu
Chris Başak, Major League Baseball infielder
Dave Coskunian, soccer player of Armenian descent
Bobby Dixon, basketball player for the Turkish national team, known in Turkey as Ali Muhammed
Erwin Dudley, basketball player with Turkish passport, known in Turkey as Ersin Dağli
Korel Engin, basketball player
Erden Eruç, completed first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth by rowboat, sea kayak, bicycle and foot
Tunç İlkin, former Pittsburgh Steelers player and sports commentator
Ersan İlyasova, Milwaukee Bucks player
Enes Kanter, basketball player
Şebnem Kimyacıoğlu, basketball player
Yasemin Kimyacıoğlu, basketball player
Mehmet Okur, Utah Jazz player and 2007 NBA All-Star
Nevin Nevlin, basketball player
Lisa Marie Varon, former professional wrestler known as Tara in TNA and Victoria in WWE
Hidayet Türkoğlu, Orlando Magic player
Nevriye Yılmaz, basketball player
Cenk Uygur, host of the liberal talk radio show The Young Turks on Air America Radio, and a regular blogger on The Huffington Post
Ibrahim Ben Ali
Asım Orhan Barut, theoretical physicist
Orkut Büyükkökten, software engineer
Tantek Çelik, computer scientist
Furkan Doğan student, known for being killed in the Gaza flotilla raid
Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine film critic
Sibel Deniz Edmonds, former FBI translator
James Ben Ali Haggin, namesake of the Ben Ali Stakes
Kenan Şahin, establishing partner in Lucent Technologies
Lisa Marie Varon, wrestling star known as Victoria
Ahmet Yıldız biophysicist, GE/Science Young Scientist Award winner
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