List of Turkish philosophers and scientists

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This is a list of notable Turkish philosophers, scientists and scholars.

A[]

• Silahdar Fındıklılı Mehmed Ağa, historian
• Ali Akansu – Electrical engineer
• İsmail Akbay – Engineer
• Selman Akbulut, mathematician
• Alev Alatlı, economist
• Mustafa Âlî, historian
• Ahmet Alkan, economist
• Cahit Arf, mathematician
• Oruç Aruoba, poet, philosopher
• Aşıkpaşazade, historian
• 'Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk, mathematician

B[]

• Aykut Barka, earth scientist
• Asım Orhan Barut, University of Colorado-Boulder physicist^[1]
• Turhan Baytop, botanist
• Hulusi Behçet, dermatologist, physician and scientist
• Orkut Büyükkökten, software engineer

C[]

• Katip Çelebi, historian, philosopher and geographer
• Tantek Çelik, computer scientist
• Erhan Çınlar, probabilist

D[]

• Hilmi Volkan Demir, scientist
• Arda Denkel, philosopher

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
• 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
• Al-Farabi (872–950) (Al-Farabi, Pharabius), philosopher of Turkish or Persian origin

G[]

• Erol Gelenbe, computer scientist
• Feza Gürsey, mathematician and physicist
• Nüzhet Gökdoğan, astronomer and mathematician

H[]

• Haji Bektash Veli, mystic
• Osman Hamdi Bey, archaeologist

I[]

• Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda, mathematician
• Ataç İmamoğlu, physicist
• Erdal İnönü, physicist, politician
• Ahmet Mete Işıkara (1941-2013), seismologist

K[]

• İhsan Ketin (1914-1995), geologist
• Behram Kurşunoğlu (1922-2003), physicist
• Ioanna Kuçuradi (1936-), Professor of Philosophy, President of Turkish Philosophy Association
• Yalçın Küçük, economist, historian and sovietolog

M[]

• Janet Akyüz Mattei, astronomer
• Müneccimbaşı Ahmed Dede, astronomer, astrologer and historian
• Takiyettin Mengüşoğlu, philosopher

N[]

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

P[]

• Ahmet Cevdet Pasha, sociologist, legist and historian
• İbrahim Peçevi, historian
• Kadrî of Pergamon, linguist

Q[]

• Ali Kuşçu, astronomer, mathematician, physicist and scientist

R[]

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

S[]

• Sabuncuoğlu Şerafeddin, physician
• Gülsün Sağlamer, architect
• Muzafer Sherif, social psychologist
• Aziz Sancar, biochemist
• Aydın Sayılı - historian of science^[2][3][4]
• Celâl Şengör – geologist
• Mustafa Selaniki, historian
• Oktay Sinanoğlu (1935–2015), theoretical chemist and molecular biolog

T[]

• Takiyüddin, Ottoman polymath, astronomer
• Semih Tezcan, civil engineer
• Mehmet Toner, cryobiologist, biomedical engineer^[5]

U[]

• Turgay Üzer, Georgia Institute of Technology Physicist^[6]

V[]

• Vamık Volkan (born 1932), 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

Ö[]

• Hakkı Ögelman, physicist and astrophysicist
• Mehmet Öz, scientist, surgeon and author

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