Notable Natives
- Mustafa Dağıstanlı - two times Olympic gold medalist sports wrestler
- Yaşar Doğu - Olympic gold medalist sports wrestler
- Orhan Gencebay - musician
- Ferhan Şensoy - writer, actor and stage director
- Tanju Çolak - 1987 European Golden Boot holder soccer player/striker
- Yıldıray Çınar - musician
- Neyzen Tevfik – poet, satirist, and ney player
- Ece Erken – TV-hostess and actress
- Deniz Kılıçlı, college basketball player at West Virginia University
- Şefik Avni Özüdoğru, military officer in the Ottoman and Turkish armies
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Famous quotes containing the words notable and/or natives:
“Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it’s more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“Here was a little of everything in a small compass to satisfy the wants and the ambition of the woods,... but there seemed to me, as usual, a preponderance of children’s toys,—dogs to bark, and cats to mew, and trumpets to blow, where natives there hardly are yet. As if a child born into the Maine woods, among the pine cones and cedar berries, could not do without such a sugar-man or skipping-jack as the young Rothschild has.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)