Notable Natives
- Armenians
- Arshak Gafavian, Armenian military commander
- Gourgen Yanikian, American-Armenian author, engineer and activist who murdered two Turkish consular officials.
- Johannes Avetaranian (a.k.a. Mehmet Sükrü), Seyyid (self-proclaimed descendant of the prophet Muhammed), Christian missionary
- Karekin Pastermadjian, a leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation and an ambassador of Armenia to the US
- Vartkes Serengülian, ethnic Armenian deputy in the Ottoman parliament from 1908-1915 representing Erzurum.
- Turks
- Acun Ilıcalı Television programmer
- Adnan Polat, Ahiska-Turk, President of Galatasaray
- Arif Sağ, Turkish singer, bağlama virtuoso
- Cemal Gürsel, the fourth president of Turkey
- Fethullah Gülen, Islamic writer
- Huseyin Avni Ulas, Influential Politician during the early period of the Republic of Turkey
- İbrahim Hakkı Erzurumi, Turkish and Sufi philosopher and encyclopedist
- Nene Hatun, female defender of Erzurum during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78
- Orhun Ene, Turkish Basketball player
- Recep Akdağ, minister of health of Turkey
- Sair Nef'i, 17th century Turkish poet
- Others
- Markos Vafiadis, leading cadre of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE)
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