Notable Turkish Jews
- Jak V. Kamhi,Founding and Honorary Chairman of the Quincentennial Foundation
- Cefi J. Kamhi, MP Turkish Parliament 1995-99 Co-Chairman F.Aff Com. European Jewish Parliament
- Ishak Alaton, co-founder of Alarko Holding
- Denis Öner Ojalvo, European Jewish Parliament member (MEJP)
- Can Bonomo, Musician who represented Turkey at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan
- Abraham Salomon Camondo, Ottoman-Italian financier and philanthropist and the patriarch of the Camondo family
- Moses Capsali, first Hakham Bashi (Turkish: Chief Rabbi) of the Ottoman Empire
- Uzeyir Garih, co-founder of Alarko Holding
- Umut Güzelses, Turkish-Israeli soccer player
- Ishak Haleva, current Hakham Bashi of Turkey
- Barzillai ben Baruch Jabez, talmudist
- Emanuel Karasu, Salonica born Ottoman statesman
- Dario Moreno, Izmir born musician
- Joseph Nasi, Portuguese Ottoman Trader and the first non-Muslim to be appointed to the rank of Sanjak-bey (governor)
- Joseph Taitazak, Spanish-born Ottoman Rabbi and Kabbalist
- Sabbatai Zevi
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