List of Istanbul Technical University people

This is a list of people associated with Istanbul Technical University in Turkey.

Politicians and public figures

Turgut Özal

Bedrettin Dalan (born 1941) - former Mayor of Istanbul (1984–1989)
Vedat Ali Dalokay (1927–1991) - former Mayor of Ankara (1973–1977)
Süleyman Demirel (born 1924) - former President of Turkey (1993–2000) and Prime minister (five times between 1965–1993)
Aytaç Durak (born 1938) - Mayor of Adana (1994–2014)
Necmettin Erbakan (born 1926) - former Prime minister (1996–1997) and former President of TOBB (1969)
Veysel Eroğlu (born 1948) - Minister of Environment and former Head of State Hydraulic Works
Safa Giray (1931-2011) - former Minister of Foreign Affairs (1991)
Recai Kutan (born 1930) - President of Felicity Party
Turgut Özal (1927–1993) - former President of Turkey (1989–1993) and prime minister (1983–1989)
Binali Yıldırım (born 1955) - Prime Minister, maritime engineer and former Minister of Transport, Maritime and Communication
İsmet Yılmaz (born 1961) - Minister of National Education of Turkey and former Speaker of the Grand National Assembly
Ahmet Arslan (born 1962) - Minister of Transport, Maritime and Communication and a Member of Parliament for Kars
Fatih Birol (born 1958) - Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (2015-present), Chief Economist of the International Energy Agency (1995-2015)

Business

İshak Alaton (born 1927) - co-founder of Alarko Holding
Üzeyir Garih (1929–2001) - co-founder of Alarko Holding
Mehmet Hacim Kamoy (1922-2004) - founding CEO of ASELSAN
Temel Kotil (born 1959) - CEO of Turkish Airlines
Şarık Tara (born 1930) - founder of Enka Holding
Faruk Yarman (born 1954) - CEO of HAVELSAN

Science and technology

Zeynep Ahunbay (born 1946) - architect
Attila Aşkar (born 1944) - civil engineer and applied mathematician, president and provost (rector) of the Koç University. (2001 - 2009)^[1]
Ali Akansu - electrical and computer engineering scientist, professor at NJIT
A. Cemal Eringen (born February 15, 1921 in Kayseri, Turkey - died December 7, 2009) - civil engineer and applied mathematician; professor of continuum physics in the departments of civil engineering and geological engineering, the founder of the program in computational and applied mathematics at Princeton University. Eringen Medal is given every year to a most successful scientist in the fields of continuum mechanics, elasticity, plasticity, rheology and materials science in his honor.^[2]
Ali Erdemir - material scientist^[3]^[4]
Doğan Kuban (born 1926) - architectural historian
Emin Halid Onat (1908–1961) - architect of Anıtkabir and first dean of ITU School of Architecture^[5]
Mehmet Toner - biomedical engineering scientist, professor at MIT
Karl von Terzaghi (1883–1963) - mechanical engineer, founder of soil mechanics

Art

Funda Arar (born 1975) - pop singer
Oğuz Atay (1934–1977) - novelist^[6]
Berke Hatipoğlu (born 1976) - architect, guitarist of the rock band Redd
Erkan Oğur (born 1954) - musician
Ziynet Sali - ainger
Ahmet Yalçınkaya (born 1963) - poet

Sports

Çağla Kubat

Çağla Kubat - windsurfer
Zehra Öktem - Olympic archer

Political activists

Harun Karadeniz (1942–1975) - 1970s student leader

Others

Behruz Çinici - architect of METU Ankara Campus
Mehmet Gümüşburun - bureaucrat
Sabiha Gürayman - first Turkish woman engineer
Waleed A. Samkari - Commander of Royal Maintenance Corps (Jordan)

Dropouts

Orhan Pamuk

Yılmaz Erdoğan (born 1967) - actor
Orhan Pamuk (born 1952) - novelist, Nobel Laureate in Literature (2006)

References

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