List of Istanbul Technical University people

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

Politics

Turgut Özal, 8th President of Turkey

Süleyman Demirel, 9th President of Turkey

• 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)
• Bedrettin Dalan (born 1941) — Former Mayor of Istanbul (1984–1989)
• Vedat Ali Dalokay (1927–1991) — Former Mayor of Ankara (1973–1977)
• Süleyman Demirel (1924-2015) — Former President of Turkey (1993–2000) and Prime Minister
• Aytaç Durak (1938-2014) — Mayor of Adana (1994–2014)
• Necmettin Erbakan (1926-2011) — Former Prime Minister (1996–1997) and former President of TOBB (1969)
• Veysel Eroğlu (born 1948) — Former Minister of Environment and 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)
• Ruhsar Pekcan (born 1958) — Minister of Trade (2018-2021)
• Binali Yıldırım (born 1955) — Prime Minister, maritime engineer and former Minister of Transport, Maritime and Communication
• Taner Yıldız (born 1962) — Minister of Energy and Natural Resources (2009-2015)
• İsmet Yılmaz (born 1961) — Minister of National Education of Turkey and former Speaker of the Grand National Assembly

Business

Selçuk Bayraktar, CTO of Baykar

• İshak Alaton (born 1927) — Co-founder of Alarko Holding
• Selçuk Bayraktar (born 1979) — Chief Technology Officer of Baykar
• Halil Boztepe (born 1970) — CEO of Tepe Kimya
• Üzeyir Garih (1929–2001) — Co-founder of Alarko Holding
• Sadi Gülçelik (born 1929) — Co-founder of ENKA Holding
• Mehmet Hacim Kamoy (1922-2004) — Founding CEO of ASELSAN
• Temel Kotil (born 1959) — CEO of Turkish Airlines
• Volkan Sevilgen (born 1980) — CTO and co-founder of Temblor, Inc.
• Şarık Tara (born 1930) — Co-founder of ENKA Holding
• Faruk Yarman (born 1954) — CEO of HAVELSAN

Science and technology

Ivet Bahar, Director of the Louis and Beatrice Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology

• Zeynep Ahunbay (born 1946) — Architect
• Ali Akansu (born 1958) — Electrical & computer engineering and scientist, professor at NJIT
• Attila Aşkar (born 1944) — Civil engineer and applied mathematician, former President and Rector of the Koç University. (2001-2009)^[1]
• Ivet Bahar — Computational biologist, professor at the University of Pittsburgh
• Ali Erdemir — Material scientist^[2][3]
• A. Cemal Eringen (1921-2009) — Civil engineer and applied mathematician; professor at Princeton University
• Doğan Kuban (born 1926) — Architectural historian
• Emin Halid Onat (1908–1961) — Architect of Anıtkabir and first dean of ITU School of Architecture^[4]
• Hürriyet Sırmaçek (1912 - 1983) — Turkey's first female bridge engineer^[5]
• Celâl Şengör (born 1955) — Geologist
• Karl von Terzaghi (1883–1963) — Mechanical engineer, founder of soil mechanics
• Mehmet Toner (born 1958) — Biomedical engineering and scientist, professor at MIT

Art

Erkan Oğur, Turkish musician

• Funda Arar (born 1975) — Pop singer
• Ahmet Aslan (born 1968) — Musician
• Oğuz Atay (1934–1977) — Novelist^[6]
• Murat Boz — Pop singer
• Güler Duman (born 1967) — Turkish folk music
• Berke Hatipoğlu (born 1976) — Guitarist of the rock band Redd
• Erkan Oğur (born 1954) — Musician
• Ziynet Sali — Singer
• Ahmet Yalçınkaya (born 1963) — Poet

Sports

Çağla Kubat, Turkish actress, model, windsurfer

• Zehra Öktem — Olympic archer
• Çağla Kubat — Windsurfer

Political activisism

• Harun Karadeniz (1942–1975) — 1970s student leader

Others

• Behruz Çinici — Architect of METU Ankara Campus and Atatürk University Campus
• Mehmet Gümüşburun — Bureaucrat
• Sabiha Gürayman — First Turkish woman engineer
• Waleed A. Samkari — Commander of Jordan Royal Maintenance Corps
• Ateşan Aybars (Class of 1973) — Economist, TV celebrity, biomedical engineer and commodity trading advisor
• Alper Derinboğaz — Architect

Dropouts

• Yılmaz Erdoğan (born 1967) — Actor
• Orhan Pamuk (born 1952) — Novelist, Nobel Laureate in Literature (2006)