# List of Robert College alumni

The following is a list of notable graduates of Robert College and Robert Academy (RA), American College for Girls (ACG), Robert Yuksek, which were the subsections of Robert College until the merger of 1971.
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* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z

## A

* Halide Edib Adıvar, novelist
* Hranoush Agaganian (Madame Bey), wife of a diplomat and operator of a center for boxing in the U.S.
* Zeki Alasya, actor
* Safiye Ali, first Turkish woman to become a medical doctor
* Engin Ardıç, writer
* Tomur Atagok, artist, painter
* Türkkaya Ataöv, academic and columnist

## B

* Henri Barki, professor of management information systems
* Selçuk Bayraktar, engineer and businessperson
* Mihri Belli, socialist politician, author
* Izak Benbasat, professor of management information systems
* Nihat Berker, professor of physics
* Feyyaz Berker, businessperson
* Halil Berktay, historian
* Serdar Bilgili, businessperson
* Refika Birgül, food writer
* Behice Boran, politician
* Cem Boyner, businessman, politician
* Ayşe Buğra, sociologist, economist
* Serdar Bulun, physician, professor and researcher of gynecology

## C

* Tuncer Cebeci, Turkish-American engineer and academic
* Alev Lytle Croutier, ACG 63, novelist
* Halet Çambel, archaeologist, first female Turkish olympian
* Zeynep Çelik, architect, architectural historian
* İsmail Cem, politician, former foreign minister of Turkey
* Engin Cezzar, actor, director
* Tansu Çiller, first female Turkish prime minister

## D

* Arwa Damon, journalist, CNN correspondent
* Xhafer Deva, entrepreneur
* Agop Dilaçar, linguist
* Abidin Dino, artist
* Michalis Dorizas, sportsperson, bronze medal winner for stone throw and javelin throw in the 1906 Summer Olympics
* Haldun Dormen, actor, playwright
* Tsanko Dyustabanov, Bulgarian revolutionary

## E

* Bülent Ecevit, former Turkish prime minister
* Rahşan Ecevit, politician
* Nejat Eczacıbaşı, entrepreneur
* Neşe Erberk, businessperson, Miss Europe '84
* Marcel Erdal, linguist
* Refik Erduran, playwright, columnist and writer
* Aslı Erdoğan, writer
* Tunç Erem, academic
* Genco Erkal, actor, playwright
* Münir Ertegün, diplomat
* Şenes Erzik, UEFA vice president
* Evgenios Evgenidis, Greek shipping businessperson and benefactor (died 1954)

## F

* Moris Farhi, vice-president of International PEN
* Maureen Freely, ACG 71, journalist, novelist, translator-notably of Orhan Pamuk's works

## G

* Emre Gönensay, politician
* Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, president of the National Geographic Society (1920–1954)
* Kasım Gülek, politician, secretary general of the Republican People's Party
* Calouste Gulbenkian, British-Armenian businessman and philanthropist

## H

* Talat Sait Halman, Turkey's first minister of culture, academic
* Erdem Helvacıoğlu, composer, sound designer, musician
* Agop Hacikyan, academic, writer

## I

* İsmail Cem İpekçi, politician
* Ahmet İsvan, politician
* Todor Ivanchov, former Bulgarian prime minister

## K

* Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı, writer
* Cemal Kafadar, professor of Middle-Eastern history at Harvard University
* Nur al-Din Kahala, Syrian politician
* Cem Karaca, musician
* Mehmet Emin Karamehmet, entrepreneur
* Osman Kavala, philanthropist
* Ömer Kavur, movie producer
* Hagop Kevorkian, historian of art, orientalist
* Suna Kıraç, businessperson
* Ömer Koç, businessperson
* Rahmi Koç, businessperson
* Göksel Kortay, actress, voice actress, translator, and lecturer
* Vasif Kortun, musician, curator
* Spiro Kostof, architectural historian, chronicler of urban form
* Karolos Koun, Greek theater director
* Shavarsh Krissian, Armenian writer and athlete
* Ayşe Kulin, Writer, columnist
* Aptullah Kuran, academic
* Timur Kuran, academic, economics professor
* Pınar Kür, writer, professor

## L

* Levon Larents, Armenian writer and journalist

## M

* Perihan Mağden, RC 79, writer and commentator
* Etyen Mahçupyan, columnist, journalist
* Mangasar Magurditch Mangasarian, rationalist and secularist writer in the United States
* Roni Margulies, poet, author, translator and political activist
* Mgirdiç Migiryan, Olympian
* Konstantin Vladov Muraviev, former Bulgarian prime minister
* Lale Müldür, poet and writer

## N

* Gülru Necipoğlu, historian of Islamic art
* Leyla Neyzi, anthropologist, historian
* Apostolos Nikolaidis, track and field athlete and founder of Panathinaikos
* Sevan Nişanyan intellectual, travel writer, and researcher

## O

* Kamil Ocak, former minister of state
* Hakkı Ögelman, physicist and astrophysicist
* Cemil Özbal, musician and doctor
* A. Sumru Özsoy, academic and linguist
* Hüsnü Özyeğin, businessperson

## P

* Orhan Pamuk, RA 70, writer (2006 Nobel Laureate in Literature)
* Şevket Pamuk, professor of economic history at Boğaziçi University, former president of European Historical Economics Society
* Vahram Papazyan, Olympic athlete
* Mihri Pektaş, politician, one of the first 18 female parliament members of Turkey
* Mustafa Pultar, academic and writer
* Stefan Panaretov, Bulgarian diplomat and professor

## Q

* Parashqevi Qiriazi, Albanian teacher and member of the Congress of Monastir, which decided the Albanian alphabet

## R

* Halit Refiğ, film director, writer, producer
* Dani Rodrik, professor of international political economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

## S

* Vasileios Sachinis, leader of the Greek World War II resistance in southern Albania/Northern Epirus
* Selim Sarper, ambassador to the U.N., Minister of Foreign Affairs
* Nevra Serezli, film, stage, television and voice actress
* Ayşe Soysal, former president of Boğaziçi University
* Mete Avni Sözen, structural engineer
* Konstantin Stoilov, former Bulgarian prime minister
* Eve Sussman, artist
* Kenan Şahin, entrepreneur, scientist
* Celâl Şengör, RA 73, geologist
* Bülent Şenver, businessperson

## T

* Çiğdem Talu, composer
* Ülkü Tamer, poet, journalist, actor and translator
* Tosun Terzioğlu, president of Sabancı University, mathematician

## U

* Mîna Urgan, academic, translator, author and socialist politician

## V

* Gregory Vlastos, writer, scholar of ancient philosophy
* İhsan Emre Vural, RC 04, athlete (rowing), the only Turkish world champion in rowing

## Y

* Alp Yalman, businessperson, ex-president of the Galatasaray Sports Club
* Nur Yalman, social anthropologist
* Nihal Yeğinobalı, writer
* K. Aslihan Yener, archaeologist