# List of Turkish philosophers and scientists

Notable Turkish philosophers, scientists and scholars include:
* 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

* Yılmaz Argüden, is a Turkish strategist, governance exper and economist
* Mete Atatüre, physician
* Ahmet Yesevi, mystic and philosopher
* Ahmet Resmi, historian
* Ahi Çelebi, physician
* Silahdar Fındıklılı Mehmed Ağa, historian
* Ali Akansu, electrical engineer
* İsmail Akbay, engineer
* Selman Akbulut, mathematician
* Akshamsaddin, scholar, poet, mystic, and scientist
* Abdülkadir Topkaç, astronomer
* Alev Alatlı, economist
* Mustafa Âlî, historian
* Ahmet Alkan, economist
* Cahit Arf, mathematician
* Erdal Arikan, electrical engineer
* Oruç Aruoba, poet, philosopher
* Huseyin Arslan, engineer
* Aşıkpaşazade, historian
* 'Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk, mathematician
* Alper Gezeravcı, pilot and astronaut
* Ahi Evran, mystic

## B

* Aykut Barka, earth scientist
* Asım Orhan Barut, physicist
* Turhan Baytop, botanist
* Hulusi Behçet, dermatologist, physician and scientist
* Besim Ömer Akalın, physician
* Orkut Büyükkökten, software engineer

## C

* Tantek Çelik, computer scientist
* Erhan Çınlar, probabilist
* Cahit Arf, mathematician

## D

* Hilmi Volkan Demir, scientist
* Asli Demirguc-Kunt, economist
* Arda Denkel, philosopher
* Naşide Gözde Durmuş, geneticist

## E

* Ahmed Resmî Efendi, historian and diplomat
* Gelenbevi İsmail Efendi, mathematician
* Hoca Sadeddin Efendi, historian
* Yunus Emre, poet, mystic and philosopher
* Osman Nuri Eralp, veterinary scientist and microbiologist
* Ali Erdemir, scientist
* Elza Erkip, electrical and computer engineer
* Ayşe Erzan, theoretical physicist
* İbrahim Hakkı Erzurumi, philosopher and mystic

## F

* Molla Şemseddin Fenari, logician, Islamic theologian
* Nusret Fişek, physician
* Farabi, philosopher and music theorist

## G

* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, natural philosopher
* Erol Gelenbe, computer scientist
* Feza Gürsey, mathematician and physicist
* Nüzhet Gökdoğan, astronomer and mathematician
* Fatin Gökmen, astronomer

## H

* Osman Hamdi Bey, archaeologist
* Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi, polymath
* Halil İnalcık, historian

## I

* Fatih Ömer İlday, physicist
* Ataç İmamoğlu, physicist
* Erdal İnönü, physicist, politician
* Ahmet Mete Işıkara, seismologist
* İlber Ortaylı, historian

## K

* İhsan Ketin, geologist
* Osman Kibar, engineer and founder of Biosplice
* Ioanna Kuçuradi, Professor of Philosophy, President of Turkish Philosophy Association
* Behram Kurşunoğlu, physicist
* Yalçın Küçük, economist, historian and sovietologist
* Çetin Kaya Koç, engineer
* C. Emre Koksal, electrical and computer engineer
* Kâtip Çelebi, polymath and author

## L

* Lagâri Hasan Çelebi, scientist, engineer and aviator

## M

* Mirim Çelebi, astronomer
* Janet Akyüz Mattei, astronomer
* Müneccimbaşı Ahmed Dede, astronomer, astrologer and historian
* Takiyettin Mengişoğlu, philosopher
* Molla Fenari, logician, theologian, scholar, and philosopher

## N

* Mustafa Naima, historian
* Matrakçı Nasuh, mathematician, historian, geographer, cartographer, swordmaster, and miniaturist
* Leyla Neyzi, anthropologist, sociologist and historian

## O

* Hakkı Ögelman, physicist and astrophysicist
* Mehmet Öz, surgeon and author
* Feryal Özel, astrophysicist
* Hasan Özbekhan, scientist, cyberneticist, philosopher and planner who was professor emeritus

## P

* Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil, astrophysicist
* Ahmet Cevdet Pasha, sociologist, legist and historian
* İbrahim Peçevi, historian
* Kadrî of Pergamon, linguist

## Q

* Ali Qushji, astronomer, mathematician, physicist and scientist

## R

* Piri Reis, cartographer and admiral
* Kemal Reis, cartographer
* Bursalı Kadızade Rumi, mathematician
* Seydi Ali Reis, cartographer

## S

* Gülsün Sağlamer, architect
* Aziz Sancar, biochemist
* Aydın Sayılı, historian of science
* Hu Sihui, he was the first to empirically discover and clearly describe deficiency diseases.
* Mustafa Selaniki, historian
* Muzafer Sherif, social psychologist
* Oktay Sinanoğlu, theoretical chemist and molecular biologist
* Uğur Şahin, cancer research, immunology, CEO of BioNTech
* Celâl Şengör, geologist
* Sabuncuoğlu Şerafeddin, physician

## T

* Takiyüddin, Ottoman polymath, astronomer
* Semih Tezcan, civil engineer
* Hüseyin Tevfik Pasha, mathematician
* Mehmet Toner, cryobiologist, biomedical engineer
* Özlem Türeci, physician, scientist and entrepreneur; co-founded the biotechnology company BioNTech

## U

* Turgay Üzer, physicist

## V

* Vamık Volkan, psychiatrist and author

## Y

* Nur Yalman, anthropologist
* Gazi Yaşargil, father of modern microneurosurgery
* Muhammed Hamdi Yazır, theologian
* Cem Yıldırım, mathematician
* Cemal Yıldırım, philosopher of science
* Yusuf Has Hacip, political scientist, astronomer, author