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.

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

 * 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
 * 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