List of Turkish philosophers and scientists

Notable Turkish philosophers, scientists and scholars include:

A

 * Mete Atatüre, physician
 * Ahmet Yesevi, philosopher
 * Ahmet Resmi, historian
 * Ahi Çelebi, physician
 * Silahdar Fındıklılı Mehmed Ağa, historian
 * Ali Akansu, electrical engineer
 * İsmail Akbay, engineer
 * Selman Akbulut, mathematician
 * 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

 * Katip Çelebi, historian, philosopher and geographer
 * Tantek Çelik, computer scientist
 * Erhan Çınlar, probabilist
 * Cahit Arf, mathematician
 * Celal Şengör, geologist

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

G

 * 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
 * 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 Kuşçu, 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
 * 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
 * Serap Z. Tilav, scientist and explorer

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
 * Yunus Emre, poet
 * Yakup Çelik, scientist and explorer