List of people from İzmir

This is a list of famous people from İzmir, Turkey.


 * Rita Abatzi (1914–1969) – Greek rebetiko singer
 * Kayahan Açar (1949–2015), singer, composer and lyricist
 * Sezen Aksu – (born 1954), Turkish singer–songwriter, musician, record producer; born in Sarayköy, Denizli and raised in central İzmir
 * Ekrem Akurgal – (1911–2002), Turkish archaeologist born in Tulkarem, explorer of Old Smyrna, Pitane, Phocaea and Erythrai
 * Furkan Aldemir – Turkish basketball player
 * Bahadır Alkım (1915–1981), archaeologist
 * George K. Anderson – U.S. Air Force general
 * Necati Ateş – Turkish soccer player
 * Alexander Balas – ruler of the Greek Seleucid kingdom in 150–146 BC
 * Édouard Balladur – (born 1929), former French Prime Minister
 * Halil Berktay – (born 1947), Turkish historian
 * Haluk Bilginer (born 1954), theater and film actor
 * Can Bonomo – Turkish singer of Sephardic Jewish descent; represented Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012
 * Mahir Çağrı – Turkish Internet phenomenon
 * Olcay Çakır – Turkish basketball player
 * Demetrios Capetanakis (1912–1944) – Greek poet, essayist and critic
 * Anton Christoforidis (1918–1985) – Greek light heavyweight boxer
 * Salvator Cicurel (1893–1975) – Egyptian Olympic fencer and Jewish community leader
 * Hüsamettin Cindoruk – (born 1933), Turkish politician, former party leader and Speaker of the Parliament
 * Mehmet Culum – Turkish novelist born in Çeşme who worked in İzmir as an IT specialist
 * Necati Cumalı – Turkish novelist born in Florina, raised in nearby Urla
 * Meltem Cumbul – (born 1969), actress
 * Cybele (1888–1978), Greek actress
 * Anestis Delias (1912–1941), Greek bouzouki player, rebetiko composer and singer
 * Michel Elefteriades – Greek-Lebanese composer, producer, politician, and Emperor of Nowheristan
 * Stéphan Elmas (1862–1937)- Armenian composer and pianist
 * Nehir Erdoğan – (born 1980), actress
 * Gül Gölge – (born 1981), TV show host, model and actress
 * Homer – Greek epic poet
 * Attilâ İlhan – Turkish poet, novelist, essayist, journalist, and reviewer
 * İsmet İnönü – (1884–1973), second President of Turkey
 * Irenaeus (2nd–3rd century) – theologian, bishop of Lugdunum
 * Sir Alec Issigonis – (1906–1988), Greek-British car designer whose most famous work is the Mini
 * Manolis Kalomiris (1883–1962) – Greek composer
 * Selâhattin Kantar – Turkish archaeologist who pioneered Smyrna excavations
 * Semih Kaplanoğlu (born 1963), film director, screenwriter and filmproducer
 * Semih Kaya – Turkish soccer player
 * Erkut Kızılırmak (born 1969), author
 * Vedat Kokona – Albanian writer and translator
 * Adamantios Korais (1748–1833) – Greek humanist scholar
 * Çağla Kubat – (born 1978), Turkish fashion model
 * Alex Manoogian – Armenian-American industrialist; philanthropist; founder and CEO of MASCO Corporation
 * Darío Moreno – Turkish-Jewish singer who made a career in France
 * James Justinian Morier – (1780–1849), British diplomat, traveler and writer
 * Magali Noël – (1931–2015), French actress and singer
 * Metin Oktay – Turkish soccer player
 * Aristotle Onassis (1906–1975) – Greek tycoon
 * Alpay Özalan – Turkish soccer player
 * Hüsnü Özyeğin (born 1944), banker
 * Leonidas Paraskevopoulos (1860–1936) – Greek military man and politician
 * Ambrosios Pleianthidis, (1872–1922), metropolitan bishop
 * Polycarp – overseer of a Christian congregation
 * Giacomo Pylarini – gave the first smallpox inoculation outside of Turkey
 * Ahmed Adnan Saygun – Turkish composer, musician and writer
 * Giorgos Seferis (1900–1971) – Greek poet; Nobel laureate; born in nearby Urla
 * Quintus Smyrnaeus – Greek epic poet
 * Yavuz Tatış – (born 1947), private collector
 * Yıldız Tilbe – (born 1966), musician and pop singer
 * Tryfon Tzanetis (1918–2001) – Greek footballer and coach
 * Bilge Umar – Turkish jurist and writer
 * Latife Uşşaki (1898–1976), wife of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
 * Birsel Vardarlı – Turkish basketball player
 * Sabbatai Zevi – (1626–1676), self-proclaimed messiah and founder of the community of Sabbateans