List of people from Bursa

This is a list of people from Bursa who have become known internationally in different roles and professions. Bursa is a city in northwestern Turkey. It is the fourth most populous city in Turkey and is one of the most industrialized metropolitan centers in the country.

Renowned people from Bursa

 * Qādī Zāda al-Rūmī (1364-1436) - astronomer and mathematician
 * Manolis Andronikos (1919–1992) - Greek archaeologist
 * Emre Aşık (b. 1973) - international footballer
 * Ömer Aşık (b. 1986) - international basketballer
 * Hande Ataizi - actress
 * Vildan Atasever - actress
 * Bayezid I - fourth Ottoman Empire ruler
 * Celal Bayar - former Turkish president
 * Behice Boran - the leader of the socialist Workers Party of Turkey
 * İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil - politician
 * Erkan Can - actor
 * Özhan Canaydın - former basketball player, businessman and the former chairman of Galatasaray
 * Dio Chrysostom - Greek orator, writer, philosopher and historian of the Roman Empire
 * Muazzez İlmiye Çığ - archaeologist
 * Mercan Dede - Turkish musician
 * Ata Demirer - comedian
 * Halil Ergün - actor
 * Sabiha Gökçen - the first Turkish female aviator
 * Tarkan Gozubuyuk - Pentagram and Mezarkabul bass guitar player and producer
 * Kerem Kanter (born 1995) – basketball player
 * Pınar Kür - author
 * Serdar Kurtuluş - international footballer
 * Mehmed I - fifth Ottoman Empire ruler
 * Murad I - third Ottoman Empire ruler
 * Zeki Müren - singer, "sun of art"
 * Vedat Okyar - footballer
 * Emin Fahrettin Özdilek - Prime Minister of Turkey
 * Erdal Özyağcılar - actor
 * Hamit Şare - Olympic skier
 * Müzeyyen Senar – singer, state artist of Turkey
 * Olgun Şimşek - actor
 * Sporus of Nicaea - Greek mathematician and astronomer
 * Nur Sürer - actress
 * Sercan Yıldırım - international footballer
 * Okan Yılmaz - international footballer
 * Zofia Potocka - Greek - Russian agent