Do you know some foreign famous people who have turkish origins ?

Question

For example :

- Ali Campbell, British citizen,lead singer of UB40 band ( turkish mother)
- Mathilda May , French citizen, actress.(turkish mother)
- Ahmet Ertegün, American citizen, founder of Atlantic Records
- Mithat Demirel, German citizen, basket-ball german national team player)

Etc, etc...

Sometimes,we don't even know they are Turks, because they hide their real name ( as most of celebrities).

Do you know other examples ?

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Answer 1

There are not a lot of people, because Turks have begun to emigrate very late, in the 60. That's why the most of famous turkish people are still turkish citizens too.

There are a lot of italians, greeks,armenians,jews,french, spanish people among famous american stars, just because their families emigrated at least 50 years ago.

Answer 2

Famous People From Turkey

Answer 3

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Do you know some foreign famous people who have turkish origins ?
For example :

- Ali Campbell, British citizen,lead singer of UB40 band ( turkish mother)
- Mathilda May , French citizen, actress.(turkish mother)
- Ahmet Ertegün, American citizen, founder of Atlantic Records
- Mithat Demirel, German citizen, basket-ball german national team player)

Etc,...

Answer 4

Kaya Yanar, german citizen, halfturkish (halfarabic), comedian
Cem Özdemir, german citizen, turkish, politic
Bülent Ceylan , german citizen, halfturkish (halfgerman),comedian
Gülcan Karahanci,german citizen,turkish,facilitator

Answer 5

Aristotle Onassis, though Greek, was born in Izmir, Turkey.

Emre, the Newcastle United footballer, is Turkish.

Answer 6

Fatih Akin. He was born in Germany and he has Turkish parents. He is the director of Im Juli, Solino, Gegen die Wand and some other movies.

Answer 7

Hello dear!
What do you mean by "Turkish"? Location, culturally or genetically wise?
What do I mean?
Well, Less than hundred years ago, there was no Turkey! Turkey (as many other countries) was established by Kemal Ataturk, some 85 years ago, after the desolvement of the Ottoman Empire.
Thus, many reknown people are from what is now Turkey and I can give lists of thousands of well known scientists, artists, politicians, tycoons, etc.
As for the their genetic origin, we should define what do we mean by "today's" concept of Turk, Greek, Bulgarian, Serb, Albanian, Syrian, Iraqi, Lebanese, Israeli, ...

Answer 8

Some people say Abraham Lincoln is turkish.

Answer 9

Layla El....She is a WWE Diva. She's half British and half Turkish.

Answer 10

Elia Kazan, from Kayseri or Sereflikochisar somewhere...A film director and producer, an American citizen and Michael Dukakis an American President candidate and politician, even tho. he is Greek he has also Edremit originated ancestors...