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.

Contents:

Top · 0–9 · A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

Halide Edip Adıvar, Novelist
Zeki Alasya, Actor (expelled)
Engin Ardıç, Writer
Tomur Atagok, Artist, painter

B

Nihat Berker, Professor of Physics and President of Sabanci University
Feyyaz Berker, Businessman
Halil Berktay, Historian
Ahmet S. Bilgen, Ventriloquist
Serdar Bilgili, Businessman
Behice Boran, Politician
Ayşe Buğra, Sociologist, economist

C and Ç

Alev Lytle Croutier, ACG 63, Novelist
Halet Çambel, Archaeologist, first female Turkish olympian
Tansu Çiller, first female Turkish prime minister

D

Arwa Damon, Journalist, CNN Correspondent
Agop Dilaçar, Linguist
Abidin Dino, Artist
Michalis Dorizas, Sportsman, 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, Businesswoman, Miss Europe '84
Aslı Erdoğan, Writer
Tunç Erem, Academic
Genco Erkal, Actor, playwright
Münir Ertegün, Diplomat
Şenes Erzik, UEFA Vice President
Evgenios Evgenidis, Greek shipping Businessman and Benefactor (d.1954)

F

Moris Farhi, Vice-President of International PEN
Maureen Freely, ACG 71, Journalist, novelist, translator-notably of Orhan Pamuk's works

G

Ivan Evstratiev Geshov, former Bulgarian prime minister
Emre Gönensay, Politician
Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, President of the National Geographic Society (1920–1954)
Kasım Gülek, Politician, Former Secretary General of Republican People's Party

H

Talat Sait Halman, Turkey's First Minister of Culture, academic
Erdem Helvacıoğlu, Composer, Sound Designer, Musician

I — J

İsmail Cem İpekçi, Politician, former Minister of Foreign Affairs
Todor Ivanchov, former Bulgarian prime minister

K

Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı, Writer
Cemal Kafadar, Professor of Middle-Eastern history, Harvard University
Cem Karaca, Musician
Mehmet Emin Karamehmet, Entrepreneur
Ömer Kavur, Movie producer
Hagop Kevorkian, Historian of art, orientalist
Suna Kıraç, Businesswoman
Ömer Koç, Businessman
Rahmi Koç, Businessman
Vasif Kortun, Musician, curator
Spiro Kostof, Architectural historian, chronicler of urban form
Karolos Koun, Greek famous theater director
Ayşe Kulin, Writer, columnist
Aptullah Kuran, Academic
Timur Kuran, Academic, Economics Professor
Pınar Kür, Writer, professor

L

Paul Luebke, Politician

M

Perihan Mağden, RC 79, Writer and commentator
Etyen Mahçupyan, Columnist, journalist
Mangasar Magurditch Mangasarian, rationalist and secularist writer in the USA
Konstantin Vladov Muraviev, former Bulgarian prime minister
Lale Müldür, Poet and Writer

N

Leyla Neyzi, Anthropologist, historian
Apostolos Nikolaidis, athlete and founder of Panathinaikos

O

Hüsnü Özyeğin, Businessman

P

Orhan Pamuk, RA 70, Writer (2006 Nobel Laureate in Literature)
Şevket Pamuk, Professor of Economic History at Bogazici University, Former President of European Historical Economics Society
Şefika Pekin, Attorney at law, benefactor in the field of education

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

Selim Sarper, Ambassador to the U.N., Minister of Foreign Affairs
Ayşe Soysal, Former President of Boğaziçi University
Konstantin Stoilov, former Bulgarian prime minister
Eve Sussman, Artist
Kenan Sahin, Entrepreneur, scientist
Bülent Şenver, Businessman

T — U

Çiğdem Talu, Composer
Tosun Terzioğlu, President of Sabancı University, mathematician
Mehmet Uluğ, Businessman

V

Gregory Vlastos, Writer, scholar of ancient philosophy
İhsan Emre Vural, RC 04, Athlete (Rowing), the only Turkish world champion in rowing.

Y — Z

Alp Yalman, Businessman, ex President of the Galatasaray Sports Club
Nur Yalman, Social Anthropologist
Nihal Yeğinobalı, Writer
K. Aslihan Yener, Archaeologist

References

"Boğaz sırtlarından Türkiye" (in Turkish). Hurriyet. 2001-01-17. http://webarsiv.hurriyet.com.tr/2001/01/27/287646.asp. Retrieved 2008-10-10.