Çelebi (title)
Çelebi is a Turkish surname, and historically an Ottoman title, meaning "gentleman." Notable people with the surname or title include:
- The sons of Ottoman sultan Bayezid I, who fought one another for the throne in the Ottoman Interregnum:
- İsa Çelebi (1380–1406)
- Musa Çelebi (died 1413)
- Mehmed Çelebi (1390–1421), who won the civil war, being crowned sultan Mehmed I
- Mustafa Çelebi (1393–1422)
- Süleyman Çelebi (1377–1411)
- Asaf Halet Çelebi (1907–1958), Turkish poet
- Aşık Çelebi (1520–1572), Ottoman poet and biographer
- Evliya Çelebi (1611–1682), Ottoman traveler
- Gazi Çelebi, 14th-century Turkish pirate and ruler of Sinop
- Hasan Çelebi (born 1937), Turkish calligraphist
- Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi, 17th-century Ottoman aviator
- Hoca Çelebi (1490–1574), Ottoman Grand Mufti
- Katip Çelebi (1609–1657), Ottoman scholar
- Lagâri Hasan Çelebi, 17th-century Ottoman aviator, brother of Hezârfen Ahmed
- Nişancı Tâcı-Zâde Câ’fer Çelebi (1459-1515), 16th-century Ottoman statesman and a diwan poet
- Suzi Çelebi of Prizren (d.1524), Ottoman epic poet
- Kınalızâde Ali Çelebi (1510/11?–1572), Ottoman scholar and poet
- Kınalızâde Hasan Çelebi (1546-1604), Ottoman poet and bibliographer
- Kinalizade Fehmi Çelebi (1564–1596), Ottoman poet
- Yirmisekiz Mehmed Çelebi (died 1732), Ottoman statesman
See also
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