List of Robert College alumni
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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.
A
- Halide Edip Adıvar, novelist
- Zeki Alasya, actor
- Engin Ardıç, writer
- Tomur Atagok, artist, painter
- Safiye Ali, first Turkish woman to become a medical doctor
B
- Mihri Belli, socialist politician, author.
- Nihat Berker, professor of Physics
- Feyyaz Berker, businessman
- Halil Berktay, historian
- Serdar Bilgili, businessman
- Refika Birgül, female food writer
- Behice Boran, female politician
- Ayşe Buğra, female sociologist, economist
C and Ç
- Alev Lytle Croutier, ACG 63, Novelist
- Halet Çambel, Archaeologist, first female Turkish olympian
- İsmail Cem, politician, former foreign minister of Turkey.
- Tansu Çiller, first female Turkish prime minister
D
- Arwa Damon, Journalist, CNN Correspondent
- Xhafer Deva, Entrepreneur
- 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
- Marcel Erdal, linguist
- 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 (died 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
- Agop Hacikyan, Academic, Writer
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
- Shavarsh Krissian, Armenian writer and athlete
- Ayşe Kulin, Writer, columnist
- Aptullah Kuran, Academic
- Timur Kuran, Academic, Economics Professor
- Pınar Kür, Writer, professor
L
- Levon Larents, Armenian writer and journalist
M
- Perihan Mağden, RC 79, Writer and commentator
- Etyen Mahçupyan, Columnist, journalist
- Mangasar Magurditch Mangasarian, rationalist and secularist writer in the USA
- Mgirdiç Migiryan, Olympiad
- 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
- Kamil Ocak, (1965-1969) former minister of state
- Hakkı Ögelman – physicist and astrophysicist
- A. Sumru Özsoy, academic and linguist
- 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
- Vahram Papazyan, Olympic athlete
- Faruk Pekin, RC'69, Former President Of The Union-RKOB
- Mustafa Pultar, Academic and writer
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
- Nansen G. Saleri
- Vasileios Sachinis, leader of the Greek World War II ressistance in southern Albania/Northern Epirus
- Selim Sarper, Ambassador to the U.N., Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Sema Soygeniş, Architect and Professor, Dean - BAU School of Architecture and Design
- 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
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
- Ömür Yalçınkaya, Program Manager
