List of Crimean Tatars

A partial list of notable Crimean Tatars, in alphabetical order:

Civil rights activists

Reşat Amet – murdered activist
Mustafa Dzhemilev – leader of the Mejlis
Emir-Usein Kuku – human rights defender
Musa Mamut – committed self-immolation in protest of being forced to leave Crimea
Server Mustafayev – human rights defender
Yuri Osmanov – one of the founders of the National Movement of Crimean Tatars; assassinated
Ayshe Seitmuratova – activist for right of return who was deported as young child

Military personnel

Alime Abdenanova – Soviet spy during World War II
Teyfuq Abdul – battalion commander in the Red Army during World War II; Hero of the Soviet Union
Seitnebi Abduramanov – platoon commander in the Red Army during World War II
Uzeir Abduramanov – sapper in the Red Army during World War II; Hero of the Soviet Union
Fetislyam Abilov – regimental commander during World War II; belatedly declared Hero of the Soviet Union in 1990
Umer Adamanov – partisan detachment leader who defended Polish villages from the SS
Ismail Bulatov – Major-general
Emir Chalbash – flying ace
Amet-khan Sultan – flying ace, test pilot, and double Hero of the Soviet Union
Kenan Kutub-zade – Red Army World War II cameraman who filmed scenes in Auschwitz used in the Nuremberg trials
Refat Mustafaev – battalion commissar and partisan leader
Mansur Mazinov – first Crimean Tatar pilot
Abdraim Reshidov – decorated Pe-2 pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union; told KGB that he would commit self-immolation during a public holiday if he was forced to remain in exile.
Yakup Satar – the last Turkish veteran of the First World War
Faik Türün – general, the Chief of Operations for the Turkish Brigade in the Korean War

Politicians

Ruslan Balbek – Member of the Russian Duma
Noman Çelebicihan – first President of the Crimean People's Republic
Refat Çubarov – Chairman of the Mejlis
Cemil Çiçek – Speaker of the Parliament of Turkey
Dimitrie Cantemir – voivode of Moldova
Fahrettin Kerim Gökay – governor of Istanbul
Ahmed İhsan Kırımlı – president of the Crimean Tatar Society of Turkey
Adnan Menderes – first democratically elected Prime Minister of Turkey
Ahmet Tevfik Pasha – last Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
Hasan Polatkan – Minister of Labor and Finance of Turkey
Zeki Sezer – politician and former chairman of the Democratic Left Party (DSP)
Sevil Shhaideh – Deputy Prime Minister of Romania
Hafsa Sultan – first valide sultan of the Ottoman Empire as mother of Suleiman the Magnificent

Entrepreneurs

Feyzi Akkaya – one of the founders of STFA Construction Group
Yıldırım Demirören – businessman, president of the Turkish Football Federation

Athletes

Djamolidine Abdoujaparov – Cyclist, three time winner of Green Jersey in the Tour de France
Denis Alibec – Romanian footballer
Server Djeparov – professional soccer player
Ersan İlyasova – professional basketball player
İlhan Mansız – former professional soccer player

Artists, musicians, and popular culture personalities

Melek Amet – first Crimean Tatar fashion model in Romania
Cüneyt Arkın – film actor, producer and director
Gürer Aykal – conductor and Adjunct Professor at Bilkent University; the musical director and principal conductor of the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra
Erol Büyükburç – singer-songwriter, pop music composer
Adaviye Efendieva – master weaver and embroiderer
Esin Engin musician, composer, arranger and film actor
Erol Evgin – pop singer and composer
Enver İzmaylov – folk and jazz musician
Jamala – winner of 2016 Eurovision Song Contest representing Ukraine
Evelina Mambetova – international supermodel
Aybüke Pusat – actress and model
Aydan Şener – 1981 Miss Turkey
Akhtem Seitablayev – director of the film Haytarma
Nilüfer Yumlu – pop singer and Eurovision contestant
Selda Bağcan – musician
Orhan Gencebay – musician and actor

Writers and intellectuals

Ayshe Seitmuratova – dissident
Ahatanhel Krymsky – scientist
Shamil Aladin – newspaper editor, poet, and novelist
Şevqiy Bektöre – textbook writer, linguist, and gulag detainee
Usein Bodaninsky – historian, museum director, and ethnographer
Muazzez İlmiye Çığ archaeologist, sumerologist, assyriologist, writer
Bekir Çoban-zade – poet and professor; victim of the Great Purge
Cengiz Dağcı – novelist and poet
Emel Emin – poet, translator, Turkologist, and educator
Seitumer Emin – writer and poet
Necip Hablemitoğlu – writer and historian; assassinated
Halil İnalcık – historian
Murat Bardakçı – journalist
Ismail Gaspirali – founder of the Jadid movement
Abdulla Latif-zade – literary critic, poet, and writer
Aziz Nesin – humorist and writer of over 100 books
Mehmet Niyazi – poet, journalist, academic and activist
İlber Ortaylı – historian
Septar Mehmet Yakub – lawyer, thinker, Mufti of Romania
Çetin Altan – writer, politician

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