14 Notable alumni of
Hacettepe University
Updated:
Hacettepe University is 839th in the world, 176th in Asia, and 9th in Turkey by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 14 notable alumni from Hacettepe University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
-
Erdal Beşikçioğlu
- Occupations
- actortelevision actor
- Biography
-
Erdal Beşikçioğlu is a Turkish actor.
-
Ziya Selçuk
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
-
Ziya Selçuk is a Turkish politician and educator. He is the former Minister of National Education. He was formerly a professor of education at Gazi University.
-
Özge Ulusoy
- Occupations
- journalistbeauty pageant contestantactorballet dancermodel
- Biography
-
Özge Ulusoy is a Turkish model, retired ballet dancer, and occasional film actress. She is best known for her appearance in the popular TV-series Arka Sokaklar from 2006 to 2009. As a model, she walked the runways for Hussein Chalayan, Mavi Jeans, Mudo, Hervé Léger, Balenciaga, Eva Gronbach, Guy Laroche, Emanuel Ungaro, Christian Dior, Marks & Spencer, Harvey Nichols, Mango, etc. She held the first runner-up title for the annual beauty pageant Miss Turkey in 2003. In 2002, Ulusoy finished third in Elite Model Management's Elite Model Look competition, took second place the following year in the Miss Turkey competition, and won the Miss Turkey Universe 2003 title before signing with Uğurkan Erez Model Management in Istanbul. Since her debut, Ulusoy has been the face of a variety of advertising campaigns in Turkey.
-
Canan Dağdeviren
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
-
Canan Dağdeviren is a Turkish academic, physicist, material scientist, and assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she currently holds the LG Career Development Professorship in Media Arts and Sciences. Dagdeviren is the first Turkish scientist in the history of the Harvard Society to become a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. As a faculty member, she directs her own Conformable Decoders research group at the MIT Media Lab. The group works at the intersection of materials science, engineering and biomedical engineering. They create mechanically adaptive electromechanical systems that can intimately integrate with the target object of interest for sensing, actuation, and energy harvesting, among other applications. Dagdeviren believes that vital information from nature and the human body is "coded" in various forms of physical patterns. Her research focuses on the creation of conformable decoders that can "decode" these patterns into beneficial signals and/or energy.
-
Semra Sezer
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
-
Semra Sezer is a Turkish school teacher by profession and was the First Lady of Turkey from May 16, 2000 until August 28, 2007 during the presidency of her husband Ahmet Necdet Sezer.
-
Mustafa Akaydın
- Occupations
- surgeonpolitician
- Biography
-
Mustafa Akaydın is a Turkish politician of the Republican People's Party (CHP), who served as the mayor of Antalya, Turkey. Prior to his political career, Akaydın held positions as a professor, general surgeon and a rector of Akdeniz University.
-
Tekin Bingöl
- Occupations
- surgeonpolitician
- Biography
-
Tekin Bingöl is a Turkish politician who serves as the Deputy Leader of the Republican People's Party responsible for political organisation since 8 May 2014. He has served as a Member of Parliament for Ankara's second electoral district since 7 June 2015, elected at the June 2015 general election. He previously served as an MP for Ankara's second electoral district between 2007 and 2011.
-
Murat Emir
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
-
Murat Emir is a Turkish ophthalmologist, jurist and politician from the Republican People's Party (CHP) who has served as the Member of Parliament for Ankara (II) since June 2015.
-
Deniz Orhun
- Occupations
- pastry chefchefcookbook author
- Biography
-
Deniz Orhun is a chef, media personality and businesswoman.
-
Kıvanç Haznedaroğlu
- Occupations
- chess player
- Biography
-
Kıvanç Haznedaroğlu is a Turkish chess Grandmaster and a FIDE trainer. As of the July 2013 FIDE rating list, he is ranked among active players number 1,798 in the world and number twelve in Turkey. He earned the title Grand Master (GM) on 18 October 2009. He studied Hydrogeology at Hacettepe University in Ankara.
-
Kubra Ozturk Orenli
- Occupations
- chess player
- Biography
-
Kübra Öztürk is a Turkish female chess player. As of the July 2012 FIDE rating list, she is ranked number 199 in the world and second in Turkey among female active players. She earned FIDE titles as Woman FIDE Master (WFM) in 2006, Woman International Master (WIM) in 2009 and Woman Grandmaster (WGM) on February 5, 2011.
-
Necla Güngör
- Occupations
- association football manager
- Biography
-
Necla Güngör Kıragası is a Turkish female football manager, currently serving as the technical director of the Turkey women's national team. She served before as the manager of the Turkey girls' national U-15 and U-17 teams.
-
Nilgün Çelebi
- Occupations
- sociologist
- Biography
-
Nilgün Çelebi is a Turkish academic.
-
H. Nida Şen
- Occupations
- scientistophthalmologistphysicianacademic
- Biography
-
Hatice Nida Sen is an ophthalmologist researching mechanisms involved in different forms of human uveitis. She is a clinical investigator at the National Eye Institute.
