40 Notable alumni of
Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University
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Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University is 614th in the world, 122nd in Asia, and 5th in Turkey by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 40 notable alumni from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Hande Erçel
- Occupations
- modelactor
- Biography
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Hande Erçel is a Turkish actress, known for her work in television and films such as Güneşin Kızları (2015–16), Aşk Laftan Anlamaz (2016–17) and Sen Çal Kapımı (2020–21). She made her film debut in the historical drama Intoxicated by Love (2024) which broke box-office records and starred in the Netflix romance Chasing the Wind (2025).
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Tuba Büyüküstün
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- film actortelevision actormodel
- Biography
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Tuba Büyüküstün is a Turkish actress and model. She is the recipient of several awards and one of Turkey's most popular and highest paid actresses.
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Halit Ergenç
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- film actortelevision actorstage actor
- Biography
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Halit Ergenç is a Turkish actor known for his role as Sultan Suleiman I in Muhteşem Yüzyıl, Onur Aksal in Binbir Gece and Cevdet in Vatanim Sensin.
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Adnan Oktar
- Enrolled in Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University
- In 1979 studied interior designer
- Occupations
- cult leader
- Biography
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Adnan Oktar, also known as Adnan Hoca or Harun Yahya, is a Turkish Muslim televangelist, Islamic creationist, author, and religious leader. His organization is commonly referred to as a cult, and he has been described as a cult leader.
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Nuri Bilge Ceylan
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- film directoractorcamera operatorcinematographerfilm producer
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Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a Turkish director, screenwriter, photographer and actor. His film Winter Sleep (2014) won the Palme d'Or at the 67th Cannes Film Festival, while six of his films have been selected as Turkey's submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.
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Zeki Müren
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- writersinger-songwriterpoetstage actor
- Biography
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Zeki Müren was a Turkish singer, composer, songwriter, actor and poet. Known by the nicknames "The Sun of Art" and "Pasha", he was one of the prominent figures of Turkish classical music. Due to his contributions to the art industry, he was named a "State Artist" in 1991. He was the first singer to receive a gold certification in Turkey and throughout his career recorded and released hundreds of songs on cassettes and phonograph records.
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Damla Sönmez
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- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Tilya Damla Sönmez is a Turkish actress and voiceover artist. She gained worldwide recognition for her movies Sibel and I Am You. Her prominent TV roles include Ceylan in Bir Aşk Hikayesi, Gülru in Güllerin Savaşı, and Efsun in Çukur.
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Nejat İşler
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- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Nejat İşler is a Turkish actor and writer. He is best known for many hit films including Cannes Film Festivale recipients. Some of his popular series are Behzat Ç, Gülbeyaz, Bıçak Sırtı, Keşanlı Ali Destanı, İntikam, Aliye, and Şehnaz Tango.
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Hayko Cepkin
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- singercomposerrecording artist
- Biography
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Hayko Cepkin is a Turkish musician of Armenian descent.
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Okan Bayülgen
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- film actorradio personalitystage actor
- Biography
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Kaan Okan Bayülgen is a Turkish actor, theater founder, variety, talk show host, comedian, photographer, dubbing performer, writer, director.
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Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid
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- painterlithographerprintmakercollagistmosaicist
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Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid was a Turkish artist best known for her large-scale abstract paintings with kaleidoscopic patterns as well as her drawings, lithographs, and sculptures. Zeid was one of the first women to go to art school in Istanbul.
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Meltem Cumbul
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- film actortelevision actorstage actor
- Biography
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Meltem Cumbul is a Turkish actress and acting teacher.
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Erdal Tosun
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- film actortelevision actormusician
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Erdal Tosun was a Turkish actor.
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Engin Günaydın
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- actortelevision actorscreenwriter
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Engin Günaydın is a Turkish actor and comedian.
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Yonca Evcimik
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- stage actoractorsingerfilm actor
- Biography
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Fatma Yonca Evcimik is a Turkish pop singer and actress.
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Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu
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- poetpainter
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Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu was a Turkish painter, mosaic-maker, muralist, writer and poet. His art work was inspired by Anatolian village scenes and folk literature, and included traditional handicraft folk patterns.
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Derya Alabora
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- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Derya Alabora is a Turkish actress.
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Deniz Celiloğlu
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- actorfilm actor
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Deniz Celiloğlu is a Turkish actor.
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Yetkin Dikinciler
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- actortelevision actor
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Yetkin Dikinciler is a Turkish actor.
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Güven Kıraç
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- actortelevision actor
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Güven Kıraç is a Turkish actor. He won the IFFI Best Actor Award (Male) at the 41st International Film Festival of India.
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İbrahim Çallı
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- painteruniversity teacher
- Biography
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İbrahim Çallı, popularly known as Çallı İbrahim, was a Turkish painter and educator. He was a founding members of the Society of Ottoman Painters. He trained many young painters as a professor at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University (formerly Academy of Fine Arts, Istanbul) and they were called the 1914 Generation of artists, is also known as the Çallı Generation.
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Tuna Kiremitçi
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- poetfilm director
- Biography
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Tuna Kiremitçi is a contemporary Turkish singer-songwriter and crime author.
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Ogün Sanlısoy
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- singervocalist
- Biography
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Ogün Sanlısoy is a Turkish musician, vocalist and guitarist for thrash metal band Mezarkabul (known as Pentagram in Turkey).
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Ragıp Savaş
- Enrolled in Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University
- Studied in 1990
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Ragıp Savaş is a Turkish actor, singer and former sportsman known for his work on Valley of the Wolves: Ambush, Where's Firuze? (2004) and Kuruluş: Osman (2019–2021).
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Emre Arolat
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- architect
- Biography
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Emre Arolat is a Turkish architect. In 2004, he co-founded EAA-Emre Arolat Architecture with Gonca Paşolar. Arolat is best known for the construction of Sancaklar Mosque.
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Sarkis Zabunyan
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- conceptual artisttelevision directorpaintertelevision actorillustrator
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Sarkis Zabunyan, known as Sarkis, (Armenian: Սարգիս; born 26 September 1938) is an Armenian conceptual artist.
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Nazmi Ziya Güran
- Enrolled in Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University
- Studied in 1901-1908
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- painteruniversity teacher
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Nazmi Ziya Güran was a Turkish Impressionist painter and art teacher.
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Toros Toromanian
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- archaeologistarchitect
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Toros Toramanian was a prominent Armenian architect and architectural historian. He is considered "the father of Armenian architectural historiography." Christina Maranci credited him with "establishing the practical foundation for the study of Armenian architecture with his "extensive field work, measurements, plans, and photographs."
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Erdem Gündüz
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- choreographer
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Erdem Gündüz is a Turkish dancer, actor, performance artist, choreographer, and teacher who, as a result of his actions during the 2013–14 protests in Turkey, has become "the face of the protest movement against the Turkish government." He became internationally known as "The Standing Man" in June 2013 when he stood quietly in Istanbul's Taksim Square as a protest against the conservative government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
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Komet
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- painter
- Biography
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Gürkan Coşkun or more widely known as Komet was a Turkish painter.
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Ali Hadi Bara
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- sculptor
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Ali Hadi Bara was a Turkish sculptor and one of the first artists of the Republican generation in Turkey.
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Sami Yetik
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- painter
- Biography
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Sami Yetik was a Turkish Impressionist painter; primarily of cityscapes and landscapes.
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Burak Bilgili
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- opera singer
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Burak Bilgili is a Turkish operatic bass-baritone who was born in Akşehir, a town in the Konya Province of Turkey. He has sung in leading opera houses in the United States and Europe.
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Nevin Çokay
- Enrolled in Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University
- Studied in 1947-1953
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Nevin Çokay was a Turkish painter and high school teacher of art and history of art.
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Muhittin Sebati
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- painter
- Biography
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Muhittin Sebati was a Turkish Post-Impressionist painter and sculptor.
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Selim Giray
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- violinistmusicologist
- Biography
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Selim Giray is a Turkish-American violinist, researcher, clinician and conductor.
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Yahşi Baraz
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- art dealer
- Biography
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Yahşi Baraz is a Turkish art dealer. He is the founder and the director of one of Turkey's earliest art galleries, Galeri Baraz.
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Sinem Banna
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- sculptor
- Biography
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Sinem Banna is a Turkish-American artist currently living and working in both San Francisco, California, and her home town of Istanbul, Turkey and exhibits internationally.
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Hrand Alyanak
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- painter
- Biography
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Hrand Hovsep Alyanak was an Ottoman Armenian painter and author.
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M. Nurullah Tuncer
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- theatrical director
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M.Nurullah Tuncer, graduated from Mimar Sinan University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Stage and Costume Design with his B.A. and master's degrees. He then worked as an academic for Mimar Sinan University, Department of stage and visual arts from 1985 till 2002. He has been an artist of Istanbul Municipality City Theatres since 1985 as well. He has contributed more than a hundred plays within the company as a stage designer, costume designer and lighting designer. He paints oil paintings since 1987 and has exhibited twice in Istanbul in 1990 and 1996.
