35 Notable alumni of
Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University
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Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University is 653rd in the world, 131st in Asia, and 5th in Turkey by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 35 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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Tuba Büyüküstün
- Occupations
- television actormodelUNICEF Goodwill Ambassadorfilm actor
- Biography
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Hatice Tuba Büyüküstün is a Turkish actress. 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 actorstage actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Halit Ahmet 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 cult leader, preacher, creationist, conspiracy theorist, and pamphleteer.
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Zeki Müren
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- singer-songwriterwriterstage 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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- film actoractor
- 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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- television actoractor
- 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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- singerrecording artistcomposer
- 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 actorstage actorradio personality
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Kaan Okan Bayülgen is a Turkish actor, variety and talk show host, comedian and photographer.
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Meltem Cumbul
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- film actorstage actortelevision actor
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Meltem Cumbul is a Turkish actress and TV personality.
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Erdal Tosun
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- film actortelevision actor
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Erdal Tosun was a Turkish actor.
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Engin Günaydın
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- actorscreenwritertelevision actor
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Engin Günaydın is a Turkish actor and comedian.
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Yonca Evcimik
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- stage actorfilm actorsingeractor
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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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- painterpoet
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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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Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid
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- printmakerlithographerpainterstained-glass artistmosaicist
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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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Derya Alabora
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- film actoractor
- Biography
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Derya Alabora is a Turkish actress.
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Deniz Celiloğlu
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- film actoractor
- Biography
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Deniz Celiloğlu is a Turkish actor.
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Yetkin Dikinciler
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- television actoractor
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Yetkin Dikinciler is a Turkish actor.
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İbrahim Çallı
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- university teacherpainter
- 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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Güven Kıraç
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- television actoractor
- Biography
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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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Tuna Kiremitçi
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- film directorpoet
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Tuna Kiremitçi is a contemporary Turkish singer-songwriter and crime author.
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Emre Arolat
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- architect
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Emre Arolat is a Turkish architect. In 2004, he co-founded EAA-Emre Arolat Architecture with Gonca Paşolar.
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Sarkis Zabunyan
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- video artistpainterconceptual artistillustrator
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Sarkis Zabunyan, known as Sarkis, (Armenian: Սարգիս; born September 26, 1938) is a French conceptual artist.
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Nazmi Ziya Güran
- Years
- 1881-1937 (aged 56)
- Enrolled in Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University
- Studied in 1901-1908
- Occupations
- university teacherpainter
- Biography
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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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- architectarchaeologist
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Toros Toramanian was a prominent Armenian architect and architectural historian. He is considered "the father of Armenian architectural historiography."
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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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Gürkan Coşkun
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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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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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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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Muhittin Sebati
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- 1901-1932 (aged 31)
- Occupations
- painter
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Muhittin Sebati was a Turkish Post-impressionist painter and sculptor.
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Selim Giray
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- musicologistviolinist
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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
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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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Hrand Alyanak
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- painter
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Hrand Hovsep Alyanak was an Ottoman Armenian painter and author.
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Sinem Banna
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- sculptor
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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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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.
