List of Istanbul Technical University people

This is a list of people associated with Istanbul Technical University in Turkey.

Politicians and public figures

Ahmet Arslan (born 1962) - Minister of Transport, Maritime and Communication and a Member of Parliament for Kars
Fatih Birol (born 1958) - Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (2015–present), Chief Economist of the International Energy Agency (1995-2015)
Bedrettin Dalan (born 1941) - former Mayor of Istanbul (1984–1989)
Vedat Ali Dalokay (1927–1991) - former Mayor of Ankara (1973–1977)
Süleyman Demirel (1924-2015) - former President of Turkey (1993–2000) and Prime minister (five times between 1965–1993)
Aytaç Durak (1938-2014) - Mayor of Adana (1994–2014)
Necmettin Erbakan (1926-2011) - former Prime minister (1996–1997) and former President of TOBB (1969)
Veysel Eroğlu (born 1948) - Minister of Environment and former Head of State Hydraulic Works
Safa Giray (1931-2011) - former Minister of Foreign Affairs (1991)
Recai Kutan (born 1930) - President of Felicity Party
Turgut Özal (1927–1993) - former President of Turkey (1989–1993) and prime minister (1983–1989)
Ruhsar Pekcan (born 1958) - Minister of Trade (2018-Present)
Binali Yıldırım (born 1955) - Prime Minister, maritime engineer and former Minister of Transport, Maritime and Communication
Taner Yıldız (born 1962) - Minister of Energy and Natural Resources (2009-2015)
İsmet Yılmaz (born 1961) - Minister of National Education of Turkey and former Speaker of the Grand National Assembly

Celâl Şengör (born 1955) - geologist
Zeynep Ahunbay (born 1946) - architect
Ali Akansu (born 1958) - electrical & computer engineering and scientist, professor at NJIT
Attila Aşkar (born 1944) - civil engineer and applied mathematician, president and provost (rector) of the Koç University. (2001 - 2009)^[1]
Ivet Bahar - computational biologist, professor at University of Pittsburgh
Ali Erdemir - material scientist^[2]^[3]
A. Cemal Eringen (February 15, 1921, in Kayseri, Turkey – December 7, 2009) - civil engineer and applied mathematician; professor of continuum physics in the departments of civil engineering and geological engineering, the founder of the program in computational and applied mathematics at Princeton University. Eringen Medal is given every year to a most successful scientist in the fields of continuum mechanics, elasticity, plasticity, rheology and materials science in his honor.^[4]
Doğan Kuban (born 1926) - architectural historian
Emin Halid Onat (1908–1961) - architect of Anıtkabir and first dean of ITU School of Architecture^[5]
Hürriyet Sırmaçek (1912 - 1983) Turkey's first female bridge engineer.^[6]
Mehmet Toner (born 1958) - biomedical engineering scientist, professor at MIT
Karl von Terzaghi (1883–1963) - mechanical engineer, founder of soil mechanics

Behruz Çinici - architect of Atatürk University and METU Ankara campuses
Mehmet Gümüşburun - bureaucrat
Sabiha Gürayman - first Turkish woman engineer
Waleed A. Samkari - Commander of Royal Maintenance Corps (Jordan)
Ateşan Aybars (graduated 1973) - economist, TV celebrity, biomedical enginner and commodity trading advisor

^ Attila Aşkar received his Engineering Diploma from the Technical University of Istanbul in 1966.
^ "İTÜ Mezunu Ali Erdemir'in Motor Yağının Sürtünmesini Azaltan Büyük Buluşu | İMK". Archived from the original on 2009-12-05. Retrieved 2010-04-03.
^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-05-27. Retrieved 2010-04-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ Ahmed Eringen, died on December 7, 2009 at the age of 88 (1966-1991, civil engineering and operations research)
^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-16. Retrieved 2010-04-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ https://om.ciheam.org/om/pdf/a87/00801050.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}
^ Oğuz Atay

Istanbul Technical University

Undergraduate

A	AeroAstro Architecture
C	Chemical and Metallurgical Eng. Civil Eng. Computer and Informatics Eng.
E	Electrical and Electronic Eng.
M	Management Maritime Mechanical Eng. Mines
N	Naval Architecture and Ocean Eng.
S	Science and Letters
T	Textile Technologies and Design Turkish Music State Conservatory