List of Robert College alumni
The following is a list of notable graduates of Robert College and Robert Academy (RA), American College for Girls (ACG), Robert Yuksek, which were the subsections of Robert College until the merger of 1971.
A
[edit]- Halide Edib Adıvar, novelist
- Hranoush Agaganian (Madame Bey), wife of a diplomat and operator of a center for boxing in the U.S.[1][2]
- Zeki Alasya, actor
- Safiye Ali, first Turkish woman to become a medical doctor
- Engin Ardıç, writer
- Tomur Atagok, artist, painter
- Türkkaya Ataöv, academic and columnist
B
[edit]- Henri Barki, professor of management information systems
- Selçuk Bayraktar, engineer and businessperson
- Mihri Belli, socialist politician, author
- Izak Benbasat, professor of management information systems
- Nihat Berker, professor of physics
- Feyyaz Berker, businessperson
- Halil Berktay, historian
- Serdar Bilgili, businessperson
- Refika Birgül, food writer
- Behice Boran, politician
- Cem Boyner, businessman, politician
- Ayşe Buğra, sociologist, economist
- Serdar Bulun, physician, professor and researcher of gynecology
C
[edit]- Alev Lytle Croutier, ACG 63, novelist
- Halet Çambel, archaeologist, first female Turkish olympian
- Zeynep Çelik, architect, architectural historian
- İsmail Cem, politician, former foreign minister of Turkey
- Engin Cezzar, actor, director
- Tansu Çiller, first female Turkish prime minister
D
[edit]- Arwa Damon, journalist, CNN correspondent
- Xhafer Deva, entrepreneur
- Agop Dilaçar, linguist
- Abidin Dino, artist
- Michalis Dorizas, sportsperson, bronze medal winner for stone throw and javelin throw in the 1906 Summer Olympics
- Haldun Dormen, actor, playwright
- Tsanko Dyustabanov, Bulgarian revolutionary
E
[edit]- Bülent Ecevit, former Turkish prime minister
- Rahşan Ecevit, politician
- Nejat Eczacıbaşı, entrepreneur
- Neşe Erberk, businessperson, Miss Europe '84
- Marcel Erdal, linguist
- Refik Erduran, playwright, columnist and writer
- Aslı Erdoğan, writer
- Tunç Erem, academic
- Genco Erkal, actor, playwright
- Münir Ertegün, diplomat
- Şenes Erzik, UEFA vice president
- Evgenios Evgenidis, Greek shipping businessperson and benefactor (died 1954)
F
[edit]- Moris Farhi, vice-president of International PEN
- Maureen Freely, ACG 71, journalist, novelist, translator-notably of Orhan Pamuk's works
G
[edit]- Emre Gönensay, politician
- Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, president of the National Geographic Society (1920–1954)
- Kasım Gülek, politician, secretary general of the Republican People's Party
- Calouste Gulbenkian, British-Armenian businessman and philanthropist
H
[edit]- Talat Sait Halman, Turkey's first minister of culture, academic
- Erdem Helvacıoğlu, composer, sound designer, musician
- Agop Hacikyan, academic, writer
I
[edit]- İsmail Cem İpekçi, politician
- Ahmet İsvan, politician
- Todor Ivanchov, former Bulgarian prime minister
K
[edit]- Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı, writer
- Cemal Kafadar, professor of Middle-Eastern history at Harvard University
- Nur al-Din Kahala, Syrian politician
- Cem Karaca, musician
- Mehmet Emin Karamehmet, entrepreneur
- Osman Kavala, philanthropist
- Ömer Kavur, movie producer
- Hagop Kevorkian, historian of art, orientalist
- Suna Kıraç, businessperson
- Ömer Koç, businessperson
- Rahmi Koç, businessperson
- Göksel Kortay, actress, voice actress, translator, and lecturer
- Vasif Kortun, musician, curator
- Spiro Kostof, architectural historian, chronicler of urban form
- Karolos Koun, Greek theater director
- Shavarsh Krissian, Armenian writer and athlete
- Ayşe Kulin, Writer, columnist
- Aptullah Kuran, academic
- Timur Kuran, academic, economics professor
- Pınar Kür, writer, professor
L
[edit]- Levon Larents, Armenian writer and journalist
M
[edit]- Perihan Mağden, RC 79, writer and commentator
- Etyen Mahçupyan, columnist, journalist
- Mangasar Magurditch Mangasarian, rationalist and secularist writer in the United States
- Roni Margulies, poet, author, translator and political activist
- Mgirdiç Migiryan, Olympian
- Konstantin Vladov Muraviev, former Bulgarian prime minister
- Lale Müldür, poet and writer
N
[edit]- Gülru Necipoğlu, historian of Islamic art
- Leyla Neyzi, anthropologist, historian
- Apostolos Nikolaidis, track and field athlete and founder of Panathinaikos
- Sevan Nişanyan intellectual, travel writer, and researcher
O
[edit]- Kamil Ocak, former minister of state
- Hakkı Ögelman, physicist and astrophysicist
- Cemil Özbal, musician and doctor
- A. Sumru Özsoy, academic and linguist
- Hüsnü Özyeğin, businessperson
P
[edit]- Orhan Pamuk, RA 70, writer (2006 Nobel Laureate in Literature)
- Şevket Pamuk, professor of economic history at Boğaziçi University, former president of European Historical Economics Society
- Vahram Papazyan, Olympic athlete
- Mihri Pektaş, politician, one of the first 18 female parliament members of Turkey
- Mustafa Pultar, academic and writer
- Stefan Panaretov, Bulgarian diplomat and professor
Q
[edit]- Parashqevi Qiriazi, Albanian teacher and member of the Congress of Monastir, which decided the Albanian alphabet
R
[edit]- Halit Refiğ, film director, writer, producer
- Dani Rodrik, professor of international political economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
S
[edit]- Vasileios Sachinis, leader of the Greek World War II resistance in southern Albania/Northern Epirus
- Selim Sarper, ambassador to the U.N., Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Nevra Serezli, film, stage, television and voice actress
- Ayşe Soysal, former president of Boğaziçi University
- Mete Avni Sözen, structural engineer
- Konstantin Stoilov, former Bulgarian prime minister
- Eve Sussman, artist
- Kenan Şahin, entrepreneur, scientist
- Celâl Şengör, RA 73, geologist
- Bülent Şenver, businessperson
T
[edit]- Çiğdem Talu, composer
- Ülkü Tamer, poet, journalist, actor and translator
- Tosun Terzioğlu, president of Sabancı University, mathematician
U
[edit]- Mîna Urgan, academic, translator, author and socialist politician
V
[edit]- Gregory Vlastos, writer, scholar of ancient philosophy
- İhsan Emre Vural, RC 04, athlete (rowing), the only Turkish world champion in rowing
Y
[edit]- Alp Yalman, businessperson, ex-president of the Galatasaray Sports Club
- Nur Yalman, social anthropologist
- Nihal Yeğinobalı, writer
- K. Aslihan Yener, archaeologist
References
[edit]- ^ Hageman, Robert A. "Madam Bey's - Training Camp for Champion prizefighters". Summit, New Jersey: The Summit Historical Society. Archived from the original on 2005-03-11. Retrieved 2019-06-27.
[...]Hranoush Agaganian attended The American College in Constantinople[...]
- ^ Kuneralp, Sinan. "Ottoman Diplomatic and Consular Personnel in the United States of America, 1867–1917." In: Criss, Nur Bilge, Selçuk Esenbel, Tony Greenwood, and Louis Mazzari (editors). American Turkish Encounters: Politics and Culture, 1830–1989 (EBSCO Ebook Academic Collection). Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 12 July 2011. ISBN 144383260X, 9781443832601. pp. 100-108. CITED: p. 103. "[...]Mrs Sıdky Bey,[...]Educated at the Constantinople College for Girls[...]