List of people from Izmir
This is a list of famous people from İzmir, Turkey.
- Rita Abatzi – Greek rebetiko singer
- Kayahan Açar, singer, composer and lyricist
- Sezen Aksu –, Turkish singer–songwriter, musician, record producer; born in Sarayköy, Denizli and raised in central İzmir
- Ekrem Akurgal –, Turkish archaeologist born in Tulkarem, explorer of Old Smyrna, Pitane, Phocaea and Erythrai
- Furkan Aldemir – Turkish basketball player
- Bahadır Alkım, archaeologist
- George K. Anderson – U.S. Air Force general
- Necati Ateş – Turkish soccer player
- Alexander Balas – ruler of the Greek Seleucid kingdom in 150–146 BC
- Édouard Balladur –, former French Prime Minister
- Halil Berktay –, Turkish historian
- Haluk Bilginer, theater and film actor
- Can Bonomo – Turkish singer of Sephardic Jewish descent; represented Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012
- Mahir Çağrı – Turkish Internet phenomenon
- Olcay Çakır – Turkish basketball player
- Demetrios Capetanakis – Greek poet, essayist and critic
- Anton Christoforidis – Greek light heavyweight boxer
- Salvator Cicurel - Egyptian Olympic fencer and Jewish community leader
- Hüsamettin Cindoruk –, Turkish politician, former party leader and Speaker of the Parliament
- Mehmet Culum – Turkish novelist born in Çeşme who worked in İzmir as an IT specialist
- Necati Cumalı – Turkish novelist born in Florina, raised in nearby Urla
- Meltem Cumbul –, actress
- Cybele, Greek actress
- Anestis Delias, Greek bouzouki player, rebetiko composer and singer
- Michel Elefteriades – Greek-Lebanese composer, producer, politician, and Emperor of Nowheristan
- Stéphan Elmas - Armenian composer and pianist
- Nehir Erdoğan –, actress
- Gül Gölge –, TV show host, model and actress
- Homer – Greek epic poet
- Attilâ İlhan – Turkish poet, novelist, essayist, journalist, and reviewer
- İsmet İnönü –, second President of Turkey
- Irenaeus – theologian, bishop of Lugdunum
- Sir Alec Issigonis –, Greek-British car designer whose most famous work is the Mini
- Manolis Kalomiris – Greek composer
- Selâhattin Kantar – Turkish archaeologist who pioneered Smyrna excavations
- Semih Kaplanoğlu, film director, screenwriter and filmproducer
- Semih Kaya – Turkish soccer player
- Erkut Kızılırmak, author
- Vedat Kokona – Albanian writer and translator
- Adamantios Korais – Greek humanist scholar
- Çağla Kubat –, Turkish fashion model
- Alex Manoogian – Armenian-American industrialist; philanthropist; founder and CEO of MASCO Corporation
- Darío Moreno – Turkish-Jewish singer who made a career in France
- James Justinian Morier –, British diplomat, traveler and writer
- Magali Noël –, French actress and singer
- Metin Oktay – Turkish soccer player
- Aristotle Onassis – Greek tycoon
- Alpay Özalan – Turkish soccer player
- Hüsnü Özyeğin, banker
- Onur Özsu – Turkish singer–songwriter, musician
- Leonidas Paraskevopoulos – Greek military man and politician
- Ambrosios Pleianthidis,, metropolitan bishop
- Polycarp – overseer of a Christian congregation
- Giacomo Pylarini – gave the first smallpox inoculation outside of Turkey
- Ahmed Adnan Saygun – Turkish composer, musician and writer
- Giorgos Seferis – Greek poet; Nobel laureate; born in nearby Urla
- Quintus Smyrnaeus – Greek epic poet
- Yavuz Tatış –, private collector
- Yıldız Tilbe –, musician and pop singer
- Tryfon Tzanetis – Greek footballer and coach
- Bilge Umar – Turkish jurist and writer
- Latife Uşşaki, wife of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- Birsel Vardarlı – Turkish basketball player
- Sabbatai Zevi –, self-proclaimed messiah and founder of the community of Sabbateans
