Şinasi Explained

Şinasi is the Turkish spelling of the Persian name (شناسی), also transliterated as Shinasi. Today, it is commonly used as a male given name.

Given name

• İbrahim Şinasi (1826–1871), Ottoman author, playwright, and journalist
• Şinasi Bozatlı (born 1962), Turkish painter and sculptor
• Şinasi Gündüz (born 1960), Turkish historian of religion

Surname

• Morris Schinasi (1855–1928), American tobacco industrialist of Ottoman origin
• Altina Schinasi (1907–1999), American artist, entrepreneur, and inventor, daughter of Morris

Places

• Şinasi Sahnesi, theatre in Ankara, Turkey, named after İbrahim Şinasi