List of Crimean Tatars explained
A partial list of notable Crimean Tatars, in alphabetical order:
Military personnel
Politicians
Writers and intellectuals
- Hryhorii Skovoroda – writer, poet
- Ayshe Seitmuratova – dissident
- Ahatanhel Krymsky – scientist
- Shamil Aladin – newspaper editor, poet, and novelist
- Şevqiy Bektöre – textbook writer, linguist, and gulag detainee
- Usein Bodaninsky – historian, museum director, and ethnographer
- Muazzez İlmiye Çığ – archaeologist, sumerologist, assyriologist, writer
- Bekir Çoban-zade – poet and professor; victim of the Great Purge
- Cengiz Dağcı – novelist and poet
- Emel Emin – poet, translator, Turkologist, and educator
- Seitumer Emin – writer and poet
- Tahsin Gemil – historian
- Necip Hablemitoğlu – writer and historian; assassinated
- Halil İnalcık – historian
- Murat Bardakçı – journalist
- Ismail Gaspirali – founder of the Jadid movement
- Abdulla Latif-zade – literary critic, poet, and writer
- Aziz Nesin – humorist and writer of over 100 books
- Mehmet Niyazi – poet, journalist, academic and activist
- İlber Ortaylı – historian
- Septar Mehmet Yakub – lawyer, thinker, Mufti of Romania
- Çetin Altan – writer, politician
- Ennan Alimov – writer, artist
Civil rights activists
Entrepreneurs
Athletes
Artists, musicians, and popular culture personalities
Scientists, engineers, and mathematicians
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