List of Robert College alumni explained

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

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

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

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

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

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

Moris Farhi, vice-president of International PEN
Maureen Freely, ACG 71, journalist, novelist, translator-notably of Orhan Pamuk's works

G

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

Talat Sait Halman, Turkey's first minister of culture, academic
Erdem Helvacıoğlu, composer, sound designer, musician
Agop Hacikyan, academic, writer

I

İsmail Cem İpekçi, politician
Ahmet İsvan, politician
Todor Ivanchov, former Bulgarian prime minister

K

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

Levon Larents, Armenian writer and journalist

M

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

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

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

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

Parashqevi Qiriazi, Albanian teacher and member of the Congress of Monastir, which decided the Albanian alphabet

R

Halit Refiğ, film director, writer, producer
Dani Rodrik, professor of international political economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

S

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
Konstantin Stoilov, former Bulgarian prime minister
Eve Sussman, artist
Kenan Şahin, entrepreneur, scientist
Celâl Şengör, RA 73, geologist
Bülent Şenver, businessperson

T

Çiğdem Talu, composer
Ülkü Tamer, poet, journalist, actor and translator
Tosun Terzioğlu, president of Sabancı University, mathematician

U

Mîna Urgan, academic, translator, author and socialist politician

V

Gregory Vlastos, writer, scholar of ancient philosophy
İhsan Emre Vural, RC 04, athlete (rowing), the only Turkish world champion in rowing

Y

Alp Yalman, businessperson, ex-president of the Galatasaray Sports Club
Nur Yalman, social anthropologist
Nihal Yeğinobalı, writer
K. Aslihan Yener, archaeologist

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Notes and References

Web site: Hageman, Robert A.. Madam Bey's - Training Camp for Champion prizefighters. https://web.archive.org/web/20050311202959/http://summitnjhistory.org/Historian_MadamBey.php. dead. 2005-03-11. The Summit Historical Society. Summit, New Jersey. 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., 9781443832601. pp. 100-108. CITED: p. 103. "[...]Mrs Sıdky Bey,[...]Educated at the Constantinople College for Girls[...]