Top 10 most important and famous people from Turkey

Writer, author of Silent House and The White Castle, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006

Sultan who conquered Constantinople and brought an end to the Byzantine Empire

One of the greatest monarchs of XVI century in Europe, presiding over the apex of the Ottoman Empire's economic, military and political power

Officer, revolutionary, and convicted war criminal during World War One

Politician and convicted war criminal of the late Ottoman Empire who served as leader from 1913 to 1918

The founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as first president from 1923 until his death in 1938

President from 2014

Molecular biologist specializing in DNA repair, cell cycle checkpoints, and circadian clock. Winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2015

Footballer who represented Turkey 112 times, scoring 51 goals, making him the nation's top goalscorer, legend of Galatasaray

Terrorist who shot Pope John Paul II