The following is a list of notable Turkish Americans, including both original immigrants of full or partial Turkish descent who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
Ilkay Altintas, Chief data science officer at the University of California
Ali Argon, Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ilke Arslan, Microscopist and Director of the Center for Nanoscale Materials and the Nanoscience and Technology division at Argonne National Laboratory
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abAn Artisan of Beauty and Truth:Etel Adnan in conversation with David Hornsby and Jane Clark, Beshara Magazine, 2019, Etel: Well, my father was a Turk and a Muslim, and my mother was a Greek and a member of the Greek Orthodox Church, at a time when intermarriages were not common at all. He was a top officer and a classmate of Atatürk; they were at the military academy together. My father was already married with three children when he met my mother; he lived in Damascus and had his first family there. My mother was twenty years younger, and I was the only child of their marriage.
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abWilcox, Emily (2008),
Plymouth TV star says 'yes' to studio,
The Daily Register, retrieved 9 December 2020, Chokachi is not from Japan. He has Turkish and Finnish ancestry and grew up in Plymouth, where his dad is a renowned surgeon.
^Abdelrazek, Amal Talaat (2007). Contemporary Arab American women writers: hyphenhated identities and border crossings. Cambria Press. p. 21.
ISBN978-1-934043-71-4.
^Darwish, Nonie (2006), Now They Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel, and the War on Terror,
Penguin Books,
ISBN1101217855, My father came from a large middle-class Egyptian family. Born in 1920, ... His father was of Turkish ancestry and his mother's family was rooted in the Egyptian delta.
^"Fearless French Mary". History Net. 12 January 2012. Retrieved 2017-02-23. born Marie Brose in Brest, France, on August 24, 1834, to a Turkish father...
^"Art: Welcome to Küba", The Times, 2005, retrieved 8 January 2021, Ataman is a Turkish-born naturalised American who now lives in London. He left Istanbul in 1980...
^David, Samantha (2017),
Holidays used as excuse to dump pets,
The Connexion, retrieved 23 December 2020, TBorn in the US, Ms Hutin spent much of her childhood travelling with her Turkish diplomat parents.
^Simonson, Robert (2007),
Irma St. Paule, Stage Veteran, Is Dead,
Playbill, retrieved 20 December 2020, Irma St. Paule was born in Odesa, Ukraine. Her father was Turkish and her mother was Russian.
^Çiçek, Beste (2010),
Turkish DNA in World Fashion: Melissa Odabash, Istandist, retrieved 16 November 2020, I love Istanbul, it's become one of the coolest cities in the world and my origins are Turkish – so I definitely feel at home when I visit the city.
^Fahir Atakoglu – For Love – Por Amor, Turkish American TV, 2020, retrieved 4 January 2021, Turkish-American pianist-composer-arranger Fahir Atakoğlu told us that all the singers in this album wrote beautiful lyrics and "all felt love in my melody".
^İlhan Mimaroğ̆lu Papers, 1926-2012,
Columbia University Libraries, retrieved 6 January 2021, The collection documents the career and personal life of Turkish-American electronic music composer, record producer, journalist and cultural critic, photographer, and filmmaker İlhan Mimaroğlu (1926-2012). It includes materials from each of Mimaroğlu's professional interests and activities, the bulk of which date from the early 1950s until his death in 2012.
^Istanbulive4 Brings Turkish Music to New York,
Turkish Cultural Foundation, retrieved 6 January 2021, The concert was dedicated to the life and memory of Ilhan Mimaroglu, a Turkish American music producer and electronic music pioneer. The free concert was broadcast live by WFMU and can be listened to here.
The following is a list of notable Turkish Americans, including both original immigrants of full or partial Turkish descent who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
Ilkay Altintas, Chief data science officer at the University of California
Ali Argon, Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ilke Arslan, Microscopist and Director of the Center for Nanoscale Materials and the Nanoscience and Technology division at Argonne National Laboratory
^
abAn Artisan of Beauty and Truth:Etel Adnan in conversation with David Hornsby and Jane Clark, Beshara Magazine, 2019, Etel: Well, my father was a Turk and a Muslim, and my mother was a Greek and a member of the Greek Orthodox Church, at a time when intermarriages were not common at all. He was a top officer and a classmate of Atatürk; they were at the military academy together. My father was already married with three children when he met my mother; he lived in Damascus and had his first family there. My mother was twenty years younger, and I was the only child of their marriage.
^
abWilcox, Emily (2008),
Plymouth TV star says 'yes' to studio,
The Daily Register, retrieved 9 December 2020, Chokachi is not from Japan. He has Turkish and Finnish ancestry and grew up in Plymouth, where his dad is a renowned surgeon.
^Abdelrazek, Amal Talaat (2007). Contemporary Arab American women writers: hyphenhated identities and border crossings. Cambria Press. p. 21.
ISBN978-1-934043-71-4.
^Darwish, Nonie (2006), Now They Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel, and the War on Terror,
Penguin Books,
ISBN1101217855, My father came from a large middle-class Egyptian family. Born in 1920, ... His father was of Turkish ancestry and his mother's family was rooted in the Egyptian delta.
^"Fearless French Mary". History Net. 12 January 2012. Retrieved 2017-02-23. born Marie Brose in Brest, France, on August 24, 1834, to a Turkish father...
^"Art: Welcome to Küba", The Times, 2005, retrieved 8 January 2021, Ataman is a Turkish-born naturalised American who now lives in London. He left Istanbul in 1980...
^David, Samantha (2017),
Holidays used as excuse to dump pets,
The Connexion, retrieved 23 December 2020, TBorn in the US, Ms Hutin spent much of her childhood travelling with her Turkish diplomat parents.
^Simonson, Robert (2007),
Irma St. Paule, Stage Veteran, Is Dead,
Playbill, retrieved 20 December 2020, Irma St. Paule was born in Odesa, Ukraine. Her father was Turkish and her mother was Russian.
^Çiçek, Beste (2010),
Turkish DNA in World Fashion: Melissa Odabash, Istandist, retrieved 16 November 2020, I love Istanbul, it's become one of the coolest cities in the world and my origins are Turkish – so I definitely feel at home when I visit the city.
^Fahir Atakoglu – For Love – Por Amor, Turkish American TV, 2020, retrieved 4 January 2021, Turkish-American pianist-composer-arranger Fahir Atakoğlu told us that all the singers in this album wrote beautiful lyrics and "all felt love in my melody".
^İlhan Mimaroğ̆lu Papers, 1926-2012,
Columbia University Libraries, retrieved 6 January 2021, The collection documents the career and personal life of Turkish-American electronic music composer, record producer, journalist and cultural critic, photographer, and filmmaker İlhan Mimaroğlu (1926-2012). It includes materials from each of Mimaroğlu's professional interests and activities, the bulk of which date from the early 1950s until his death in 2012.
^Istanbulive4 Brings Turkish Music to New York,
Turkish Cultural Foundation, retrieved 6 January 2021, The concert was dedicated to the life and memory of Ilhan Mimaroglu, a Turkish American music producer and electronic music pioneer. The free concert was broadcast live by WFMU and can be listened to here.