GİRESUN'LU ÜNLÜLER

Politicians :

Topal Osman - (1883, Giresun - 2 Nisan 1923, Ankara), soldier and commander in the Turkish War of Independence

Mustafa Suphi - (1883, Giresun - 1921) founder of the Communist Party of Turkey

Hasan Âli Yücel- (1897, İstanbul - 1961) poet, thinker and politician, former minister of education, born to a Görele family.

İdris Küçükömer - (1925, Giresun - 1987) economist and thinker

Rahşan Ecevit - (1923, Bursa - ) wife of former Turkish Prime Minister, Bulent Ecevit, born to a Şebinkarahisar family

Naim Tirali - (1925, Giresun - ), journalist and politician

Hayrettin Erkmen - (b Tirebolu - ) former foreign minister,

Harun Karadeniz - (1942, Alucra-1975) writer and student activist leader of the 1968 generation

Writers and artists:

Ergin Günçe - (1938, Giresun - 1983) poet

Fethi Naci - (1927, Giresun - ) writer and critic

Aziz Nesin - (1915, Şebinkarahisar - 1995), writer and journalist

Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu - (1913, Görele - 1975, Istanbul), painter and poet

Ahmet Yalçınkaya - (b 1963, Giresun ) poet,

Hamit Görele - (1903, Görele - 1980, Istanbul), painter

Yaman Okay - (b 1951, Giresun -), actor and film director

İlyas İlbey - actor, husband of Yasemin Yalçın

İlker Yasin Kanal - Ds football commentator

Hulki Cevizoğlu - (b 1958, Giresun - ), journalist, TV presenter and producer, specialises in political debate

Kadir Çelik - (b Görele )TV producer and presenter,

Şafak Karaman - (b 1967, Trabzon - ) minor celebrity and TV presenter, born to a Tirebolu family

Öztürk Serengil - well-known film actor, father of Seren Serengil, grew up in Giresun

Salih Memecan - (1952, Giresun - ), cartoonist of Sabah (newspaper).

Musicians:

Giresun shares the folk music of the Black Sea region and is the birthplace of:

Katip Şadi - (b 1932, Görele -) folk musician, player of the Kemençe, a local version of the violin.

Other musicians include:

Teoman - (1967, Alucra - ), rock singer

Ozan Arif - (1949, Alucra - ), poet, lyricist, balladeer of the extreme right MHP.

Bahadır Aydoğan - Arabesk style singer

Mustafa Küçük - folk-arabesk musician

Gökhan Semiz -(1968, Istanbul- 1998 İstanbul) member of the pop music group Group Vitamin, family from Giresun

Sports people:

Şenes Erzik - (1942, Giresun -) Businessman and vice president of UEFA

Footballers Tolga Seyhan - (b 1977 -) and Gokdeniz Karadeniz (b 1980 Giresun, currently with Trabzonspor)

Hasan Gemici - 1952 Olympic gold medalist in freestyle wrestling