| 1. | Özcan Karabulut (B.S.) — Writer |
| 2. | Alev Alatlı (B.S. 1963) — Writer |
| 3. | Mehmet Murat ildan (B.S. 1988) — Novelist and Playwright |
| 4. | Elif Şafak (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) — Novelist |
| 5. | Haydar Ergülen — Poet |
| 6. | Emin Çölaşan (B.S. 1965) — Journalist |
| 7. | Can Dündar (M.S. 1988, Ph.D. 1996) — Journalist |
| 8. | Mehmet Ali Talat (M.S. 1977) — President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus |
| 9. | Kürşad Tüzmen (B.A. 1981) — Minister of International Trade and Customs |
| 10. | Turgay Uzer (B.S.) — Theoretical physicist at Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 11. | Yasemin Dalkılıç (B.S.) — Holder of world records in free diving |
| 12. | Taner Akçam (B.S. 1976) — Historian, sociologist and author |
| 13. | Ali Babacan (B.S. 1988) — Minister for economy |
| 14. | Vedat Çakmak (B.S. ME 1976) — Instructor, Université Galatasaray |
| 15. | Ali Dinçer (B.S. 1971) — Former Mayor of Ankara, member of parliament |
| 16. | Ahmet Kanneci — Classical guitar virtuoso and educator |
| 17. | Erol Gelenbe — Computer scientist, engineer, applied mathematician |
| 18. | Mustafa Halilsoy (Ph.D.) — Turkish Cypriot physicist |
| 19. | Tunç Hamarat (B.S.) — Grandmaster and International Correspondence Chess Federation World Champion in 2004 |
| 20. | Suna Yılmaz (B.S.) — Mountaineer, one of the four Turkish female summiters of Mt. Everest |
| 21. | Serkan Girgin (B.S., M.S.) — Mountaineer, Mt. Everest summiter |
| 22. | Soner Büyükatalay — Mountaineer, Mt. Everest summiter |
| 23. | Bora Maviş (B.S., M.S.) — Mountaineer, summiter of Mt. Everest |
| 24. | Eylem Elif Maviş (B.S., M.B.A.) — Mountaineer, first Turkish female summiter of Mt. Everest |
| 25. | Burçak Özoğlu Poçan (B.A.) — Mountaineer, one of the four Turkish female summiters of Mt. Everest |
| 26. | Serhan Poçan (B.S.) — Mountaineer, summiter of Mt. Everest |
| 27. | Derya Köroğlu (B.S. 1979, M.S. 1983) — Musician, Yeni Türkü |
| 28. | Süreyya Serdengeçti (B.A. 1979) — Economist, former governor of the Central Bank of Turkey |