William Dalrymple (historian)

This is a list of people from Bursa who have become known internationally in different roles and professions. Bursa is a city in northwestern Turkey. It is the fourth most populous city in Turkey and is one of the most industrialized metropolitan centers in the country.

• Qādī Zāda al-Rūmī - astronomer and mathematician
• Manolis Andronikos - Greek archaeologist
• Emre Aşık - international footballer
• Ömer Aşık - international basketballer
• Hande Ataizi - actress
• Vildan Atasever - actress
• Bayezid I - fourth Ottoman Empire ruler
• Celal Bayar - former Turkish president
• Behice Boran - the leader of the socialist Workers Party of Turkey
• İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil - politician
• Erkan Can - actor
• Özhan Canaydın - former basketball player, businessman and the former chairman of Galatasaray
• Dio Chrysostom - Greek orator, writer, philosopher and historian of the Roman Empire
• Muazzez İlmiye Çığ - archaeologist
• Mercan Dede - Turkish musician
• Ata Demirer - comedian
• Halil Ergün - actor
• Sabiha Gökçen - the first Turkish female aviator
• Tarkan Gozubuyuk - Pentagram and Mezarkabul bass guitar player and producer
• Kerem Kanter – basketball player
• Pınar Kür - author
• Serdar Kurtuluş - international footballer
• Mehmed I - fifth Ottoman Empire ruler
• Murad I - third Ottoman Empire ruler
• Zeki Müren - singer, "sun of art"
• Vedat Okyar - footballer
• Emin Fahrettin Özdilek - Prime Minister of Turkey
• Erdal Özyağcılar - actor
• Hamit Şare - Olympic skier
• Müzeyyen Senar – singer, state artist of Turkey
• Olgun Şimşek - actor
• Sporus of Nicaea - Greek mathematician and astronomer
• Nur Sürer - actress
• Sercan Yıldırım - international footballer
• Okan Yılmaz - international footballer
• Zofia Potocka - Greek - Russian agent