The Most Famous People from Türkiye
Top 47 of 47 ranked · September 2026 · See today's live standing →
First issue under methodology v5.70. Movement begins with the next issue frozen under the same version.
The Most Famous People from Türkiye is the September 2026 edition of the ranking, frozen and published by iFAMOUS, the monthly journal of the iFANN Global Fame Rankings.
| Rank | Name | Score | Live |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Recep Tayyip Erdoğan politicianAlive | 21.4 | iFANN → |
| 2 |  Arda Güler celebrityAlive | 14.5 | iFANN → |
| 3 |  Hande Erçel celebrityAlive | 14.4 | iFANN → |
| 4 |  Can Yaman celebrityAlive | 13.8 | iFANN → |
| 5 |  Daron Acemoğlu public figureAlive | 10.5 | iFANN → |
| 6 |  Vedat Muriqi celebrityAlive | 10.3 | iFANN → |
| 7 |  Arda Turan celebrityAlive | 9.9 | iFANN → |
| 8 |  Abdullah Öcalan politicianAlive | 9.7 | iFANN → |
| 9 |  Sultan Kösen celebrityAlive | 9.3 | iFANN → |
| 10 |  Tuba Büyüküstün celebrityAlive | 8.8 | iFANN → |
| 11 |  Fethullah Gülen public figure | 8.4 | iFANN → |
| 12 |  Demet Özdemir celebrityAlive | 8.3 | iFANN → |
| 13 |  Enes Kanter Freedom celebrityAlive | 8.0 | iFANN → |
| 14 |  Burak Özçivit celebrityAlive | 7.3 | iFANN → |
| 15 |  Beren Saat celebrityAlive | 7.3 | iFANN → |
| 16 |  Zehra Güneş celebrityAlive | 7.1 | iFANN → |
| 17 |  Melissa Vargas celebrityAlive | 6.8 | iFANN → |
| 18 |  CZN Burak internet personalityAlive | 6.1 | iFANN → |
| 19 |  Emre Mor celebrityAlive | 6.0 | iFANN → |
| 20 |  Deniz Gül celebrityAlive | 5.1 | iFANN → |
| 21 |  Acun Ilıcalı celebrityAlive | 5.1 | iFANN → |
| 22 |  Cenk Uygur politicianAlive | 4.9 | iFANN → |
| 23 |  Ünal Üstel politicianAlive | 4.7 | iFANN → |
| 24 |  Kenan Karaman celebrityAlive | 3.8 | iFANN → |
| 25 |  Cem Adrian celebrityAlive | 3.8 | iFANN → |
| 26 |  İsmail Kartal celebrityAlive | 3.6 | iFANN → |
| 27 |  Rıza Kayaalp celebrityAlive | 3.2 | iFANN → |
| 28 |  Samet Akaydın celebrityAlive | 3.2 | iFANN → |
| 29 |  Gökhan Töre celebrityAlive | 3.1 | iFANN → |
| 30 |  Deniz Aytekin celebrityAlive | 3.0 | iFANN → |
| 31 |  Fuat Oktay politicianAlive | 2.9 | iFANN → |
| 32 |  Umut Bulut celebrityAlive | 2.9 | iFANN → |
| 33 |  Kenan Sofuoğlu politicianAlive | 2.8 | iFANN → |
| 34 |  Mehmet Aurélio celebrityAlive | 2.7 | iFANN → |
| 35 |  Salih Uçan celebrityAlive | 2.7 | iFANN → |
| 36 |  Melisa Sözen celebrityAlive | 2.6 | iFANN → |
| 37 |  Meltem Cumbul celebrityAlive | 2.5 | iFANN → |
| 38 |  Songül Öden celebrityAlive | 2.4 | iFANN → |
| 39 |  Naz Aydemir celebrityAlive | 2.1 | iFANN → |
| 40 |  Birol Ünel celebrity | 2.1 | iFANN → |
| 41 |  Pervin Buldan politicianAlive | 1.9 | iFANN → |
| 42 |  Ergün Penbe celebrityAlive | 1.9 | iFANN → |
| 43 |  Selen Soyder celebrityAlive | 1.7 | iFANN → |
| 44 |  Sedef Avcı celebrityAlive | 1.7 | iFANN → |
| 45 |  İbrahim Selim celebrityAlive | 1.7 | iFANN → |
| 46 |  Semih Saygıner celebrityAlive | 1.3 | iFANN → |
| 47 |  Ata Demirer celebrityAlive | 1.1 | iFANN → |
About this list
This list ranks people from Türkiye by their overall worldwide fame rather than local attention, as assessed for September 2026: the top 47 of 47 names, frozen as the permanent record of that edition. This is the standard reading: everyone, living or dead, on one scale. 45 of the 47 listed are living; the Alive reading restricts the same ranking to living people.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is No. 1 on this list for September 2026. Behind Recep Tayyip Erdoğan come Arda Güler and Hande Erçel.
What famous means here
Fame, in iFAMOUS, is how widely the world knows a name: how recognisable a person's name, face or work is, and how well people know who they are. It is assessed from extensive historical and current public data, some of it reaching back more than twenty years, and it is not merit, talent, importance or popularity on iFANN. The rankings model real-world global fame, not internet fame; the data is the instrument, not the subject. Activity on iFANN itself is excluded.
The month in the title is the date of this edition, not the period measured. The list is a snapshot of overall fame as it stood when the issue was frozen: a name does not lose its place because one month was quiet, and a trending moment alone does not put a name here. Trending attention is published separately on ifann.net.
How the list was ranked
The iFANN Global Fame Rankings combine worldwide Wikipedia readership across languages, worldwide news coverage and search interest anchored against stable reference names, with search history reaching back to 2004. A twelve-month baseline sits behind the current reading and short-lived surges are capped, so the list reflects durable recognition rather than one week of headlines. Rankings are computed daily on ifann.net and frozen on the second day of the following month as that month's issue; a published issue never changes.
About Türkiye
Türkiye is one of the countries and regions the journal ranks every month. Country lists use the same rankings and the same scale as The 100, so a name can be compared with its neighbours and against the world.
Powered by iFANN
iFAMOUS is published by iFANN and powered by the iFANN Global Fame Rankings v5.70. Today's live standing for this list is on ifann.net; the journal freezes it once a month so it can be cited permanently.
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"Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, No. 1 on The Most Famous People from Türkiye", iFAMOUS No. 2 (September 2026), ifamous.org