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This is a list of notable Turkish-Americans.

★ Bülent Atalay, physicist and author

★ Asım Orhan Barut, University of Colorado-Boulder physicist

★ Osman "Oz" Bengür, Maryland Democratic Party Congressional Candidate

★ Richard Bey, TV and Radio personality, former host of The Richard Bey Show, has also hosted radio shows with WABC, Sirius Satellite Radio, and The Wall Street Journal's This Morning

★ Turhan Bey, 1940s and 1950s film star

★ Süleyman "Sully" Geldzvek Boyar, actor best known for his work on Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico, ''Car Wash'', and The Sopranos

★ Charles Bronson (born ''Charles Dennis Buchinsky''), Actor of partial Tatar ancestry often type-cast in "tough guy" roles such as a brutal police detective, a western gunfighter, vigilante, boxer, or a Mafia hitman. He was best known for his role in the Death Wish movies and The Dirty Dozen

★ ''Ergün Mehmet Caner'', Dean of Liberty University, frequent guest on Pat Robertson's 700 Club, apostate and author of numerous anti-Muslim books

★ David Chokachi, actor best known for his work on Baywatch

★ Tantek Çelik, computer scientist

★ Burhan Doğançay, painter, photographer, and former soccer player

★ Sibel Deniz Edmonds, former FBI translator

★ Korel Engin, basketball player

★ Ahmet Ertegün, founder of Atlantic Records

★ Nesuhi Ertegün, record producer and executive of Atlantic Records

★ John Gidding, architect and former actor and fashion model

★ Sururi Gümen, Illustrator and ghost artist behind Alfred Andriola's comic strip Kerry Drake

★ ''Murad Gümen'', Illustrator, Caricutarist, and Animator known for his work on Disney and Warner Cartoons characters such as Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Donald Duck, Betty Boop, and the Tasmanian Devil. Filmmaker known for productions such as ''Renald Rap's Rambling With Renald Rap''.

★ Kamran İnce, composer

★ Tunç İlkin, former Pittsburgh Steelers player and Sports Commentator

★ Ersan İlyasova, Milwaukee Bucks player

★ Arif Mardin, music producer

★ Janet Akyüz Mattei, astronomer and director of the AAVSO

★ Mehmet Okur, Utah Jazz player and 2007 NBA All-Star

★ Mehmet Öz, cardiothoracic surgeon and award-winning author who has made frequent appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show, NBC, ABC, CBS, and CNN

★ Dr. Hasan Özbekhan, Professor Emeritus at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, founding member and first director of the think tank The Club of Rome, systems scientist, cyberneticist, philosopher, and planner

★ ''Halil "Sul" Süleyman Özerden'', United States District Judge for the Southern District of Mississippi [1]

★ Diane Rehm, public radio talk show host

★ Emre Şahin, film director

★ Kenan Şahin, Establishing Partner in Lucent Technologies

★ Tiffani Amber-Thiessen, actress best known for her work on Saved by the Bell and Beverly Hills 90210

★ Mehmet Toner, world renowned cryobiologist, professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School, and professor of biomedical engineering at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology

★ Hidayet Türkoğlu, Orlando Magic player

★ Cenk Uygur, host of the liberal talk radio show The Young Turks on Air America Radio, and a regular blogger on The Huffington Post

★ Turgay Üzer, Georgia Institute of Technology Physicist

★ Lisa Marie Varon, Wrestling Star known as ''Victoria''

★ Vamık Volkan, Princeton University Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry

★ Nur Yalman, octolingual Harvard University Professor of Social Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies

★ K. Aslıhan Yener, University of Chicago Archaeologist who uncovered a new source of Bronze Age Anatolian tin mines