The Most Famous
ENGINEERS from Türkiye
Top 3
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Turkish Engineers of all time. This list of famous Turkish Engineers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Philo of Byzantium (280 BC - 220 BC)
With an HPI of 69.80, Philo of Byzantium is the most famous Turkish Engineer. His biography has been translated into 33 different languages on wikipedia.
Philo of Byzantium (Ancient Greek: Φίλων ὁ Βυζάντιος, Phílōn ho Byzántios, c. 280 BC – c. 220 BC), also known as Philo Mechanicus (Latin for "Philo the Engineer"), was a Greek engineer, physicist and writer on mechanics, who lived during the latter half of the 3rd century BC. Although he was from Byzantium he lived most of his life in Alexandria, Egypt. He was probably younger than Ctesibius, though some place him a century earlier.
2. Alec Issigonis (1906 - 1988)
With an HPI of 60.92, Alec Issigonis is the 2nd most famous Turkish Engineer. His biography has been translated into 23 different languages.
Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Άρνολντ Κωνσταντίνος Ισηγόνης) (18 November 1906 – 2 October 1988) was a British-Greek automotive designer. He designed the Mini, launched by the British Motor Corporation in 1959, and voted the second most influential car of the 20th century in 1999.
3. Orkut Büyükkökten (b. 1975)
With an HPI of 42.37, Orkut Büyükkökten is the 3rd most famous Turkish Engineer. His biography has been translated into 14 different languages.
Orkut Büyükkökten (born February 6, 1975) is a Turkish software engineer who developed the social networking services Club Nexus, inCircle and Orkut. He is a former product manager at Google.
People
Pantheon has 3 people classified as Turkish engineers born between 280 BC and 1975. Of these 3, 1 (33.33%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Turkish engineers include Orkut Büyükkökten. The most famous deceased Turkish engineers include Philo of Byzantium, and Alec Issigonis. As of April 2024, 1 new Turkish engineers have been added to Pantheon including Orkut Büyükkökten.
