Murad II

Murad II

male, deceased (1451)
Murad II was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1421 to 1451 (except for a period from 1444 to 1446). Murad II's reign was marked by the long...
Kul Tigin

Kul Tigin

male, deceased (732)
Kul Tigin ("Kül (Köl, Gül, Göl) Tigin (Tegin)[Prince Kul] Khan Bengü İnançu Apa Tarkan") 闕特勒 (685 - 731 or 732 CE) was a famous general of th...

Abu Sa'Id

male, deceased (1335)
Abu Sa'id also Abusaid Bahador Khan, Abu Sayed Behauder), was the ninth ruler of the Ilkhanate state in Iran (1316 - 1335) He died without heir and...
Timur

Timur

male, deceased (1405)
Tīmūr bin Tara<u>gh</u>ay Barlas, known in the West as Tamburlaine, was a 14th century warlord of Turco-Mongol descent, conqueror of much of We...
An Lushan

An Lushan

male, deceased (757)
An Lushan (703 - 757) was a military leader of Turkic-Sogdian origin during the Tang Dynasty in China. He rose to prominence by fighting during the...

İsmail Gaspıralı

male, deceased (1914)
İsmail Gaspıralı (Gasprinskiy) was a famous Crimean Tatar intellectual, educator, publisher and politician. He was one of the first Muslim int...
Tonyukuk

Tonyukuk

male, deceased (724)
Tonyukuk was the grand vizier and Commander-in-Chief of four Kokturk Khans, the best known of whom is Bilge Khan. He played a major role in the...

Yusuf Akçura

male, deceased (1935)
Yusuf Akçura was a prominent Ottoman activist of the pan-Turkist or Turanism camp. He was born in Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk) in Russia and lived t...

Fuzûlî

male, deceased (1556)
Fuzûlî is generally believed to have been born around 1483 in what is now Iraq, when the area was under Ak Koyunlu Turkmen rule; he was probably bo...

Vasily Radlov

male, deceased (1918)
Vasily Vasilievich Radlov or Friedrich Wilhelm Radloff was the German-born Russian founder of Turcology, or the scientific study of the Turkic...