Antoine Galland

Antoine Galland

male, deceased (1715)
Antoine Galland (April 4, 1646 - February 17, 1715) was a French orientalist and archaeologist, most famous as the first European translator of the...

Naim Frashëri

male, deceased (1900)
Naim Frashëri was an Ottoman-born ethnic Albanian romantic poet and, together with his brothers Sami and Abdyl, a prominent figure of the "...
Azad

Azad

male, 35 years old
Azad (born Azad Azadpour, January 1, 1974 in Sanandaj, Kurdistan, Iran) is a rapper. He came from the Kurdish part of Iran as the child of a...

Jaladat Ali Badirkhan

male
Jaladat Ali Badirkhan, was a Kurdish diplomatist, writer, linguist, journalist and political activist. According to Kurdish sources he was born in...
Sharon Inkelas

Sharon Inkelas

female (Berkeley, California, United States)
Sharon Inkelas is a Professor and Chair of the Linguistics Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She specializes in phonology...
Brenna MacCrimmon

Brenna MacCrimmon

female
Brenna MacCrimmon is a Canadian folk singer from Toronto, Ontario. She has been performing, studying and teaching Balkan and Turkish music since...
Edouard Roditi

Edouard Roditi

male, deceased (1992)
Edouard Roditi (1910-1992) was an American poet, short-story writer and translator. He was born in Paris to American parents, and subsequently...
Kutlay Erk

Kutlay Erk

Kutlay Erk was the mayor of the Turkish-Cypriot part of the Cypriot capital of Nicosia/Turkish: Lefkoşa (North Nicosia is the capital city of the u...

Evangelos Sarris

male, deceased (1917)
Evangelos Sarris (1881-1917) was an officer of the Cretan gendarmerie and one of the leaders of the National Defence movement in Greece. Born in...

Reyhan

female
Reyhan was a Romani singer from Bulgaria. She used to sing in Turkish, mostly together with Orkester Kristal. She died on 25 August 2005 in an...