Famous people born in Ottoman Empire
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Isa Boletini
Isa Boletini was an Albanian nationalist figure and guerrilla fighter, born in the village of Boletin near Mitrovia , Ottoman Empire. He was one of the leaders of the Albanian Revolt of 1910 in Kosovo Vilayet and became a major figure of Albanian struggle against the Ottomans, Serbia and Montenegro.....
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Izz ad Din al Qassam
Izz adDin Abd alQadar ibn Mustafa ibn Yusuf ibn Muhammad alQassam was a Syrian Muslim preacher and a leader in the local struggles against British and French Mandatory rule in the Levant, and a militant opponent of Zionism in the 1920s and 1930s.....
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Baba Vanga
Baba Vanga , born Vangelia Pandeva Dimitrova , known after her marriage as Vangelia Gushterova , was a blind Bulgarian mystic, clairvoyant, and herbalist, who spent most of her life in the Rupite area in the Kozhuh mountains Bulgaria. Millions of people around the world were convinced that she possessed paranormal abilities.....
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Fakhr al Din II
Emir FakhralDin ibn Maan , also transliterated Fakhreddine, was a Druze Maani prince and an early leader of the Emirate of Chouf, a selfgoverned area under the Ottoman Empire between the 17th and 19th centuries. Son of Prince Qorqmaz ibn Maan and Sit Nasab of the Tanukhi family, he was given the title Emir or Prince in Arabic because the Maan family was preeminent in the Shouf and, periodically, a larger area. He is often referred to as Fakhr adDin II because of his grandfather Fakhr adDin I.....
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Calouste Gulbenkian
Calouste Gulbenkian was a British businessman and philanthropist of Armenian origin. He played a major role in making the petroleum reserves of the Middle East available to Western development and is credited with being the first person to exploit Iraqi oil. Gulbenkian travelled extensively and lived in a number of cities including Constantinople, London, Paris, and Lisbon.....
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Garabet Yazmaciyan
Garabet Yazmaciyan was a prominent Ottoman painter of Armenian descent.....
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David raciyan
David raciyan was a prominent Ottoman painter of Armenian descent.....
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Hasan al Kharrat
Abu Muhammad Hasan alKharrat was one of the principal Syrian rebel commanders of the Great Syrian Revolt against the French Mandate. His main area of operations was in Damascus and its Ghouta countryside. He was killed in the struggle and is considered a hero by Syrians.....
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George E White missionary
George Edward White was an American Congregationalist missionary for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions for fortythree years. Stationed in the Ottoman Empire during the Armenian Genocide as President of the Anatolia College in Merzifon, White attempted to save the lives of many Armenians, including refused to tell where Armenians were hiding so to save them from getting deported or killed. Thus he became an important witness to the Armenian Genocide.....
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Haxhi Zeka
Haxhi Zeka was an Albanian nationalist leader, a member of the League of Prizren, while in 1899 he was part of the establishment and leadership of the League of Peja, another organization seeking autonomy for Albania within the Ottoman Empire. Zeka was assassinated by a Serbian agent in 1902 with the backing of the Ottoman authorities.....
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Christian Rakovsky
Christian Rakovsky was a Bulgarian socialist revolutionary, a Bolshevik politician and Soviet diplomat he was also noted as a journalist, physician, and essayist. Rakovskys political career took him throughout the Balkans and into France and Imperial Russia for part of his life, he was also a Romanian citizen.....
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Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan was an American director, producer, writer and actor, described by The New York Times as one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history.....
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David Sassoon
David Sassoon was the treasurer of Baghdad between 1817 and 1829. He became the leader of the Jewish community in Bombay after Baghdadi Jews emigrated there. He was a leading trader of cotton and opium in China.....
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Elizabeth Barrows Ussher
Elizabeth Freeman Barrows Ussher was a Christian missionary and a witness to the Armenian Genocide. Barrows described the atrocities against the Armenians as systematic and wholesale massacre. Much of her life is described in the 1916 publication by her own father John Otis Barrows. She was the wife of missionary physician Clarence Ussher.....
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Georgios Jakobides
Georgios Jakobides was a painter and one of the main representatives of the Greek artistic movement of the Munich School. He founded and was the first curator of the National Gallery of Greece in Athens.....
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Georgios Verovits
George Berovich , known as Berovich Pasha was a Christian Ottoman statesman who served as GovernorGeneral of Crete and Prince of Samos.....
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Filip Vi nji
Filip Vinji was a popular Serbian epic poet and guslar , born in northern Bosnia. He is often described as the Serbian Homer both because he was blind and for his poetic gift. Living in a time of exceptional significance for Serbian history, the bard composed poems about these events, and they became a highly valued part of the Serbian epic poetry. Vuk Karadi considered him the best ballad writer and singer of his time.....
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Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor
Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor , father of photojournalism, was the first fulltime editor of National Geographic Magazine . Grosvenor is credited with having built the magazine into the iconic publication that it is today.....
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