– petroleum engineer Girey Bairov – surgeon Kerim Bekirbaev – aircraft designer Midat Selimov – infectious disease specialist Rollan Kadyev – physicist Writers and intellectuals Ayshe Seitmuratova – dissident Ahatanhel Krymsky – scientist Shamil Aladin – newspaper editor, poet, and novelist Şevqiy Bektöre – textbook writer, linguist, and gulag detainee Usein Bodaninsky – historian, museum director, and ethnographer Muazzez İlmiye Çığ – archaeologist, sumerologist, assyriologist, writer Bekir Çoban-zade – poet and professor; victim of the Great Purge Cengiz Dağcı – novelist and poet Emel Emin – poet, translator, Turkologist, and educator Seitumer Emin – writer and poet Tahsin Gemil – historian Necip Hablemitoğlu – writer and historian; assassinated Halil İnalcık – historian Murat Bardakçı – journalist Ismail Gaspirali – founder of the Jadid movement Abdulla Latif-zade – literary critic, poet, and writer Aziz Nesin – humorist and writer of over 100 books Mehmet Niyazi – poet, journalist, academic and activist İlber Ortaylı – historian Septar Mehmet Yakub – lawyer, thinker, Mufti of Romania Çetin Altan – writer, politician Ennan Alimov – writer, artist See also List of Crimean khans Crimean Tatars Crimean Tatars Russia-related lists