businessperson Vasif Kortun, musician, curator Spiro Kostof, architectural historian, chronicler of urban form Karolos Koun, Greek theater director Shavarsh Krissian, Armenian writer and athlete Ayşe Kulin, Writer, columnist Aptullah Kuran, academic Timur Kuran, academic, economics professor Pınar Kür, writer, professor L Levon Larents, Armenian writer and journalist M Perihan Mağden, RC 79, writer and commentator Etyen Mahçupyan, columnist, journalist Mangasar Magurditch Mangasarian, rationalist and secularist writer in the United States Roni Margulies, poet, author, translator and political activist Mgirdiç Migiryan, Olympian Konstantin Vladov Muraviev, former Bulgarian prime minister Lale Müldür, poet and writer N Gülru Necipoğlu, historian of Islamic art Leyla Neyzi, anthropologist, historian Apostolos Nikolaidis, track and field athlete and founder of Panathinaikos Sevan Nişanyan intellectual, travel writer, researcher and polymath O Kamil Ocak, former minister of state Hakkı Ögelman – physicist and astrophysicist A. Sumru Özsoy, academic and linguist Hüsnü Özyeğin, businessperson P Orhan Pamuk, RA 70, writer (2006 Nobel Laureate in Literature) Şevket Pamuk, professor of economic history at Boğaziçi University, former president of European Historical Economics Society Vahram Papazyan, Olympic athlete Mihri Pektaş, politician, one of the first 18 female parliament members of Turkey Mustafa Pultar, academic and writer Stefan Panaretov, Bulgarian diplomat and professor Q Parashqevi Qiriazi, Albanian teacher and member of the Congress of Monastir, which decided the Albanian alphabet R Halit Refiğ, film director, writer, producer Dani Rodrik, professor of international political economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University S Vasileios Sachinis, leader of the Greek World War II resistance in southern Albania/Northern Epirus Selim Sarper, ambassador to the U.N., Minister of Foreign Affairs Nevra Serezli, film, stage, television and voice actress Ayşe Soysal, former president of Boğaziçi University Konstantin Stoilov, former Bulgarian prime minister Eve Sussman, artist Kenan Şahin, entrepreneur, scientist Celâl Şengör, RA 73, geologist Bülent Şenver, businessperson T Çiğdem Talu, composer Ülkü Tamer, poet, journalist, actor and translator Tosun Terzioğlu, president of Sabancı University, mathematician U Mina Urgan, academic, translator, author and socialist politician V Gregory Vlastos, writer, scholar of ancient philosophy İhsan Emre Vural, RC 04, athlete (rowing), the only Turkish world champion in rowing Y Alp Yalman, businessperson, ex-president of the Galatasaray Sports Club Nur Yalman, social anthropologist Nihal Yeğinobalı, writer K. Aslihan Yener, archaeologist References External links Robert College website Robert College Alumni Association Robert College Robert College Alumni