Lista de Personas Famosas nacidas en Provincia de Elazığ

Nurettin Demirtaş es un político kurdo retirado de la política activa. En 2007 fue elegido presidente del Partido de la Sociedad Democrática (DTP). Fue encarcelado en varias ocasiones. Es hermano del líder del Partido Democrático del Pueblo (HDP) Selahattin Demirtaş que ha logrado en las elecciones legislativas de Turquía de junio de 2015 superar, por primera vez en la historia de un partido pro-kurdo y de izquierdas en Turquía, el umbral del 10 % de votos que la legislación turca exige para que una formación política acceda al Parlamento.

Kenan Çoban is a Turkish actor who is known for playing the role of Abdülhey Çoban in the Valley of the Wolves.

Nadir Çiftçi es un futbolista turco. Juega de delantero y su equipo actual es el Samsunspor de la TFF Primera División de Turquía.

Adil Serdar Saçan is a famous Turkish police chief who has overseen numerous high-profile investigations. He supervises the Istanbul police force's Anti-Smuggling and Organized Crime Department, which he established in 1998.

Mazlum Doğan was a journalist and a founding member of the Kurdistan Workers' Party. He was a Kurdish Alevi Muslim. He has been the first chief editor of the party's newspaper Serxwebûn. In 1979, he had planned to leave Turkey towards Syria, but was arrested and after serving time in the infamous Diyarbakir No. 5 prison. Mazlum Doğan committed suicide in protest of the Turkish coup d'état and the inhumane conditions he and other prisoners were facing inside of the penitentiary. Today he is seen as a hero and a martyr for the Kurdish resistance movement.

Alparslan Çelik is a Turkish Islamist-Nationalist Alperen Ocakları member. In 2014 he joined the Syrian Turkmen Brigades and fought against the Syrian Army. On 24 November, after Turkey shot down a Russian bomber jet, he allegedly killed the Russian pilot Oleg Peshkov. Çelik was detained in İzmir, Turkey on 31 March 2016. All charges against him were dropped on 9 May 2016. However the investigation was subsequently reopened in which he denied killing the pilot, instead insisting that he was killed by another group.

Fatih Kısaparmak is a singer-songwriter of traditional Turkish folk music.

Mehmet Ekşi is a Turkish former international footballer and manager.

Bekir İrtegün is a Turkish professional football player who plays for Sakaryaspor.