List of Turkic scholars
Pre-Ottoman era
The following is a non-comprehensive list of Central Asian scientists and engineers who lived from antiquity up until the Ottoman era.
- Ismail ibn Hammad al-Jawhari, lexicographer
- Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli, historian and chess theorist
- Mahmud al-Kashgari, scholar and lexicographer
- Yusuf Khass Hajib, author of Kutadgu Bilig
- Sibt ibn al-Jawzi, Islamic scholar and historian
- Baybars al-Mansuri historian
- Farabi
- Al-Dhahabi, historian
- Ulug Beg, mathematician and astronomer
- Ibn Taghribirdi, historian
- Ali-Shir Nava'i, poet, writer, politician, linguist, and painter
- Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur, historian and genealogist
- Babur
The following is a non-comprehensive list of Ottoman scientists and engineers of Turkic descent who lived in the Ottoman Empire.
- Abbas Wasim Efendi, astronomer
- Ali Qushji, mathematician, astronomer and physicist
- Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi, aviator
- İbrahim Hakkı Erzurumi, poet, author, astronomer, physicist, psychologist, sociologist
- Lagâri Hasan Çelebi, aviator
- Piri Reis, Ottoman admiral, geographer, and cartographer
- Şerafeddin Sabuncuoğlu, surgeon and physician
- Qāḍī Zāda al-Rūmī, astronomer and mathematician
- Akshamsaddin, physician, religious scholar, poet
- Münejjim Bashi, Ottoman courtier, scholar, Sufi poet and historian
- Mirim Çelebi, astronomer, mathematician and physicist
- Kadrî of Pergamon, linguist
- Katip Çelebi, historian, geographer and bibliographer
- Seydi Ali Reis, Ottoman admiral and explorer
- Gelenbevi Ismail Efendi, mathematician
- Evliya Çelebi, explorer
- Ali Çelebi, philosopher and moralist
- Mulla Shams ad-Din al-Fanari, Ottoman logician, theologian, Islamic legal scholar and lexicographer
- Aşıkpaşazade, historian
- Matrakçı Nasuh, polymath, mathematician, teacher, historian, geographer, cartographer, navigator, inventor, painter and miniaturist
- Ibrahim Muteferrika, diplomat, polymath, publisher, printer, courtier, economist, astronomer, historian, historiographer, Islamic scholar and theologian, sociologist
- Oruç Bey, historian
- Enveri, historian
- Ibn Kemal, historian
- Neşri, historian
- Şükrullah, historian
- Tursun Beg, historian
- Lütfi Pasha, historian
- Hoca Sadeddin Efendi, historian
- Mustafa Selaniki, historian
- İbrahim Peçevi, historian
- Solakzade Mehmed Hemdemi, historian
- Silahdar Findiklili Mehmed Agha, historian
- Osman Aga of Temesvar, historian
- Mustafa Naima, historian
- Ahmed Resmî Efendi, historian
- Ahi Çelebi
- Abdülaziz Efendi
- Imam Birgivi
- Dawūd al-Qayṣarī
- Kınalızâde Hasan Çelebi
