Çelebi or Chelebi may refer to: *

Çelebi (title) Çelebi (IPA: /t͡ʃelebi/) is a Turkish title meaning "gentleman", "well-mannered" or "courteous". ''Çelebi'' also means “man of God”, as a ''i''-suffixed derivative from ''çalab'' (IPA /t͡ʃalab/), which means "God" in old Turkish. German ...

, a Turkish title of respect, including a list of people with the title *

Çelebi (tribe) Çelebi is a Kurdish prominent family inhabiting the Mardin Province of southeastern Turkey. They were involved in a long running land dispute with the 1,600-year-old Syriac Orthodox Mor Gabriel Monastery. They were involved in the 2009 Mardin ...

, a Kurdish tribe inhabiting the Mardin Province of southeastern Turkey

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* Alpay Çelebi (born 1999), Turkish footballer *

Asaf Halet Çelebi Asaf Halet Çelebi (27 December 1907 – 15 October 1958) was a Turkish people, Turkish mystical poet. Although not very widely known, due to his erudite and often foreign-influenced style, he is considered to be Turkey's first surrealism, s ...

(1907–1958), Turkish poet *

Evliya Çelebi Derviş Mehmed Zillî (25 March 1611 – 1682), known as Evliya Çelebi ( ota, اوليا چلبى), was an Ottoman explorer who travelled through the territory of the Ottoman Empire and neighboring lands over a period of forty years, recording ...

(1611–1682), Ottoman explorer and travel writer *

Lagâri Hasan Çelebi Lagâri Hasan Çelebi was an Ottoman scientist, engineer and aviator who, according to the account written by traveller Evliya Çelebi, made a successful crewed rocket flight. Account Evliya Çelebi reported that in 1633, Lagari Hasan Çelebi ...

, Ottoman scientist and engineer *

Hasan Çelebi Hasan Çelebi, born 1937 in Erzurum, Turkey, is a Turkish master of Islamic calligraphy. He is a student of Hamid Aytaç. Çelebi has devoted his whole life to calligraphy, and has been described by Caryle Murphy of ''The Washington Post'' as one ...

(born 1937), Turkish calligraphist * Huseyin Çelebî (1967–1992), Kurdish activist and writer *

Nilgün Çelebi Nilgün Çelebi (born 1950) is a Turkish academic. She studied sociology at the Hacettepe University in Ankara and worked as Professor of General Sociology and Methodology at the Department of Sociology, at the University of Ankara and the Univers ...

(born 1950), Turkish academic *, the namesake of the Seyit-Settar Mosque, Simferopol, Crimea

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* Çelebi, Kırıkkale, a town and district of Kırıkkale Province in the Central Anatolia region * Çelebi, Karakoçan * Çelebi, Keşan * Çelebi, Kovancılar * Çelebi, Yenişehir * Çelebi Island, an Aegean island

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