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1. TARSUS MOBILITY
07-11 / 11 / 2022
IMPORTANT PEOPLE FOR CITIES
DISCOVER MY CITY

2. MEHMET BAL
He was born in Tarsus in 1929. He couldn't go on his
education life because of difficulties. His painting
career started after his mother and father's deaths. In
addition to painting, he draw caricatures in some
magazines and newspaper. And also, he draw posters
of hundreds of films.
CARTONIST/ARTIST

3. PHILOSOPHER/POET
ARATOS
He finished his early childhood and education in
Tarsus and went to Athens to study Maths and
astronomy and there he met the Stoic philosopher
Zenostudied .

4. HİKMET ÖZ
He was born in Tarsus in 1950 and worked as primary
and art teacher in different schools in Turkiye. Then,
he resigned and became art director in Tarsus
Municipality. He wrote books on history of Tarsus.
And he developed his modern mozaic technique and
created several works.
ARTIST

5. ETEM ÇALIŞKAN
He was born in Tarsus in 1928. He worked in different
newspapers and drawa the pictures of the event. Also,
he draw the first photonovel of Turkiye. He draw
Atatürk's portraits and you can see his works in
Anıtkabir's inscriptions.
CALIGRAPHER

6. ÜMİT YAŞAR OĞUZCAN
He was born in Tarsus in 1926. He worked in different
national banks and after his retirement he founded an
art academy. He has 50 books including poetry,
antology and biographies.
POET

7. ADİLE HALA
She was born in 1870 in Tarsus. Although she was not
a soldier, she fought against the French army when
they invaded Tarsus in the WWI. She founded a team
of 8-10 people and joined in different wars and had
important role in saving Tarsus from invasion.
WARRIOR

8. ST. PAUL
St. Paul is often considered to be the most important
person after Jesus in the history of Christianity. His
epistles (letters) have had enormous influence on
Christian theology, especially on the relationship
between God the Father and Jesus, and on the
mystical human relationship with the divine.
APOSTLE

9. RASİM DOKUR
He was born in 1862 in Tarsus. He graduated from
Sorbonne University and worked as prosecuter in
Egypt where he founded textile factory. In the
following years, he moved his factory to Tarsus. This
factory produced materials for the Turkish Army
during the WWI.
BUSINESS MAN

10. ALİ MUSTAFA
MENTEŞOĞLU
He was born in Tarsus in 1902. He graduated from
İstanbul Medical Faculty. He got his PHD in Paris.
He fought against tubercolis, malaria and
dipheteria. Also, he founded Hospital of Chest
Diseases in Adana.
DOCTOR/SCIENTIST

11. KASIM EKENLER
He was born in Tarsus in 1914. He started his
career as a farmer and then founded one of first
textile factories in Tarsus. He is known with his
helpfulness and there 4 schools carrying his name
in Tarsus today.
BUSINESSMAN

12. Faust Vrančić
Faust Vrančić, was a Croatian polyhistor,
linguist, inventor, diplomat, engineer,
priest, bishop. He is one of the most
important Croats of all time. He invented
the parachute.
Inventor

13. He graduated in chemistry from the Royal Technical
College in Dresden in 1898, then worked in the
chemical industry in Košice. In 1900 he moved to
Zagreb where he was appointed royal technical
supervisor in 1904.
Chemistry engineer and inventor
Eduard Slavoljub Penkala

14. Dražen Petrović
Dražen Petrović, was a Croatian basketball player. He was
one of the greatest Croatian and world basketball players and
was listed among the 50 people who contributed the most to
the Euroleague. It belongs to the ranks of the greatest
Croatian athletes. He is considered the leader of the wave of
European basketball players in the NBA. In his honour, there
is the Dražen Petrović Museum Memorial Centre in Zagreb.
Basketball player

15. Janica Kostelić
Janica Kostelić, former Croatian alpine skier. With
four Olympic gold medals and two silver medals,
Janica Kostelic is the most successful alpine skier in
the history of the Winter Olympics.
She won the World Cup in 2001, 2003 and 2006.
Skier

16. Footballer
Luka Modrić
Luka Modrić is a Croatian professional footballer,
Croatian national football player and captain of
the Croatian national football team who currently
plays for Spanish football club Real Madrid. UEFA
declared him the best player in Europe, and in the
FIFA's Selection, he was declared the best player in
the world.

17. Inventor and engineer
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla, was a Croatian-American inventor and
engineer of Serbian origin, who worked in the field of
electrical engineering and mechanical engineering, and
a futurist who is best known for his contributions in
designing a modern electricity distribution system using
alternating current. He was born on the territory of
today's Croatia where he attended elementary school.

18. Sculptor
Ivan Meštrović
He was the most prominent sculptor of Croatian
modern sculpture and once a leading figure in artistic
life in Zagreb. He was educated in Pavle Bilinic's
stonemasonry workshop in Split and at the Academy in
Vienna, where he formed his artwork under the
influence of Art Nouveau. He traveled through Europe
and got to know the works of ancient and Renaissance
masters.

19. Tennis player
Goran Ivanišević
Goran Ivanišević is a retired Croatian tennis player,
until 2021 he was the only Croat to win Wimbledon.
He is also the only tennis player in history to win at
Wimbledon with an invitation, as well as the lowest-
ranked tennis player at the time of his victory - 125th.

20. Paleontologist, archaeologist and geologist
Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger
The fame and merits of D. Gorjanović-Kramberger
are mostly related to the discovery and processing of
prehumans from Krapina. At the end of August 1899,
he discovered in Krapina a scientifically very
important prehistoric site of human bones, ashes,
tools, stone karst, etc.

21. Franjo Tuđman
Dr. Franjo Tuđman was a Croatian historian,
academician of the Croatian Academy of Sciences
and Arts, an academician of the Croatian Army, a
statesman, the first president of the sovereign and
independent Republic of Croatia and the supreme of
the Croatian Army.
First Croatian president

22. DINOS CHRISTIANOPOULOS
An important Greek poet
Dinos Christianopoulos, born in Thessaloniki on
March 20, 1931, is a contemporary award-winning
Greek poet, short story writer, essayist, translator,
researcher, folklorist, publisher and book critic.

23. Dionysis Savvopoulos
An important Greek composer
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He is one of the most important personalities of
European culture. As a lyricist, he played an
important role, shaping an alternative artistic
approach to contemporary music, based on elements
of folk music.

24. Nikos Papazoglou
The singer with the red scarf
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Nikos Papazoglou from Thessaloniki was one of the
most important and influential Greek songwriters
who paved the way for a whole generation of
musicians.

25. Giannis Kyriakidis
the leading photojournalists in Greece
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With his photographic lens. he recorded the biggest
events in Greece and abroad. The entire post-war
history of Thessaloniki has been recorded in his
archive.

26. Nikos Galis
a former basketball player
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Nikos Galis is d one of the greatest European players
of all time. He is considered the most important
figure in the history of the sport in Greece and the
greatest Greek athlete of modern times.

27. Albert Bourla
a Greek veterinarian and chief
executive officer of Pfizer
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Albert Bourla comes from Thessaloniki, of Jewish
origin.He is the president and CEO of Pfizer, the
company that first licensed the Covid-19 vaccine.

28. Alexandros Nikolaidis
Greek tae kwon do athlete.
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He had important distinctions in international and
European competitions of the sport, with the most
important being the two silver medals in the +80 kg
category at the Olympic Games in Athens and mes in
Beijing.

29. Nikos Gavriel Pentzikis
Greek poet and self-taught painter.
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He was a member of the Society of Greek Writers of
Thessaloniki. He was awarded many prizes, such as
the Ralmes Academiques (1951), the 1st State Prize for
the novel (1984), the prize of the Ministry of Culture
(1987) and the Herder Prize of Vienna (1989).

30. Thomas Korovinis
philologist and writer
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He lived in Istanbul for eight years. For
years he has been researching aspects of
Greek and Turkish folk culture, as well as the
relations between them.

31. Georgios Zongolopoulos
Greek Sculptor
famous sculptor with many works. In 1997
when Thessaloniki became the cultural
capital of Europe, the "Umbrellas" were placed
on the beach of the city.

32. Turi Scordo
Born in Misterbianco on August 09, 1905. Son of the
earth as he was of dialect poetry he learned to sow
in hearts as well as in earth. He died there on April
18, 1969.
Poet
Ju mentri azzappu, lu zappuni sona,
ca ccù li cudicchiuna si sciarria:
'ccussì furmamu na vera centona
nna sta campagna tutta puisia!

33. Giuseppe Cerami
Giuseppe Cerami was born on April 28. Many achievements in cycling career,
including victory in the Tour of Belgium in 1957 and the Tour De France in
1963. Was an Italian politician
In 1957 he won the Tour of Belgium but reached the peak of success in 1960
when at the age of 38 he won the Paris-Roubai Freccia, Walloon Arrow and the
bronze medal at the World Championship in Germany, followed by the
Brabant Arrow and the Paris-Bruell
An important political

34. Mario Spampinato
Mario Spampinato Gold Medal
Class 1914 enlisted in the Royal Carabinieri at the age of 32 he
served in Gela in the station of Feudo Nobile,where the band of
Salvatore Rizzo raged that on January 9, 1946 lured out some
carabinieri who fell into an ambush and were captured.
Immediately after the station of Feudo Nobile was attacked,
they capture the other soldiers including the Misterbianchese
Mario Spampinato.
Policeman

35. Nunzio Caudullo
Nunzio Caudullo was born in Misterbianco in August
1910. He graduated in Medicine. In the war years he is
transferred to Russia to the hospital closest to the front.
He won the Silver Medal for Military Valor for not
abandoning any wounded
War doctor

36. Serafino Famà
Serafino Fama (1938-1995), Lawyer. He was murdered by
organized crime for his correct exercise of professional
activity, as can be seen from the reasons expressed in the
sentence of condemnation of his tormentors. The city of
Catania has placed a plaque in his memory at Piazzale
Sanzio, as well as remembering him every March 21, on
Memorial Day.
Lawyer

37. Salvatore Marchese
Salvatore Marchese was born on January 5, 1811.
Economist. He devoted himself to teaching in economic
subjects, but also to his political career, holding the role
of Senator and DEPUTY during the Kingdom of Italy. In
1846 he was appointed advisor of the provincial
independence of Catania. In 1861 he was called to sit on
the council of the Lieutenancy.
Economist and politic

38. Francesco Monaco
Francesco Monaco, Misterbianchese, by profession
carter, managed to create, with great commitment and
ability, a real economic “empire”, creating an impressive
production, industrial and commercial complex. In the
early twentieth century, even the President of the
Council, Giovanni Giolitti, wanted to visit the Munich
Plant.
Economist

39. Padre Cannone
Padre Cannone with simplicity and stubbornness
succeeded in the many years of priesthood to realize
a dream: that of the oratory. It was he who from the
streets and squares took the boys with him, brought
them closer to the Church, and then educated them
in life.
Priet

40. Orazio Costorella
Orazio Costorella was twenty years old when on a
morning in February 1944 he was slaughtered by the
Nazis in Poggio di Otricoli. He was captured while
watching over the body of a comrade, and was executed
for not wanting to reveal information about his
comrades.
Important partisan

41. Albert Einstein
Physicist
Albert Einstein was born in Ulm – around 100 km away
from Stuttgart. He is considered one of the most
important theoretical physicists in the history of science
and one of the most famous scientists of modern times
worldwide.

42. Johannes Kepler
Astronomer
Johannes Kepler was a German astronomer, physicist,
mathematician and natural philosopher. He was born in
1571 in Weil der Stadt, a town near Stuttgart.
He discovered the lawful motion of the planets .

43. Gottlieb Daimler
Inventor and car pioneer
Gottlieb Daimler was born in 1834 in Schorndorf near
Stuttgart. He was a great inventor and built the first four-
wheeled vehicle. Also he invented the first combustion
engine.

44. Carl Benz
Inventor and car pioneer
He was born in Mühlburg in 1844. He was a German
engineer and automotive pioneer. In 1883 he founded the
company „Benz“. Two years later he build the first
autombile the Benz patent-motor car number 1. Today his
company is called Mercedes-Benz Group .

45. Ferdinand Porsche
Inventor and car pioneer
HHe was born in Maffersdorf in 1875. He was an
Austrian,Czechoslvak automotive engineer and founder of
the Porsche AG in Stuttgart. He is best known for creating
the first gasoline-electric hybrid vehicle and other
automobiles. Today is Porsche one of the most luxurious
car brand in the world.

46. Friedrich Schiller
Doctor/poet/philosopher/historian
Friedrich Schiller was born in Marbach am Neckar (close to
Stuttgart) in 1759. Schiller is one of the most important
historical persons. He often wrote negatively about politics
in the Age of Enlightenment. His works include the
historical dramas „Wallenstein“ or “Mary Stuart“.

47. Robert Bosch
Inventor
Robert Bosch was born in 1861 and was a German engineer and
inventor.He also started the Company Robert Bosch GMBH.
Bosch's core operating areas are spread across four business sectors:
mobility (hardware and software), consumer goods (including
household appliances and power tools), industrial technology
(including drive and control) and energy and building technology.

48. Margarete Steiff
seamstress/founder of a toy factory
Margarete Steiff was born in Giengen an der Brenz in 1847. She is the
founder of the toy factory Steiff. Steiff is very famous in Germany. She
sewed for the first time a pincushion in the shape of an elephant (in the
Swabian „Elefäntle“).That was the beginning of the success and it is
still famous today

49. Jürgen Klopp
Former fooballer and current coach
Jürgen Norbert Klopp was born on 16 June 1967 in Stuttgart and is a
former German football player and current coach. With tactical
finesse, Jürgen Klopp helped Borussia Dortmund to become German
champion in 2012. After many more successes, he moved to Liverpool
FC in 2015 as head couch. Here he is very successful: for example he
won Liverpool's first Premier League title.

50. Sami Khedira
Football Player / World champion
He was born in Stuttgart in 1989. He played from his youth until 2010 for the
football club VFB Stuttgart and became German champion with VFB
Stuttgart in 2007. After the 2010 World Cup, he moved to Real Madrid. Until
2015 he won the Spanish Championship, the Copa del Rey, the Champions
League and the FIFA Club World Cup. In 2014, Khedira became world
champion with the national team. From 2015 to 2021 he played for Juventus
Turin and won the Italian championship five times. Since 2022, Khedira has
been a sports consultant for VFB Stuttgart.

51. Gen. Vladimir Vazov
Military officer / Mayor of Sofia
Bulgarian officer. He led the Bulgarian forces during the successful
defensive operation at Dojran during the First World War. He was elected
as a mayor of Sofia in 1926 and then starts a new stage in development of
the city. During his mandate the fire departament was reformed, the
electrical network was expanded and the public transport was improved.
Sofia became one of the "greenest" capitals in Europe. Opens a city libraly
and begins the building of the Municipal Museum and Archive.

52. He was a Bulgarian politician, Prime Minister of Bulgaria, director of
the Bulgatian National Bank (1883-1886). His signature is on the first
issue of the Bulgarian levs. In 1884, he became a dull member of the
Bulgarian Literary Society (today the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).
From 1884 until his death, he was the chairman of the Bulgarian Red
Cross.
Ivan Evstatiev Geshov
Prime Minister of Bulgaria
Director of the Bulgarian National Bank

53. Dimitar Petkov
Head of the 27th Goverment of Bulgaria
Dimitar Petkov is a Bulgarian politician, leader of the People's Liberal
Party. Headed the 27th goverment of Bulgaria (1906-1907). Mayor of
Sofia (1888-1893). As the mayor of Sofia, DImitar Petkov shows
remarkable energy and scope. In a speech to the City Concil in 1889, he
outlined the direction for the city's development and presuaded the
councilors to vote to include a then huge ten million loan from the
Bank of Londin for urban development.

54. Tsar Boris III
Tsar of Tsardom (Kingdom) of Bulgaria
Tsar Boris III ruled Bulgaria from 1919 to his death in 1943. He was loved
from his people because he was very down to earth person. He very
rarely had guards around him. He could and loved to drive trains.
He played a very important role at the time of WW2 because he
prevented Bulgaria to be occupied by the nazis and he didnt allow for the
Bulgarian army to take part in battes during the war. Together with the
Parliament he saved Bulgarian jews from the concentration camps. The
biggest park in Sofia and one of the big boulevards are named after him.

55. Adolf Kolar
First chief architect of Sofia
Adolf Kolar was the first chief architect of Sofia. He had the difficult
task of transforming the rural appearance into an urban one, worthy of
a capital of Europe at that time. The creator of the forst town planning of
Old Sofia in 1878, he participated in the design of the landscaping of the
city and to him we owe some of the most significant cultural monuments
in Sofia - the City Garden, the Royal Palace, The Cental Station, The Lion
Bridge , The Eagle Bridge.

56. Ivan Vazov
The Patriarch of Bulgarian literature
Ivan Vazov is a bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright. Ivan Vazov holds
the highest honorary title of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences -
Academician. He acted as Education and People Enlightenment Minister.
Ivan Vazov holds the highest honorary title of the Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences - Academician. He acted as Education and People
Enlightenment Minister.

57. Evlogi and Hristo Georgievi
Merchants
They were involved in numerous charitable initiatives with significant
sums. For many years, they supported poor students abroad, various
societies, community centers, non-profit movements, schools, etc. They
donated almost their entire fortune to the city for different buildings
and needs of the town.
Sofia University was established with the money of Evlogi and Hristo
Georgievi. Donated funds for the construction of the Aleksandrovska
Hospital in Sofia.

58. Ivan Nikolov Ivanov
Engineer / Mayor of Sofia
Ivan Nikolov Ivanov is a Bulgarian engineer, politician and scientist,
corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
He is the second longest serving mayor of Sofia (1034 - 1944) for more
than 10 years. This period is defined as "the 10 goldern years of Sofia".
He cooperated and worked for the laying of the Rila water pipeline in
Sofia. For this, Vladimir Vazov called him by the nickname "Rilski".

59. Stefan Danailov
Actor
One of the most talented actors from Bulgaria.
Emblematic Bulgarian actor with over 150 roles in cinema, theater and
television, honored artist and people's artist, long-time acting teacher
for drama theater at NATFIZ, politician, minister of culture.