Şinasi is the Turkish spelling of the Persian name (شناسی), also

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as ''Shinasi''. Today, it is commonly used as a male given name.

Given name

İbrahim Şinasi İbrahim Şinasi Efendi (; 5 August 1826 – 13 September 1871) was a pioneering Ottoman Empire, Ottoman intellectual, founder of Turkish dramaturgy, author, journalist, translator, playwright, linguist and newspaper editor. He was the innovato ...

(1826–1871), Ottoman author, playwright, and journalist *

Şinasi Bozatlı Sinasi Bozatli (born 1962) born in Ankara painter, sculptor and graphic artist. He is a member of IG Bildende Kunst and IAA / UNESCO. Studied painting and sculpture on Gazi University in Ankara (1984) and painting and graphics at the University ...

(born 1962), Turkish painter and sculptor *

Şinasi Gündüz Şinasi Gündüz (born 1960, Hekimhan) is a Turkish historian of religion and professor at Istanbul University. His interests include Gnosticism, Mandaeism, Christianity, comparative religious studies, and interreligious relationships. Early li ...

(born 1960), Turkish historian of religion

Surname

Morris Schinasi Morris Schinasi (; born Musa Eskenazi; April 27, 1855 – September 10, 1928) was an Ottoman-born wealthy American businessman in the tobacco industry. He was born in 1855 in Manisa, Ottoman Empire to relatively poor Sephardic Jew parents. A ...

(1855–1928), American tobacco industrialist of Ottoman origin *

Altina Schinasi Altina Schinasi (August 4, 1907 – August 19, 1999) was an American sculptor, filmmaker, actress, entrepreneur, window dresser, designer, and inventor. She was known for designing what she called the "Harlequin eyeglass frame", popularly known ...

(1907–1999), American artist, entrepreneur, and inventor, daughter of Morris

Places

Şinasi Sahnesi Şinasi is the Turkish spelling of the Persian name (شناسی), also transliterated as ''Shinasi''. Today, it is commonly used as a male given name. Given name * İbrahim Şinasi İbrahim Şinasi Efendi (; 5 August 1826 – 13 September 187 ...

, theatre in Ankara, Turkey, named after İbrahim Şinasi {{DEFAULTSORT:Sinasi Turkish masculine given names Masculine given names