Çelebi

Çelebi (also rendered as Celebi or Chelebi) is a traditional Turkish honorific, used in the Ottoman period after the given name of a male person and roughly meaning "gentleman", originally indicating nobility but later generalized to well-bred educated men.

It may specifically refer to:

Place:

• Çelebi, a district of Kırıkkale Province of Turkey.

Persons:

• Evliya Çelebi, 17th century Ottoman traveller
• Gazi Çelebi, pirate and 14th century ruler of Sinop
• Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi, 17th century Ottoman aviator
• Lagari Hasan Çelebi, brother of Hezarfen, 17th century Ottoman aviator
• Hasan Çelebi, Turkish master of Arabic calligraphy
• Katip Çelebi, 17th century Ottoman scholar
• Hoca Çelebi, 15th century Ottoman Grand Mufti
• Asaf Halet Çelebi, 20th century Turkish poet
• Sons of Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I (see Ottoman Interregnum)
  • Süleyman Çelebi
  • İsa Çelebi
  • Mûsa Çelebi
  • Mehmed I Çelebi (became Sultan)
• Süleyman Çelebi (poet) (?–1422), a poet, see Turkish folk literature

Fiction:

• Celebi, a Pokémon species

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