Fethullah Gülen

Muhammed Fethullah Gülen is a Turkish Muslim scholar, preacher, and a one-time opinion leader, as de facto leader of the Gülen movement, who as of 2016 had millions of followers. Gülen is designated an influential neo-Ottomanist, Anatolian panethnicist, Islamic poet, writer, social critic, and activist–dissident developing a Nursian theological perspective. that embraces democratic modernity, Gülen was a local state imam from 1959 to 1981, and he was a citizen of Turkey until his denaturalization by the Turkish government in 2017. Over the years, Gülen became a centrist political figure in Turkey prior to his being there as a fugitive. Since 1999, Gülen has lived in self-exile in the United States near Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania.

27 April 1941

Born on the same birth date (27 April 1941): Dilip Kumar Chakrabarti • Lee Roy Jordan

Born on the same birth day (27 April): Bryan Harvey (musician) • Chris Berger • Gian-Carlo Rota • Jules Lemaître • Sandy Dennis • Seppo Räty • Ulysses S. Grant • Willie Upshaw

Born in the same month (April 1941): Ann-Margret • Christopher Allsopp • Cornelia Frances • Don Prudhomme • Ellen Goodman • Hanne Darboven • Iryna Zhylenko • Kay Adams (singer) • Lagle Parek • Michael D. Higgins • Michael Lynne • Paavo Lipponen • Richard Holbrooke • Ryan O'Neal • Sonny Throckmorton