WA dragoman was an interpreter, translator, and official guide between Turkish-, Arabic-, and Persian-speaking countries and polities of the Middle East and European embassies, consulates, vice-consulates and trading posts. A dragoman had to have a knowledge of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and European languages.
WCharles Adrien Casimir Barbier de Meynard, born at sea on a ship from Constantinople to Marseille, was a nineteenth-century French historian and orientalist.
WWojciech Bobowski or Ali Ufki was a Polish, later Turkish musician and dragoman in the Ottoman Empire. He translated the Bible into Ottoman Turkish, composed an Ottoman Psalter, based on the Genevan metrical psalter, and wrote a grammar of the Ottoman Turkish language. His musical works are considered among the most important in 17th-century Ottoman music.
WPrince Stefan Bogoridi was a high-ranking Ottoman statesman of Bulgarian origin, grandson of Sophronius of Vratsa and father of Alexander Bogoridi and Nicolae Vogoride. Stefan and his brother Athanase were named Bogoridi after Boris I, the first Christian ruler of Bulgaria. Their parents were Ioan Vogoridi and Ana N.
WCharles Simon Clermont-Ganneau was a noted French Orientalist and archaeologist.
WRigas Feraios or Velestinlis ; 1757 – 24 June 1798) was a Greek writer, political thinker and revolutionary, active in the Modern Greek Enlightenment. A victim of the Balkan uprising against the Ottoman Empire and a pioneer of the Greek War of Independence, Rigas Feraios is remembered as a Greek national hero.
WGaspar Graziani was Voivode (Prince) of Moldavia between February 4OS/February 14 NS 1619 and September 19 OS/September 29 NS 1620.
WPetar Ičko was an Ottoman and later Serbian diplomat, a merchant by profession from Ottoman Macedonia.
WJanus Bey, in Turkish Yunus Bey was a Greek who became an interpreter (dragoman) and ambassador for the Ottoman Empire.
WPierre Amédée Emilien Probe Jaubert was a French diplomat, academic, orientalist, translator, politician, and traveler. He was Napoleon's "favourite orientalist adviser and dragoman".
WManuc Bey was an Armenian merchant, diplomat and inn-keeper.
WArmand-Pierre Caussin de Perceval (1795–1871) was a French orientalist.
WGeorg Friedrich Wilhelm Rosen was a German (Lippe/Prussian) orientalist and diplomat.
WTheodore Palaiologos was a 15th- and 16th-century Greek stratiote and diplomat in the service of the Republic of Venice and one of the key early formative figures of the Greek community in Venice. He was not related to the Palaiologos dynasty of the Byzantine Empire, but his family may have been their distant cousins.
WJohann Amadeus Franz de Paula Freiherr von Thugut was an Austrian diplomat.