Ömer Cerrahoğlu (born 3 May 1995)[1] is a Romanian IMO Gold medalist in mathematics.
At the age of 14 years, 80 days, he won a gold medal at the 2009 International Mathematical Olympiad, making him the third-youngest gold medalist in IMO history, behind Terence Tao and Raúl Chávez Sarmiento.
[2] He was born in Istanbul, Turkey to a Romanian mother and a Turkish father and when he was five years old, he moved with his family to Baia Mare, Romania.
He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in June 2018, where he studied computer science.
[3] In 2017, he participated in the 78th William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition as a student of MIT and earned a Putnam Fellowship.