Taskin is a masculine given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Given name Taşkın Aksoy (born 1967), German-Turkish football manager and former player Taşkın Çalış (born 1993), Turkish footballer Taskin Ahmed (born 1995), Bangladeshi cricketer
Surname Ayşen Taşkın (born 1996), Turkish female boxer Dilan Yeşim Taşkın (born 2001), Turkish-Austrian footballer Émile-Alexandre Taskin (1853–1897), French operatic baritone, descendant of Pascal Ilter Tashkin (born 1994), German-Azerbaijani footballer Pascal Joseph Taskin (1723–1793), Belgian-French harpsichord and piano maker