Yavuz is a common masculine Turkish given name and in Turkish, Yavuz means 'inflexible', 'resolute' and 'ferocious'.
Etymology The Old Turkic intervocalic or stem-final b, represented by the bilabial w in Karakhanid and Khorezmian Turkic, is changed to v. Thus Yavuz comes from Old Turkic: (), Old Uyghur: or , Khorezmian: meaning 'bad, vile'.
Given name Selim I (1470–1520), nicknamed Yavuz, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Yavuz Ağralı (born 1992), Turkish long-distance runner Yavuz Ali Pasha (fl. 1601–1604), Ottoman statesman Yavuz Ataç, Turkish intelligence official Yavuz Aygün (born 1996), Turkish footballer Yavuz Can (born 1987), Turkish sprinter Yavuz Çetin (1970–2001), Turkish musician Yavuz Çoker (born 1936), Turkish footballer Yavuz Eraydın (born 1976), Turkish footballer Yavuz Baydar, Turkish journalist Yavuz Bingöl (born 1964), Turkish actor Yavuz Görey (1912–1995), Turkish sculptor Yavuz İlnam (born 1987), Turkish trap shooter Yavuz Karamollaoğlu (born 1980), Turkish karate practitioner Yavuz Mildon (born 1955), Turkish politician Yavuz Özkan (director) (1942–2019), Turkish film director Yavuz Özkan (footballer) (born 1985), Turkish footballer Yavuz Papağan (born 1987), Turkish para-archer Yavuz Selekman (1937–2004), Turkish wrestler Yavuz Şimşek (born 1947), Turkish footballer Yavuz Tatış (born 1947), Turkish businessman Yavuz Turgul (born 1946), Turkish film director and screenwriter Yavuz Yapıcıoğlu (born 1967), Turkish serial killer and arsonist Yavuz Yolcu (born 1966), Turkish judoka
Middle name
Abdurrahman Yavuz Kalkan (born 1973), Turkish footballer Ali Yavuz Kol (born 2001), Turkish footballer
Surname Birsen Yavuz (born 1980), Turkish sprinter Burak Yavuz (born 1975), Turkish volleyball player Ece Yağmur Yavuz (born 2004), Turkish female artistic gymnast Erdinç Yavuz (born 1978), Turkish footballer Evin Demirhan Yavuz (born 1995), Turkish wrestler Fatma Nur Yavuz (born 1997), Turkish badminton player Fehmi Yavuz (1912–1991), Turkish bureaucrat, academic and writer Gizem Yavuz (born 1988), Turkish basketballer Hakan Yavuz (born 1960), Turkish basketballer and coach Haydar Yavuz (born 1994), Turkish wrestler İbrahim Yavuz (born 1982), Turkish footballer Mahmut Yavuz (born 1982), Turkish navy officer and ultramarathon runner Mehmet Yavuz (1973–2019), Kurdish politician and teacher M. Hakan Yavuz (born 1964), Turkish political scientist and historian Mustafa Yavuz (born 1994), Austrian footballer Şakir Yavuz (born 1968), German executive and philanthropist Yüksel Yavuz (born 1964), Turkish-born Kurdish film director Jay-Jay Okocha (born 1973) has surname Yavuz in his Turkish passport
See also Yavuz (disambiguation) Yavuz Sultan Selim (disambiguation)
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