Sancar (or Sançar) is a Turkish surname. People with the surname include:
Aziz Sancar (born 1946), Turkish-US biochemist, molecular biologist, and Nobel Prize laureate Mithat Sancar (born 1963), Turkish law scholar, columnist, and politician Nejdet Sançar (1910–1975), Turkish literature teacher Semih Sancar (1911–1984), Turkish army general
See also Sancar (disambiguation)