Cevat is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Cevat Rıfat Atilhan (1892–1967), Turkish career officer, antisemitic writer, initiator of the 1934 Thrace pogroms Cevat Çobanlı (1870–1938), military commander of the Ottoman Army, War Minister of the Ottoman Empire Cevat Güler (born 1959), Turkish former football player and coach Cevat Abbas Gürer (1887–1943), officer of the Ottoman Army, the Turkish Army, politician of the Republic of Turkey Cevat Gürkan (1907–1984), Turkish equestrian Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı (1886–1973), Cretan Turk writer of novels, short-stories and essays Cevat Kula (1902–1977), Turkish equestrian Ahmed Cevat Pasha (1851–1900), Ottoman career officer and statesman Cevat Prekazi (born 1957), Yugoslav-Turkish former footballer Cevat Seyit (1906–1945), Turkish footballer Leman Cevat Tomsu (1913–1988), Turkish architect Refi Cevat Ulunay (1890–1968), Syrian-Turkish writer, controversial journalist and novelist during the Ottoman era Cevat Yerli (born 1978), German computer game developer of Turkish descent Cevat Yurdakul (1942–1979), prosecutor and the chief of police of Adana Province, Turkey, assassinated in 1979