Yıldırım is a Turkish word meaning "

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People

Given name

* Ali Yıldırım Koç (born 1967), Turkish businessman and member of the Koç family *

Yıldırım Akbulut Yıldırım Akbulut (; 2 September 1935 – 14 April 2021) was a Turkish politician, who was a leader of the Motherland Party (ANAP), the Prime Minister of Turkey, and twice the Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. A lawyer by pro ...

(1935–2021), Turkish politician *

Yıldırım Aktuna Yıldırım Aktuna (1930 – September 29, 2007) was a Turkish psychiatrist, politician, district mayor and government minister in a number of cabinets. Early years He was born 1930 in Istanbul. After completing the high school in Karşıyak ...

(1930–2007), Turkish psychiatrist and politician *

Yıldırım Demirören Yıldırım Demirören (born 6 October 1964) is a Turkish businessman, former chair of the Istanbul-based Turkish multisports club Beşiktaş, and former president of the Turkish Football Federation. He owns part of ''Demirören Şirketler Gr ...

(born 1964), Turkish businessman and president of Turkish Football Federation

Surname

* Adem Yıldırım (born 1973), Turkish politician * Adnan Yıldırım (1957–1994), Turkish person involved in the Susurluk scandal *

Ahmet Yıldırım Ahmet Yıldırım (born 25 February 1974 in Amasya) is a Turkish former professional footballer and coach who is currently the manager of Sarıyer. Club career Yıldırım has played for Fenerbahçe S.K., Samsunspor, Ankaragücü, İstanbul ...

(born 1974), Turkish footballer *

Avni Yıldırım Avni Yıldırım (born 5 August 1991) is a Turkish professional boxer. He challenged for the IBO super-middleweight title in 2017, the WBC super-middleweight title in 2019, and the WBA (Super), WBC, and ''Ring'' magazine super-middleweight ti ...

(born 1991), Turkish boxer * Aygün Yıldırım (born 1995), German footballer *

Aziz Yıldırım Aziz Yıldırım (born 2 November 1952) was the 36th chairman of the Turkish, He has Kurdish Origin multi-sport club Fenerbahçe SK. He lost the election held on 3 June 2018 to Ali Koç which made him the 37th president of the Turkish club. ...

(born 1952), Turkish businessman and former chairman of Fenerbahçe S.K. * Binali Yıldırım (born 1955), Turkish politician and prime minister from May 2016 to July 2018 * Bülent Yıldırım (referee) (born 1972), Turkish football referee * Cemal Yıldırım (1925–2009), Turkish philosopher of science *

Cem Yıldırım Cem Yalçın Yıldırım (born 8 July 1961) is a Turkish mathematician who specializes in number theory. He obtained his B.Sc from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey and his PhD from the University of Toronto in 1990. His advisor ...

(born 1961), Turkish mathematician *

Elif Yıldırım Elif Yıldırım Gören (born February 14, 1990) is a Turkish sprinter, who is specialized in the 400m hurdles event. The tall athlete at is a member of Enka SK Enkaspor ( tr, Enka Spor Kulübü) is a multi-sports club established in 1983 ...

(born 1990), Turkish female middle-distance runner * Erman Yıldırım (born 1986), Turkish footballer *

Sezen Aksu Sezen Aksu (; born Fatma Sezen Yıldırım; 13 July 1954) is a Turkish pop music singer, songwriter and producer who has sold over 40 million albums worldwide. Her nicknames include the "Queen of Turkish Pop" and "''Minik Serçe''" ("Little Spa ...

(Fatma Sezen Yıldırım) (born 1954), Turkish singer, songwriter and producer * Fatoş Yıldırım (born 1994), Turkish women's footballer *

Fehmi Bülent Yıldırım Fehmi Bülent Yıldırım (born 1966 in Erzurum, Turkey) is a Turkish lawyer and the current president of Turkish NGO, İHH (İnsan Hak ve Hürriyetleri, İnsani Yardım Vakfı) which provided humanitarian relief in Libya, Pakistan, Russia, Chi ...

(born 1966), Turkish NGO leader * Gülser Yıldırım (born 1963) Turkish-Kurdish politician *

Haluk Yıldırım Haluk Yıldırım (born June 25, 1972, in Bursa, Turkey) is a retired Turkish professional basketball player. He is currently the general manager of Beşiktaş men's basketball team. Honors * 3 times Turkish Championship * 1 times Turkish Cup * ...

(born 1972), Turkish basketball player * Hüseyin Yıldırım (born 1928), convicted Turkish spy of the Cold War era * Irmak Yıldırım (born 2005), Turkish female motocross racer *

Mahmut Yıldırım Mahmut Yıldırım (born 1951, Yenidal, Solhan, Bingöl Province), better known as Yeşil ( Turkish for "Green"), is a Turkish rogue agent of Zaza origins. He is wanted for the murders of eight people in Turkey. Among the murders he is accused o ...

(born 1953), Turkish Olympian contract killer * Mithat Yıldırım (born 1966), Turkish cross-country skier * Murat Yıldırım (actor) (born 1979), Turkish actor * Murat Yıldırım (footballer) (born 1987), Dutch footballer of Turkish descent * Özkan Yıldırım (born 1993), German footballer *

Ramazan Yıldırım Ramazan Yıldırım (born 7 September 1975) is a German-born Turkish former footballer and manager. Career As a player, Yıldırım spent three seasons in the 2. Bundesliga with Rot-Weiss Essen and Kickers Offenbach, as well as one season in t ...

(born 1975), Turkish footballer and manager *

Rıza Yıldırım Rıza Yıldırım (born May 6, 1987) is a European champion Turkish wrestler competing in the 97 kg division of freestyle wrestling. He is a member of Bursa Büyükşehir Belediyesi Spor Kulübü. Yıldırım won the gold medal in the 96 ...

(born 1987), Turkish wrestler *

Rukiye Yıldırım Rukiye Yıldırım (born February 12, 1991 in Ankara) is a European champion Turkish taekwondo practitioner competing in the finweight division. She is a graduate student in the School of Sports science at Selçuk University in Konya. She began ...

(born 1991), Turkish female taekwondo practitioner *

Selma Yildirim Selma Yildirim (born 25 August 1969) is an Austrian politician who is a member of the National Council and deputy chairperson of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ). Life Yildirim was born in 1969 in Istanbul, Turkey, and moved to ...

(born 1969), Austrian politician *

Sercan Yıldırım Sercan Yıldırım (, born 5 April 1990) is a Turkish former football player who played as a forward. Club career Bursaspor Yıldırım started his career at Bursaspor. He broke into the first team in the 2007–2008 season, making his leagu ...

(born 1990), Turkish footballer * Uğur Yıldırım (born 1982), Dutch footballer of Turkish descent

Nickname

Bayezid I Bayezid I ( ota, بايزيد اول, tr, I. Bayezid), also known as Bayezid the Thunderbolt ( ota, link=no, یلدیرم بايزيد, tr, Yıldırım Bayezid, link=no; – 8 March 1403) was the Ottoman Sultan from 1389 to 1402. He adopted ...

(1354–1403), "Yıldırım Bayezid", Ottoman sultan

Places

Yıldırım, Bursa Yıldırım is a metropolitan district that covers 399 km² in the centre of Bursa in Turkey. Founded in 1987, it was named after Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I, whose nickname was Yıldırım ("thunderbolt" in Turkish). It is at the foot of M ...

, a metropolitan district in the center of Bursa, Turkey * Yıldırım, Yenişehir, Turkey * Milia, Famagusta ( tr, Yıldırım, link=no), Northern Cyprus * Yıldırım railway station, a commuter rail station in Ankara, Turkey

Other uses

* J-600T Yıldırım, a conventional battlefield ballistic missile system of Turkey * Yıldırım Bosna S.K., a football club in Istanbul, Turkey * Yıldırım Army Group, army group of the Ottoman Empire during World War I {{DEFAULTSORT:Yildirim Turkish-language surnames Turkish masculine given names Masculine given names