Özcan () is a Turkish male given name which also appears as a surname. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

Özcan Alper Özcan Alper (born 1975) is a Turkish film director and screenwriter of Hemshin peoples, Hemshin descent. He studied at Trabzon Lisesi. In 1992, he moved to Istanbul to study at Istanbul University Engineering Faculty in the Physics Department a ...

, Turkish director and screenwriter *

Özcan Arkoç Özcan Arkoç (2 October 1939 – 17 February 2021) was a Turkish footballer who played as a goalkeeper, most notably for German club Hamburger SV. Career Arkoç was born in Hayrabolu, Turkey in 1939. He began his football career at Vefa. He ...

, Turkish footballer *

Özcan Bizati Özcan Bizati (born 19 May 1968) is a Turkish football manager. References 1968 births Living people Sportspeople from Denizli Turkish football managers Gençlerbirliği S.K. non-playing staff MKE Ankaragücü managers Pendikspor man ...

, Turkish football manager *

Özcan Deniz Özcan Deniz (born 19 May 1972) is a Turkish actor, singer, composer, writer and director Kurdish descent. Life His family is of Kurdish origin. Deniz's family is originally from Ağrı but he was born in Ankara and grew up in Aydın. He is t ...

, Turkish actor and musician *

Özcan Kızıltan Özcan Kızıltan (born 12 July 1959) is a Turkish football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (wor ...

, Turkish footballer *

Özcan Köksoy Özcan Köksoy (16 November 1940 – 23 March 2022) was a Turkish footballer who played as a defender. He made one appearance for the Turkey national team in 1965. Honours Fenerbahçe *Süper Lig: 1963–64, 1964–65, 1967–68 *Turkish C ...

, Turkish footballer *

Özcan Melkemichel Özcan Melkemichel (born 21 February 1968) is a Swedish football manager and former player, most recently in charge of AFC Eskilstuna. Career Melkemichel came to Sweden in 1975 after having been born in Turkey and then spending five years livin ...

, Swedish football manager *

Özcan Mutlu Özcan Mutlu (born January 10, 1968) is a Turkish-German former politician from the Green Party. In January 2025, he left the party because of "toxic power structures" in the Berlin regional association of the Greens. Early years Mutlu has live ...

, Turkish-German politician *

Özcan Özel Özcan Özel (;born 13 January 1959) was a Turkish politician and educator. In 2021, he joined the Homeland Party as Deputy Chairman. Personal life Özcan Özel was born on January 13, 1959, in the Karamürsel district of Kocaeli province. H ...

, Turkish politician *

Özgür Can Özcan Özgür Can Özcan (born 10 April 1988) is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a forward for TFF Second League club Kırklarelispor. Early career Özcan was born in Antalya. He won a World fairplay award after informing the referee t ...

, Turkish footballer *

Özcan Seçmen Özcan Seçmen (born 1 January 1947) is a Turkish botanist and former professor at Ege University Ege University or Aegean University () is a public research university in Bornova, İzmir. It was founded in 1955 with the faculties of Medicin ...

, Turkish botanist *

Özcan Purçu Özcan Purçu (born 6 May 1977) is a Turkish politician of Romani origin. He is the first ever member of the parliament of Romani heritage in Turkey, elected in 2015.Özcan Yaşar Özcan Yaşar (born 13 January 2002) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Turkish club Fethiyespor. Born in the Netherlands, he represents Turkey internationally. Club career Early years Yaşar played youth football for SV De ...

, Turkish footballer *

Özcan Yeniçeri Özcan Yeniçeri (born on 1 January 1954), is a Turkish politician and academic who had been a member of the Grand National Assembly from 2011 to 2015. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Yeniceri, Ozcan 1954 births Living people ...

, Turkish politician and academic *

Özcan Yorgancıoğlu Özcan () is a Turkish male given name which also appears as a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Özcan Alper, Turkish director and screenwriter * Özcan Arkoç, Turkish footballer * Özcan Bizati, Turkish football mana ...

, Turkish Cypriot politician

Surname

Ahmet Özcan Ahmet Özcan (born 7 March 1995) is a Swiss professional football who plays as a centre-back for the reserve team of Lausanne-Sport. Club career Özcan made his professional debut for Lausanne-Sport in a Swiss Super League 4–0 loss to FC ...

, Swiss footballer *

Ali Can Özcan Ali Can Özcan (born 29 June 2001) is a Turkish Paralympic Games, paralympic Para taekwondo, taekwondo practitioner. Career He competed at the 2022 European Taekwondo Championships, winning the gold medal in the 2022 European Taekwondo Champions ...

, Turkish paralympic taekwondo player *

Ali Kemal Özcan Ali Kemal Özcan (born 1959)is a Turkish academic and lecturer at the Munzur University in Tunceli. He is known for his research regarding the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and its leader Abdullah Öcalan. Education and early life Özcan was b ...

, Turkish academic *

Berkay Özcan Berkay Özcan (born 15 February 1998) is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Turkish Süper Lig club Çaykur Rizespor on loan from İstanbul Başakşehir. Club career VfB Stuttgart On 6 November 2015, Özcan ...

, Turkish-German footballer *

Fatma Özcan Fatma Özcan is a Turkish-American computer scientist who works as a principal software engineer for Google, where her work concerns infrastructure such as MapReduce for the analysis of big data. Education and career Özcan has an undergraduate ...

, Turkish-American computer scientist *

Gazanfer Özcan Gazanfer Özcan (27 January 1931 – 17 February 2009) was a Turkish actor. Biography Born on 27 January 1931 in Istanbul, He was a graduate of Vefa High School, Istanbul. Özcan started his career as an actor with the play Hisse-i Şaiya ...

, Turkish actor *

Kadir Özcan Ömer Kadri Özcan (21 June 1952 – 22 October 2013) was a Turkish football player and coach, who primarily played as a defender. Death Özcan died of a heart attack on 22 October 2013, aged 61, in his hometown of Akçaabat, Trabzon Province ...

, Turkish footballer *

Kaya Özcan Kaya Özcan (born 1945) is a Turkish wrestler Wrestling is a martial art, combat sport, and form of entertainment that involves grappling with an opponent and striving to obtain a position of advantage through different throws or techniques ...

, Turkish wrestler *

Macit Özcan Macit Özcan, (born 1954 in Karataş, Adana Province, Turkey) is a Turkish politician of the Republican People's Party (CHP) and a former mayor of Mersin. After his secondary education in Adana, he graduated in civil engineering from Çukurova ...

, Turkish politician *

Mustafa Özcan Mustafa Özcan (born 1926, date of death unknown) was a Turkish long-distance runner who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and officially branded as London 1948, were an in ...

, Turkish long-distance runner *

Mustafa Özcan Güneşdoğdu Mustafa Özcan Güneşdoğdu is a Qur'an reciter of Turkish descent. Born in 1970 in Çankırı, Turkey, he currently lives in Germany. His Call to Prayer (Adhan) was featured on the accompanying CD for the book ''Approaching the Qur'an'', writte ...

, Turkish Quran reciter *

Muzzi Özcan Roberto Mancini (; born 27 November 1964) is an Italian football manager and former player who was most recently the head coach of the Saudi Arabia national team. As a player, Mancini operated as a deep-lying forward, and was best known for h ...

, British Turk football agent *

Naşit Özcan Naşit Özcan (1886 – 26 April 1943) was a Turkish theater actor known for his performance of the "İbish" character. Biography Özcan was born in 1886 in Istanbul Istanbul is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest ...

, Turkish actor * Özgürcan Özcan, Turkish footballer *

Rahmi Özcan Rahmi Özcan (born 1990) is a Turkish amputee footballer playing as a midfielder. He is a member of the Turkey national amputee football team. Private life Rahmi Özcan was born in Manisa in 1990 with a birth defect of right leg deformation, ...

(born 1990), Turkish amputee footballer *

Ramazan Özcan Ramazan Özcan ( born 28 June 1984) is an Austrian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, mainly for his first club Austria Lustenau as well as German club FC Ingolstadt 04. Career Club Özcan started his professional career ...

, Austrian footballer *

Reha Özcan Ragıp Reha Özcan (born 5 July 1965) is a Turkish actor. He is best known for his role Fikri Elibol in the TV series ''Bizim Hikaye''. Life and career Ragıp Reha Özcan was born on 5 July 1965 in Bingöl, Turkey. He has a brother Serhat Özcan, ...

, Turkish actor *

Salih Özcan Salih Özcan (born 11 January 1998) is a professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for club Borussia Dortmund. Born in Germany, he plays for the Turkey national team. Club career Born in Germany, Özcan is of Turkish descen ...

, German footballer *

Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan Ṣebnem Kalemli-Özcan is an economist and the Schreiber Family Professor of Economics at Brown University. She is a co-editor of the Journal of International Economics, on the board of editors of the American Economic Review, an associate edito ...

, Turkish economist *

Serden Özcan Serden Özcan (born 1977) is a professor and holder of the Otto Beisheim Endowed Chair of Innovation and Corporate Transformation at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar near Koblenz. During the 2017/2018 academic year the ...

, Danish academic *

Şeref Özcan Şeref Özcan (born 8 June 1996) is a German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for İstanbulspor]. Career Özcan made his professional debut for SC Preußen Münster, Preußen Münster in the 3. Liga on 19 July 2019, starting in ...

, German footballer * Sümeyye Özcan (Paralympian), Sümeyye Özcan, Turkish female Paralympian athlete and goalball player * Sümeyye Özcan, Liechtensteiner footballer *

Tayfun Özcan Tayfun Özcan is a Dutch-Turkish kickboxer, born and raised in Tilburg, Netherlands. He is the former Enfusion 72.5 kg and 70 kg World champion. Tayfun holds notable wins over Andy Souwer, Davit Kiria, Mohamed Khamal, Amansio Paraschiv, Endy Se ...

, Dutch-Turkish kickboxer *

Ummet Ozcan Ummet Ozcan (born 16 August 1982) is a Dutch DJ and producer of Turkish origin, specializing in the techno genre. Life and career Ummet Ozcan is the son of Turkish parents; he was born and grew up in the Netherlands. He says that his Turkish ...

, Dutch DJ of Turkish origin *

Yasin Özcan Yasin Özcan (born 20 April 2006) is a Turkish professional Association football, footballer who plays as a centre-back or left-back for club Aston Villa F.C., Aston Villa and the Turkey national football team, Turkey national team. Profession ...

, Turkish footballer

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