Şerif, also spelt Ŝerif in the Balkans, is a

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masculine given name, based on the Arabic name

Sharif Sharīf or Sherif (, 'noble', 'highborn'), also spelled shareef, feminine sharīfa (), plural ashrāf (), shurafāʾ (), or (in the Maghreb) shurfāʾ, is a title used to designate a person descended, or claiming to be descended, from the fami ...

. Notable people with the name include:

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Šerif Berbić Šerif Berbić (born 25 November 2001) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Bellinzona on loan from Lugano. Club career A youth product of Luzern, Berbić began his career with their reserves in 2019. On 22 June 2020 ...

(born 2001), Swiss footballer * Şerif Bey Khimshiashvili (died 1892), Georgian nobleman in Ottoman and later Russian service *

Şerif Erol Şerif Erol (born 8 October 1963) is a Turkish actor and screenwriter. Life and career Erol decided to become a physicist and enrolled in the Physics Department of Boğaziçi University after his high school physics teacher declared to his clas ...

(born 1963), Turkish actor and screenwriter *

Şerif Gören Şerif Gören (, 1 July 1944 – 8 December 2024) was a Turkish film director. Aside from important films under his own signature, he was also the winner of the Palme d'Or ("Golden Palm") award in Cannes Film Festival in 1982 for the film '' Yol ...

(1944–2024), Turkish film director *

Šerif Hasić Šerif Hasić (born 7 January 1988) is a Bosnian former professional footballer who plays as a centre-back In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prev ...

(born 1988), Bosnian footballer *

Şerif İlden Mustafa Şerif İlden (1877, Veles – 1952, Istanbul) was a Turkish career officer, diplomat and far-right politician. Biography He was born in Veles. His father, Hüseyin Avni Bey, was a civil servant in Skopje. Şerif Bey graduated from ...

(1877–1952), Turkish politician, army officer and diplomat *

Šerif Konjević Konj Serifovic (born 26 April 1958) is a Bosnian pop-folk singer and one of the most prominent from the former Yugoslavia. He is considered an aficionado in his relative genre and often performs across various parts of former Yugoslavia and aroun ...

(born 1958), Bosnian folk singer *

Şerif Mardin Şerif Mardin (1927 – 6 September 2017) was a prominent Turkish sociologist, political scientist, academic and thinker. In a 2008 publication, he was referred to as the "doyen of Turkish sociology." Early life and education He was born in Ista ...

(1927–2017), Turkish social scientist *

Şerif Pasha Mehmed Şerif Pasha (1865 – 22 December 1951), a founding member of Kurd Society for Cooperation and Progress and representative of the Society for the Elevation of Kurdistan to the Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920). He was a leading Kurdis ...

(1865–1951), Kurdish nationalist *

Şerif Sezer Şerif Sezer (born 12 December 1946) is a Turkish actress. She is also known for her roles in Turkish cult films like ''Everything About Mustafa'' and ''My Father and My Son''. She was born in 1946 in Mudanya and she has Rumelian, Georgians, Geor ...

(born 1946), Turkish actress *

Şerif Muhiddin Targan Şerif Muhiddin Targan (January 21, 1892 – September 13, 1967), also known as Sherif Muhiddin Haydar or Serif Muhiddin Haydar, was a Turkish Arab classical musician and oud player. His instrumental compositions for the oud departed from the trad ...

(1892–1967), Turkish musician *

Şerif Turgut Şerif Turgut is a Turkish journalist and the first woman war correspondent of Turkey, best known for her coverage during the Bosnian War. Şerif Turgut received her master's degree in international politics from George Washington University, ...

, Turkish journalist and first female war correspondent *

Şerif Yaçağaz Şerif Yaçağaz (1876 – 5 October 1938) was a Turkish career officer, civil servant and antisemitic politician, who served as an officer in the Ottoman Army and the Turkish Army. His antisemitic and anti-communist lectures drew the attention o ...

(1876–1938), Turkish bureaucrat, army officer and antisemitic politician *

Şerif Yenen Şerif Yenen (born 17 May 1963) is a Turkish travel specialist, tour guide, travel writer, film-maker, international keynote speaker and lecturer. He wrote '' Turkish Odyssey'' in English, the “first guidebook of Turkey ever written by a Turk” ...

(born 1963), Turkish traveloguer

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Ekrem Şerif Uçak Ekrem Bora (born Ekrem Şerif Uçak; 7 March 1934 – 1 April 2012) was a Turkish film actor. Biography After finishing school, he went to Sultanahmet State Printinghouse where he got a diploma in typesetting and binding. In 1953, he participate ...

(1934–2012), Turkish actor *

Halil Şerif Pasha Khalil Sherif Pasha, transliterated variously as Halil Şerif Pasha (, 20 June 1831 – 12 January 1879), was an Ottoman-Egyptian statesman, diplomat and art collector, who lived during the Tanzimat period. His collection was described by T ...

(1831–1879), Ottoman-Egyptian diplomat and art collector *

Mehmet Şerif Fırat Mehmet Şerif Fırat (1894/1899 – 1949) was a Kurdish author and is known for his 1945 book ''History of Varto and the Eastern Provinces'' in which he denied the existence of Kurds and claimed they are of Turkish origin. The book was republis ...

(died 1949), Kurdish author *

Mehmet Şerif Pasha Mehmet Şerif Pasha ( ''Mehmet Şerif Paşa''; ) was an Ottoman civil servant who served as Vali of Jeddah Eyalet and Shaykh al-Haram of Mecca from 1845 to 1848. In 1251 AH (1835/1836) he was promoted to ''rutbe-saniye'' (second grade civil rank ...

(1771–1851), Ottoman statesman and bureaucrat *

Muzaffer Şerif Başoğlu Muzafer Sherif (born Muzafer Şerif Başoğlu; July 29, 1906 – October 16, 1988) was a Turkish- American social psychologist. He helped develop social judgment theory and realistic conflict theory. Sherif was a founder of modern social psych ...

(1906–1988), Turkish-American psychologist

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Aşık Mahzuni Şerif Şerif Cırık, popularly known as Aşık Mahsuni Şerif, was a Turkish ashik, folk musician, composer, poet, and author.

(1939–2002), Turkish folk musician

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