Cahit is a Turkish given name for males. It is also used as a surname It is the Turkish form of the Arabic word Jahid (

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: جاهِد ''jāhid''), which means "effort, strive" or " endeavour" and stems from the Arabic verb ''jahada'' (

: َجَهَد) "to do effort to get something - be laborious; be perseverant; be sedulous; be serious". Notable people named Cahit include:

First name

Cahit Aral Hüseyin Cahit Aral (1927 – 1 November 2011) was a Turkish engineer, politician and former government minister. Cahit Aral was born 1927 in Elazığ to primary school teacher parents Fatma and Hakkı Aral. His was named in honor of the wr ...

(1927–2011), Turkish engineer and politician *

Cahit Arf Cahit Arf (; 24 October 1910 – 26 December 1997) was a Turkish people, Turkish mathematician. He is known for the Arf invariant of a quadratic form in characteristic (algebra), characteristic 2 (applied in knot theory and surgery theory) in ...

(1910–1997), Turkish mathematician *

Cahit Irgat Cahit Irgat (21 March 1915 – 5 June 1971) was a Turkish actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1930 to 1970. Selected filmography Oyuncu olarak Source: * 1931: ''Drakula'' * 1931: ''istanbul Sokakları'nda'' * 1932: ''Bir Mil ...

(1915–1971), Turkish actor * Cahit Karakaş (born 1928), Turkish engineer and politician * Cahit Kıraç (born 1956), Turkish bureaucrat *

Cahit Külebi Cahit Külebi (20 December 1917, in Tokat – 20 June 1997, in Ankara) was a leading Turkish people, Turkish poet and author. He has an important place in contemporary Turkish poetry due to his attachment to folk poetry traditions. His poetry is ...

(1917–1997), Turkish poet *

Cahit Ortaç Hüseyin Cahit Ortaç (1908 in Thessaloniki – 13 December 1980) was a Turkish politician. He graduated from Faculty of Political Science, Ankara University. He worked as a civil servant in Dalaman and Istanbul. He served as a district govern ...

(1908–1980), Turkish politician *

Cahit Ölmez Cahit Ölmez (born 1 January 1963) is a Dutch actor of Turkish descent. Filmography * ''Gwang tin lung fu wui'' (1989), Amead * '' Krokodillen in Amsterdam'' (1990), Alex * ''Domburg'' (1996), Metin * ''Flikken'' (1999–2001), Insp. Selattin ...

(born 1963), Turkish Dutch actor *

Cahit Önel Cahit Önel (23 November 1927 – 17 September 1970) was a Turkish Middle distance running, middle distance runner who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics, in the 1952 Summer Olympics, in the 1960 Summer Olympics, and in the 1964 Summer Olympics. ...

(1927–1970), Turkish athlete *

Cahit Özkan Cahit Özkan (born 25 December 1976 in Denizli, Turkey) is a Turkish politician and member of the Turkish Parliament. He is also Deputy for Denizli and a member of the Justice and Development Party. He studied at Istanbul University's Faculty of ...

(born 1976), Turkish politician *

Cahit Paşa Cahit Paşa (born 25 August 1973) is a Turkish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He played for Bornovaspor, Kuşadasıspor, Efesspor, Kartalspor, Konyaspor, Karşıyaka S.K., Aksarayspor, Siirtspor, Yalovaspor, Ka ...

(born 1973), Turkish football player *

Cahit Süme Cahit Süme (born 19 January 1972) is a Turkish boxer. He competed in the men's welterweight event at the 1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly r ...

(born 1972), Turkish boxer *

Cahit Talas Cahit Talas (1917 – 14 October 2006) was a Turkish academic who was the dean of Ankara University's Faculty of Political Science for two terms. He served as the minister of labor between 1960 and 1961. He is known for being the pioneer of soci ...

(1917–2006), Turkish academic *

Cahit Tanyol Hüseyin Cahit Tanyol (1914 – 11 August 2020) was a Turkish writer, poet, and sociologist, often regarded as the father of Turkish sociology. Early life and education Hüseyin Cahit was born in 1914 in the town of Nezib, then located in the v ...

(1914–2020), Turkish writer and sociologist *

Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı (born Hüseyin Cahit; 4 October 1911 – 13 October 1956) was a Turkish poet and author from Türkiye. Identified with the poem "Otuz Beş Yaş", Tarancı adhered to the understanding of "art for art's sake". He mostly ...

(1910–1956), Turkish poet and author *

Cahit Zarifoğlu Abdurrahman Cahit Zarifoğlu (1 July 1940 – 7 June 1987) was a Turkish poet and writer. Life Zarifoğlu was born in Ankara in 1940 and he grew up in Kahramanmaraş. He started writing poetry during his high school years at Kahramanmaraş Hi ...

(1940–1987), Turkish poet and writer

Middle name

Cemil Cahit Toydemir Cemil Cahit Toydemir (1883 – July 15, 1956) was an officer of the Ottoman Army and a general of the Turkish Army of Circassian origin. He served in Caucasus front in WWI, after Armistice of Mudros he joined Turkish National Movement and atte ...

(1883–1956), Turkish army officer *

Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın (7 December 1874 – 18 October 1957) was a prominent Turkish theorist, writer, and politician. He is famous for having been a dissident journalist, who was put on trial and punished due to his political newspaper columns ...

(1874–1957), Turkish writer and politician *

Mehmet Cahit Turhan Mehmet Cahit Turhan (born 29 April 1960) is a Turkish civil engineer, civil servant and former Minister of Transport and Infrastructure. Mehmet Cahit Turhan was born in Trabzon, northern Turkey on 29 April 1960. In 1981, he graduated from Karade ...

(born 1960), Turkish engineer and civil servant

Surname

Neriman Cahit Neriman Cahit (born 1937) is a Turkish Cypriot poet and author. She is known as a leading figure of Turkish Cypriot poetry and a vocal advocate of women's rights.Turan, MetinÇağdaş Kıbrıs Türk Şiirinde Eğilimler/ Yönelimler(Çukurova Univ ...

(born 1937), Turkish Cypriot poet and author {{given name, type=both Turkish masculine given names Masculine given names Surnames from given names