Turhan is a Turkish masculine given name. Notable persons with the name or surname include:

Given name

* Turhan Baytop (1920–2002), Turkish botanist * Turahan Bey (died 1456), Ottoman military commander and governor * Turhan Bey (1922–2012), Turkish-American actor * Turhan Erdoğan (1938–2019), Turkish academic * Turhan Feyzioğlu (1922–1988), Turkish academic and politician * Turhan Göker (1930–2022), Turkish track and field athlete * Turhan Nejat Veziroğlu (born 1924), Turkish-American academic * Turhan Përmeti (c. 1840–1927), Albanian politician and statesman * Turhan Selçuk (1922–2010), Turkish cartoonist * Turhan Sultan ( –1683), Valide sultan of the

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and the final woman of the Sultanate of Women * Turhan Taşan (born 1948), Turkish musician * Turhan Tayan (born 1943), Turkish lawyer and politician * Turhan Tezol (1932–2014), Turkish basketball player * Turhan Yıldız (born 1940), Turkish footballer * Turhan Yılmaz (born 1956), Turkish chess player

Surname

* Elif Nur Turhan (born 1995), Turkish boxer * Evren Nuri Turhan (born 1974), Turkish footballer * İbrahim Turhan (born 1968), Turkish economist and politician * Mehmet Cahit Turhan (born 1960), Turkish engineer and politician * Necdet Turhan (born 1957), Turkish visually impaired mountain climber and long distance runner * Olcay Turhan (born 1988), German footballer * Sinan Turhan (born 1956), Turkish footballer

Fictional characters

*Turhan, a character in ''Babylon 5'' {{given name, nocat Turkish masculine given names Masculine given names