İskender
İskender is a Turkish male first name and family name .
Origin and meaning
İskender was adopted from Arabic into Turkish. The starting form is the ancient Greek Alexander .
variants
The name also appears in the form of Iskender in non-Turkish contexts .
Well-known namesake
First name
- İskender Alın (* 1984), Turkish soccer player
- İskender Bey ( Skanderbeg; 1405–1468), Albanian prince
- Iskender Gider (* 1957), Turkish-German picture book author and children's book illustrator
- İskender Günen (* 1958), Turkish football player
- Mehmet İskender Paşa (1814–1861), Polish-Ottoman officer and general
- İskender Yediler (* 1953), Turkish-German object and installation artist
family name
- Hagop Iskender (1871–1949), Armenian-Turkish photographer
- Sabri Iskender (* 1947), Bulgarian-Turkish dissident
additional
- Iskender Kebap , Turkish variant of the doner kebab
- Iskender (Schulz) , a youth novel by the writer Hermann Schulz
See also
- Iskander (BKS)
- İskenderun , southern Turkish city