Alkane (name)
Alkan is a Turkish predominantly male first name with the meaning "blood red" (from "al", Turkish "blood-colored", red, scarlet, and "kan", Turkish "blood"). The name also occurs - not only in the Turkish-speaking area - as a family name .
Name bearer
family name
- Charles Valentin Alkan (1813–1888), French composer
- Ender Alkan (* 1977), Turkish football player
- Erden Alkan (* 1941), Turkish-German theater producer
- Erol Alkan (DJ) (* 1974), British DJ of Turkish Cypriot descent
- Erol Alkan (soccer player) (* 1994), Dutch-Turkish soccer player
- Napoléon Alkan (1826–1906), French composer and music teacher
- Okan Alkan (* 1992), Turkish football player
- Onur Alkan (* 1990), Turkish football player
- Siegfried Alkan (1858–1941), German composer
- Yakup Alkan (* 1992), Turkish soccer player
- Yüksel Alkan (1935-2000), Turkish football player