Halil
Halil is a masculine Arabic given name ( Arabic خليل, DMG Ḫalīl ) with the meaning "a close friend", which also occurs in Turkish and Albanian as well as a family name . The Turkish feminine form of the given name is Halile .
Name bearer
Ottoman time
- Halil Rıfat Pasha (1827–1901), Ottoman statesman and Grand Vizier
- Halil Serif Pasha (1831–1879), Ottoman diplomat and art collector
First name
- Halil İbrahim Akçay (* 1960), Turkish football player
- Halil Altındere (* 1971), Kurdish-Turkish multimedia and action artist
- Halil Altıntop (* 1982), Turkish soccer player
- Halil Berktay (* 1947), Turkish historian, university professor and columnist
- Halil Çolak (* 1988), Dutch-Turkish soccer player
- Halil Dervişoğlu (* 1999), Dutch-Turkish soccer player
- Halil İbrahim Dinçdağ (* 1976), Turkish football referee
- Halil Ergün (* 1946), Turkish actor
- Halil Gülbeyaz (* 1962), German television journalist, documentary filmmaker and author
- Halil Haxhosaj (* 1946), Albanian writer
- Halil İnalcık (1916–2016), Turkish historian
- Halil Kut (1882–1957), Ottoman general
- Jakup Halil Mato (1934–2005), Albanian literary scholar, essayist and literary critic
- Sulejman Halil Mato (* 1941), Albanian writer
- Halil Mutlu (* 1973), Turkish weightlifter
- Halil İbrahim Pehlivan (* 1993), Turkish football player
- Halil Savran (* 1985), German-Turkish soccer player
- Hacı-Halil Uslucan (* 1965), German psychologist, migration researcher, columnist and author
- Halil Yeral (* 2000), Turkish soccer player
- Halil Zeybek (* 1985), Turkish soccer player
family name
- Ahmad Halil , Islamic Chief Justice of Jordan
- Patrona Halil († 1730), Ottoman insurgent, see Patrona Halil uprising
- Yusuf Halil (* 1991), Turkish ice hockey player