Kemal
Kemal is a Turkish and Bosnian male given name of Arabic origin meaning "perfection".
variants
- Kemalettin
- Kemaleddin
- Kemalullah
- Kamal (Arabic)
Name bearer
First name
- Cemal Kemal Altun (1960–1983), political refugee and Turkish asylum seeker in Germany
- Kemal Aslan (* 1981), Turkish soccer player
- Kemal Ataturk (1881–1938), first President of the Republic of Turkey
- Kemal Bozay (* 1969), German political and social scientist
- Kemal Burkay (* 1937), Kurdish writer and politician
- Kemal Gekić (* 1962), Serbian pianist
- Kemal Güven (1921–2013), Turkish lawyer and politician
- Kemal Ishmael (* 1991), American football player
- Kemal Karpat (1925–2019), Turkish historian
- Kemal Amin Kasem ( Casey Kasem; 1932–2014), American radio presenter and speaker of Lebanese-Druze origin
- Kemal Kılıç (* 1956), Turkish football player and coach
- Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu (* 1948), Turkish politician
- Kemal Kurt (1947–2002), German-Turkish writer, translator and photographer
- Kemal Malovčić (* 1946), Bosnian turbo folk singer
- Kemal Monteno (1948–2015), Bosnian pop singer
- Kemal Özdeş (* 1970), Turkish football player and coach
- Kemal Mert Özyiğit (* 1994), Turkish football player
- Kemal Rüzgar (* 1995), Turkish-German soccer player
- Kemal Serdar (* 1962), Turkish football player and coach
- Kemal Sunal (1944-2000), Turkish actor
- Kemal Tokak (* 1989), Turkish soccer player
- Kemal Unakıtan (1946–2016), Turkish economist, politician and finance minister
- Kemal Yalçın (* 1952), German-Turkish writer
- Kemal Yıldırım (* 1958), Turkish football player and coach
- Kemal Yıldırım (* 1984), Turkish soccer player
Surname
- Maris Kemal (* 1950), Mordovian-Eryan journalist, poet and activist
- Salim Kemal (1948–1999), British philosopher
Ottoman time
- Ali Kemal Bey (1867–1922), Ottoman journalist and politician
- Mehmed Kemâl (1884–1919), Ottoman civil servant, involved in the Armenian genocide
- Namık Kemal (1840–1888), Ottoman author
stage name
- Orhan Kemal (1914–1970), Turkish writer
- Yaşar Kemal (1923–2015), Kurdish-Turkish writer