Yıldırım (name)
Yıldırım is a Turkish male first name and family name . Outside of the Turkish-speaking area, the non-Turkish spelling Yildirim occurs very occasionally in the family name .
meaning
Yıldırım means “lightning”. Because of the speed of his campaigns, Yıldırım was the nickname of Sultan Bayezid I.
Name bearer
First name
- Yıldırım Akbulut (* 1935), Turkish politician
- Yıldırım Aktuna (1930–2007), Turkish psychiatrist and politician
- Yıldırım Dağyeli (* 1942), German publisher and literary translator
- Yıldırım Demirören (* 1964), Turkish football official
- Yıldırım Tuğrul Türkeş (* 1954), Turkish politician (MHP)
- Yıldırım Uran (1955–2019), Turkish football coach
family name
- Ahmet Yıldırım (* 1974), Turkish football player and coach
- Ataman Yıldırım (* 1983), German-Turkish soccer player
- Atilla Yıldırım (* 1990), Turkish soccer player
- Avni Yıldırım (* 1991), Turkish boxer
- Aygün Yıldırım (* 1995), German-Turkish soccer player
- Aziz Yıldırım (* 1952), Turkish football official
- Berkan Yıldırım (* 1986), German-Turkish soccer player
- Binali Yıldırım (* 1955), Turkish Prime Minister
- Bülent Yıldırım (* 1972), Turkish football referee
- Cem Yıldırım (* 1961), Turkish mathematician
- Emrullah Yıldırım (* 1996), Turkish soccer player
- Erman Yıldırım (* 1983), Turkish soccer player
- Erol Yıldırım (* 1944), Turkish writer and literature teacher
- Ersoy Yildirim (* 1962), Turkish writer, living in Switzerland
- Ertugrul Yildirim (* 1997), Austrian football player
- Fehmi Bülent Yıldırım (* 1966), Turkish lawyer and official of İnsan Hak ve Hürriyetleri ve İnsani Yardım Vakfı
- Hakan Yıldırım , Turkish fashion designer
- Hasan Yıldırım (* 1960), Turkish soccer player
- Hüseyin Yıldırım (* 1932), Turkish spy of the GDR
- İsmail Yıldırım (* 1990), Dutch-Turkish soccer player
- İzzet Yıldırım (* 1984), Turkish soccer player
- Kemal Yıldırım (* 1958), Turkish soccer player
- Kemal Yıldırım (soccer player, 1984) (* 1984), Turkish soccer player
- Kesire Yıldırım (* 1951), founding member of the PKK and wife of Abdullah Öcalan
- Mehmet Feyzi Yıldırım (* 1996), Turkish soccer player
- Mehmet Yıldırım , contemporary personality of Islam in Germany of Turkish origin
- Muammer Yıldırım (* 1990), Turkish soccer player
- Murat Yıldırım (* 1987), Turkish-Dutch soccer player
- Murat Yıldırım (boxer) (* 1996), German boxer of Turkish origin
- Necdet Yıldırım (1943–1969), Turkish football player
- Oğuzhan Yıldırım (* 1995), Turkish football player
- Osman Yıldırım (* 1965), Turkish football player
- Özgür Yıldırım (film director) (* 1979), Turkish-German film director
- Özgür Yıldırım (soccer player) (* 1979), Turkish soccer player
- Özgür Emre Yıldırım (* 1983), Turkish actor
- Özkan Yildirim (* 1993), German-Turkish soccer player
- Ramazan Yıldırım (* 1975), German-Turkish soccer player
- Recep Yıldırım (ATB) , Turkish politician (BBP) and cultural functionary
- Recep Yıldırım (AKP) , Turkish politician
- Reyhan Yıldırım (* 1987), German comic artist
- Rukiye Yıldırım (* 1991), Turkish Taekwondoin
- Selma Yildirim (* 1969), Austrian politician (SPÖ), member of the National Council
- Sercan Yıldırım (* 1990), Turkish soccer player
- Uğur Yıldırım (* 1982), Dutch-Turkish soccer player
- Yücel Yıldırım (* 1993), Turkish soccer player
- Yunus Yıldırım (* 1970), Turkish football referee
- Zeki Yıldırım (* 1991), Turkish soccer player