Yavuz
Yavuz (also Yawus ) is a Turkish male given name meaning “good, strict, beautiful; brave, generous ”, which also appears as a family name .
Name bearer
Ottoman time
- Selim I , called Yavuz (1470–1520), sultan of the Ottoman Empire since 1512
First name
- Yavuz Abadan (1905–1967), Turkish legal scholar and politician
- Yavuz Baydar (* 1956), Turkish journalist and blogger
- Yavuz Bingöl (* 1964), Turkish-Alevi folk musician
- Yavuz Ekinci (* 1979), Turkish writer
- Yavuz Eraydın (* 1976), Turkish soccer player
- Yavuz Karakoç (* 1988), Turkish ice hockey player
- Yavuz Kurtulmus (* 1980), Turkish-Austrian curator and film festival director
- Yavuz Özkan (* 1985), Turkish soccer goalkeeper
- Yavuz Özoguz (* 1959), Turkish-German process engineer and author
- Yavuz Özsevim (* 1990), Turkish soccer player
family name
- Emre Yavuz (pianist) (* 1990), Turkish pianist
- Emre Yavuz (soccer player) (* 1992), Turkish soccer player
- Erdinç Yavuz (* 1978), Turkish soccer player
- Hakan Yavuz (* 1997), Turkish soccer player
- İbrahim Yavuz (* 1982), Turkish football player
- Kamuran Yavuz (* 1947), Turkish football player and coach
- Karaman Yavuz (* 1958), German film director and author
- Meriç Yavuz (* 1965), Turkish football player
- Mustafa Yavuz (* 1994), Austrian football player
- Seval Yavuz (* 1970), Turkish-Alevi singer and saz player
- Yiğit Yavuz (* 1996), Turkish soccer player
- Yüksel Yavuz (* 1964), filmmaker of Kurdish origin
Ships
- Yavuz Sultan Selim , since 1930 Ottoman battle cruiser (ex. SMS Goeben), later as battle cruiser Yavuz in the Turkish Navy
- Yavuz (F 240) , frigate in the Turkish Navy since 1987
- Yavuz (ship) , drilling ship of the Turkish company Türkiye Petrolleri Anonim Ortaklığı
Buildings
- Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge , bridge over the Bosphorus in Istanbul
- Yavuz-Sultan-Selim-Moschee , mosque in Mannheim