Demir means ''iron'' in

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Demir Demirkan Demir Demirkan () (born 12 August 1972) is a Turkish musician, Eurovision Song Contest winning composer, formerly guitarist for thrash metal band Mezarkabul. Demir Demirkan started playing music when he was 13 and played guitar with various gr ...

, Turkish rock musician and songwriter *

Demir Demirev Demir Demirev ( bg, Демир Демирев, born 31 August 1984) is a Bulgarian weightlifter. He is of Turkish ethnicity. He participated in the men's -69 kg class at the 2006 World Weightlifting Championships and won the bronze medal, ...

, Bulgarian weightlifter *

Demir Elmaağaçlı Demir Elmaağaçlı (born ) is a Turkish male compound archer and part of the national team. Sport career Elmaağaçlı won the silver medal at the 2008 World Archery Youth Championships held in Antalya, Turkey. He was part of the Turkish team, ...

(born 1990), Turkish archer *

Demir Hotić Demir Hotić (born 9 July 1962) is a Bosnian retired professional footballer and former manager. Playing career His most successful period was while he was playing in 1. FC Kaiserslautern, but he also played for SG Union S ...

, Bosnia and Herzegovina footballer *

Demir Ramović Demir Ramović (; born 3 January 1982), also known as ramovicOAK, is a Montenegrin ''eFootball'' player and former footballer who played as a midfielder. He represented Montenegro at the UEFA eEURO 2020. Club career Ramović started out at his h ...

, Montenegrin footballer *

Demir Sabancı Demir Sabanci is a Turkish entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and philanthropist. He is the chairman of Sedes Holding and its subsidiaries. His businesses range from the largest personal care market chain in Turkey, to real estate management and dev ...

, Turkish businessman and entrepreneur

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*''Demir'' or ''D. Mir'', pseudonyms of Romanian poet

Mircea Demetriade Mircea Constantin Demetriade (; also rendered as Demetriad, Dimitriade, Dimitriadi, or Demitriadi; September 2, 1861 – September 11, 1914) was a Romanian poet, playwright and actor, one of the earliest animators of the local Symbolist movement. ...

Aykut Demir Aykut Demir (born 22 October 1988) is a professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Ankara Keçiörengücü. Born in the Netherlands, he represents Turkey at international level. Club career Demir made his debut in professional footba ...

, Turkish footballer *

Bahadır Demir Bahadır is a common masculine Turkish given name. In Turkish, "Bahadır" means "brave", "galahad", "hero", "valiant", and/or "gallant". This name is written with a dotless ı. It appears as BAHADIR in uppercase and bahadır in lowercase. Relat ...

(1942–1973), Turkish assassinated diplomat *

Cem Demir Cem Demir (born 30 April 1985) is a Turkish people, Turkish former Association football, footballer. References

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, Turkish footballer *

Emine Demir Emine Demir (born November 11, 1993) is a Turkish women's football defender currently playing in the Women's Super League for Galatasaray with jersey number 30. She was a member of the Turkey girls' U-17, Turkey women's U-19, women's U-21 a ...

(born 1993), Turkish women's footballer *

Erdin Demir Erdin Demir (born 27 March 1990 as Erdin Demirovski) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a left back. He played in Sweden, Norway, and Belgium during a career that spanned between 2008 and 2021. A full international between ...

, Swedish footballer of Turkish descent *

Evin Demir Evin Demir (born 16 February 2001) is a Turkish race walker specialising in the 5000 metres race walk, 5000 m and 10 kilometres race walk, 10,000 m events. She is a native of Sancaktepe in Istanbul, Turkey. She was a member of Sancaktepe Spo, bef ...

(born 2001), Turkish female race walker *

Hamza Demir Hamza Demir (born 1956) is a Swedish politician and former member of the Riksdag, the national legislature A legislature is an assembly with the authority to make law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by ...

(born 1956), Swedish politician *

İlyas Demir İlyas Demir (born June 16, 1985 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish karateka competing in the kumite -60 kg division. He is a member of the İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi S.K.. Achievements ;2010: * Baku Open - September 14 B ...

, Turkish karateka *

Mahmut Demir Mahmut Demir (21 January 1970 in Amasya, Turkey), is a former Turkish Olympic, World and European champion sports in the super heavyweight class. He won the gold medal at the 1996 Olympics in Men's Freestyle wrestling. Wrestling career He was bo ...

, Turkish wrestler *

Mahmut Demir (futsal) Mahmut Demir (born 1982) is a Turkish-Austrian futsal player. He currently plays for Stella Rossa Vienna and previously played for Austria 13. He is a member of the Turkey national futsal team in the UEFA Futsal Championship The UEFA European Fu ...

, Turkish futsal player *

Mustafa Demir Mustafa Demir ( b 18 January 1961) is a Turkish politician, a member of parliament, the former Minister of Public Works and Housing under Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and the founder and former chairman of the ruling AK Party's Samsun ...

, Turkish politician *

Neslihan Demir Darnel Neslihan Demir (born 9 December 1983) is a retired Turkish people, Turkish volleyball star. She is one of the most successful athletes of Turkey and has been among Fédération Internationale de Volleyball#FIVB Heroes, FIVB Heroes. She represent ...

(born 1983), Turkish female volleyballer *

Orhan Demir Orhan Demir (; born 1954 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Canadian jazz guitarist. His first release in 1986 "The way I see You" second release is in 1987 "North West", third album was in 1989 "Windmill" in 1990 solo acoustic album "Sultan of Strings", ...

, Canadian jazz guitarist *

Tuğçe Melis Demir Tuğçe () is a common feminine Turkish given name. The name is a diminutive of '' tuğ'' "horse-tail", a type of rank insignia or field ensign used in the Ottoman army. People named "Tuğçe" include: *Tuğçe Albayrak (1991–2014), German-Tu ...

(born 1994), Turkish women's ice hockey player *

Yusuf Demir Yusuf Demir (; born 2 June 2003) is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Turkish Süper Lig club Galatasaray and the Austria national team. Club career Early life Yusuf Demir was born on 2 June 2003, in Vienna, Austr ...

(born 2003), Austrian Footballer *

Zeki Demir Zeki Demir (born June 6, 1982 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a European champion Turkish karateka competing in the kumite -80 kg division. He is a member of the İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi S.K. His younger brother İdris Demir is ...

, Turkish karateka

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