Erdal may refer to:

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Erdal Akdarı Erdal Akdarı (born 5 June 1993) is a Turkish footballer who plays as a defender for Denizlispor. Club career He made his Süper Lig The Süper Lig (, ''Super League''), officially known as Spor Toto Süper Lig for sponsorship reasons, is a ...

, Turkish footballer *

Erdal Arıkan Erdal Arıkan is a Turkish professor in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. He is known for his implementation of polar coding. Career Academic background Arıkan briefly served as a tenure- ...

, Turkish professor in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at Bilkent University *

Erdal Beşikçioğlu Erdal Beşikçioğlu (; born 5 January 1970) is a Turkish actor. Biography Erdal Beşikçioğlu is of paternal Laz and maternal Albanian descent. He is a maternal nephew of İlhan Cavcav. Beşikçioğlu attended İzmir Private Turkish Colle ...

, Turkish actor * Erdal Bibo, Turkish professional basketball player *

Erdal Çelik Erdal Çelik (born 1 January 1988) is a Turkish-German former professional footballer who played as a centre-back In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield position whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game a ...

, Turkish-German footballer *

Erdal Ceylanoğlu Erdal Ceylanoğlu (born 1945) is a retired Turkish general. He was Commander of the Turkish Army from 2010 to 2011. Career In 1966, he graduated from the Turkish Military Academy and in 1967 he completed infantry training. He was promoted to b ...

, retired Turkish general *

Erdal Erzincan Erdal Erzincan (born 1971) is a Turkish Alevi folk music musician, composer, and singer. In 1981, he moved to Istanbul and studied bağlama at the Arif Sağ music school in 1985. Since 1989, he has been studying music at Istanbul Technical Univer ...

, Turkish folk music musician, composer, and singer * Erdal Gezik, contemporary writer on Alevis and honor crimes in Turkey * Erdal İnönü, Turkish theoretical physicist and politician *

Erdal Karamercan Dr. Erdal Karamercan (born 1950 in Istanbul) serves as vice-chairman of the Board of Directors of Eczacıbaşı Holding, one of the largest companies of Turkey. He previously served as the CEO between 2003 and 2017. Karamercan received his high s ...

, the Chief Executive Officer and President of Eczacıbaşı Holding *

Erdal Keser Ali Erdal Keser (born 20 June 1961) is a Turkish former professional footballer who is director of sport of Galatasaray. A forward, he played for Borussia Dortmund, Galatasaray, Sarıyer and the Turkey national team. Career Keser was born in ...

, Turkish footballer *

Erdal Kılıçaslan Erdal Kılıçaslan (born 23 August 1984) is a Turkish-German former professional association football, footballer who played as a forward (association football), forward. With 41 goals in 64 caps across all Germany youth levels, he holds the rec ...

, Turkish-German footballer *

Erdal Kızılçay Erdal Kızılçay (born c. 1950) is a multi-instrumentalist musician of Turkish birth. He has worked with, among others, David Bowie. He plays bass guitar, oud, drums, keyboards, trumpet and violin. He lives in Aegerten, Switzerland. Work with Dav ...

, multi-instrumental (bass guitar, oud) musician of Turkish birth *

Erdal Merdan Erdal Merdan (April 8, 1949 – March 24, 2010) was a German dramatist, actor and stage director of Turkish origin. Born in Kayseri he lived and worked in Germany since 1969. In the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film-winning movie ''J ...

, German dramatist, actor, and stage director of Turkish origin *

Erdal Özyağcılar Erdal Özyağcılar (born 4 August 1948) is a Turkish actor. He has appeared in films, on the stage and on television. Biography Özyağcılar was born in 1948 in Bursa. He started his acting career in 1967, with the movie "''Ölüm Tarlası ...

, Turkish actor *

Erdal Pekdemir Erdal Pekdemir (born 13 June 1992) is a Turkish footballer who plays for Karaköprü Belediyespor. He made his Süper Lig The Süper Lig (, ''Super League''), officially known as Spor Toto Süper Lig for sponsorship reasons, is a Turkish pro ...

, Turkish footballer who plays for Orduspor *

Erdal Rakip Erdal Rakip ( mk, Ердал Ракип; born 13 February 1996) is a professional footballer who plays for Turkish club Antalyaspor as a midfielder. Born in Sweden, he represents the North Macedonia national team. Club career Malmö FF Rakip ...

, Swedish footballer *

Erdal Saygın Erdal Saygın (1931–2007) was a Turkish educator and university administrator who served for six years (1992–1998) as the rector of the İzmir Institute of Technology İzmir ( , ; ), also spelled Izmir, is a metropolitan city in the wes ...

, Turkish educator and university administrator *

Erdal Sunar } Erdal Sunar (born 1 May 1982 in Kütahya, Turkey) is a Turkish people, Turkish Olympic weightlifting, weightlifter competing in the –85 kg division. He studied physical education and sports at the Kütahya Dumlupınar University, an ...

, Turkish weightlifter

Surname

Bahoz Erdal Bahoz Erdal, also known as Fahman Husain ( ku, Fehman Hûseyn , also spelled Fehman Hüseyin) (born 3 August 1969), in Kurdistan in Syria is a top commander in the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). He is originally from Dêrik in Syrian Kurdistan. ...

, Kurdish member and commander of the Kurdistan Workers' Party *

Eldrid Erdal Eldrid Erdal (30 January 1901 – 1 December 1997) was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party. She was born in Naustdal. She served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament The Storting ( no, Stortinget ) (lit. the G ...

, Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party *

Fehriye Erdal Fehriye Erdal (born 25 February 1977) is a Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front militant.. She was one of the three DHKP-C members involved in the assassination of a Turkish businessman, Özdemir Sabancı and two of his employees on 9 ...

, female political activist from Turkey *

Jennie Erdal Jennie Erdal (2 February 1951 – 23 May 2020) was a Scottish writer. She was the author of ''Ghosting'', a memoir of her childhood in a Fife mining village and of being the long-serving ghostwriter of Naim Attallah, the publisher and owner of Q ...

, Scottish writer *

Jorun Erdal Jorun Irene Erdal (born 14 May 1963 in Oslo) is a Norwegian singer and musical theatre artist. Her parents are from Oppstryn in Stryn, in Sogn og Fjordane county, and she has also lived there since age 12. She was raised on Snarøya in Bærum, a ...

, Norwegian singer and musical theatre artist *

Leiv Erdal Leiv Erdal (11 August 1915 – 20 November 2009) was a Norwegian military officer, bailiff and politician for the Centre Party. He was born in Naustdal as a son of farmer, bailiff and mayor Bendik Henriksen Erdal (1879–1937) and housewife Olea ...

, Norwegian military officer, bailiff, and politician for the Centre Party * Marcel Erdal, linguist and Turkologist, professor and head of the Turkology department at Goethe University *

Paul Erdal Paul Erdal (16 May 1902 – 8 February 1985) was a Norwegian boxer who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. In 1920 he was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the featherweight class. After a bye in the first round he won his fight against ...

, Norwegian boxer who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics *

Yasin Erdal Yasin Erdal (born May 30, 1986) is a Turkish-Dutch futsal player. He currently plays for LZV Marku Bouw and is a member of the Turkey national futsal team in the UEFA Futsal Championship The UEFA European Futsal Championship is the main futsal co ...

, Turkish-Dutch futsal player *

Ziya Erdal Ziya Erdal (born 5 January 1988) is a Turkish professional footballer who currently plays as a left-back for Sivasspor in the Süper Lig. Honours Sivasspor * Turkish Cup The Turkish Cup ( Turkish: ''Türkiye Kupası'') is a football cup compet ...

, Turkish professional footballer

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* Erdal, Vestland, a village in Askøy municipality in Vestland county, Norway *

Erdal IL Erdal Idrettslag is a Norwegian sports club from Askøy. It has sections for football and martial arts. The club was founded on 27 June 1944. The club colors are red and white. The men's football team currently resides in the Fifth Division (six ...

, a sports club in Askøy, Norway * , a brand of shoe polish sold by

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