Ersoy is a
Turkish
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*a Turkic language spoken by the Turks
* of or about Turkey
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*** Turkish alphabet
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surname. ''Er'' means
man or
soldier and ''soy'' means
ancestry
An ancestor, also known as a forefather, fore-elder or a forebear, is a parent or (recursively) the parent of an antecedent (i.e., a grandparent, great-grandparent, great-great-grandparent and so forth). ''Ancestor'' is "any person from whom ...
. Notable people with this surname include:
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BaÅŸak Ersoy
BaÅŸak Ersoy (born October 23, 1991) is a Turkish women's football midfielder currently playing in the Turkish Women's Second Football League for F Adana Ä°dmanyurduspor in the Turkish Women's Super League with jersey number 19. She was membe ...
(born 1991), Turkish female footballer
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Bülent Ersoy
Bülent Ersoy (; born 9 June 1952) is a Turkish singer and actress. She is known as one of the most popular singers of Turkish music, nicknamed Diva by her fans. Ersoy has many famous hits such as "Ümit Hırsızı" ''(Hope Thief)'', "Geceler" '' ...
(born 1952), Turkish singer
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Mehmet Ersoy
Mehmet Nuri Ersoy (born 1968) is a Turkish businessman and current Minister of Culture and Tourism.
Mehmet Nuri Ersoy was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1968. After completing his secondary education in the Deutsche Schule Istanbul, he studied Bus ...
(born 1968), Turkish businessperson and current Minister of Culture and Tourism
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Mehmet Akif Ersoy
Mehmet Akif Ersoy (20 December 1873 – 27 December 1936) was a Turkish people, Turkish pan-Islamist poet, writer, academic, politician, and the author of the İstiklâl Marşı, Turkish National Anthem. Widely regarded as one of the premiere l ...
(1873-1936), Turkish poet
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Muazzez Ersoy
Hatice Yıldız Levent, better known by her stage name Muazzez Ersoy, (born 9 August 1958) is a Turkish classical music singer. In 1998, with the suggestion of the 33rd government of Turkey's Ministry of Culture, she was chosen as a State Arti ...
(born 1958), Turkish female singer
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Okan Ersoy
Okan Kadri Ersoy (born September 5, 1945, in Ä°stanbul, Turkey) is a professor of electrical engineering and director of Statistical and Computational Intelligence Laboratory at Purdue University, West Lafayette School of Electrical and Compu ...
, Turkish-American scientist
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Şükrü Ersoy
Şükrü Ersoy (born 14 January 1931) is a Turkish football goalkeeper who played for Turkey in the 1954 FIFA World Cup.
Career
Born in Kadıköy, Ersoy began playing youth football for Fenerbahçe. He would play for Vefa S.K. and Ankaragüc ...
(born 1931), Turkish footballer
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UÄŸur Ersoy (born 1932), Turkish engineer and academic
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Turkish-language surnames