Şerif, also spelt Ŝerif in the Balkans, is a Turkish masculine given name, based on the Arabic name

Sharif Sharīf or Sherif (, 'noble', 'highborn'), also spelled shareef, feminine sharīfa (), plural ashrāf (), shurafāʾ (), or (in the Maghreb) shurfāʾ, is a title used to designate a person descended, or claiming to be descended, from the fami ...

. Notable people with the name include:

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* Šerif Berbić (born 2001), Swiss footballer * Şerif Bey Khimshiashvili (died 1892), Georgian nobleman in Ottoman and later Russian service * Şerif Erol (born 1963), Turkish actor and screenwriter *

Şerif Gören Şerif Gören (, 1 July 1944 – 8 December 2024) was a Turkish film director. Aside from important films under his own signature, he was also the winner of the Palme d'Or ("Golden Palm") award in Cannes Film Festival in 1982 for the film '' Yol ...

(1944–2024), Turkish film director * Šerif Hasić (born 1988), Bosnian footballer * Şerif İlden (1877–1952), Turkish politician, army officer and diplomat *

Šerif Konjević Konj Serifovic (born 26 April 1958) is a Bosnian pop-folk singer and one of the most prominent from the former Yugoslavia. He is considered an aficionado in his relative genre and often performs across various parts of former Yugoslavia and aroun ...

(born 1958), Bosnian folk singer *

Şerif Mardin Şerif Mardin (1927 – 6 September 2017) was a prominent Turkish sociologist, political scientist, academic and thinker. In a 2008 publication, he was referred to as the "doyen of Turkish sociology." Early life and education He was born in Ista ...

(1927–2017), Turkish social scientist * Şerif Pasha (1865–1951), Kurdish nationalist * Şerif Sezer (born 1946), Turkish actress * Şerif Muhiddin Targan (1892–1967), Turkish musician * Şerif Turgut, Turkish journalist and first female war correspondent * Şerif Yaçağaz (1876–1938), Turkish bureaucrat, army officer and antisemitic politician * Şerif Yenen (born 1963), Turkish traveloguer

Middle name

* Ekrem Şerif Uçak (1934–2012), Turkish actor * Halil Şerif Pasha (1831–1879), Ottoman-Egyptian diplomat and art collector * Mehmet Şerif Fırat (died 1949), Kurdish author * Mehmet Şerif Pasha (1771–1851), Ottoman statesman and bureaucrat * Muzaffer Şerif Başoğlu (1906–1988), Turkish-American psychologist

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* Aşık Mahzuni Şerif (1939–2002), Turkish folk musician

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