Cahit is a Turkish given name for males. It is also used as a surname It is the Turkish form of the Arabic word Jahid (

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: جاهِد ''jāhid''), which means "effort, strive" or " endeavour" and stems from the Arabic verb ''jahada'' (

: َجَهَد) "to do effort to get something - be laborious; be perseverant; be sedulous; be serious". Notable people named Cahit include:

First name

Cahit Aral Hüseyin Cahit Aral (1927 – 1 November 2011) was a Turkish engineer, politician and former government minister. Cahit Aral was born 1927 in Elazığ to primary school teacher parents Fatma and Hakkı Aral. His was named in honor of the wr ...

(1927–2011), Turkish engineer and politician *

Cahit Arf Cahit Arf (; 24 October 1910 – 26 December 1997) was a Turkish people, Turkish mathematician. He is known for the Arf invariant of a quadratic form in characteristic (algebra), characteristic 2 (applied in knot theory and surgery theory) in ...

(1910–1997), Turkish mathematician * Cahit Irgat (1915–1971), Turkish actor * Cahit Karakaş (born 1928), Turkish engineer and politician * Cahit Kıraç (born 1956), Turkish bureaucrat *

Cahit Külebi Cahit Külebi (20 December 1917, in Tokat – 20 June 1997, in Ankara) was a leading Turkish people, Turkish poet and author. He has an important place in contemporary Turkish poetry due to his attachment to folk poetry traditions. His poetry is ...

(1917–1997), Turkish poet * Cahit Ortaç (1908–1980), Turkish politician * Cahit Ölmez (born 1963), Turkish Dutch actor *

Cahit Önel Cahit Önel (23 November 1927 – 17 September 1970) was a Turkish Middle distance running, middle distance runner who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics, in the 1952 Summer Olympics, in the 1960 Summer Olympics, and in the 1964 Summer Olympics. ...

(1927–1970), Turkish athlete * Cahit Özkan (born 1976), Turkish politician * Cahit Paşa (born 1973), Turkish football player * Cahit Süme (born 1972), Turkish boxer *

Cahit Talas Cahit Talas (1917 – 14 October 2006) was a Turkish academic who was the dean of Ankara University's Faculty of Political Science for two terms. He served as the minister of labor between 1960 and 1961. He is known for being the pioneer of soci ...

(1917–2006), Turkish academic * Cahit Tanyol (1914–2020), Turkish writer and sociologist *

Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı (born Hüseyin Cahit; 4 October 1911 – 13 October 1956) was a Turkish poet and author from Türkiye. Identified with the poem "Otuz Beş Yaş", Tarancı adhered to the understanding of "art for art's sake". He mostly ...

(1910–1956), Turkish poet and author * Cahit Zarifoğlu (1940–1987), Turkish poet and writer

Middle name

* Cemil Cahit Toydemir (1883–1956), Turkish army officer * Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın (1874–1957), Turkish writer and politician *

Mehmet Cahit Turhan Mehmet Cahit Turhan (born 29 April 1960) is a Turkish civil engineer, civil servant and former Minister of Transport and Infrastructure. Mehmet Cahit Turhan was born in Trabzon, northern Turkey on 29 April 1960. In 1981, he graduated from Karade ...

(born 1960), Turkish engineer and civil servant

Surname

* Neriman Cahit (born 1937), Turkish Cypriot poet and author {{given name, type=both Turkish masculine given names Masculine given names Surnames from given names