Fuat is a masculine
Turkish given name and the Turkish spelling of the Arabic name
Fuad
Fuad (Arabic: ''fū’ād, fou’ād'') (also spelled Fouad, Foud, Fuaad or Foad) is a masculine Arabic given name, meaning "heart"—the beating circulating heart, the concept of "mind and spirit".
Its root word is the Arabic verb ''fa’ada ...
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فؤَاد ''fū’ād, fou’ād'') meaning "heart".
Notable people named Fuat include:
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Fuat Çapa (born 1968), Belgian-Turkish football manager
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Fuat Doğu
Fuat Doğu (1914–2004) was a Turkish military officer who served as the undersecretary of the Turkish National Intelligence Agency and as the ambassador of Turkey to Portugal.
Early life and education
He was born in Istanbul in 1914. He gradu ...
(1914–2004), Turkish military officer
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Fuat Güner (born 1948), Turkish pop-rock music singer of
Mazhar-Fuat-Özkan trio
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Fuat Kalkan (born 1988), German-Turkish footballer
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Fuat Oktay
Fuat Oktay (born 21 January 1964) is a Turkish politician, civil servant and academic who served as the first vice president of Turkey from 2018 to 2023. He previously served as undersecretary to the prime minister of Turkey from 2016 until his ...
(born 1964), Former Vice President of Turkey
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Fuat Saka (born 1952), Turkish singer
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Fuat Sezgin
Fuat Sezgin (24 October 1924 – 30 June 2018) was a Turkish scholar and researcher who specialized in the history of Science in the medieval Islamic world. He was ''professor emeritus'' of the History of Natural Science at Johann Wolfgang Goet ...
(1924–2018), Turkish writer
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Fuat Uzkınay (1888–1956), Turkish filmmaker
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Fuat Yaman (born 1958), Turkish football coach
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Mehmet Fuat Köprülü
Mehmet Fuat Köprülü (December 5, 1890 – June 28, 1966), also known as Köprülüzade Mehmed Fuad, was a highly influential Turkish sociologist, Turkologist, scholar, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister of the Rep ...
(1890–1966), Ottoman-Turkish politician
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Turkish masculine given names
Masculine given names