Gökhan () is a Turkish forename meaning "ruler of the sky". The name comes from "gök" ('sky') and ''han'', the Turkish equivalent of
Khan
Khan may refer to:
* Khan (surname), including a list of people with the name
* Khan (title), a royal title for a ruler in Mongol and Turkic languages and used by various ethnicities
Art and entertainment
* Khan (band), an English progressiv ...
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Most likely, the first appearance of the name Gökhan is as one of the six sons of
Oghuz Khagan
Oghuz Khagan or Oghuz Khan (; ; ) is a legendary khan of the Turkic people and an eponymous ancestor of Oghuz Turks. Some Turkic cultures use the legend of Oghuz Khan to describe their ethnic and tribal origins. The various versions of the narra ...
Gökhan Attaroğlu
Gökhan Attaroğlu (born 19 July 1965) is a Turkish Swimming (sport), swimmer. He competed in Swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics, six events at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
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1965 births
Living people
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Gökhan Güleç
Gökhan Güleç (born 25 September 1985) is a Turkish footballer who currently plays for Şanlıurfaspor.
Career
Güleç was transferred to his previous club, Beşiktaş, on 17 January 2006 by French Manager Jean Tigana who was advised by Turke ...
Gökhan Kök
Gökhan Kök (born 3 January 1981, in Bulanık) is a Turkish retired football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualif ...
, Turkish footballer
* Gökhan Öner, Turkish volleyball player
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Gökhan Saki
Gökhan Saki (born 18 October 1983Gökhan Tokgöz, Turkish footballer
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Gökhan Töre
Gökhan Töre (, born 20 January 1992) is a professional footballer who plays as a winger.
Töre began his club career at Hamburger SV before joining Russian Premier League side Rubin Kazan in the summer of 2012. He made only seven first-team ...
, Turkish international footballer
* Gökhan Ünal, Turkish international footballer
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Gökhan Yavaşer
Gökhan Yavaşer (born 1 January 1978 in Sivas) is a retired amateur Turkish freestyle wrestler, who competed in the men's light heavyweight category. He produced a remarkable tally of four career medals, including a bronze in the 84-kg division a ...
, Turkish freestyle wrestler
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Gökhan Zan
Gökhan Zan (born 7 September 1981) is a Turkish former professional association football, footballer who played as a centre-back.
Club career
Zan was born in Antakya. He started his career with Hatayspor and then moved on to Çanakkale Dardane ...
, Turkish international footballer
Entertainment
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Gökhan Birben
Gökhan Birben is a Turkish singer and artist of Hamsheni descent.
Birben attended school in Rize until graduating from high school. After graduating at the age of 17, he ended up in Istanbul where he attended the Istanbul University State Con ...
, Turkish singer and artist of Hamsheni descent.
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Gökhan Alkan
Gökhan Alkan (born 8 December 1987) is a Turkish actor. He is multi-faceted in various fields and is trained in solfège, singing and is professionally engaged in acting, sports, voice acting, poetry and lyricism.
Early life
Gökhan Alkan wa ...
, Turkish actor and singer
* Gökhan Keser, Turkish actor, model and singer
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Gökhan Kırdar
Gökhan Kırdar (born 2 June 1970) is a Turkish musician and film score composer.
He attended Yıldız University in Istanbul to study architecture in 1988. However, he devoted himself to music and soon gained success with his soundtrack, rele ...
, Turkish film score composer
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Gökhan Özen
Ahmet Gökhan Özen (born 29 November 1979) is a Turkish singer, songwriter, actor. Also, He is best known for rom-com "Sevda Çiçeği".
Personal life
His family are from Beşikdüzü, Trabzon. On 7 July 2010, he married Selen Sevigen. The cou ...
, Turkish singer songwriter
* Gökhan Özoğuz, Turkish ska punk singer from
Athena
Athena or Athene, often given the epithet Pallas, is an ancient Greek religion, ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and handicraft who was later syncretism, syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva. Athena was regarde ...
Sciences
* Gökhan Budak (1968–2013), Turkish professor of quantum physics
* Gökhan S. Hotamisligil, Turkish-American physician scientist
Surname
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Serdar Gökhan
Serdar Gökhan (born Nusret Ersöz; 15 March 1943) is a Turkish actor.
Biography
Serdar Gökhan is an actor, known for ''Killing the Shadows'' (2006), ''The Executioner'' (1975) and ''Malkoçoğlu, the Wolf Master'' (1972).
Filmography
* Ku ...
(born 1946), Turkish actor
See also
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MV Karadeniz Powership Gökhan Bey
MV ''Karadeniz Powership Gökhan Bey'' is Liberia-flagged floating power plant, owned and operated by Karpowership. In 2016, she was solemnly sent off from the Sedef Shipyard in Tuzla, Istanbul, Turkey together with the MV ''Karadeniz Powership ...