Yüksel or Yuksel is a Turkish given name and surname meaning "rise!", imperative of "yükselmek" ("to rise"). Notable people with the name include:

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Yüksel Alkan Yüksel Alkan (1 May 1931 – 23 November 2017) was a Turkish basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1952 Summer Olympics. References External links

* 1931 births 2017 deaths Turkish men's basketball playe ...

(1931–2017), Turkish basketball player * Yüksel Ayaydın (born 1989), Turkish kickboxer * Yüksel Coşkunyürek (born 1965), Turkish politician * Yüksel Koptagel (born 1931), Turkish composer and pianist * Yüksel Pazarkaya (born 1940), Turkish writer, translator and broadcaster * Yüksel Sariyar (born 1979), Austrian footballer * Yüksel Yavuz (born 1964), Turkish-born German Kurdish film director * Yüksel Yesilova (born 1972), Turkish football player and coach * Yuksel Yumerov (born 1968), Bulgarian footballer *

Yüksel Şanlı Yüksel Şanlı (born November 14, 1973) is a former competitor in Freestyle Wrestling from Turkey. Şanlı was in the 1996 Olympic Games and the 2000 Olympic Games. He finished 15th in 1996 and 9th in 2000. He also represented Turkey at the Worl ...

(born 1973), Turkish Olympic wrestler

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Anıl Yüksel Anıl Yüksel (born 19 May 1990) is a Dutch–born Turkish tennis player. Yüksel has a career high ATP singles ranking of 492 achieved on 11 November 2016. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 465, achieved on 30 July 2018. Yüks ...

(born 1990), Turkish tennis player * Atakan Yüksel (born 1985), Turkish wrestler *

Batu Han Yüksel Batu Han Yüksel (born 4 October 1999), also known as Batuhan Yüksel, is a Turkish weight lifter competing in the 81 kg division. Personal life Batu Han Yüksel was born in Ankara, Turkey on 4 October 1999. Sport career Yüksel is a ...

(born 1999), Turkish weightlifter * Burak Yacan Yüksel (born 1992), Turkish basketballer *

Burcu Yüksel Burcu Yüksel (née Ayhan; ; born 3 May 1990 in Kadirli, Osmaniye Province) is a Turkish female high jumper. She is a member of Fenerbahçe Athletics club, where she is coached by Cüneyt Yüksel. The tall athlete is at . Biography She earned t ...

(born 1990), Turkish high jumper * Celil Yüksel (born 1998), Turkish footballer * Damir Ibrić Yüksel (born 1984), Bosnian footballer *

Ece Yüksel Ece Yüksel (born 6 October 1997) is a Turkish actress best known for her roles in the movie '' Kız Kardeşler'' (2019) and the Netflix original series '' Aşk 101'' (2021). Life and career Yüksel was born in 1997 in Istanbul. She had a degree ...

(born 1997), Turkish actress *

Edip Yüksel Edip Yüksel (born December 20, 1957) is an American-Kurdish activist and prominent figure in the Quranism movement. Born in Güroymak, Yuksel is the author of more than twenty books on religion, politics, philosophy and law in Turkish. After s ...

(born 1957), Turkish American moderate religious reformer * Ekrem Gökay Yüksel (born 1981), Turkish politician * Gülistan Yüksel (born 1962), German politician *

Levent Yüksel Levent Uğur Yüksel (born October 21, 1964) is a Turkish pop singer and multi instrumentalist. He has been active in live music industry since 1993. Life Yüksel's interest in arts and music started in an early age. He started to play violin at ...

(born 1964), Turkish singer-songwriter *

Mehmet Yuksel Mehmet Tobias Scholl (born Mehmet Tobias Yüksel; 16 October 1970) is a German football manager and former player. He played most of his career as an attacking midfielder for Bayern Munich. During his career he won the UEFA Cup in 1996 (scoring ...

(born 1970), German footballer and manager *

Metin Yüksel Metin Yüksel (July 17, 1958 – February 23, 1979) was a Kurdish-Turkish political and social Islamist activist. One of the main leaders of Turkey's Islamic movement during the 1970s, he also was a member of the Raiders Organization. Early ...

(1958–1979), Turkish Islamist *

Mikail Yüksel Mikail Yüksel (born 10 September 1982 in Kulu, Turkey) is a Swedish and Turkish politician in Sweden. He is the founder and leader of the minority friendly Nuance Party, which focuses on Sweden's Muslim population. Political career Yüksel w ...

(born 1982), Swedish politician *

Müjde Yüksel Müjde Yüksel (born 9 March 1981) is a former Turkish female basketball player. The national competitor played in the forward position. After Yüksel played for Migrosspor, she transferred to Fenerbahçe Istanbul. She played for two seasons ...

(born 1981), Turkish female basketball player *

Saadet Yüksel Saadet Yüksel (born 7 December 1983) is a Turkish judge at the European Court of Human Rights Education Yüksel entered the faculty of Law of the Istanbul University in September 2000, where she obtained a Bachelor of Laws in 2004 and a Mast ...

(born 1983), Turkish judge *

Serdar Yüksel Serdar Yüksel (born April 27, 1973) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and current Member of the Bundestag since the 2025 election. He has also been a member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia since the 2010 ele ...

(born 1973), German politician *

Şule Yüksel Şenler Şule Yüksel Şenler (29 May 1938 – 28 August 2019) (Born Yüksel Şenler) was a Turkish writer, journalist. She devoted herself throughout her life to improving the status of conservative women in Turkish society and became a leading role mode ...

(1938–2019), Turkish journalist

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