Yıldırım is a Turkish word meaning "

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People

Given name

* Ali Yıldırım Koç (born 1967), Turkish businessman and member of the Koç family *

Yıldırım Akbulut Yıldırım Akbulut (; 2 September 1935 – 14 April 2021) was a Turkish politician, who was a leader of the Motherland Party (ANAP), the Prime Minister of Turkey, and twice the Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. A lawyer by pr ...

(1935–2021), Turkish politician *

Yıldırım Aktuna Yıldırım Aktuna (1930 – September 29, 2007) was a Turkish psychiatrist, politician, district mayor and government minister in a number of cabinets. Early years He was born 1930 in Istanbul. After completing the high school in Karşıyaka, ...

(1930–2007), Turkish psychiatrist and politician *

Yıldırım Demirören Yıldırım Demirören (born 6 October 1964) is a Turkish businessman, former chair of the Istanbul-based Turkish multisports club Beşiktaş, and former president of the Turkish Football Federation. He owns part of ''Demirören Şirketler Gru ...

(born 1964), Turkish businessman and president of Turkish Football Federation

Surname

Adem Yıldırım Adem Yıldırım (born 1973) is a Turkish politician from the Justice and Development Party who was elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey from Istanbul in the 2023 Turkish parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in ...

(born 1973), Turkish politician *

Adnan Yıldırım Adnan Yıldırım (1957 – 2 June 1994) was a Turkish businessman of Kurdish descent. Yıldırım was born in Diyarbakır, the son of Selim Yıldırım. On 3 June 1994 together with Savaş Buldan and Hacı Karay, he was abducted by unidentifi ...

(1957–1994), Turkish person involved in the Susurluk scandal * Ahmet Yıldırım (born 1974), Turkish footballer *

Avni Yıldırım Avni Yıldırım (born 5 August 1991) is a Turkish professional boxer. He challenged for the WBC super-middleweight title in 2019, and the WBA (Super), WBC, and ''Ring'' magazine super-middleweight titles in 2021. Professional career Yıldırı ...

(born 1991), Turkish boxer * Aygün Yıldırım (born 1995), German footballer *

Aziz Yıldırım Aziz Yıldırım (born 2 November 1952) is a Turkish businessman and civil engineer who served as the 36th chairman of the Turkey, Turkish sports club, multi-sport club Fenerbahçe S.K., Fenerbahçe SK. He lost the election held on 3 June 2018 t ...

(born 1952), Turkish businessman and former chairman of Fenerbahçe S.K. *

Binali Yıldırım Binali Yıldırım (; born 20 December 1955) is a Turkish politician who served as the List of Prime Ministers of Turkey, 27th and last prime minister of Turkey from 2016 to 2018 and Speaker of the Grand National Assembly from 2018 to 2019. He w ...

(born 1955), Turkish politician and prime minister from May 2016 to July 2018 *

Bülent Yıldırım (referee) Bülent Yıldırım (born 1 March 1972 in Pınarbaşı, Kayseri Province, Turkey) is a Turkish football referee. He was educated in Political Science and Public Administration at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara. Currently, he is e ...

(born 1972), Turkish football referee *

Cemal Yıldırım Cemal Yıldırım (1925–2009) was a Turkish philosopher, author, educator, and researcher. He wrote 15 books (4 in English and 11 in Turkish) and numerous academic papers. He wrote extensively on the philosophy of science and the history of sci ...

(1925–2009), Turkish philosopher of science * Cem Yıldırım (born 1961), Turkish mathematician * Elif Yıldırım (born 1990), Turkish female middle-distance runner *

Enver Yıldırım Enver Yıldırım (born 18 October 1995) is a Turkish Olympian fencer who competes in the sabre event. Early years in fencing Yıldırım started performing fencing in 2005. He was inspired by his older brothers who were trained by their neig ...

(born 1995), Turkish fencer *

Erman Yıldırım Erman Yıldırım (born 26 February 1986) is a Turkish former professional footballer who played as a defender. Yıldırım was a youth product of Gaziantepspor Gaziantepspor was a Turkish football club located in the city of Gaziantep. F ...

(born 1986), Turkish footballer *

Serkan Yıldırım Serkan Yıldırım (born Persian: ; Latin: Sajjad Hashemi Ahangari on 22 August 1991) is an Iranian-born Turkish athlete. He has competed at both the Olympic and Paralympic Games competing in the 100 m and 400 m sprint events, as ...

(born 1991), Turkish para-athlete *

Sezen Aksu Sezen Aksu (; born Fatma Sezen Yıldırım; 13 July 1954) is a Turkish singer, songwriter and producer. She is one of the most successful Turkish people, Turkish singers, having sold over 40 million albums worldwide. Her nicknames include the "Q ...

(Fatma Sezen Yıldırım) (born 1954), Turkish singer, songwriter and producer *

Fatoş Yıldırım Fatoş Yıldırım (born March 28, 1994) is a Turkish women's association football, women's footballer who plays as a Midfielder (association football), midfielder in the Turkish Women's Football Super League, Super League for Fomget Gençlik ve ...

(born 1994), Turkish women's footballer *

Fehmi Bülent Yıldırım Fehmi Bülent Yıldırım (born 1966 in Erzurum, Turkey) is a Turkish lawyer and the current president of Turkish NGO, İHH (İnsan Hak ve Hürriyetleri, İnsani Yardım Vakfı) which provided humanitarian relief in Libya, Pakistan, Russia, Chin ...

(born 1966), Turkish NGO leader *

Gülser Yıldırım Gülser Yıldırım (born 1 January 1963, Nusaybin, Mardin) is a Kurdish politician of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and former member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. In 2011, she was elected into the Turkish parliament out of pri ...

(born 1963) Turkish-Kurdish politician *

Haluk Yıldırım Haluk Yıldırım (born 25 June 1972 in Bursa, Turkey) is a retired Turkish professional basketball player. He is currently the general manager of Karşıyaka Basket of the Turkish Basketbol Süper Ligi. Honors * 3 times Turkish Championship * 1 ...

(born 1972), Turkish basketball player *

Hüseyin Yıldırım Hüseyin Yıldırım (born March 10, 1928) is a Turkish-American auto mechanic who was sentenced to life imprisonment in the United States for his courier role in the espionage activities of U.S. serviceman James Hall III during the Cold War era ...

(born 1928), convicted Turkish spy of the Cold War era *

Irmak Yıldırım Irmak Yıldırım (born 2005) is a Turkish motocross racer. She is her country's first female athlete in this sport. She is a native of Balıkesir, Turkey. Encouraged by her father, she started motorcycle riding in 2012. She has been participat ...

(born 2005), Turkish female motocross racer *

Mahmut Yıldırım Mahmut Yıldırım (born 3 May 1953) is a Turkish counter-guerrilla and spy of Zaza origin. Yildirim, who identified himself to the public as Ahmet Demir but was called by the code-name ''Yeşil'' among intelligence, disappeared in 1998.''Sabah ...

(born 1953), Turkish Olympian contract killer *

Mithat Yıldırım Mithat Yıldırım (born January 12, 1966) is a retired Olympian cross-country skier from Turkey. Mithat Yıldırım competed for Turkey at the 1992 Winter Olympics and 1994 Winter Olympics in cross country 10 km (classical) and 10 km events ...

(born 1966), Turkish cross-country skier *

Murat Yıldırım (actor) Murat Yıldırım (born 13 April 1979) is a Turkish actor. Early life Murat Yıldırım was born in Konya, Turkey. His father is of Kurdish people, Kurdish origin and was a teacher of literature. Yıldırım's father speaks Turkish and Kurdis ...

(born 1979), Turkish actor *

Murat Yıldırım (footballer) Murat Yıldırım (born 18 May 1987) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for TFF First League club Çorum. Notably, he is also the owner of the club. International career Yıldırım picked up caps as a youth international, h ...

(born 1987), Dutch footballer of Turkish descent *

Özkan Yıldırım Özkan Yıldırım (born 10 April 1993) is a German professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Turkish club Menemen. Club career On 14 May 2016, the last day of the 2015–16 Bundesliga season, Yıldırım made his first-t ...

(born 1993), German footballer *

Ramazan Yıldırım Ramazan Yıldırım (born 7 September 1975) is a former footballer and manager. Born in Germany, he is of Turkish descent. Career As a player, Yıldırım spent three seasons in the 2. Bundesliga with Rot-Weiss Essen and Kickers Offenbach, as w ...

(born 1975), Turkish footballer and manager *

Rıza Yıldırım Rıza Yıldırım (born May 6, 1987) is a European champion Turkish wrestler competing in the 97 kg division of freestyle wrestling. He is a member of Bursa Büyükşehir Belediyesi Spor Kulübü. Yıldırım won the gold medal in the 96 ...

(born 1987), Turkish wrestler * Rukiye Yıldırım (born 1991), Turkish female taekwondo practitioner *

Selma Yildirim Selma Yildirim (born 25 August 1969) is an Austrian politician who is a member of the National Council and deputy chairperson of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ). Life Yildirim was born in 1969 in Istanbul, Turkey, and moved to ...

(born 1969), Austrian politician *

Sercan Yıldırım Sercan Yıldırım (; born 5 April 1990) is a Turkish former football player who played as a forward. Club career Bursaspor Yıldırım started his career at Bursaspor. He broke into the first team in the 2007–2008 season, making his league ...

(born 1990), Turkish footballer * Uğur Yıldırım (born 1982), Dutch footballer of Turkish descent

Nickname

Bayezid I Bayezid I (; ), also known as Bayezid the Thunderbolt (; ; – 8 March 1403), was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1389 to 1402. He adopted the title of ''Sultan-i Rûm'', ''Rûm'' being the Arabic name for the Eastern Roman Empire. In 139 ...

(1354–1403), "Yıldırım Bayezid", Ottoman sultan

Places

Yıldırım, Bursa Yıldırım is a municipality and district of Bursa Province, Turkey. Its area is 110 km2, and its population is 655,856 (2022). It covers part of the city centre of Bursa. Founded in 1987, it was named after Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I, wh ...

, a metropolitan district in the center of Bursa, Turkey *

Yıldırım, Yenişehir Yıldırım is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Yenişehir, Bursa Province Bursa Province () is a Provinces of Turkey, province and Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey, metropolitan municipality in Turkey along the Sea of ...

, Turkey * Milia, Famagusta (), Northern Cyprus * Yıldırım railway station, a commuter rail station in Ankara, Turkey

Other uses

J-600T Yıldırım J-600T Yıldırım (''Thunderbolt'') is a short-range ballistic missile developed by Roketsan based on the Chinese B-611, it is designed to attack high-value targets such as enemy air defence installations, C3I centers, logistics and infrastruc ...

, a conventional battlefield ballistic missile system of Turkey *

Yıldırım Bosna S.K. Yıldırım Bosna SK is a football club from the Bayrampaşa neighborhood of Istanbul. The club was founded by migrant Turkish citizens who had migrated from the Balkans to Istanbul. Its original name was Altınçam. It then took several names i ...

, a football club in Istanbul, Turkey *

Yıldırım Army Group The Yıldırım Army Group or Thunderbolt Army Group of the Ottoman Empire or Army Group F (German: ''Heeresgruppe F'') was an Army Group of the Ottoman Army during World War I. While being an Ottoman unit, it also contained the German Asia Cor ...

, army group of the Ottoman Empire during World War I {{DEFAULTSORT:Yildirim Turkish-language surnames Turkish masculine given names Masculine given names