Turan (name)
Turan is a personal name of differing origins, it may refer to:
Given name
- Turan (mythology), in Etruscan mythology, the goddess of love and vitality and patroness of Vulci
- Turan-Shah (d. 1180), Ayyubid prince (emir) of Yemen, Baalbek, Damascus, Alexandria
- Al-Muazzam Turanshah (d. 1250), son of Sultan As-Salih Ayyub
- Turan Akalın (born 1984), Turkish wheelchair tennis player and wheelchair curler
- Turan Dursun (1934–1990), Turkish mufti
- Turan Güneş, Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1974
- Turan Mirzayev (born 1979), Azerbaijani weightlifter
- Turan Sofuoğlu (born 1965), Turkish footballer
- Turan-Mirza Kamal (1951–2004), American musician
Surname
- Ali Turan (born 1983), Turkish soccer player
- Arda Turan (born 1987), Turkish footballer
- Atila Turan (born 1992), Turkish-French footballer
- Cemil Turan (born 1947), Turkish footballer
- Ekin Tunçay Turan, Turkish stage actress and translator
- Emre Turan (born 1990), Turkish soccer player
- Esin Turan (born 1970), Austrian-Turkish painter and sculptor
- Fatih Turan (born 1993), Turkish footballer
- Hadi Turan, mayor of Keban, a town in Turkey
- Hakan Turan (born 1992), Turkish soccer player
- İlter Turan, Turkish academic
- Kenneth Turan (born 1946), American film critic
- Mehmet Cahit Turan (born 1960), Turkish civil engineer, civil servant and former government minister
- Nesim Turan (born 1992), Turkish Paralympic table tennis player
- Özdemir Turan (born 1950), Turkish acrobat
- Sali Turan (born 1949), Turkish painter
- Sefer Turan (born 1962), Turkish journalist
- Veysel Turan (1901-2007), Turkish veteran of the Turkish War of Independence
- Frigyes Turán (born 1974), Hungarian rally driver
- Pál Turán (1910–1976), Hungarian mathematician
- Periyasamy Turán (1908–1987), Patriot and Tamil Poet
Tribal name
- Turan, alternative name of Toran (Pashtun tribe), a tribe in Afghanistan
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