Can (name)
Can is a common Turkish, Azerbaijani and Circassian given name and surname, meaning spirit, life, soul or heart. Turkish and Azerbaijani use is derived from the Persian word Jan and Circassian use is derived from Circassian word Janberk. Džan is a variant in use in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Given name
First name
- Can Akın, Turkish basketball player
- Can Arat, Turkish footballer
- Can Artam, Turkish race car driver
- Can Atilla, Turkish composer and musician
- Can Ayvazoğlu, Turkish volleyball player
- Can Bartu, Turkish basketball player, footballer and columnist
- Pashanim, German rapper of Kurdish descent whose real name is Can David Bayram
- Can Bonomo, Turkish pop singer
- Can Dündar, Turkish journalist, columnist and documentarian
- Can Emre Yücel, Turkish footballer
- Can Erdem, Turkish footballer
- Can Ergenekan, Turkish-American swimmer
- Can Kim Hua, Vietnamese-American professional poker player
- Can Korkmaz, Turkish basketball player
- Can Maxim Mutaf, Turkish basketball player
- Can Öncü, Turkish motorcycle racer
- Can Özüpek, Turkish triple jumper
- Can Themba, South African short-story writer
- Can Togay, Hungarian film director
- Can Yücel, Turkish poet
- Can Yaman, Turkish actor
Middle name
- Coşkun Can Aktan, Turkish professor of economics
- Asım Can Gündüz, Turkish rock and blues guitarist
- Emre Can Coşkun, Turkish footballer
- Ömer Can Sokullu, Turkish footballer
- Bahtiyar Can Vanlı, German-Turkish football coach
Chinese and Vietnamese
- Huy Cận, Vietnamese poet
- Kun Can, Chinese painter
- Liu Can, emperor of the Chinese/Xiongnu state Han Zhao
- Liu Can (Tang dynasty), official of the Chinese Tang dynasty
- Ngô Đình Cẩn, member of South Vietnam's Diệm government
- Nguyễn Bá Cẩn, former Prime Minister of South Vietnam
- Trịnh Căn, Vietnamese ruler
- Wang Can, politician, scholar and poet during Chinese Han dynasty
- Wu Can, official of Eastern Wu during the Chinese Three Kingdoms period
- Yuan Can, high-level official of the Chinese dynasty Liu Song
- Zhou Can, Chinese long jumper
- Zhu Can, rebel leader during the Chinese Sui dynasty
Surname
- Cem Can, Turkish footballer
- Cihan Can, Turkish footballer
- Çiğdem Can Rasna, Turkish volleyball player
- Derya Can Göçen, Turkish world record holder female free-diver
- Emre Can, German footballer
- Emre Can (chess player), Turkish Grand Master chess player
- Erdem Can, Turkish basketball coach
- Erkan Can, Turkish film and theatre actor
- Eyüp Can (boxer), Turkish boxer
- Melisa Can, U.S.-born Turkish female basketball player
- Mustafa Can, Swedish author and journalist of Kurdish origin
- Müslüm Can, German footballer
- Osman Can, Turkish jurist
- Sena Can, Turkish sport shooter
- Sibel Can, Turkish folk pop singer
- Şenol Can, Turkish footballer
- Yasemin Can, Turkish female long-distance runner of Kenyan origin
- Zülal Can, Turkish female fencer
Cans
- Joacim Cans, member of the Swedish band HammerFall