Kemal (name)
Kemal, also archaically spelt Kamâl, is a Turkish and Bosnian male given name of Arabic origin meaning integrity, perfection, maturity. It is derived from the Arabic name Kamal and commonly used in Turkey and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Different spellings
- Kamel, Kemel
Given name
First name
- Kemal Akbaba, Turkish football player
- Kemal Alispahić, Bosnian footballer
- Kemal Alomerović, Macedonian football player
- Kemal Bedri, Ethiopian politician
- Kemal Arıkan, Turkish diplomat assassinated by an Armenian group in Los Angeles, United States
- Kemal Aslan, Turkish football player
- Kemal Başar, Turkish theatre director
- Kemal Bilmez, Belgian politician of Turkish descent
- Kemal Bokhary, Hong Kong judge
- Kemal Bourhani, French footballer of Comorian descent
- Kemal Curić, Bosnian automobile designer
- Kemal Derviş, Turkish economist and politician
- Kemal Dinçer, Turkish basketball player
- Kemal Faruki, Turkish footballer
- Kemal Gekić, American classical pianist of Bosnian ancestry
- Kemal Güleş, Turkish amputee footballer
- Kemal Horulu, Turkish sprinter and pornographic film director
- Kemal Arda Gürdal, Turkish swimmer
- Kemal Idris, Indonesian Army general
- Kemal Izzet, English footballer of Turkish Cypriot ethnicity
- Kemal Karpat, Turkish historian
- Kemal Kaya Effendi, Turkish military officer
- Kemal Kayhan, Turkish volleyball player
- Kemal Kerinçsiz, Turkish lawyer and political activist
- Kemal Kıvanç Elgaz, Turkish volleyball player
- Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, Turkish politician
- Kemal Kirişci, Turkish academic and political scientist
- Kemal Koyuncu, Turkish athlete
- Kemal Kozarić, Bosnian banker
- Kemal Küçükbay, Turkish cyclist
- Kemal Kurspahić, Bosnian journalist
- Kemal Kurt, German author and translator of Turkish descent
- Kemal Malovčić, Bosnian singer
- Kemal Monteno, Bosnian singer
- Kemal Okyay, Turkish footballer
- Kemal Reis, Ottoman privateer and admiral
- Kemal Rijken, Dutch historian
- Kemal Satır, Turkish physician and politician
- Kemal Sunal, Turkish actor
- Kemal Şahin, Turkish entrepreneur
- Kemal Tahir, Turkish author and intellectual
- Kemal Tokak, Turkish footballer
- Kemal Türkler, Turkish labor union leader
- Kemal Unakıtan, Turkish politician
- Kemal Zeytinoğlu, Turkish engineer and politician
Middle name
- Ali Kemal Bey, Turkish journalist and politician
- Derviş Kemal Deniz, Turkish-Cypriot minister of economy and tourism
- Mehmet Kemal Ağar, Turkish politician
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder and first President of Turkey
- Mustafa Kemal Kurdaş, Turkish economist and politician
- Namık Kemal Yolga, Turkish diplomat
- Namık Kemal Zeybek, Turkish politician
- Orhan Kemal Cengiz, Turkish lawyer, journalist and human rights activist
- Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, Turkish writer
Surname
- Ismail Kemal, Albanian founding father and prime minister
- Kara Kemal, Turkish politician
- György Ekrem-Kemál, Hungarian nationalist politician
- Mariz Kemal, Russian poet
- Namık Kemal, Turkish writer
Pseudonym
- Orhan Kemal, Turkish writer
- Yaşar Kemal, Turkish writer of Kurdish origin