Metin
Metin is a Turkish given name and a surname that means solid and durable; derived from the Arabic word "metîn". It is one of the 99 names of Allah.
Notable people with the name include:
Given name
- Metin Akan, Turkish professional footballer
- Metin Akpınar, Turkish actor
- Metin AktaÅŸ, Turkish footballer
- Metin Aslan, Austrian footballer
- Metin Ataseven, Swedish politician
- Metin Lütfi Baydar, Turkish medical scientist
- Metin BoÅŸnak, Turkish scholar of American Studies and Comparative Literature, and poet
- Metin Bostancıoğlu, Turkish politician
- Cemal Metin Bulutoğluları, Turkish Cypriot mayor of the capital of Northern Cyprus
- Metin Çelik, Turkish-Dutch politician
- Metin Depe, Turkey football defender
- Metin Diyadin, Turkish football manager and retired player
- Metin Erksan, Turkish film director and art historian
- Metin Ersoy, Turkish singer
- Metin Günay, Turkish director
- Metin Hüseyin, British television and film director
- Metin Kaçan, Turkish author and novelist
- Metin Kaplan, the leader of the radical Islamist movement Kalifatsstaat based in Cologne, Germany
- Metin Kaya, Turkish-born German politician
- Metin Kurt, Turkish footballer
- Metin Oktay, Turkish footballer
- Metin Serezli, Turkish actor
- Metin Sitti, Turkish roboticist and university professor
- Metin Tekin, Turkish professional football player
- Metin Toker, Turkish journalist and writer
- Metin Türel, Turkish football coach
- Metin Yenal, German actor active in the United Kingdom
- Metin Yüksel, Kurdish Islamist from Turkey
- Metin Yurdanur, Turkish sculptor
Surname
- Tümer Metin, Turkish international footballer