Vedat
Vedat is a masculine given name meaning "friendship, love". It is commonly used in Turkey, and less commonly in Albania, North Macedonia and Kosovo. The name has one variant, "Vedad", a very common given name in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The name and more specifically its Arabic original name "Widad" is cognate with the Hebrew name "Medad" which also has the same meanings; love and friendship, coming from their shared Semitic origins.
Given name
- Vedat Ademi, Albanian Kosovar singer-songwriter
- Vedat Aksoy, Turkish para archer
- Vedat Albayrak, Turkish judoka
- Vedat Aydın, Kurdish politician and lawyer
- Vedat Bilgin, Turkish politician and intellectual
- Vedat Bora, Turkish professional footballer
- Vedat Buz, Turkish jurist
- Vedat Dalokay, Turkish politician and architect
- Vedat Demir, Turkish academic, journalist and writer
- Vedat Demiröz, Turkish politician
- Vedat Erbay, Turkish archer
- Vedat Erincin, Turkish-German actor
- Vedat Hödük, Turkish kickboxer
- Vedat İnceefe,, Turkish footballer
- Vedat Işıkhan, Turkish politician and professor
- Vedat Kapurtu, Turkish footballer
- Vedat Karakuş, Turkish footballer
- Vedat Kokona, Albanian translator, writer and lexicologist
- Vedat Muriqi, Kosovan footballer
- Vedat Okyar, Turkish footballer
- Vedat Önsoy, Turkish boxer
- Vedat Örfi Bengü, Turkish filmmaker and actor
- Vedat Şar, Turkish psychiatrist and professor
- Vedat Tek, Turkish architect
- Vedat Türkali, Turkish screenwriter, playwright and intellectual
- Vedat Tutuk, Turkish boxer
- Vedat Uysal, Turkish footballer and manager
- Vedat Yenerer, Turkish journalist and writer