Yavuz
Yavuz is a common masculine Turkish given name and in Turkish, Yavuz means 'inflexible', 'resolute' and 'ferocious'.
Etymology
The Old Turkic intervocalic or stem-final b, represented by the bilabial w in Karakhanid and Khorezmian Turkic, is changed to v. Thus Yavuz comes from Old Turkic: yabïz, Old Uyghur: yabīz or yawīz, Khorezmian: yawuz meaning 'bad, vile'.Given name
- Selim I, nicknamed Yavuz, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- Yavuz Ağralı, Turkish long-distance runner
- Yavuz Ali Pasha, Ottoman statesman
- Yavuz Ataç, Turkish intelligence official
- Yavuz Aygün, Turkish footballer
- Yavuz Can, Turkish sprinter
- Yavuz Çetin, Turkish musician
- Yavuz Çoker, Turkish footballer
- Yavuz Eraydın, Turkish footballer
- Yavuz Baydar, Turkish journalist
- Yavuz Bingöl, Turkish actor
- Yavuz Görey, Turkish sculptor
- Yavuz İlnam, Turkish trap shooter
- Yavuz Karamollaoğlu, Turkish karate practitioner
- Yavuz Mildon, Turkish politician
- Yavuz Özkan , Turkish film director
- Yavuz Özkan , Turkish footballer
- Yavuz Papağan, Turkish para-archer
- Yavuz Selekman, Turkish wrestler
- Yavuz Şimşek, Turkish footballer
- Yavuz Tatış, Turkish businessman
- Yavuz Turgul, Turkish film director and screenwriter
- Yavuz Yapıcıoğlu, Turkish serial killer and arsonist
- Yavuz Yolcu, Turkish judoka
Middle name
- Abdurrahman Yavuz Kalkan, Turkish footballer
- Ali Yavuz Kol, Turkish footballer
Surname
- Birsen Yavuz, Turkish sprinter
- Burak Yavuz, Turkish volleyball player
- Ece Yağmur Yavuz, Turkish female artistic gymnast
- Erdinç Yavuz, Turkish footballer
- Evin Demirhan Yavuz, Turkish wrestler
- Fatma Nur Yavuz, Turkish badminton player
- Fehmi Yavuz, Turkish bureaucrat, academic and writer
- Gizem Yavuz, Turkish basketballer
- Hakan Yavuz, Turkish basketballer and coach
- Haydar Yavuz, Turkish wrestler
- İbrahim Yavuz, Turkish footballer
- Mahmut Yavuz, Turkish navy officer and ultramarathon runner
- Mehmet Yavuz, Kurdish politician and teacher
- M. Hakan Yavuz, Turkish political scientist and historian
- Mustafa Yavuz, Austrian footballer
- Şakir Yavuz, German executive and philanthropist
- Yüksel Yavuz, Turkish-born Kurdish film director
- Jay-Jay Okocha has surname Yavuz in his Turkish passport