Bekir

Bekir is a Turkish given name for males which comes from Abu Bakr, the first Caliph of Islam.

Given name

 * Bekir Fikri (1882–1914), Ottoman officer and revolutionary
 * Bekir Sıtkı Bircan (1886–1967), Turkish footballer
 * Bekir Bozdağ (born 1965), Turkish lawyer and politician
 * Bekir Büyükarkın (1921–1998), Turkish poet, novelist and playwright
 * Bekir Çoban-zade (1893–1937), Crimean Tatar poet and professor of Turkic languages
 * Bekir Coşkun, Turkish journalist
 * Bekir Sıtkı Erdoğan (1926–2014), Turkish poet and songwriter
 * Bekir Sami Günsav (1879–1934), officer of the Ottoman Army
 * Bekir İrtegün (born 1984), Turkish footballer
 * Bekir Karayel (born 1982), Turkish middle and long-distance runner
 * Bekir Sami Kunduh, Turkish politician
 * Bekir Küçükay, Turkish classical guitarist
 * Bekir Ozan Has (born 1985), Turkish footballer
 * Bekir Sami Kunduh (1867–1933), Turkish foreign minister
 * Bakr Sidqi, Iraqi nationalist and general of Kurdish origin
 * Bekir Özlü (born 1988), Georgian-Turkish judoka
 * Bekir Rasim (born 1994), Bulgarian footballer of Turkish descent
 * Bekir Refet (1899–1977), Turkish football player
 * Bekir Sıtkı Sezgin (1936–1996), Turkish musician
 * Bekir Yarangüme (born 1977), Turkish basketball player
 * Muhamed Bekir Kalajdžić (1892–1963), Bosnian writer, bookseller and publisher

Surname

 * Erol Bekir (born 1974), Swedish-Macedonian football manager and former player of Turkish origin