List of Turkic-languages poets

This is a list of poets writing in Turkic languages.

11th–12th century

 * Mahmud al-Kashgari, poet (1005–1102)
 * Yusuf Balasaguni, poet (1019–1085)
 * Ahmad Yasawi, poet, mystic (1093–1166)
 * Arslan Baba, poet, mystic

13th–14th century

 * Mahmud Qırımlı, first attested Crimean Tatar poet (c. 1200)
 * Yunus Emre, poet, mystic and Dervish Sufi (1240–1320)
 * Izzeddin "Hasanoglu" Esfaryani, poet, (13th - 14th centuries)
 * Köroğlu, a poet of the ashik tradition
 * Kaygusuz Abdal, Alevi folk poet, (1341–1444)
 * Kadi Burhan al-Din, (1345–1398)
 * Pir Sultan Abdal, (1480–1550)

15th–16th century

 * Nasimi, (1369–1417)
 * Ali Şir Nevai, poet (1441–1501)
 * Pir Sultan Abdal (1480–1550)
 * Khatai, (1487–1524)
 * Gül Baba, (d. 1541)
 * Muhibbi, (1494–1566)
 * Fuzûlî, poet (1483–1556)
 * Babur, poet (1483–1530)

17th–18th–19th century

 * Karacaoğlan (c. 1606-c. 1680)
 * Aşıq Ümer (1621–1707), Crimean Tatar poet-ashik
 * Yusuf Nabi (1642–1712)
 * Magtymguly Pyragy (1724–1807), Turkmen poet, songwriter and intellectual
 * Kul Nesîmî (17th century), Alevi-Bektashi poet
 * Ahmet Nedîm Efendi (c. 1681–1730)
 * Bukhar-zhirau Kalmakanov, poet (1693–1789)
 * Erzurumlu Emrah, poet (1775–1854)
 * Dadaloğlu, (c. 1785–c. 1868)
 * Abay Qunanbayuli, (1845–1904), poet, composer and philosopher

20th century

 * Ismail Gasprinski, Crimean Tatar poet, publisher, intellectual (1851–1914)
 * Mirjaqip Dulatuli (1885–1935) - poet, writer and a leader of Alash Orda government
 * Akhmet Baytursinuli (1873–1937) - poet, writer, pedagogue and politician
 * Neyzen Tevfik, poet (1879–1953)
 * Magzhan Zhumabayev, poet (1893– 1938)
 * Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, poet (1884–1958)
 * Noman Çelebicihan, Crimean Tatar leader and poet (1885–1918)
 * Bekir Çoban-zade, Crimean Tatar poet and professor of Turkic languages (1893–1937)
 * Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel, poet (1898–1973)
 * Nazim Hikmet Ran, poet (1901–1963)
 * Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, poet, novelist, essayist (1901–1962)
 * Ahmet Kutsi Tecer, poet, dramatist (1901–1967)
 * Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, poet, essayist (1905–1983)
 * Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, poet (1906–1988)
 * Ahmet Muhip Dıranas, poet (1909–1980)
 * Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı, poet (1910–1956)
 * Rıfat Ilgaz, poet, writer, journalist (1911–1993)
 * Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu, painter and poet (1913–1975)
 * Oktay Rıfat Horozcu, poet (1914–1988)
 * Orhan Veli Kanik, poet (1914–1950)
 * Melih Cevdet Anday, poet (1915–2002)
 * Alykul Osmonov, poet (1915–1950)
 * Âşık Veysel, ashik, poet (1894–1973)
 * Behçet Necatigil, poet, dramatist (1916–1979)
 * Ilhan Berk, poet (1918–2008)
 * Necati Cumalı, poet, dramatist (1921–2001)
 * Bahtiyar Vahapzade, poet (1925–2009)
 * Can Yücel, poet (1926–1999)
 * Ümit Yaşar Oğuzcan, poet, author (1926–1984)
 * Edip Cansever, poet (1928–1986)
 * Ece Ayhan Çağlar, poet (1931–2002)
 * Talat Sait Halman, poet (1931–2014)
 * Cemal Süreya, poet (1931–1990)
 * Onat Kutlar, writer, poet (1936–1995)
 * Aşık Mahzuni Şerif, ashik, poet (1939–2002)
 * Attila Ilhan, writer, poet, captain (1925–2005)

21st century

 * Abdurehim Ötkür, poet (1923–1995)
 * Sabit İnce, writer, poet (1954)
 * Ismet Özel, poet (1944–)
 * Haydar Ergülen, poet (1956–)
 * Sunay Akın, poet, writer (1962–)
 * Abdurehim Heyt, poet, singer (1962–)
 * Süreyya Aylin Antmen (1981–)