Yaşar (name)

Yaşar is a masculine Turkish given name, which also appears as a surname that means immortal. In non-Turkish publications, the name would many times appear as Yasar (with no cedilla on the s).

People with the name include:

Yaşar

 * Yaşar Aliyev (born 1955), Azerbaijani diplomat
 * Yaşar Altıntaş (born 1957), Turkish footballer
 * Yaşar Alpaslan (1914–1995), Turkish footballer
 * Yaşar Turgut Bilgin (born 1957), Turkish author
 * Yaşar Büyükanıt (1940–2019), Turkish general, Chief of the Turkish General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces
 * Yaşar Halit Çevik (born 1955), Turkish ambassador
 * Yaşar Doğu (1913–1961), Turkish sports wrestler
 * Yaşar Erkan (1911–1986), Turkish sports wrestler
 * Yaşar Giritli (born 1969), Turkish boxer
 * Yaşar Güler (born 1954), Turkish general
 * Yasar İsmailoğlu (born 1945), Turkish-Cypriot poet, writer and journalist
 * Yaşar Kemal (1923-2015), Turkish writer and journalist of Kurdish origin
 * Yaşar Kurt (born 1968), Turkish musician of Armenian origin
 * Yaşar Nezihe (1882-1971), Ottoman Turkish poet
 * Yaşar Okuyan (1950–2023), Turkish politician
 * Yaşar Nuri Öztürk (1951–2016), Turkish politician
 * Yaşar Ören (born 1942), Turkish cross-country skier
 * Yaşar Topçu (born 1941), Turkish politician and government minister
 * Yaşar Yakış (born 1938), Turkish politician and government minister
 * Yaşar Yılmaz (born 1930), Turkish sports wrestler

Yasar

 * Yasar Onel, Turkish-born Swiss and American physicist

Middle name

 * Ümit Yaşar Oğuzcan (1926–1984), Turkish poet

Yaşar

 * Ebru Yaşar (born 1978), Turkish female musician
 * Ece Yaşar (born 1990), Turkish female karateka
 * İbrahim Halil Yaşar (born 1994), Turkish footballer
 * Muhsin Yaşar, Turkish basketball player
 * Necdet Yaşar (1930–2017), Turkish tanbur (lute) player and teacher
 * Osman Yaşar, American computer scientist
 * Nurettin Yaşar (born 1961), Turkish politician and member of Parliament
 * Selim Yaşar (born 1990), Ingushetia-born Russian and Turkish wrestler

Yasar

 * Nedim Yasar (1987–2018), Danish former gangster and radio host of Turkish origin
 * Özgür Yasar (born 1981), Swedish footballer