Yavuz

Yavuz is a common masculine Turkish given name and in Turkish, "Yavuz" means "inflexible", "resolute" and "ferocious".

Etymology
Old Turkic intervocalic or stem-final b, represented by bilabial w in Karakhanid and Khorezmian Turkic, is changed to v. Thus Yavuz comes from Old Turkic: yabïz (𐰖𐰉𐰕), Old Uyghur: yabīz or yawīz, Khorerzmian: yawuz meaning "bad, vile".

Given name

 * Selim I (1465–1520), nicknamed Yavuz, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
 * Yavuz Ağralı (born 1992), Turkish long-distance runner
 * Yavuz Ali Pasha (fl. 1601–1604), Ottoman statesman
 * Yavuz Ataç, Turkish intelligence official
 * Yavuz Çetin (1970–2001), Turkish musician
 * Yavuz Eraydın (born 1976), Turkish footballer
 * Yavuz Bingöl (born 1964), Turkish actor
 * Yavuz Görey (1912-1995), Turkish sculptor
 * Yavuz İlnam (born 1987), Turkish trap shooter
 * Yavuz Karamollaoğlu (born 1980), Turkish karate practitioner
 * Yavuz Mildon (born 1955), Turkish politician
 * Yavuz Özkan (director) (1942–2019), Turkish film director
 * Yavuz Özkan (footballer) (born 1985), Turkish footballer
 * Yavuz Şimşek (born 1947), Turkish footballer
 * Yavuz Tatış (born 1947), Turkish businessman
 * Yavuz Turgul (born 1946), Turkish film director and screenwriter
 * Yavuz Yapıcıoğlu (born 1967), Turkish serial killer

Surname

 * Birsen Yavuz (born 1980), Turkish sprinter
 * Burak Yavuz (born 1975), Turkish volleyball player
 * Ece Yağmur Yavuz (born 2004), Turkish female artistic gymnast
 * Erdinç Yavuz (born 1978), Turkish footballer
 * İbrahim Yavuz (born 1982), Turkish footballer
 * Mahmut Yavuz (born 1982), Turkish navy officer and ultramarathon runner
 * Yüksel Yavuz (born 1964), Turkish-born Kurdish film director
 * Jay-Jay Okocha has surname Yavuz in his Turkish passport