Yavuz

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

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 (𐰖𐰉𐰕), Old Uyghur: yabīz or yawīz, Khorezmian: yawuz meaning 'bad, vile'.^[1]

• Selim I (1470–1520), 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 Aygün (born 1996), Turkish footballer
• Yavuz Can (born 1987), Turkish sprinter
• Yavuz Çetin (1970–2001), Turkish musician
• Yavuz Çoker (born 1936), Turkish footballer
• Yavuz Eraydın (born 1976), Turkish footballer
• Yavuz Baydar, Turkish journalist
• 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 Papağan (born 1987), Turkish para-archer
• Yavuz Selekman (1937–2004), Turkish wrestler
• 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 and arsonist
• Yavuz Yolcu (born 1966), Turkish judoka

• Abdurrahman Yavuz Kalkan (born 1973), Turkish footballer
• Ali Yavuz Kol (born 2001), Turkish footballer

• 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
• Evin Demirhan Yavuz (born 1995), Turkish wrestler
• Fatma Nur Yavuz (born 1997), Turkish badminton player
• Fehmi Yavuz (1912–1991), Turkish bureaucrat, academic and writer
• Gizem Yavuz (born 1988), Turkish basketballer
• Hakan Yavuz (born 1960), Turkish basketballer and coach
• Haydar Yavuz (born 1994), Turkish wrestler
• İbrahim Yavuz (born 1982), Turkish footballer
• Mahmut Yavuz (born 1982), Turkish navy officer and ultramarathon runner
• Mehmet Yavuz (1973–2019), Kurdish politician and teacher
• M. Hakan Yavuz (born 1964), Turkish political scientist and historian
• Mustafa Yavuz (born 1994), Austrian footballer
• Şakir Yavuz (born 1968), German executive and philanthropist
• Yüksel Yavuz (born 1964), Turkish-born Kurdish film director
• Jay-Jay Okocha (born 1973) has surname Yavuz in his Turkish passport

• Yavuz (battleship)
• Yavuz (drillship)
• Yavuz, Ardeşen, village in Rize Province, Turkey
• Yavuz, Emirdağ, village in Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey
• Yavuz-class frigate
• Yavuz Selim, Etimesgut, neighborhood in Ankara, Turkey
• Yavuz Selim Mosque
• Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge
• Yavuz Sultan Selim Medrese