Halil

Halil is a common Turkish male given name. It is equivalent to the Arabic given name and surname Khalil or its variant Khaleel.

Notable persons with the name include:

Halil Akbunar (born 1993), Turkish footballer
Halil Akkaş (born 1983), Turkish middle distance runner
Halil Akıncı (born 1945), Turkish diplomat
Halil Altındere (born 1971), Turkish artist
Halil Altıntop (born 1982), Turkish footballer
Halil Asani (born 1974), Serbian footballer
Halil Bajramović (born 1971), Bosnian businessman
Halil Berktay (born 1947), Turkish historian
Halil Sami Bey (1866–1925), Ottoman Army colonel
Halil Bıçakçı (born 1926), Turkish football manager
Halil Çolak (born 1988), Turkish footballer
Halil Dervişoğlu (born 1999), Dutch footballer of Turkish descent
Halil Sezai Erkut (1908–1988), Turkish government minister and politician
Halil Ergün (born 1946), Turkish actor
Halil Gür (born 1951), Dutch author of Turkish origin
Halil Güven (born 1956), American professor and university administrator of Turkish Cypriot descent
Halil İbrahim Eren (born 1956), Turkish footballer
Halil İnalcık (born 1916), Turkish historian
Halil Jaganjac (born 1998), Croatian handball player
Halil Jaçellari (1940–2009), Albanian writer and translator
Halil Kanacević (born 1991), American-born Montenegrin basketball player
Halil Kaya (1920–?), Turkish Olympic sport wrestler
Halil Kut (1881–1957), Ottoman-born Turkish regional governor, military commander and genocide perpetrator
Halil Köse (born 1997), Belgian-born Turkish footballer
Halil Menteşe (1874–1948), Turkish government minister, politician and genocide perpetrator
Halil Suleyman Ozerden (born 1966), American lawyer and judge
Halil Pasha (disambiguation), several people
Halil Mete Soner, Turkish-American mathematician and academic
Halil Mutlu (born 1973), Bulgarian-Turkish Olympic weightlifter
Halil Mutlu (politics), Turkish-born physician, political lobbyist and community activist living in the USA
Halil Mëniku (died 1967), Albanian politician and publisher
Halil Savda (born 1974), Turkish conscientious objector
Halil Savran (born 1985), Turkish-German footballer
Halil Tikveša (born 1935), Bosnian painter
Halil Uysal (1973–2008), Turkish journalist and film director
Halil Yeral (born 2000), Turkish footballer
Halil Zeybek (born 1985), Turkish footballer
Halil Zorba (born 1988), British weightlifter
Halil Zıraman (1927–1984), Turkish javelin thrower
Halil Çolak (born 1988), Turkish footballer
Halil Ürün (born 1968), Turkish politician
Halil İnalcık (1916–2016), Turkish historian

See also