Ziya

Ziya (IPA: [ˈziːja]) is a Turkish given name for males and females, it is of Arabic origin, in Turkish Ziya means light.

Given name

• Ziya Doğan, Turkish football manager
• Ziya Gökalp, Turkish sociologist
• Nazmi Ziya Güran, Turkish impressionist painter
• Ziya Hurşit, person executed for attempting an assassination against Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
• Ziya Onis, Turkish economist
• Ziya Saylan, Turkish medical doctor
• Ziya Şengül, Turkish footballer
• Ziya Songülen, Turkish footballer
• Ziya Tong, television personality and producer
• Ziya Yildiz, Bosnian footballer
• Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil, Turkish author

Other uses

• Zia (disambiguation)
• Ziya (town) (子牙镇), Jinghai County, Tianjin, China