List of Famous people named Ismail

İsmail Haktan Odabaşı is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a right winger.

İsmail Ogan is a retired Turkish freestyle wrestler and coach. He competed at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won a silver and a gold medal, respectively. He also collected three medals at the world championships in 1957–1963.

İsmail Bilen was a Turkish politician. He was elected as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Turkey in 1974.

Ismail Ahmed Ismail is a Sudanese runner, who specializes in the 800 metres. He was born in Khartoum.

İsmail Hakkı Tonguç (1893–1960) was a teacher and director for primary education in the Ministry of National Education of Turkey. He is considered to have deeply influenced the education program during the single party era and involved in the Village Institutes which trained teachers.