List of Famous people named Mahmut
Mahmut Yıldırım
Mahmut Yıldırım, better known as Yeşil, is a Turkish rogue agent. He is wanted for the murders of eight people in Turkey. Among the murders he is accused of is that of Cem Ersever in 1993. Yıldırım, who also used the alias Ahmet Demir, disappeared in 1998 and was the subject of an Interpol Red Notice in 1999. In 2013, security officer Korkut Eken told prosecutors that Yıldırım was still alive.
Mahmut Özdemir
Mahmut Özdemir is a German politician for the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who has been serving as Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community in the coalition government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 2021. He has been a member of the Bundestag since 2013, representing the Duisburg II district.
Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu
Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu, usually referred to as Mahmut Efendi and known to his disciples as Efendi Hazretleri, is a Turkish Sufi Sheikh and the leader of the influential İsmailağa jamia of the Naqshbandi-Khalidiyya Ṭarīqah centred in Çarşamba, Istanbul.
Mahmut Uslu
Mahmut Nedim Uslu is a businessman, former basketball player/coach and Vice President, General Secretary and Press Officer of Turkish multi-sport club Fenerbahçe. Besides his native Turkish he speaks English, Russian and Turkmen fluently.
Mahmut Orhan
Mahmut Orhan is a Turkish disc jockey and record producer. Orhan started working with music in Bursa at the age of 15 and would eventually move to Istanbul to work at a "Bebek" nightclub in 2011. He first experienced international success in 2015 with the instrumental song "Age of Emotions". One year later, his song "Feel" featuring Turkish singer and songwriter Sena Şener appeared on charts in Greece, Germany, Poland and Romania, among others. The song reached number one position on musical platform iTunes. In 2017 Mahmut released remix of "Game of Thrones" and the song "Save me" with Romanian singer Eneli. Both songs gained significant success. In June 2018 he released a remix album titled "One". Single of the album "6 Days", a remix of Colonel Bagshot's "Six Day War", reached number one in many countries such as Greece, Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria. Orhan has been part of some of the world's leading electronic music festivals, such as Exit Festival in Serbia and Untold Festival in Romania.
Mahmut Tekdemir
Mahmut Tekdemir is a Turkish professional footballer who currently plays as a defensive midfielder for İstanbul Başakşehir.
Mahmut Demir
Mahmut Demir, is a former Turkish Olympic medalist, World and European champion sports wrestler in the Super heavyweight class (>100 kg). He won the gold medal at the 1996 Olympics in Men's Freestyle wrestling.
Mahmut Alınak
Mahmut Alınak, is a Turkish lawyer, author and politician, of Kurdish origin, and a former parliamentary deputy.