List of Famous people named Necdet

General Necdet Özel is a Turkish Army general, who served as the 28th Chief of the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces. He also served as the commander of the Turkish Land Forces. General Necdet Özel is only the second in this position not to have NATO experience.

Necdet Tosun was a Turkish actor and film producer.

İsmail Necdet Kent was a Turkish diplomat, who claimed to have risked his life to save Jews during World War II. While vice-consul in Marseilles, France between 1941 and 1944, he allegedly gave documents of citizenship to dozens of Turkish Jews living in France who did not have proper identity papers, to save them from deportation to the Nazi gas chambers. These claims, first published in an appendix to Stanford J. Shaw's book Turkey and the Holocaust (1993), have not been independently verified; no survivors or their descendants have confirmed the account. Marc David Baer and other historians have documented several inconsistencies in Kent's story; Baer concludes that it is "manufactured" and Uğur Ümit Üngör calls it a "complete fabrication".

Necdet Ünüvar is a Turkish politician from the Justice and Development Party (AKP), who has served as a Member of Parliament for Adana since 22 July 2007. He is currently the rector of Ankara University.

Mustafa Necdet Üruğ is a former Turkish general and the nephew of Faruk Gürler. He was Commander of the First Army of Turkey during the 1980 military coup. After the coup he was Commander of the Turkish Army (1983), and Chief of the General Staff of Turkey, as well as Secretary-General of the Presidential Council.

Necdet Mahfi Ayral was a well-known Turkish stage and cinema actor, as well as theatre director. While alive, he held the record for being the oldest Turkish actor who was still active. He is father of actress and well-known voice-over artist Jeyan Ayral Tözüm.

Necdet Yaşar was a Turkish tanbur lute player and teacher. A founding member of the Istanbul State Turkish Music Ensemble, he performed throughout the world as a cultural ambassador for Turkey and taught twice at the University of Washington (USA). In 1991, the Turkish government awarded him the title of "National Artist".

Necdet Öztorun was a Turkish general. He was Commander of the First Army of Turkey and then Commander of the Turkish Army.