List of Famous people named Taner

Taner Ölmez is a Turkish actor who started his acting career in 2009 when he was 23. His first drama was Kayıp Şehir where he acted as Sadık. He gained fame through Medcezir in which he played Mert Asım Serez.

Taner Kılıç is a Turkish civil rights activist who is one of the founding members of the Turkey section of the human rights organisation Amnesty International and its president since 2014. Kılıç was detained by Turkish authorities for alleged terrorist activities on 6 June 2017, during the 2016–17 purges in Turkey.

Taner Yıldız is a Turkish politician. He is a member of the Justice and Development Party and served as the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources between 2009 and 2015.

Altuğ Taner Akçam is a Turkish-German historian and sociologist. During the 1990s, he was the first Turkish scholar to acknowledge the Armenian genocide, and has written several books on the genocide, such as A Shameful Act (1999), From Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide (2004), The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity (2012), and Killing Orders (2018). He is recognized as a "leading international authority" on the subject. Akçam's frequent participation in public debates on the legacy of the genocide have been compared to Theodor Adorno's role in postwar Germany.

Taner Ceylan is a German-born Turkish photo-realist artist. He lives and works in Istanbul.

Taner Sağır is a Turkish world and Olympic weightlifting champion. Coming into Athens as holder of all the junior world records at the age of only 19, he broke the Olympic records in the category –77 kg snatch, clean and jerk and total. He is seen as a great talent by authorities.

Taner Birsel is a Turkish film actor. He has appeared in twelve films since 1995. He starred in The Confession, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.

Taner Taşkın is a retired Turkish football defender and later manager.