List of Famous people named Y-lmaz

Yılmaz Güney was a Kurdish film director, scenarist, novelist, and actor. He quickly rose to prominence in the Turkish film industry. Many of his works were devoted to the plight of ordinary, working class people in Turkey. Güney won the Palme d'Or with the film Yol he co-produced with Şerif Gören at Cannes Film Festival in 1982. He was at constant odds with the Turkish government because of his portrayals of Kurdish culture, people and language in his movies. After killing a judge, something Yılmaz claimed to be innocent of, and being convicted in a trial in 1974, he fled the country and later lost his citizenship.

Yılmaz Erdoğan is a Turkish filmmaker, actor and poet of Kurdish origin who is most famous for his box-office record-breaking debut comedy film Vizontele (2001) and the television series Bir Demet Tiyatro (1995–2002/2006–2007). He was awarded the Best Supporting Actor at 4th Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards for his performance in The Water Diviner (2014).

İbrahim Yılmaz Morgül is a Turkish singer.

Yılmaz Vural is a Turkish football manager and former player. He played as a midfielder for Hacettepe and Sivasspor in the 1970s.

Yılmaz Köksal was a Turkish actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1965 to 2011.

Yılmaz Büyükerşen is a Turkish politician, educator and current mayor of Eskişehir.

Yılmaz Gruda is a Turkish actor, poet, playwright, and translator.

Yılmaz Onay was a Turkish author, theatre director and translator.

Yılmaz Atadeniz is a Turkish film director, producer and screenwriter. He directed 80 films between 1963 and 1997.