Talat (given name)
Talat (also transliterated as Talaat and Tal'at; Ottoman Turkish: طلعت; Turkish: Talat; Arabic: طلعت) is a Turkish given name used in Turkey, Egypt, Pakistan, India, Iran and the Levant. Notable people with the name include:
- Talaat Pasha (1874–1921), leader of the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, and perpetrator of the Armenian Genocide
- Talaat Afifi, Egyptian academic
- Talat Ahmad, Indian geologist
- Talat Ahmed (born 1948), Pakistani cricketer
- Talat Ali (born 1950), Pakistani cricketer
- Talat Aziz (born 1956), ghazal singer from Hyderabad, India
- Talaat Harb, Egyptian industrialist and banker
- Talât Sait Halman (1931–2014), Turkish poet, translator and cultural historian
- Talat Hussain (actor) (born 1945), Pakistani actor
- Talat Hussain (journalist) (born 1966), executive director of AAJ Television
- Talat Hussain (news executive) (born 1966), executive director of AAJ Television
- Talat Mahmood (1924–1998), Indian playback singer and film actor
- Talat Masood (born 1932), general in the Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers
- Talat Othman (born 1936), Palestinian-American businessman, investor, and Republican fundraiser
- Tal'at Fu'ad Qasim (died 1995), leader of Egypt's militant Gama'a Islamiyya organization
- Talat Tuncel (born 1964), Turkish football manager and former footballer
- Talat Tunçalp (1915–2017), Turkish Olympian road cyclist
- Telat Üzüm (born 1963), Turkish football manager
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Language(s) | Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Urdu |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Turkish |
| Meaning | Beauty |
| Region of origin | Middle East |
| Other names | |
| Alternative spelling | Talaat, Tal'at |
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