Yaşar is a masculine Turkish given name, which also appears as a surname that means immortal.^[1] In non-Turkish publications, the name would many times appear as Yasar (with no cedilla on the s).

People with the name include:

• Yaşar Aliyev (born 1955), Azerbaijani diplomat
• Yaşar Altıntaş (born 1957), Turkish footballer
• Yaşar Alpaslan (1914–1995), Turkish footballer
• Yaşar Turgut Bilgin (born 1957), Turkish author
• Yaşar Büyükanıt (1940–2019), Turkish general, Chief of the Turkish General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces
• Yaşar Halit Çevik (born 1955), Turkish ambassador
• Yaşar Doğu (1913–1961), Turkish sports wrestler
• Yaşar Erkan (1911–1986), Turkish sports wrestler
• Yaşar Giritli (born 1969), Turkish boxer
• Yaşar Güler (born 1954), Turkish general
• Yasar İsmailoğlu (born 1945), Turkish-Cypriot poet, writer and journalist
• Yaşar Kemal (1923-2015), Turkish writer and journalist of Kurdish origin
• Yaşar Kurt (born 1968), Turkish musician of Armenian origin
• Yaşar Nezihe (1882-1971), Ottoman Turkish poet
• Yaşar Okuyan (1950–2023), Turkish politician
• Yaşar Nuri Öztürk (1951–2016), Turkish politician
• Yaşar Ören (born 1942), Turkish cross-country skier
• Yaşar Topçu (born 1941), Turkish politician and government minister
• Yaşar Yakış (1938-2024), Turkish politician and government minister
• Yaşar Yılmaz (born 1930), Turkish sports wrestler

• Yasar Onel, Turkish-born Swiss and American physicist

• Ümit Yaşar Oğuzcan (1926–1984), Turkish poet

• Ebru Yaşar (born 1978), Turkish female musician
• Ece Yaşar (born 1990), Turkish female karateka
• İbrahim Halil Yaşar (born 1994), Turkish footballer
• Muhsin Yaşar (born 1995), Turkish basketball player
• Necdet Yaşar (1930–2017), Turkish tanbur (lute) player and teacher
• Osman Yaşar, American computer scientist
• Nurettin Yaşar (born 1961), Turkish politician and member of Parliament
• Selim Yaşar (born 1990), Ingushetia-born Russian and Turkish wrestler

• Nedim Yasar (1987–2018), Danish former gangster and radio host of Turkish origin
• Özgür Yasar (born 1981), Swedish footballer

• Yashar (disambiguation)

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