Talat (given name)

Talat

Gender	Male
Language(s)	Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Urdu
Origin
Word/name	Arabic
Meaning	Beauty
Region of origin	Middle East
Other names
Alternative spelling	Talaat, Tal'at, Talât
Behind the Name

Talat (also transliterated as Talaat and Tal'at; Ottoman Turkish: طلعت; Turkish: Talât; Arabic: طلعة) is an Arabic male 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
• Mehmet Ali Talat (born 1952), President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
• Talât Aydemir (1917–1964), Turkish general
• Talaat Afifi, Egyptian academic
• Talat Ahmad (born 1955), 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 (1867-1941), Egyptian industrialist and banker
• Talât Sait Halman (1931–2014), Turkish poet, translator and cultural historian
• Talat Hussain (disambiguation)
  • Talat Hussain (actor) (1945-2024), Pakistani actor
  • Syed Talat Hussain (born 1966), executive director of AAJ Television
• Talat Gasimov (khananda) (1933–2013), Azerbaijani khananda, People's Artiste of Azerbaijan
• 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 (1957-1995), 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
• Talat Yaqoob, Scottish activist
• Talat Xhaferi (born 1962), Macedonian politician and current Prime Minister