Halil

Halil is a common Turkish, Albanian and Bosnian masculine given name. It is equivalent to the Arabic given name and surname Khalil.

Notable persons with the name include:

• Halil Akbunar (born 1993), Turkish footballer
• Halil Akkaş (born 1983), Turkish middle distance runner
• Halil Akıncı (born 1945), Turkish diplomat
• Halil Altındere (born 1971), Turkish artist
• Halil Altıntop (born 1982), Turkish footballer
• Halil Asani (born 1974), Serbian footballer
• Halil Bajramović (born 1971), Bosnian businessman
• Halil Berktay (born 1947), Turkish historian
• Halil Sami Bey (1866–1925), Ottoman Army colonel
• Halil Bıçakçı (1926-1989), Turkish football manager
• Halil Çolak (born 1988), Turkish footballer
• Halil Dervişoğlu (born 1999), Dutch footballer of Turkish descent
• Halil Sezai Erkut (1908–1988), Turkish government minister and politician
• Halil Ergün (born 1946), Turkish actor
• Halil Gür (born 1951), Dutch author of Turkish origin
• Halil Güven (born 1956), American professor and university administrator of Turkish Cypriot descent
• Halil İbrahim Eren (born 1956), Turkish footballer
• Halil İnalcık (1916-2016), Turkish historian
• Halil Jaganjac (born 1998), Croatian handball player
• Halil Jaçellari (1940–2009), Albanian writer and translator
• Halil Kanacević (born 1991), American-born Montenegrin basketball player
• Halil Kaya (1920–2000), Turkish Olympic sport wrestler
• Halil Kut (1881–1957), Ottoman-born Turkish regional governor, military commander and genocide perpetrator
• Halil Köse (born 1997), Belgian-born Turkish footballer
• Halil Menteşe (1874–1948), Turkish government minister, politician and genocide perpetrator
• Halil Suleyman Ozerden (born 1966), American lawyer and judge
• Halil Pasha (disambiguation), several people
• Halil Mete Soner, Turkish-American mathematician and academic
• Halil Mutlu (born 1973), Bulgarian-Turkish Olympic weightlifter
• Halil Mutlu (politics) (born 1971), Turkish-born physician, political lobbyist and community activist living in the USA
• Halil Mëniku (died 1967), Albanian politician and publisher
• Halil Özdemir (born 2005), Turkish footballer
• Halil Savda (born 1974), Turkish conscientious objector
• Halil Savran (born 1985), Turkish-German footballer
• Halil Tikveša (born 1935), Bosnian painter
• Halil Uysal (1973–2008), Turkish journalist and film director
• Halil Yeral (born 2000), Turkish footballer
• Halil Zeybek (born 1985), Turkish footballer
• Halil Zorba (born 1988), British weightlifter
• Halil Zıraman (1927–1984), Turkish javelin thrower
• Halil Çolak (born 1988), Turkish footballer
• Halil Ürün (born 1968), Turkish politician
• Halil İnalcık (1916–2016), Turkish historian