Altan (name) explained
Altan is a male Turkish given name used also as first name and a Mongolian given name. Altan means "golden"[1] in Mongolian and "red dawn" in Turkic. The related word "Altın" is also Turkish for "golden" and a common Turkish first name.
Given name
- Altan Aksoy, a Turkish football player
- (born 1969), Turkish painter
- (born 1969), Turkish singer-songwriter
- (1944–2021), Turkish archaeologist
- Altan Debter, an early, now lost history of the Mongols
- (1936–2012), Turkish historian, writer and journalist
- Altan Dinçer (1932–2010), Turkish basketball player
- Engin Altan Düzyatan (born 1979), Turkish actor
- (1929–1988), Turkish cartoonist, actor, journalist
- Altan Erkekli, a Turkish theatre and film actor
- Altan Erol, a Turkish professional basketball player
- (born 1958), Turkish actor
- (1931–2014), Turkish actor and director
- (born 1986), Turkish football player
- (born 1938), Turkish retired diplomat
- (1935–2012), Turkish ambassador
- Altan Karındaş (1928–2021), Turkish actor and voice actor
- (born 1936), Turkish politician
- Altan Khan, a Mongol ruler (1507–1582)
- Altan Khan of the Khotgoid, a succession of rulers of north-western Mongolia in the 17th century
- (born 1940), Turkish industrialist
- Altan Öymen, a Turkish journalist, author and former politician
- (born 1958), Turkish writer and politician
- Altan Telgey, a Mongol earth goddess
- Altan Tobchi, a 17th-century Mongolian chronicle written by Guush Luvsandanzan
- (born 1941),Turkish bureaucrat
- Altan Urag, a Mongolian folk rock band
Surname
- Ahmet Altan (born 1950), Turkish journalist and author
- (born 1968), former member of Turkish Constitutional Court
- Berfin Altan (born 2003), Turkish women's goalball player
- (born 1946), Turkish ambassador
- Çetin Altan (1927–2015), Turkish writer, journalist, and former member of parliament
- (born 1940), Turkish businessman
- (born 1948), Turkish politician
- (1871–1927), Turkish politician
- Kamil Altan(1924–2011), Turkish footballer.
- Mehmet Altan (born 1953), Turkish economist, columnist and writer
- (born 1931), Turkish painter
- Francesco Tullio Altan (born 1942), Italian satire and comic book author
- Kaan Altan, a founding member of the Turkish rock band Mavi Sakal
- Saadet İkesus Altan (1916–2007), Turkish opera singer, vocal coach and opera director
See also
Notes and References
- Гарма Данцаранович Санжеев - The modern Mongolian language (1973), p. 24
