Güneş Explained

Güneş (pronounced as /tr/) is a Turkish word meaning the Sun. It is a unisex given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:

People

Given name

• Güneş Gürle (born 1975), Turkish opera singer
• Güneş Taner (born 1949), Turkish politician
• Güneş Murat Tezcür, Turkey-born American academic
• Güneş Yunus (born 1942), Turkish sports shooter

Surname

• Güneş Karabulut-Kurt Professor at Ecole Polytechnique Montreal.
• Ali Güneş (born 1978), Turkish football player
• Alpaslan Güneş (1926–death date unknown), Turkish equestrian
• Burcu Güneş (born 1975), Turkish singer
• Faik Samet Güneş (born 1993), Turkish volleyball player.
• Hasan Fehmi Güneş (1934–2021), Turkish politician
• Hatice Gunes, Turkish computer scientist
• Hurşit Güneş (born 1957), Turkish economist and politician
• Melisa Güneş (born 2001), Turkish weightlifter
• Osman Güneş (born 1952), Turkish bureaucrat
• Serdar Güneş (born 1987), Turkish football player
• Şenol Güneş (born 1952), Turkish football player
• Turan Güneş (politician) (1922–1982), Turkish politician
• Uğur Güneş (volleyballer) (born 1993), Turkish volleyball player
• Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş (born 1998), Ukraine-born Turkish swimmer
• Yeliz Güneş (born 2006), Turkish rhythmic gymnast
• Zehra Güneş (born 1999), Turkish volleyball player

Fictional characters

• Güneş, in Follow Kadri, Not Your Heart

Other uses

• Güneş, a Turkish newspaper
• Güneş SK, a defunct Turkish sports club of Istanbul, Turkey