List of Turkic-languages poets

This is a list of poets writing in Turkic languages.

11th–12th century

Mahmud al-Kashgari, poet (1005–1102)
Yusuf Balasaguni, poet (1019–1085)
Ahmad Yasawi, poet, mystic (1093–1166)
Arslan Baba, poet, mystic

13th–14th century

Mahmud Qırımlı, first attested Crimean Tatar poet (c. 1200)
Yunus Emre, poet, mystic and Dervish Sufi (1240–1320)
Izzeddin "Hasanoglu" Esfaryani, poet, (13th - 14th centuries)
Köroğlu, a poet of the ashik tradition
Kaygusuz Abdal, Alevi folk poet, (1341–1444)
Kadi Burhan al-Din, (1345–1398)
Pir Sultan Abdal, (1480–1550)

15th–16th century

Nasimi, (1369–1417)
Ali Şir Nevai, poet (1441–1501)
Pir Sultan Abdal (1480–1550)
Khatai, (1487–1524)
Gül Baba, (d. 1541)
Muhibbi, (1494–1566)
Fuzûlî, poet (1483–1556)
Babur, poet (1483–1530)

17th–18th–19th century

Karacaoğlan (c. 1606-c. 1680)
Aşıq Ümer (1621–1707), Crimean Tatar poet-ashik
Yusuf Nabi (1642–1712)
Magtymguly Pyragy (1724–1807), Turkmen poet, songwriter and intellectual
Kul Nesîmî (17th century), Alevi-Bektashi poet
Ahmet Nedîm Efendi (c. 1681–1730)
Bukhar-zhirau Kalmakanov, poet (1693–1789)
Salauat Yulay-ulı (1754–1800), Bashkir poet
Erzurumlu Emrah, poet (1775–1854)
Dadaloğlu, (c. 1785–c. 1868)
Aqmulla (1831-1895), Bashkir, Kazakh and Tatar poet
Abay Qunanbayuli, (1845–1904), poet, composer and philosopher
Əbdelqadir İnan (1889-1976)
Əxmətzəki Əxmətşah ulı Wəlidi (1890-1970), poet, historian and turkologist

20th century

Ismail Gasprinski, Crimean Tatar poet, publisher, intellectual (1851–1914)
Mirjaqip Dulatuli (1885–1935) - poet, writer and a leader of Alash Orda government
Akhmet Baytursinuli (1873–1937) - poet, writer, pedagogue and politician
Neyzen Tevfik, poet (1879–1953)
Magzhan Zhumabayev, poet (1893– 1938)
Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, poet (1884–1958)
Noman Çelebicihan, Crimean Tatar leader and poet (1885–1918)
Bekir Çoban-zade, Crimean Tatar poet and professor of Turkic languages (1893–1937)
Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel, poet (1898–1973)
Nazim Hikmet Ran, poet (1901–1963)
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, poet, novelist, essayist (1901–1962)
Ahmet Kutsi Tecer, poet, dramatist (1901–1967)
Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, poet, essayist (1905–1983)
Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, poet (1906–1988)
Ahmet Muhip Dıranas, poet (1909–1980)
Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı, poet (1910–1956)
Rıfat Ilgaz, poet, writer, journalist (1911–1993)
Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu, painter and poet (1913–1975)
Oktay Rıfat Horozcu, poet (1914–1988)
Orhan Veli Kanik, poet (1914–1950)
Melih Cevdet Anday, poet (1915–2002)
Alykul Osmonov, poet (1915–1950)
Âşık Veysel, ashik, poet (1894–1973)
Behçet Necatigil, poet, dramatist (1916–1979)
Ilhan Berk, poet (1918–2008)
Necati Cumalı, poet, dramatist (1921–2001)
Bahtiyar Vahapzade, poet (1925–2009)
Can Yücel, poet (1926–1999)
Ümit Yaşar Oğuzcan, poet, author (1926–1984)
Edip Cansever, poet (1928–1986)
Ece Ayhan Çağlar, poet (1931–2002)
Talat Sait Halman, poet (1931–2014)
Cemal Süreya, poet (1931–1990)
Onat Kutlar, writer, poet (1936–1995)
Aşık Mahzuni Şerif, ashik, poet (1939–2002)
Attila Ilhan, writer, poet, captain (1925–2005)