Kurtoğlu is a Turkish name. In old times it was a patronymic lakap ( epithet) meaning "son of Kurt", from the Turkish first name "Kurt". The latter name literally means " wolf" in Turkish. In modern times the epithet has become a surname. Notable people with this epithet or surname include:

Epithet

• Kurtoğlu Hızır Reis, Ottoman admiral
• Kurtoğlu Muslihiddin Reis (1487–c. 1530), Ottoman privateer and admiral

Surname

• Aydın Kurtoğlu (born 1983), Turkish musician
• Cengiz Kurtoğlu (born 1959), Turkish musician
• Ermal Kurtoğlu (born 1980), Albanian-Turkish basketball player

Surname list

This page lists people with the surname Kurtoglu.
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