Yüksel or Yuksel is a Turkish given name and surname meaning "rise!", imperative of "yükselmek" ("to rise"). Notable people with the name include:

Given name

• Yüksel Alkan, Turkish basketball player
• Yüksel Ayaydın, Turkish kickboxer
• Yüksel Coşkunyürek, Turkish politician
• Yüksel Koptagel (born 1931), Turkish composer and pianist
• Yüksel Pazarkaya (born 1940), Turkish writer, translator and broadcaster
• Yüksel Sariyar (born 1979), Austrian footballer
• Yüksel Yavuz (born 1964), Turkish-born German Kurdish film director
• Yüksel Yesilova, Turkish football player and coach
• Yuksel Yumerov, Bulgarian footballer
• Yüksel Şanlı, Turkish Olympic wrestler

Surname

• Atakan Yüksel (born 1985), Turkish wrestler
• Batu Han Yüksel (born 1999), Turkish weightlifter
• Edip Yüksel (born 1957), Turkish American moderate religious reformer
• Gülistan Yüksel (born 1962), German politician
• Levent Yüksel (born 1964), Turkish singer-songwriter
• Metin Yüksel (1958–1979), Turkish Islamist
• Müjde Yüksel (born 1981), Turkish female basketball player

See also

• Yüksel, Dinar, village in Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey
• Yüksel Tohumculuk, a Turkish plant breeding company based in Antalya

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