Male poets from the Ottoman Empire

16th-century Azerbaijani poet

16th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1618–1622)

Ottoman writer (1840-1888)

thumb|Bâkî (1526–1600) Bâḳî (باقى) was the pen name (Ottoman Turkish: مخلص mahlas) of the Ottoman Turkish poet Mahmud Abdülbâkî (محمود عبدالباقى) (1526 – 1600). Considered one of the greatest contributors to Turkish literature. Bâkî came to be known as Sultânüş-şuarâ (سلطان الشعرا), or "Sultan of poets".

Armenian poet (1851-1872)

Turkish statesperson (1884–1958)

Armenian Catholic priest, historian, and poet (1820–1901)

Ottoman Bektashi dervish poet

Turkish poet (1870–1927)

Akshamsaddin (Muhammad Shams al-Din bin Hamzah, ) (1389 in Damascus – 16 February 1459 in Göynük, Bolu), was an influential Ottoman Sunni Muslim scholar, poet, and mystic saint.

Karacaoğlan was a 17th-century Anatolian Turkish folk poet and ashik. His exact dates of birth and death are unknown but it is widely accepted that he was born around 1606 and died around 1679. He lived around the city of Osmaniye. His tomb, which was organized as a mausoleum in 1997, is at Karacaoğlan hill in the village of Karacaoğlan, Mut, Mersin. In this regard, he was the first known folk poet and ashik whose statue was built.

Turkish philosopher and writer (1869–1949)

Turkish author and literary critic (1850-1893)

Ottoman poet and military figure (1498-1582)

Turkish-Romanian writer of Crimean Tatar ancestry (1878–1931)

Ottoman & Albanian poet

Turkish-speaking scholar

Turkish poet

Ottoman court poet (1444–1506)

Ottoman-Anatolian writer

Turkish dervish

Greek writer

Iraqi poet

Armenian scholar (1790–1866)

Āgehī (died 1577 or 1578) was an Ottoman poet and historian.

Ottoman scholar and poet

author of Ḡazā-nāma-ye Rum

Ottoman official and poet (died 1602/3)