title: Derviş
text: # Derviş
  
  Derviş is the Turkish and Bosnian (Derviš) spelling of the Persian and Arabic word "darwīš" (درويش), referring to a Sufi aspirant. The word appears as a given name and surname in various forms throughout Arabic, Bosnian (a Slavic language), Persian, and Turkish-speaking communities. An etymology for the name is given in the Oxford Dictionary of American Family Names:
  
     Status name for a Sufi holy man, from Persian and Turkish derviş ‘dervish’, a member of a Sufi Muslim religious order, from Pahlavi driyosh meaning ‘beggar’, ‘one who goes from door to door’.
  
  ## Given name
  
  ### Derviş
  
  * Derviş Ali (died 1673), Ottoman calligrapher
  * Derviş Ali Kavazoğlu (1924-1965), Turkish Cypriot politician assassinated by Turkish paramilitary group TMT.
  * Derviş Eroğlu (born 1938), Turkish Cypriot former president of Northern Cyprus.
  * Derviş Kemal Deniz (born 1954), Turkish Cypriot politician
  * Dervis Konuralp (born 1980), British Paralympic swimmer of Turkish-Cypriot descent
  * Derviş Vahdeti (1870–1909), Cyprus-born Ottoman religious figure and journalist
  * Derviş Zaim (born 1964), Turkish Cypriot novelist
  
  ### Derviš
  
  * Derviš-beg Alić Sarvanović, Ottoman governor of the sanjak of Montenegro
  * Derviš Hadžiosmanović (born 1959), Montenegrin football coach and former player
  * Derviš Sušić (1925–1990), Bosnian writer
  
  ### Dervish
  
  * Dervish Mehmed, the title and name of several historical Ottoman people
  
  ## Surname
  
  * Ahmet Derviş (1881–1932), officer of the Ottoman Army and the general of the Turkish Army
  * Kemal Derviş (1949–2023), Turkish economist and politician
  * Suat Derviş (1905–1972), Turkish female novelist, journalist, and political activist
  