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)
• Erzurumlu Emrah, poet (1775–1854)
• Dadaloğlu, (c. 1785–c. 1868)
• Abay Qunanbayuli, (1845-1904), poet, composer and philosopher

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)

21st century

• Abdurehim Ötkür, poet (1923-1995)
• Sabit İnce, writer, poet (1954)
• Ismet Özel, poet (1944–)
• Haydar Ergülen, poet (1956–)
• Sunay Akın, poet, writer (1962–)
• Abdurehim Heyt, poet, singer (1962-)
• Süreyya Aylin Antmen (1981–)