Osman may refer to:

Daniel Eugene Osman (February 11, 1963 – November 23, 1998) was an American extreme sport practitioner, known for the dangerous sports of "free-soloing" (rock climbing without ropes or other safety gear); and "rope free-flying" or "rope jumping" (falling several hundred feet from a cliff then being caught by a safety rope), for which his record was over 1000 feet/300 meters. He was known for living a bohemian lifestyle, working as a part-time carpenter and living in Lake Tahoe, CA. He was the star of several rock climbing videos, which brought free-soloing to a wider audience. Dan had one daughter, Emma Osman.

Dan Osman appeared in Eric Perlman's Masters of Stone series, free soloing Atlantis (5.11+) on The Sorcerer in Needles and Airy Interlude (5.10b, then 5.9) on The Witch, also in Needles (in California's Sierras). He also is featured crashing a bmx bicycle, ziplining off The Witch, taking a gigantic 192 foot whipper just for the fun of it (in Yosemite), and perhaps most impressively, on-sight free-soloing Bolder Display of Power (5.11).

Ali Osman is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Nejdet Salih. He was a member of the original EastEnders cast, appearing in the first episode on 19 February 1985. He remained with the show for nearly five years afterwards, making his final appearance on 10 October 1989. Ali was scripted as happy-go-lucky, which was in stark contrast to his highly strung wife, Sue (Sandy Ratcliff). Central to his storylines were his penchant for gambling, his tempestuous marriage, and the loss of his son to cot death, which was one of the first controversial storylines covered by the soap. He was created by Julia Smith and Tony Holland, the creators of EastEnders.

A Turkish Cypriot, Ali, his older brother Mehmet (Haluk Bilginer), and their family moved to London in 1975. Ali became the owner of the Bridge Street Café in Walford, which he leased and ran together with his English wife Sue (Sandy Ratcliff), whom he married in 1982. Their son Hassan (Michael Evangelou) was born in 1984.

Osman Baydemir (born 1971, Diyarbakır) is a Kurdish politician, lawyer and human rights activist in east Turkey. He is the current mayor of his home town of Diyarbakır and member of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP).

Osman Baydemir graduated from the Law Faculty at Dicle University in Diyarbakır. In 1995 he became the chair of the Diyarbakır branch of the independent Human Rights Association. Between 1995 and 2002 he also was a board member and became vice-president of the association. In February 1999 he became one of the first lawyer who volunteered to defend Abdullah Öcalan. In 2001 he became a founding member of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (HRFT or TİHV Türkiye İnsan Hakları Vakfı). At the general elections in 2002, he was the candidate of the Democratic People's Party (DEHAP), but the party failed to reach the 10% election threshold. In 2003, Baydemir spent 6 months in the United States, to improve his English. In 2004, he was elected mayor of Diyarbakır.

In May 2005 he married Reyhan Yalçındağ, the deputy chair of the Human Rights Association in Turkey. On April 23, 2006 their son Mirzanyar was born.

Balçiçek İlter, formerly also known as Balçiçek Pamir, (June 16, 1973, İstanbul), is a Turkish female journalist, columnist and television presenter.

She studied psychology at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara after finishing the French Girls' High School of Notre Dame de Sion in Istanbul.

Already at the age of 17, Balçiçek İlter started to write at the Turkish edition of Cosmopolitan magazine promotrd by Ercan Arıklı, a prominent journalist. Still at the high school, she wrote for the political magazine Aktuel. During her university years, she continued to write at Aktuel's Ankara office. She gained wide experience in journalism during this time and after her transfer to the Ankara office of Sabah newspaper.

At the age of 29, she became Sabah's editor-in-chief, the first female holder of that title sofar at that newspaper. Balçiçek İlter left Sabah to join Habertürk, after her writings were heavily criticized. Additionally, she was tasked to present programmes at Habertürk TV, the sister media of newspaper Habertürk. Currently, she is presenting two programmes "Söz Sende" (The Word Is Yours) weekdays and "Karşıt Görüş" (Opposite Point of View) at prime time on Wednesdays at the Habertürk TV channel, hosting notable people from various fields like politics, economics and arts to actual events.