Hikmet is a given name. Notable people with the name include:

• Hikmet Avedis aka Howard Avedis, (1927–2017), film producer and director
• Hikmet Çetin (born 1937), Turkish politician
• Hikmet Fidan (1955–2005), Kurdish-born Turkish politician
• Hikmet Karaman (born 1960), Turkish football coach
• Hikmet Tanyu (1918–1992), Turkish scientist and academic
• Hikmet Temel Akarsu (born 1960), Turkish novelist
• Hikmet Topuzer (1893-1958), Turkish football player
• Hikmet Vurgun, Turkish handball coach and academic
• Hikmet Uluğbay (born 1939), Turkish politician

• Arif Hikmet Koyunoğlu (1888–1982), Turkish architect
• Fatma Hikmet İşmen (1918–2006), Turkish engineer and politician

• Ahmed Hikmet (born 1984), Bulgarian footballer of Turkish descent
• Ayhan Hikmet (1929–1962), Turkish Cypriot barrister assassinated by the TMT paramilitary group
• Birol Hikmet (born 1982), Turkish football player
• Nâzım Hikmet (1902–1963), Turkish poet, playwright, novelist and memoirist

• Hikmat (disambiguation)
• Hikmet, Ottoman-Turkish magazine