Kurtoğlu is a Turkish name. In old times it was a patronymic lakap (epithet) meaning "son of Kurt", from the Turkish first name "Kurt". The latter name literally means "wolf" in Turkish. In modern times the epithet has become a surname. Notable people with this epithet or surname include:
Epithet Kurtoğlu Hızır Reis, Ottoman admiral Kurtoğlu Muslihiddin Reis (1487–c. 1530), Ottoman privateer and admiral
Surname Aydın Kurtoğlu (born 1983), Turkish musician Cengiz Kurtoğlu (born 1959), Turkish musician Ermal Kurtoğlu (born 1980), Albanian-Turkish basketball player