Şenal Sarıhan (born 17 February 1948) is a Turkish attorney, feminist, and human rights activist.

She won the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award in 1997, sharing it with fellow attorney Sezgin Tanrıkulu.

An award given each year to an individual whose courageous activism is at the heart of the human rights movement and in the spirit of Robert F. Kennedy's vision and legacy.

[2] Sarıhan was an active opponent of several proposals of the Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan government, arguing that they were attacks on women's rights.

[5] The following year, she organized a rally of around 40,000 people to protest the lifting of a ban on head scarves in universities.