Mahmut Demir (21 January 1970 in Amasya, Turkey), is a Turkish Olympic, World and European champion former wrestler in the super heavyweight class.

In a short time he developed into an excellent freestyle wrestler who soon moved to the top Turkish club "TEDAS" Ankara.

In the fight for this bronze medal he defeated the junior world champion Heiko Balz from the German Democratic Republic.

At the Olympic Games in Barcelona, he narrowly missed out on a medal with a 4th place after losing to David Gobejishvili from The Unified Team and Jeff Thue from Canada.

In the spring he became European champion for the third time in Budapest in superior style and won the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Atlanta.

[7] A sports hall in his hometown Suluova is named after him, where the 2006 European Champion Clubs Freestyle Wrestling Cup was held.