Sedat Simavi (1896 – 11 December 1953) was a Turkish journalist, writer and film director.

[1] In 1916 Simavi started his first publication entitled Hande, a weekly women's magazine.

[1] The other papers established by Simavi included Payihat, Güleryüz, Yedigün and Resimli Gazete.

He was also a political cartoonist, and as well as plays and screenplays he also wrote a novel, Fuji-Yama (1944), and non-fiction books.

[2] Sedat Simavi died on 11 December 1953, and was buried at Kanlıca Cemetery, in Istanbul.