Hijri Dede was a poet from Kirkuk, Iraq. His poems were written mainly in the Turkmen language but he also composed works in Persian and Kurdish. He was believed to belong to the kurdish Gurani community in Kirkuk.
The poet's ethnicity and religious beliefs are still a source of controversy, reflecting the ethnic nature of Kirkuk city. He may have been a Kurd who simply wrote in the Turkmen language, but some Turkmen nationalists consider him as one of their own. The poet, as almost all of the other Gurani, was usually quite secretive about his religious beliefs and practices: when asked by outsiders, he would often claim to be Orthodox Sunni or, sometimes, Twelver Shi'a. According to some sources, Hijri Dede died in December 1952.
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| Name | Dede, Hijri |
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| Date of death | 1952 |
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