Ferhan Şensoy (born February 26, 1951 in Çarşamba, Turkey) is a prominent Turkish playwright, actor and stage director.

Ferhan Şensoy was born in Çarşamba, Samsun where he attended Gazi Osman Paşa Preliminary School. His mother, Müjgan Şensoy, was a primary school teacher and his father, Yusuf Cemil Şensoy, was the mayor of Çarşamba. He started his secondary school education at Galatasaray High School in 1961 and completed it in Çarşamba High School in 1970. He started his architectural schooling at Academy of Fine Arts and interrupted in 1972 when he began his theater training at Ecole Superieure d'Art Dramatique, Theatre National De Strasbourg in Strasbourg, France. After his graduation, he returned to Turkey in 1975. He went to Ulaş, Çorlu in 1982 and later Harbiye Orduevi, Şişli, İstanbul in 1982 for his military duty which he completed in 1984.

Şensoy married Derya Baykal in 1988. The couple had their first child, Müjgan Ferhan, in 1989 and their second child, again a daughter, Neriman Derya, in 1990. The couple divorced in 2004.

Любовь не знает никаких законов - ни законов времени, ни законов жизни и смерти... Проникновенное, лиричное повествование о трех женщинах, мечтающих о счастье и из последних сил пытающихся верить, что найти его возможно... По киноповести "Ребро Адама" был снят фильм, получивший ряд международных премий, а сам писатель получил приз за лучший сценарий года.