Babak ( fa,
بابک) is a common Persian given name for males. It derives from the
Middle Persian
Middle Persian or Pahlavi, also known by its endonym Pārsīk or Pārsīg () in its later form, is a Western Middle Iranian language which became the literary language of the Sasanian Empire. For some time after the Sasanian collapse, Middle P ...
name ''Pāpak''
[ "BĀBAK",''Encyclopedia of Islam'', second edition] which means "beloved father".
People with this name
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Babak (c. 222), Persian prince and father (or stepfather) of Ardashir I, founder of the Sasanian Empire
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Babak (Sasanian general)
Babak was a 6th-century Sasanian officeholder known for his major role in the reformation of the Sasanian military during Khosrow I's reign.
Name
His name has been recorded as "Babak, son of ʾlbyrwʾn ( ar, البيروان)" by al-Tabari. Th ...
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Babak Khorramdin
, native_name_lang =
, birth_date = 795 or 798
, birth_place = Ardabil, Abbasid Caliphate
, spouse = Banu
, death_date = probably 7 January 838 (age 40 or 43)
, death_place = Samarra, Abbasid Caliphate
, years_active ...
(795 or 798–838), Khurramite leader who fought against the Abbasid Caliphate
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Babak Amir-Tahmasseb (born 1976), French-Iranian kayaker
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Babak Hassibi
Babak Hassibi ( fa, بابک حسیبی, born in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-American electrical engineer, computer scientist, and applied mathematician who is the inaugural Mose and Lillian S. Bohn Professor of Electrical Engineering and Compu ...
, Iranian-American electrical engineer
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Babak Jahanbakhsh
Babak Jahanbakhsh ( fa, بابک جهانبخش; born 21 March 1983) is an Iranian pop singer.
Biography
Born in Bochum, Germany, Jahanbakhsh started playing the piano at the age of five under the supervision of a German teacher at the Free ...
(born 1983), Iranian pop singer
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Babak Payami
Babak Payami ( fa, بابک پیامی , born 1966) is an Iranian-Canadian film director, writer and producer.
Biography
Born in Tehran, Iran, Payami grew up in Afghanistan and Iran before leaving for Europe and subsequently Canada, where he ...
(born 1966), Iranian film director
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Babak Rafati (born 1970), Iranian-German football referee
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Babak Dehghanpisheh
Babak Dehghanpisheh is a Senior Reporter with Reuters covering the Middle East. He was formerly ''Newsweek'' magazine's Baghdad Bureau Chief and Beirut Bureau Chief and covered Syria for The Washington Post. In Iraq, Dehghanpisheh reported on eve ...
, American journalist
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Bobak Ferdowsi
Bobak Ferdowsi ( fa, بابک فردوسی, ; born November 7, 1979) is a flight engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He served on the ''Cassini–Huygens'' and Mars Science Laboratory ''Curiosity'' missions.
Ferdowsi gained brief media ...
(born 1979), American engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
See also
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Babak (disambiguation)
Notes
References
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Persian masculine given names