Bobak is a given name and a surname.
In
Persian
Persian may refer to:
* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
, it is a male given name and a variant of
Babak, which is derived from the
Old Persian
Old Persian is one of two directly attested Old Iranian languages (the other being Avestan) and is the ancestor of Middle Persian (the language of the Sasanian Empire). Like other Old Iranian languages, it was known to its native speakers as (I ...
, meaning 'young father'.
In
Polish
Polish may refer to:
* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
* Polish language
* Polish people, people from Poland or of Polish descent
* Polish chicken
* Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin ...
, Bobak is a surname, derived from the
Slavic
Slavic, Slav or Slavonic may refer to:
Peoples
* Slavic peoples, an ethno-linguistic group living in Europe and Asia
** East Slavic peoples, eastern group of Slavic peoples
** South Slavic peoples, southern group of Slavic peoples
** West Slav ...
word , meaning "bean" or "broad bean".
[''Dictionary of American Family Names'']
"Babak Family History"
Oxford University Press, 2013. Retrieved on 10 January 2016.
Given name
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Bobak Ferdowsi
Bobak Ferdowsi (, ; 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 (rover), ''Curiosity'' missions.
Ferdowsi gained brief media fame in ...
(born 1979), American systems engineer
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Bobak Kianoush (born 1978), British musician
Surname
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Bruno Bobak (1923–2012), Canadian artist
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Celia Bobak (* 1952), British set decorator and art director
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Jacqueline Bobak (born 1962), American musician
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Katherine Bobak (born 1994), Canadian pair skater
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Molly Bobak
Molly Lamb Bobak (née Lamb; February 25, 1920 – March 2, 2014) was a Canadian teacher, writer, printmaker and painter working in oils and watercolours. During World War II, she was the first Canadian woman artist to be sent overseas to docum ...
(1922–2014), Canadian artist and writer
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Przemysław Bobak (born 1974), Polish diplomat
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Stanisław Bobak (1956–2010), Polish ski jumper
See also
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Babak (disambiguation)
References
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Persian masculine given names
Masculine given names
Polish-language surnames