Saba is a surname or given name.
People with the given name or nickname Saba include the following, ordered by year of birth:
* Saba (rapper) (born 1994), American rapper and record producer
* Saba or
Sabbas the Goth
Sabbas the Goth ( ro, Sava Gotul, gr, Σάββας ο Γότθος; died 12 April 372) is a Christian martyr and saint.
Life and persecution
Sabbas (also Saba) was born in 334 in a village in the Buzău river valley and lived in what is no ...
(334–372), Christian saint
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Lady Saba Holland
Saba, Lady Holland (; 1802–1866) was the eldest daughter of Sydney Smith and the second wife of Sir Henry Holland, a prominent physician and travel writer, with whom she had two daughters. She made a name for herself as the author of a much-rea ...
(1802–1866), English biographer of her father, Sydney Smith
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Saba Kadisha
Solomon Eliezer Alfandari ( he, שלמה אליעזר אלפנדרי) ( 1826 – 22 Iyar 1930),
also known as the Saba Kadisha ("Holy Grandfather"), was a distinguished rabbi, kabbalist and rosh yeshiva in his native home of Constantinople, and ...
("Holy Grandfather"; 1826–1930), Israeli rabbi, kabbalist and rosh yeshiva
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Saba Raleigh
Saba Raleigh was the pseudonym of ''Isabel Pauline Rowlands'', née ''Ellissen'' (8 August 1862 – 22 August 1923), an English actress. On 31 March 1894 she became the second wife of Abraham Cecil Francis Fothergill Rowlands, the actor and playw ...
(1866–1923), born Isabel Ellissen, English actress
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Saba Doak
Saba Doak (1879 – December 8, 1918) was an American soprano from Chicago, Illinois.
Early life
Saba Regina Doak was born in Texas,
(1879–1918), American soprano singer
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Sabá Sueyro
Sabá Héctor Sueyro (1889 – October 15, 1943) served as Vice President of Argentina. Sueyro was in office from the coup of June 7, 1943, until his death on October 15 of the same year.
On his death, although "the public hardly knew him" ...
(1889–1943), Argentine politician
* Saba Habachy (1897–1996), Egyptian official, oil industry consultant and international lawyer
* Saba Youakim (1914–2003), Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Petra and Philadelphia in Amman
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Saba Georgios
Georgios Savva ( el, Γεώργιος Σάββα; 22 October 1933 – 9 August 1992) was a Cypriot football striker and was the first foreign footballer ever to play professionally in Israel. He was also the first ever Greek Cypriot that played ...
(1933–1933), Cypriot football striker
* Saba Dashtyari (1953–2011), Baloch academic
* Saba Haftbaradaran (1982–2011), student killed in an attack on Camp Ashraf, Iraq
* Saba Hameed (born 1957), Pakistani actress
* Saba Mahmood (1961–2018), Pakistan-born American professor of anthropology at the University of California
* Saba Rajendran (born 1961), Indian politician and incumbent Member of Neyveli legislative assembly of Tamil Nadu
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Moisés Saba
Moises Saba Masri (Mexico City, 1963 - Cuajimalpa, Mexico City, January 10, 2010) was a Mexican businessman.
He studied engineering at the Universidad Anahuac in Mexico and came from a Syrian Jews, Syrian Jewish family of entrepreneurs present in ...
Daud Shah Saba
Daud Shah Saba (born 1964) is a politician in Afghanistan, who is serving as Governor of Herat Province since August 2010 when his predecessor Ahmad Yusuf Nuristani had resigned from the post.
Early years and education
Daud Shah Saba was born i ...
(born 1964), Afghan politician
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Saba Sadiq
Saba Sadiq (; born 7 January 1966) is a Pakistani politician who is a Member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab, from 2002 to 2023, and former minister.
Early life and education
She was born on 7 January 1966 in Lahore.
She earned the de ...
(born 1966), Pakistani politician, former Member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab
* Saba Karim (born 1967), Indian cricketer
* Saba Douglas-Hamilton (born 1970), Kenyan wildlife conservationist and television presenter
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Saba Anglana
Saba Anglana (born November 17, 1970) is a Somali-Italian actress and international singer.
Biography
Saba was born in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, during the country's socialist period. Her mother was the daughter of an exiled Somali li ...
(born 1970), Somali-Italian actress and singer
* Saba Zafar (born 1973), Indian member of Bihar Legislative Assembly and a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party
* Saba Sahar (born 1975), Afghan actress, and the country's first female film director and producer
* Saba Mubarak (born 1976), Jordanian actress and producer
* Saba Kamali (born 1976), Iranian actress
* Saba Ali Khan (born 1976), Indian jewelry designer and mutawalli (Chief Trustee) of the Royal Trust established in Bhopal
* Saba Soomekh (born 1976), Iranian-born American academic
* Saba Homayoon (born 1977), Canadian-Iranian actress
* Saba Saba ( Alex Kirya, born 1977), Ugandan hip-hop artist
* Saba Kidane (born 1978), Eritrean journalist, poet, and political activist
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Saba Masoumian
Saba Masoumian (born 1982) is an Iranian artist who lives and works in Italy.
Masoumian was born in Tehran and received a BA in graphic design from Azad University. Masoumian went on to study painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna.
S ...
(born 1982), Iranian-born Italian artist
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Saba Qamar
Saba Qamar Zaman (born 5 April 1984), known professionally as Saba Qamar, is a Pakistani actress who works predominantly in Urdu films and television. She has won several accolades including Lux Style Awards and Hum Awards. Qamar is one of Pak ...
(born 1984), Pakistani model
* Saba Anjum Karim (born 1985), former member of the Indian women's hockey team
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Saba Ahmed
Saba Ahmed (born January 11, 1985) is a Pakistani-American political activist, lawyer, and engineer. She is the founder and president of the Republican Muslim Coalition, former lawyer at the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and former ...
(born 1985), American founder and president of the Republican Muslim Coalition
* Saba Gavashelishvili (born 1987), Georgian judoka
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Saba Aziz
Saba Aziz (born 26 November 1988) is a former Pakistan number one women's tennis player. She represented Pakistan in Fed Cup from 2011-2013.
In 2011, she along with Sarah Mahboob Khan, Ushna Suhail and Sara Mansoor made history as Pakistan re-e ...
(born 1988), former Pakistan number one women's tennis player
* Sabas Saleel (born 1990), Indian footballer
* Saba Tavadze (born 1993), Georgian Football midfielder
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Saba Lobzhanidze
Saba Lobjanidze ( ka, საბა ლობჟანიძე, tr, ; born 18 December 1994) is a Georgian professional footballer who plays for Süper Lig club Hatayspor.
Club career
Born in Tbilisi, Lobzhanidze started playing for Norchi Din ...
(born 1994), Georgian football player
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Saba Azad
Saba Azad (born as Saba Singh Grewal, 1 November 1985) is an Indian actress, theatre director and musician. She is one half of Mumbai-based electro funk duo Madboy/Mink. She made her Bollywood debut as one of the leads Raaga in the indie film '' ...
, Indian actress and musician
* Saba Azarpeik, Iranian female journalist of the Iranian reformist movement
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Saba Aziz
Saba Aziz (born 26 November 1988) is a former Pakistan number one women's tennis player. She represented Pakistan in Fed Cup from 2011-2013.
In 2011, she along with Sarah Mahboob Khan, Ushna Suhail and Sara Mansoor made history as Pakistan re-e ...
, Pakistani tennis player
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Saba Dewan
Saba Dewan is an Indian documentary film maker based in New Delhi. Her films are based on sexuality, gender, identity, communalism and culture. Her notable works include ''Dharmayuddha'' (Holy War, 1989), ''Nasoor'' (Festering Wound, 1991), ''K ...
, Indian documentary film maker
* Saba Hamedy, American news editor at Huffington Post
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Saba Imtiaz
Saba Imtiaz is a Pakistani author, journalist, music critic, and screenwriter from Karachi. She previously worked for '' The News International'' and '' The Express Tribune'', and is currently writing for '' The New York Times'', '' The Guardia ...
, Pakistani journalist and music critic
* Saba Jallas, Yemeni artist, whose work gained recognition during the Yemeni Civil War
* Saba Komkova, Soviet female sprint canoer who competed in the early 1980s
* Saba Soomekh, Iranian-born American female professor and author
* Saba Valadkhan, Iranian American biomedical scientist
People with the surname Saba include:
* Abdullah ibn Saba', dubious 7th-century Islamic figure associated with the group called the Sabaʾiyya
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Abraham Saba Abraham Saba (1440–1508) was a preacher in Castile who became a pupil of Isaac de Leon. At the time of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain he took refuge in Portugal, where he met with further misfortune; for scarcely had he settled in Oporto wh ...
(1440–1508), Spanish rabbi
* Isak Saba (1875–1921), Sami teacher and politician
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Umberto Saba
Umberto Saba (9 March 1883 – 26 August 1957) was an Italian poet and novelist, born Umberto Poli in the cosmopolitan Mediterranean port of Trieste when it was the fourth largest city of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Poli assumed the pen name "S ...
(1883–1957), Italian poet and novelist
* Pierre-Macario Saba (1873–1943), Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Aleppo
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Abolhasan Saba Abu Al-Hasan ( ar, أبو الحسن, Abū Al-Ḥasan, Father of Hasan), also transliterated Abu'l Hasan, is an Arabic ''kunya'' ('teknonym'). It may refer to:
Notable people
Politics and military
* Ali ibn Abi Talib (600–661), the fourth ...
(1902–1957), Iranian composer and teacher of Persian traditional music
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Shōichi Saba
Dr. (KBE; February 28, 1919 in Tokyo – September 10, 2012) was one of the pioneers of postwar Japanese manufacturing. He served as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Scout of the Scout Association of Japan, serving for 12 years from 1994, and ...
(1919–2012), one of the pioneers of postwar Japanese manufacturing
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Fakhereh Saba Fakhereh Saba ( fa, فاخره صبا), (1920–2007) was the first female opera singer in Iran. Saba was the daughter of a cousin of the Iranian musician Abolhasan Saba. She started her primary and musical education in Iran and continued her higher ...
(1920–2007), the first female opera singer in Iran
* Elias Saba (born 1932), Lebanese politician and economist
* Joe Saba (born 1940), Australian fashion designer of Lebanese descent
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Geoffrey Saba
Geoffrey Saba (born 1946) is an Australian classical pianist of Lebanese descent, based in London.
Saba was born in Toowoomba, Queensland, where his parents established a well-known haberdashery store. He attended Toowoomba Grammar School. ...
(born 1946), Australian classical pianist of Lebanese descent
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Juan Carlos Oblitas Saba
Juan Carlos Oblitas Saba (16 February 1951 in Mollendo, Arequipa) is a retired Peruvian footballer, who is a football manager, who is nicknamed ''El Ciego'' ("The Blind One"). Oblitas was an extraordinary outside left wing forward at the natio ...
(born 1951), Peruvian footballer
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Bassam Saba
Bassam Saba (26 October 19584 December 2020) was a Lebanese musician and a promoter of Arabic music in the west. He was a co-founder of the New York Arabic Orchestra and the director of Lebanon's national conservatory of music. He died of complica ...
(1958–2020), Lebanese musician
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Moisés Saba
Moises Saba Masri (Mexico City, 1963 - Cuajimalpa, Mexico City, January 10, 2010) was a Mexican businessman.
He studied engineering at the Universidad Anahuac in Mexico and came from a Syrian Jews, Syrian Jewish family of entrepreneurs present in ...
(1963–2010), Mexican business tycoon
* Gian Franco Saba (born 1968), Italian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sassari
* Joseph Saba (composer) (born 1971), American composer
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Nicole Saba
Nicole Saba ( ar, نيكول سابا; born 26 June 1974) is a Lebanese people, Lebanese singer and actress.
Career
From 1998 to 2001, Saba was a member of the Lebanese pop group The 4 Cats, replacing Rola Bahnam. Saba released two albums with ...
(born 1974), Lebanese singer and actress
* Christian Saba (born 1978), Ghanaian footballer
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Hussain Taher Al Saba
Hussein Taher Al-Sabee ( ar, حسين طاهر السبع) (born 14 November 1979 in Qatif) is a Saudi Arabian long jumper. His personal best is 8.35 metres, achieved in May 2004 in Modesto, California
Modesto () is the county seat and lar ...
(born 1979), Saudi Arabian long jumper
* Gustavo Saba (born 1979), Paraguayan rally driver
* Ahmad Saba'a (born 1980), Arab-Israeli footballer
* Sohana Saba (born 1986), Bangladeshi television and film actress
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Vítor Saba
Vítor Rodrigues Saba (born 11 July 1990) is a former Brazilian professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder and last played for Hong Kong Premier League team, Eastern SC.
Club career
Born in Sukakerta, Saba arrived in Vasco ...
(born 1990), Brazilian footballer
* Dia Saba (born 1992), Israeli footballer, cousin of Ahmad Saba'a
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Steeven Saba
Steeven Saba (born 24 February 1993) is a Haitian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ligue Haïtienne club Violette and the Haiti national team.
Early years
Saba was born in Port-au-Prince and is the son of former football ...