Sultan Sultan (; ', ) is a position with several historical meanings. Originally, it was an Arabic abstract noun meaning "strength", "authority", "rulership", derived from the verbal noun ', meaning "authority" or "power". Later, it came to be use ...

is an Islamic title of authority. Sultan may also refer to:

People

* Sultan (name), including lists of people with the given name and surname *

Rikishi (wrestler) Solofa Fatu Jr. (born October 11, 1965) is an American professional wrestler, best known under the ring names Rikishi and Fatu with the WWE and under a variety of names in New Japan Pro-Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling and Total Nons ...

, a Samoan-American wrestler who goes by the ring name "The Sultan"

Places

Sultan, Ontario Sultan is an unincorporated community in the Unorganized North Part of Sudbury District in northeastern Ontario, Canada. The local economy is based primarily on hunting and related tourism. In the past the logging industry formed the mainstay ...

, Canada, an unincorporated community *

Sultan, Libya Sultan () is a coastal town in the Al Wahat District, Cyrenaica region, in north-eastern Libya Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt ...

, a town * Sultan, County Tyrone, a townland in

County Tyrone County Tyrone (; ) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the thirty-two traditional counties of Ireland. Its county town is Omagh. Adjoined to the south-west shore of Lough Neagh, the cou ...

, Northern Ireland * Sultan, Bolu, Turkey, a village *

Sultan, Edirne Sultan is a village in İpsala District of Edirne Province, Turkey. Its population is 1,155 (2022). It is situated to the west of Sultanköy Dam. The distance to İpsala is . The settlement was founded in 1924 by the Turkish refugees from Greece ...

, Turkey, a town *

Sultan Mountains The Sultan Mountains (), also known as Sultan Dagh range or Sultan Dag, is a short mountain range on the western edge of the Anatolian Plateau, Turkey with highest elevation of . The town of Sultandağı is their namesake. They are made up of m ...

, Turkey *

Sultan, Washington Sultan is a city in Snohomish County, Washington, United States. It is located approximately east of Everett at the confluence of the Skykomish River and the Sultan River, a minor tributary. The city had a population of 5,146 at the 2020 cen ...

, United States, a city *

Sultan River The Sultan River is a river in Snohomish County in the U.S. state of Washington. It is a tributary of the Skykomish River, which it joins at the town of Sultan, Washington. The river is dammed in its upper third by Culmback Dam to form Spada ...

, Washington * Sultan Glacier, Elephant Island, Antarctica

Animals

* Sultan (chimpanzee), a chimpanzee and test subject of Wolfgang Köhler *

Sultan (horse) Sultan (1816-) was a British-bred Thoroughbred racehorse and a leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland for six successive seasons. Breeding He was by Selim (sire of six classics winners), out of Bacchante by Williamson's Ditto. Sultan was inb ...

, a racehorse born in 1816 * Sultan chicken, a breed of Turkish chicken

Fictional characters

* The Sultan (Disney), a fictional character in Disney's ''Aladdin'' franchise *

Sultan (comics) S.H.I.E.L.D. is a Marvel Comics fictional advanced counterterrorism and intelligence agency charged with investigating and neutralizing paranormal and superhuman threats for global security. It was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in ''Strange ...

, a fictional character in the Marvel comics

Films and television

* ''Sultan'' (1999 film), a Telugu film * ''Sultan'' (2008 film), a Malayalam film * ''Sultan'' (2016 film), a Hindi film * ''Sulthan'' (2021 film), a Tamil film

Military

*, several Royal Navy ships *

FV105 Sultan FV105 Sultan was a British command and control vehicle based on the CVR(T) platform. It has a higher roof than the armoured personnel carrier variants, providing a more comfortable "office space" inside. Sultan entered service in 1978. It is ...

, a British Army command and control vehicle

Music

Sultan Records Sultan Recording Company, headquartered in Detroit, was a short-lived label started c. 1946 by Morton Sultan (1921 - 1983).

, a short-lived jazz label *

Sultans (band) The Sultans were an American rock and roll band led by John Reis, formed in 2000 in San Diego, California. Over the course of the band's lifespan they released two full-length albums on Reis' Swami Records label. The band took pride in their " ...

, an American rock and roll band (2000-2007) ** ''Sultans'' (EP), the introductory EP by the San Diego, California rock and roll band Sultans *

Les Sultans Les Sultans was a French Canadian music band greatly affected by the British invasion of sixties (The Beatles and the Rolling Stones), American folk-rock tradition Sultan (hip hop artist) Soultouane Benjadid (; born 24 April 1987), better known as Sultan (earlier Sultan du Holster), is a French rapper originating from the Comoros. Prior to becoming a solo artist, he was part of the hip hop duo Holster with Ibrahim (I.B.R.). Care ...

, mononym for a French hip hop artist *

Sultan (producer) Sultan and Shepard (stylized as Sultan + Shepard) are a Canadian electronic music duo who frequently collaborate in record production, songwriting, and remixing. Biography Background Sultan, born Ossama Al Sarraf, lived in Kuwait, Cyprus, and Eg ...

, part of the Canadian producing, songwriting and mixing duo Sultan & Ned Shepard

Sports and games

Boğaziçi Sultans Boğaziçi Sultans is Turkey's first American football team, founded in 1987 at the Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. Formerly named as ''Bogaziçi Elephants'', the team improved their game by practicing with American soldiers, and played their f ...

, Turkey's first American football team *

Hyderabad Sultans The Hyderabad Sultans was the Indian Premier Hockey League team from Hyderabad Hyderabad is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Mus ...

, an Indian professional field hockey team *

Multan Sultans Multan Sultans is a Pakistani professional Twenty20 franchise cricket team representing Multan, a city in southern Punjab, in the Pakistan Super League (PSL). The team was founded in 2017 as an additional sixth team added to the PSL with contra ...

, a Pakistan Super League team based in Multan, Pakistan *

Sultan (solitaire) Sultan, The Sultan or Sultan of Turkey is a Patience_(game), patience or Solitaire (game), solitaire card game that uses two packs of playing cards. It is so named since a successful game rewards the player with a view of the Sultan (King of Hearts) ...

, a card game

Transportation

* Sultan Air, a Turkish charter airline that operated from 1989 to 1993 *''Sultan'', a GWR Iron Duke Class steam locomotive run on the Great Western Railway *''Sultan'', one of the

GWR 3031 Class The Dean Single, 3031 Class, or Achilles Class was a type of steam locomotive built by the British Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1899. They were designed by William Dean for passenger work. The first 30 members of the class were built ...

locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915