Zulu may refer to:

Zulu people

Zulu Kingdom The Zulu Kingdom ( ; ), sometimes referred to as the Zulu Empire, was a monarchy in Southern Africa. During the 1810s, Shaka established a standing army that consolidated rival clans and built a large following which ruled a wide expanse of So ...

or Zulu Empire, a former monarchy in what is now South Africa *

Zulu language Zulu ( ), or isiZulu as an endonym, is a Southern Bantu languages, Southern Bantu language of the Nguni languages, Nguni branch spoken in, and indigenous to, Southern Africa. Nguni dialects are regional or social varieties of the Nguni language, ...

, a Bantu language spoken in southern Africa *

Zulu people Zulu people (; ) are a native people of Southern Africa of the Nguni people, Nguni. The Zulu people are the largest Ethnic groups in South Africa, ethnic group and nation in South Africa, living mainly in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. They o ...

, an ethnic group of southern Africa

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

* ''Zulu'' (1964 film), a war film starring Stanley Baker and Michael Caine * ''Zulu'' (2013 film), a French crime film starring Forest Whitaker and Orlando Bloom

Music

* "Zulu" (song), a 1981 dance single by British funk duo the Quick * Zulu Records, a record store in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada founded in 1981 * "Zulu", a song by Blink-182 from the 1996 EP ''They Came to Conquer... Uranus'' * Zulu (band), an American hardcore punk band formed in 2019

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* Zulu (Pillow Pal), a Pillow Pal zebra made by Ty, Inc. * TV 2 Zulu, a Danish television station * Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club, a Carnival krewe in New Orleans

People

* Zulu (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) * Zulu (footballer), full name Carlos Eduardo Alves Albina (born 1983), Brazilian forward * Gilbert Lani Kauhi (1937–2004), stage name Zulu, who played Kono in the original ''Hawaii Five-O'' series * Zulu kaMalandela, founder (c. 1709) and chief of the Zulu clan * Zulu Sofola (1935–1995), professor and the first published female Nigerian playwright and dramatist *

Shaka Zulu Shaka kaSenzangakhona (–24 September 1828), also known as Shaka (the) Zulu () and Sigidi kaSenzangakhona, was the king of the Zulu Kingdom from 1816 to 1828. One of the most influential monarchs of the Zulu, he ordered wide-reaching reform ...

(c. 1787 – 1828), leader of the Zulu Kingdom

Places

* Zulu, Indiana, a town in the United States * 1922 Zulu, an asteroid

Military

* Battle Force Zulu, U.S. Navy carrier task force designation (including a list of them) * , three ships of the British Royal Navy * Task Force Zulu, a South African Defence Force unit in Operation Savannah *

Zulu-class submarine The Soviet Navy's Project 611 (NATO reporting name: Zulu class) were one of the first Soviet post-Second-World-War attack submarines. They were similarly capable to the American Greater Underwater Propulsion Power Program, GUPPY fleet-boat conver ...

, a Soviet attack submarine class built in the 1950s

Science and technology

* Zulü, an approximation of pi * Zulu, a variant of the 1910s Sunbeam Crusader motorcycle engine * '' Alaena'', a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae commonly called zulus * Azul Zulu, a binary build of OpenJDK (a Java implementation) developed by Azul Systems * '' Torbenia'', a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae commonly called zulus * Zulu sheep, a breed raised primarily by the Zulu people in Southern Africa *

Zulu time Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the primary time standard globally used to regulate clocks and time. It establishes a reference for the current time, forming the basis for civil time and time zones. UTC facilitates international communicat ...

, more commonly known as UTC, for the Z in TZ timestamps

Other uses

* Z, pronounced "Zulu" in the

NATO phonetic alphabet The International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet or simply the Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet, commonly known as the NATO phonetic alphabet, is the most widely used set of clear-code words for communicating the letters of the Latin/Roman ...

* Zulu, a type of boat used in the Scottish east coast fishery * Zulu Wikipedia, Zulu language edition of Wikipedia * The Zulus, a former football team in Sheffield, England * The Birmingham Zulu Warriors, a football hooligan "firm" associated with Birmingham City FC