Shapur (name)
Appearance
Shāpūr (Persian: شاپور, meaning son of the king) or Sapor is a Persian male given name. It is first attested in Middle Persian as Shāhpuhr (𐭱𐭧𐭯𐭥𐭧𐭥𐭩). The Armenian form is Շապուհ Šapuh or Սեպուհ Sepuh.
Sasanian kings
[edit]Shapur can refer to one of four Sasanian kings:
- Shapur I (r. 241–272)
- Shapur II (r. 309–379)
- Shapur III (r. 383–388)
- Shapur IV (r. 420)
- Shapur-i Shahrvaraz (r. 630)
Other people
[edit]Shapur may also refer to:
- Vramshapuh or Bahram-Shapur, a Prince who served as a Sasanian Client King of Arsacid Armenia from 389 until 417.
- Shapur Mihran, a 5th-century Iranian noble from the House of Mihran, who served as the marzban (governor) of Persian Armenia briefly in 482.
- Shapur of Ray or Shapur Razi, a 5th-century Iranian from the House of Mihran, who served as the marzban (governor) of Persian Armenia from 483 to 484.
- Shapur (Bavandid ruler) (died 825), local ruler in Tabaristan
- Shapur Bakhtiar (1915–1991), former Prime Minister of Iran
- Shapur ibn Sahl, a ninth-century Persian Christian physician from the Academy of Gundishapur
- Sapor of Bet-Nicator was the Christian bishop of Bet-Nicator
- Maharsapor (or Sapor; died 421), an early Christian martyr of Persia.
- Saburrus, Byzantine general who served in Italy under Constans II
- Saborios, Byzantine general who revolted against Constans II
- Shapoor Zadran, an Afghan cricketer
- Shapoor Reporter, a British intelligence agent
- Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry (born 1929), Indian-born Irish businessman
- Mar Shapur also known as Mar Sabor , a Chaldean Assyrian bishop who helped set up a church in present day Kollam, Kerala.
Places
[edit]- Anbar, Iraq was known as Peroz-Shapur in ancient times.
Other
[edit]- Shapur, a character in Nizami Ganjavi's tale Khusraw and Shirin
- Shapoorji Pallonji Group, Indian business conglomerate