Shapur (name)

Shāpūr (Persian: شاپور, meaning son of the king) or Shahpur (شاهپور) is a Persian male given name popular in Iran and other Persian speaking countries. It is first attested in Middle Persian as Shāhpuhr (𐭱𐭧𐭯𐭥𐭧𐭥𐭩). The Armenian form is Շապուհ Šapuh or Սեպուհ Sepuh.

Sasanian kings

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

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 (1929-2022), 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

• Anbar, Iraq was known as Peroz-Shapur in ancient times.

Other

• Shapur, a character in Nizami Ganjavi's tale Khusraw and Shirin
• Shapoorji Pallonji Group, Indian business conglomerate

See also

• Shahpur (disambiguation)