Shapur (name)

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

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
• Shapoor Zadran, an Afghan cricketer
• Shapoor Reporter, a British intelligence agent

Other

• Shapur, a character in Nizami Ganjavi's tale Khusraw and Shirin

See also

• Shahpur (disambiguation)