Tupac (name)
Tupac, Túpac or Tupaq (Quechua "a royal thing") is a defunct title used (similarly to Ras in the Ethiopian Empire) by the former Peruvian Inca Empire, and is used as a male name of Inca origin.[1]
Notable people with the name include:
Music
- Tupac Mantilla (born 1978), Colombian musician and percussionist
- Tupac Amaru Shakur, or Tupac Shakur (1971–1996), American rapper also known by the stage names "2Pac" and "Makaveli", named after Túpac Amaru II
Leaders and politicians
Inca chiefs
- Túpac Inca Yupanqui or Tupaq Inka Yupanki (1471–1493), tenth Sapa Inka of the Incan Empire
- Túpac Amaru or Tupaq Amaru (died 1572), last indigenous leader of the Inca people in Peru
- Túpac Amaru II or Tupaq Amaru II (1742–1781), descendant of the Inca chief Tupac Amaru and leader of the 1780s uprising in colonial Cusco, Peru
- Túpac Huallpa or Tupaq Wallpa (d. 1533), Inca ruler
Bolivia
- Túpac Katari or Tupaq Katari (c. 1750–1781), leader of a rebellion of indigenous people in Bolivia
See also
- Túpac Amaru (disambiguation)
- Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, a communist guerrilla movement active in Peru from 1982 to 1997
- Túpac Katari Guerrilla Army, an indigenous guerrilla movement in Bolivia which was active during the 1990s
- Operation Tupac, a 1988 Pakistani covert military operation in Indian-controlled Kashmir
References
- Clements Markham (1864), "Tupac", Contributions towards a grammar and dictionary of Quichua, p. 181
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