Babak () is a common Persian given name for males. It derives from the Middle Persian name Pāpak"BĀBAK",Encyclopedia of Islam, second edition which means "father"Bahramian, Ali, Stephen Hirtenstein and Translated by Rahim Gholami, “Bābak Khurram-Dīn”, in: Encyclopaedia Islamica, Editors-in-Chief: Farhad Daftary. Consulted online on 25 December 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1875-9831_isla_COM_00000014>, First published online: 2015
People with this name Babak (c. 222), Persian prince and father (or stepfather) of Ardashir I, founder of the Sasanian Empire Babak (Sasanian general) Babak Khorramdin (795 or 798–838), Khurramite leader who fought against the Abbasid Caliphate Babak Amir-Tahmasseb (born 1976), French-Iranian kayaker Babak Hassibi (born 1967), Iranian-American electrical engineer Babak Jahanbakhsh (born 1983), Iranian pop singer Babak Payami (born 1966), Iranian film director Babak Rafati (born 1970), Iranian-German football referee Babak Ganjei (born 1978-1979), British artist Bobak Ferdowsi (born 1979), American engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
See also Babak (disambiguation)
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