Shapur (name)
# 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
* Maharsapor (or Sapor; died 421), an early Christian martyr of Persia.
* 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.
* Shahpur Ahmadzai, Afghan Communist General and Brother of Late President Mohammad Najibullah

## 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
