Babu (name)
Babu is a common given name in India, also found in other cultures.
Notable people with this name
[edit]Given name
[edit]- Babu (actor) (d. 2023), Indian actor
- Babu Antony, Indian film actor in Malayalam movies
- Babu Janardhanan, Indian film director in Malayalam movies
- Babu Ram Mandial, Indian politician
- Babu Mohan, Indian film comedian
- Babu Namboothiri, Indian film actor in Malayalam movies
- Babu Narayanan, Indian film director in Malayalam movies
- Babu Himmat Sah, Founder ruler of Kohra (estate)
- Babu Amar Singh, brother of Kunwar Singh, the ruler of Jagdishpur estate, rebel leader in the Indian rebellion of 1857 against British rule
- Babu Bhoop Singh, Ruler of Kohra (estate) and Leader of Indian Rebellion of 1857
- Babu Kunwar Singh, Ruler of Jagdishpur estate, rebel leader in the Indian rebellion of 1857 against British rule
Surname
[edit]- B. Santosh Babu, Indian Army officer
- D. Babu Paul (1941–2019), former member of the Indian Administrative Service
- D. Suresh Babu, Indian film producer
- DJ Babu, Filipino-American DJ and member of Dilated Peoples
- Fazlur Rahman Babu, Bangladeshi actor
- Idavela Babu, Indian film actor in Malayalam movies
- Jagapati Babu, Indian film actor
- Mahesh Babu, Indian actor
- Nagendra Babu, Indian film actor and producer
- Prasad Babu, South Indian film actor, who acted in Telugu and Tamil films
- Yogi Babu (born 1985), Indian actor and comedian
As a nickname
[edit]- Anderson Rodney de Oliveira, known as 'Babù', Brazilian footballer
- Babu Bajrangi, a criminal from India, responsible for the deaths of many people in 2002
- Babullah of Ternate, called name “Sultan Babullah” (1528–1583), also known as “Babu”, an Indonesian heroes, and 7th Sultan and 24th ruler of the Sultanate of Ternate in Maluku
- Jorge Babu (1965–2026), Brazilian politician
- K. D. Singh (field hockey), Indian hockey player nicknamed 'Babu'
- N. Chandrababu Naidu (often referred to as 'Babu'), Indian politician
- Pablo Marquez, Ecuadorian wrestler with the ring name 'Babu'
Fictional characters
[edit]- Babu Bhatt, Pakistani character on the sitcom Seinfeld
- Babu, character in Jeannie (TV series)
- Baby Babu, fake baby monkey adopted by "The Creatures, LLC"
- Babu, a fake Austrian people who is the last year champion of the tournament in the 1994 arcade game Stack Columns
- Babu Rao Ganpat Rao Apte, a character in Hera Pheri (film series) played by Paresh Rawal
- Hurree Chunder Mookerjee, character in the Rudyard Kipling novel Kim, mostly referred to as "Hurree Babu" or "the Babu"
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