Babu (name)

Babu is a common given name in India, also found in other cultures.

Notable people with this name

Given name

• Babu Himmat Sah, Founder ruler of Kohra (estate)
• 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
• Babu Amar Singh, brother of Kunwar Singh, the ruler of Jagdishpur estate, rebel leader in the Indian rebellion of 1857 against British rule
• Babu Ram Mandial, Indian politician
• Babu Mohan, Indian film comedian
• Babu Namboothiri, Indian film actor in Malayalam movies
• Babu Antony, Indian film actor in Malayalam movies
• Babu Janardhanan, Indian film director in Malayalam movies
• Babu Narayanan, Indian film director in Malayalam movies
• Baburam Bhattarai, former Prime Minister of Nepal

Surname

• Jagapati Babu, Indian film actor
• Fazlur Rahman Babu, Bangladeshi actor
• DJ Babu, Filipino-American DJ and member of Dilated Peoples
• Mahesh Babu, Indian actor
• Babu, first bishop of Nisibis, succeeded by Jacob of Nisibis
• Prasad Babu, South Indian film actor, who acted in Telugu and Tamil films
• D. Babu Paul (born 1941), former member of the Indian Administrative Service
• B. Santosh Babu, Indian Army officer
• D. Suresh Babu, Indian film producer
• Nagendra Babu, Indian film actor and producer
• Idavela Babu, Indian film actor in Malayalam movies
• Yogi Babu (born 1985), Indian actor and comedian

As a nickname

• Anderson Rodney de Oliveira, known as 'Babù', Brazilian footballer
• N. Chandrababu Naidu (often referred to as 'Babu'), Indian politician
• Pablo Marquez, Ecuadorian wrestler with the ring name 'Babu'
• K. D. Singh (field hockey), Indian hockey player nicknamed 'Babu'
• 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

Fictional characters

• 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"

See also

• Babu (title)
• Babu (disambiguation)