Baz (name)
Baz (also bas ) is an Indo-Aryan word for hawk (or falcon ) and served as a name of honor from ancient Persia to India . In Pakistan and Iran it is part of the name to this day, e.g. B. in the first name Shahbaz ( farsi for king falcon ).
Name bearer
are among others:
- Baz Bahadur , 1555–1562 Sultan of Malwa (India)
- Baz Khan , around 1850 Sardar from Hazara (today Pakistan)
- Baz Mohammad Ahmadi , Governor of the Ghor Province of Afghanistan
- Ibn Baz (1910–1999), Islamic scholar of the Wahhabis
- Baz Luhrmann (* 1962), Australian director and actor
family name
- Christian Friedrich Baz (1762–1808), lawyer, member of the state parliament and mayor of Ludwigsburg
- Gustavo Baz Prada (1894–1987), Mexican surgeon and obstetrician, politician and university rector
- Mar Narsai De Baz (1940–2010), Metropolitan of Lebanon, Syria and all of Europe
- Loris Baz (* 1993), French motorcycle racer