title: Shapur (name)
text: # 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
  