title: Navabi
text: # Navabi
  
  Navabi (Persian: نوابی; adjective form of نواب (navāb) meaning "nabob", "nawab" – and thus roughly translating as "of Navab", "from a nabob (rich Mughal ruler)", "relating to a nabob") is a Persian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
  
  * Armin Navabi (born 1983), Iranian-Canadian ex-Muslim atheist and secular activist, author and podcaster
  * Hakan Massoud Navabi (born 1990), Afghan-Canadian freelance journalist, writer and entrepreneur
  * Shirin Navabi (born 1980), Iranian female chess player
  
  ## Fictional character
  
  * Samar Navabi, character from the American crime drama television series The Blacklist
  