Shapur (name)

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)

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

• Anbar, Iraq was known as Peroz-Shapur in ancient times.

• Shapur, a character in Nizami Ganjavi's tale Khusraw and Shirin
• Shapoorji Pallonji Group, Indian business conglomerate

• Shahpur (disambiguation)