Babatunde (variant forms: Babatunji, Babajide, Babawande, Babaside, Babatide, Bababode, Babs) is a male given name. In the
Yoruba language
Yoruba (, ; Yor. '; Ajami script, Ajami: ) is a language spoken in West Africa, primarily in South West (Nigeria), Southwestern Middle Belt, and Central Nigeria. It is spoken by the Ethnic group, ethnic Yoruba people. The number of Yoruba speake ...
, it means 'father returns', or ' a father has returned'.
This generally refers to a male ancestor such as a deceased father, grandfather, or great-grandfather.
People named Babatunde
As a given name
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Babatunde Adebimpe
Babatunde Omoroga Adebimpe (born February 26, 1975) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, actor, director, and visual artist best known as the lead singer of the Brooklyn-based band TV on the Radio.
Early life
Adebimpe was born into a Nige ...
, American actor and musician known professionally as Tunde Adebimpe
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Babatunde Aiyegbusi, Polish-Nigerian wrestler and former American football player
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Babatunde Aléshé, British actor, writer and comedian
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Samuel Babatunde Bajah, Nigerian educator
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Babatunde Elegbede, military governor of Cross State, Nigeria, 1978–1979
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Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Power, Works and Housing, 2015–present; governor of Lagos State, 2007–2015
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Bomani Babatunde Jones, American sports journalist
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Babatunde Jose (1925–2008), Nigerian journalist
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Babatunde Lawal
Babatunde Lawal is an art historian and scholar of the arts of Nigeria. His research is focused on the visual culture of the Yoruba and its influences in the Americas. He is currently a professor of Art History
Art history is the study of aesth ...
, Nigerian art historian in the United States
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Babatunde Lea, Afro-Cuban and worldbeat percussionist
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Babajide Ogunbiyi, American soccer player
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Babawande Olabisi, Nigerian-American baseball player known as Wande Olabisi
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Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian drummer
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Babatunji Olowofoyeku
Babatunji Olowofoyeku (21 May 1917 – 26 March 2003), OFR, SAN, was a Nigerian politician, educationist, lawyer and leader, a Yoruba and native of Ilesha in Osun State of Nigeria, whose political career started in the mid-1950s.
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, Nigerian lawyer, politician and educator
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Babatunde Ogunnaike, Nigerian-American chemical engineer
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Babatunde Oshinowo
Babatunde Oluwasegun Temitope Oluwakorede Adisa "Baba" Oshinowo, Jr. a-ba-TOON-day OH-shi-no-who(born January 14, 1983) is a former American football defensive tackle. His second name "Oluwasegun" means "God has been victorious" in the Yoruba la ...
, NFL player
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Babatunde Osotimehin
Babatunde Osotimehin (6 February 1949 – 4 June 2017) was a Nigerian physician, who served as Minister of Health, and in 2011 became the executive director of the United Nations Population Fund, holding the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the ...
, Nigerian Minister of Health, 2007–2010
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Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel laureate
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Babatunde Wusu, Nigerian-Finnish football striker
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Babatunde Yusuf, Nigerian football player
As a surname
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Babajide Collins Babatunde, Nigerian-born, Russian-based footballer
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Badmus Babatunde, Nigerian footballer
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Ibrahim Babatunde, Nigerian-born, Italian-based footballer
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Michael Babatunde, Nigerian footballer
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Obba Babatundé
Obba Babatundé (born Donald Cohen; December 1, 1951) is an American actor. A native of Queens, New York City, he has appeared in more than seventeen stage productions, thirty theatrical films, sixty made-for-television films, and two prime-time ...
, American actor of stage and screen
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Yetunde
Yetunde (variant forms: Yewande, Yeside, Yetide, Yejide, Yetunji, Yebode; alternatively spelled Iyabo or Iyabode) is a traditional name of the Yoruba ethnic group for females which factors into Yoruba religious beliefs, meaning "Mother has return ...
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Tunde
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African masculine given names
Yoruba given names
Yoruba-language surnames
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