Balian or Balyan may refer to:

People

Balian of Ibelin (disambiguation) Balian of Ibelin is a name shared by several members of a noble family from the crusader kingdoms of Jerusalem and Cyprus. The most famous was the second lord of Ibelin by that name, whose heavily fictionalised biography was depicted in the 2005 mov ...

, a name shared by several members of the Ibelin family from the crusader kingdoms of Jerusalem and Cyprus *

Balian Buschbaum Balian Buschbaum (born 14 July 1980 in Ulm) is a former Germany, German pole vaulter. Life and career Buschbaum competed in women's pole vaulting before his gender transition, winning the title of German Youth Champion multiple times. In 1999 ...

(born 1980), German pole vaulter *

Roger Balian Roger Balian (born 18 January 1933) is a French-Armenian physicist who has worked on quantum field theory, quantum thermodynamics, and theory of measurement. Balian is a member of French Académie des sciences (Academy of Sciences). His importan ...

, 20th-century French physicist; co-creator of the Balian–Low theorem *

Balyan family The Balyan family ( hy, Պալեաններ; tr, Balyan ailesi or ''Palyan ailesi'') was a prominent Armenian family in the Ottoman Empire consisting of court architects in the service of Ottoman sultans and other members of the Ottoman dynas ...

, Ottoman Armenian family of court architects, 18th–19th century

Southeast Asia

*'' Balian'', another term for the ''babaylan'' shamans of the Philippines * ''Balian'', Balinese language term for a

traditional healer A folk healer is an unlicensed person who practices the art of healing using traditional practices, herbal remedies and the power of suggestion. The healer may be a highly trained person who pursues their specialties, learning by study, observa ...

Other uses

Balian–Low theorem In mathematics, the Balian–Low theorem in Fourier analysis is named for Roger Balian and Francis E. Low. The theorem states that there is no well-localized window function (or Gabor atom) ''g'' either in time or frequency for an exact Gabor fram ...

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