Bobak is a given name and a surname. It is a
Persian
Persian may refer to:
* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
male given name and a variant of
Babak, which is derived from the
Old Persian
Old Persian is one of the two directly attested Old Iranian languages (the other being Avestan language, Avestan) and is the ancestor of Middle Persian (the language of Sasanian Empire). Like other Old Iranian languages, it was known to its native ...
, meaning 'young father'. In
Polish
Polish may refer to:
* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
* Polish language
* Poles, people from Poland or of Polish descent
* Polish chicken
*Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwr ...
, Bobak is a surname, derived from the
Slavic word , meaning "bean" or "broad bean".
[''Dictionary of American Family Names'']
"Babak Family History"
Oxford University Press, 2013. Retrieved on 10 January 2016. The name may refer to:
Given name
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Bobak Ferdowsi
Bobak Ferdowsi ( fa, بابک فردوسی, ; born November 7, 1979) is a flight engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He served on the '' Cassini–Huygens'' and Mars Science Laboratory ''Curiosity'' missions.
Ferdowsi gained brief medi ...
(born 1979), American systems engineer
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Bobak Kianoush (born 1978), British musician
Surname
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Bruno Bobak
Bruno Bobak, LL.D., D.Litt (born Bronislaw Jacob Bobak; 27 December 1923 – 24 September 2012) was a Polish-born Canadian war painter and art teacher. His main medium was watercolour painting but he also produced woodcuts.
Early years and war a ...
(1923–2012), Canadian artist
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Celia Bobak
Celia Bobak is an art director and set decorator. She has been nominated for two Academy Awards.
Academy Awards
Both nominations were for Best Production Design:
* 77th Academy Awards – ''The Phantom of the Opera'' (shared with Anthony D. G. ...
, set decorator and art director
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Jacqueline Bobak (born 1962), American musician
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Katherine Bobak (born 1994), Canadian pair skater
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Molly Bobak
Molly Lamb Bobak (née Lamb; February 25, 1920 – March 2, 2014) was a Canadian teacher, writer, printmaker and painter working in oils and watercolours. During World War II, she was the first Canadian woman artist to be sent overseas to docu ...
(1922–2014), Canadian artist and writer
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Przemysław Bobak (born 1974), Polish diplomat
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Stanisław Bobak
Stanisław Bobak (12 March 1956 – 12 November 2010) was a Polish ski jumper.
Career
Bobak was born in Ząb. Stanisław Bobak was one of the leading ski jumpers of the 1970s and 1980s, and was a member of the Polish team at the 1976 Winter Olym ...
(1956–2010), Polish ski jumper
See also
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Babak (disambiguation)
References
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Persian masculine given names
Polish-language surnames