Bal may refer to: *

Bal (surname) Bal is a surname of Dutch, Indian, Turkish or Polish origin. In Dutch, ''bal'' means "ball" and the name sometimes is metonymic (e.g. indicating a ball player), but primarily appears patronymic after a short form of the name Baldwin.

, a Dutch, Indian, and Turkish surname * Bal, Iran (disambiguation) *

Bal, Zira Bal is a village in Firozpur district, Punjab, India. It is located in the Zira tehsil. Demographics According to the 2011 census of India The 2011 Census of India or the 15th Indian Census was conducted in two phases, house listing ...

, a village in Punjab, India * ''Bal'' (film), a 2010 Turkish film *

Bäl Bäl is a populated area, a socken (not to be confused with parish), on the Swedish island of Gotland. It comprises the same area as the administrative Bäl District, established on 1January 2016. Geography Bäl is the name of the larger area, ...

, a settlement on the Swedish island of Gotland * 8678 Bäl, a main belt asteroid * Bal, Cornish for mine, as in

Bal maiden A bal maiden, from the Cornish language , a mine, and the English "maiden", a young or unmarried woman, was a female manual labourer working in the mining industries of Cornwall and western Devon, at the south-western extremity of Great Brit ...

* A ground-launched version of the Russian

Kh-35 The Zvezda Kh-35 (russian: Х-35 , AS-20 'Kayak') is a Soviet turbojet subsonic cruise anti-ship missile. The missile can be launched from helicopters, surface ships and coastal defence batteries with the help of a rocket booster, in which ca ...

anti-ship missile * A slang term for Balboa (dance) * Balboa High School (California), San Francisco, US

People with the given name

* Bal Bahadur K.C. (born 1953), Nepali politician * Bal Dani (1933–1999), Indian cricketer * Bal David (born 1972), Filipino basketball player * Bal Dhuri, Indian theatre actor * Bal Dixit, American businessman * Bal Gosal (born 1960), Canadian politician * Bal Kadbet (1925–2010), Indian cricketer *

Bal Kudtarkar Bal Kudtarkar (21 August 1921 – 7 February 2020) was a radio personality from All India Radio, Mumbai. He was the Marathi Marathi may refer to: *Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India *Marathi language, the ...

, Indian radio personality *

Bal Narsingh Kunwar Bal Narsingh Kunwar or Balanarsingh Kanwar ( ne, बालनरसिंह कुँवर; 2 February 1783 - 24 December 1841) posthumously referred as Bal Narsingh Kunwar Rana was a Kaji, military officer and governor in the Kingdom of N ...

(1783–1841), Nepalese Kaji and governor * Bal Gopal Maharjan, Nepali football coach * Bal Chandra Misra, Indian politician *

Bal Ram Nanda Bal Ram Nanda (1917 – 30 May 2010) was a writer from New Delhi, India. He was the preeminent Indian biographer of Mahatma Gandhi. Career After studying student of History at Lahore University, B.R. Nanda joined the Indian Railways ...

(1917–2010), Indian writer *

Bal Raj Nijhawan Bal Raj Nijhawan, (1915 – 2014) was an Indian metallurgist, author and the first Director of Indian origin of the National Metallurgical Laboratory, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). He was a recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatn ...

(1915–2014), Indian metallurgist *

Bal Pandit Bal Jagannath Pandit (24 July 1929 – 17 September 2015) was an Indian cricketer, writer and broadcaster. Early life He was born in Pune. He was a right-handed batsman who played for Maharashtra. Playing career Pandit made his cricketing debu ...

(1929–2015), Indian cricketer, writer and broadcaster *

Bal Kumar Patel Bal Kumar Patel (born 1 January 1964) is an Indian politician and has served as a member of the 15th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Mirzapur constituency of Uttar Pradesh and was a member of the Samajwadi Party (SP) political party bef ...

(born 1964), India politician *

Bal Phondke Bal Phondke (born 22 April 1939) is the pen name of Dr Gajanan Phondke, a leading Marathi writer of science literature ( fiction and non-fiction). He is credited in part to have started the science fiction genre of writing in Marathi literature. A ...

(born 1939), Indian writer *

Bal Bahadur Rai Bal Bahadur Rai (बल बहादुर राई) (1921-2010) was the leader of the Nepali Congress political party and a former cabinet minister of Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Ne ...

(1921–2010), Nepali politician *

Bal Gopal Shrestha Bal Gopal Shrestha is a cultural anthropologist based in the Netherlands. He was born in Sankhu, a small town near Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, and finished his MA (political science) from Tribhuvan University. Later Shrestha completed a Ph ...

, Nepali cultural anthropologist *

Bal Krishna Singh Bal Krishna Singh (18 April 1916 – 1977) was an Indian politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India from Chandauli, Uttar Pradesh in 1962 as a member of the Indian National Congress The Indian N ...

(born 1916), Indian politician *

Bal Thackeray Bal Thackeray (; 23 January 1926 – 17 November 2012), also known as Balasaheb Thackeray, was an Indian politician who founded the Shiv Sena, a right-wing pro-Marathi and Hindu nationalist party active mainly in the state of Maharashtra ...

(1926-2012), Indian politician *

Bal Gangadhar Tilak Bal Gangadhar Tilak (; born Keshav Gangadhar Tilak (pronunciation: eʃəʋ ɡəŋɡaːd̪ʱəɾ ʈiɭək; 23 July 1856 – 1 August 1920), endeared as Lokmanya ( IAST: ''Lokmānya''), was an Indian nationalist, teacher, and an independence ...

(1856–1920), Indian nationalist, social reformer and freedom fighter

People with the given name

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