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Shabana Azmi (शबाना आज़मी)
Shabana Azmi (शबाना आज़मी, born 1950, Hyderabad), Indian film actor with over 160 films since Ankur (1974); record five National Film Awards for Best Actress, Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan, Rajya Sabha member, Fire, Halo, parallel cinema icon.
Shabana Mahmood
Shabana Mahmood (born 1980) is the UK Labour MP for Birmingham Ladywood since 2010, Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary July 2024 to September 2025, and Home Secretary from 5 September 2025.
Shabana Shajahan Aryan
Shabana Shajahan Aryan, born Shajahan, is an Indian actress who works in Tamil and Malayalam television, best known for playing Parvati in the Zee Tamil serial Sembaruthi, which ran 1,695 episodes from 2017 to 2022.
Shabang
"Shabang" is a 2026 song by Drake from the album Iceman, produced by Maneesh (Maneesh Bidaye) and Noah "40" Shebib; it peaked at No. 4 on the Hot 100 and went viral through its "Maneesh on the beat, shabang" hook.
Shabareesh Varma
Shabareesh Varma (ശബരീഷ് വർമ്മ), born 1985 in North Paravur, Kerala, is a Malayalam cinema lyricist, playback singer, and actor known for "Pistah" in Neram (2013) and the Premam (2015) songs, later lead of the web series Inspection Bungalow.
Shabari
Shabari is an elderly ascetic in the Ramayana who hosts Rama and Lakshmana at Lake Pampa, directs them to Sugriva, and is famed for offering Rama tasted berries.
Shabazz Muhammad
Shabazz Muhammad, born Shabazz Nagee Muhammad in 1992, is an American basketball player who played one season at UCLA and six years in the NBA, mostly with Minnesota.
Shabazz Napier
Shabazz Napier, born 1991 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, is an American point guard who won two NCAA titles with UConn (2011, 2014), was 2014 Final Four Most Outstanding Player, played seven NBA seasons after being drafted 24th in 2014, then starred for Olimpia Milano and Bayern Munich before retiring to coach with the Washington Wizards.
Shabba Doo
Shabba Doo (Adolfo Quinones, 1955–2020) was a Chicago-born dancer, a founding member of the Lockers and Soul Train Gang, star of Breakin' and Breakin' 2 as Ozone, and choreographer for Madonna and Lionel Richie; not the dancehall artist Shabba Ranks.
Shabba Ranks
Shabba Ranks, born Rexton Rawlston Fernando Gordon in 1966, is a Jamaican dancehall deejay, the first dancehall artist to win the Best Reggae Album Grammy (1992, 1993), whose "Dem Bow" underpins reggaeton.
Shabban Shahab Ud Din
Shabban Shahab Ud Din (1909–1983) was an Indian field hockey forward who won a gold medal with British India at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
Shabbat
Shabbat (שַׁבָּת), also called the Jewish Sabbath, is the day of rest observed from Friday sunset to Saturday nightfall, when Jewish law forbids 39 categories of creative labor.
Shabbetai Levi (locum tenens)
Shabbetai Levi was an interim Chief Rabbi (Hakham Bashi) of the Ottoman Empire, holding the office from 1920 to 1922, between Haim Nahum and Isak Ariel, under Sultan Mehmed Vahdedin.
Shabbir Kumar (शब्बीर कुमार)
Shabbir Kumar (शब्बीर कुमार), born Shabbir Shaikh 1954 in Baroda, is an Indian playback singer who dominated 1980s Hindi cinema in a Rafi-like voice on Coolie, Betaab, and Mard, and debuted as lyricist in 2026.
Shabbos goy
A Shabbos goy, also called a Shabbat goy, is a non-Jew who performs tasks for Jews on Shabbat, such as lighting a stove, that Jewish law forbids Jews doing themselves.
Shabbos Kestenbaum
Shabbos Kestenbaum (Alexander Kestenbaum) is an American Jewish activist and Harvard Divinity School graduate who was lead plaintiff in the 2024 Title VI antisemitism lawsuit against Harvard, settled confidentially in May 2025.
Shabd (शब्द)
Shabd (शब्द) is a 2005 Hindi psychological drama, Leena Yadav's debut film, starring Sanjay Dutt, Aishwarya Rai, and Zayed Khan; a blocked novelist urges his wife into an affair for his novel, and it flopped at the box office.
Shabdamanidarpana
Shabdamanidarpana (ಶಬ್ದಮಣಿದರ್ಪಣ, "Jewel-Mirror of Grammar") is a grammar of Kannada written by Keshiraja around 1260 CE, the only full-length grammar of the language written in Kannada itself.
Shabdan Baatyr
Shabdan Baatyr (Шабдан баатыр), born Shabdan Jantay uulu, was a Kyrgyz chieftain and manap of the Sarybagysh tribe who mediated between the Kyrgyz and the Russian Empire.
Shabdangal
Shabdangal (ശബ്ദങ്ങൾ, The Voices) is a 1947 Malayalam novel by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer about a soldier in the Second World War, noted as the first Malayalam work to touch on non-heteronormative union.
Shabeg Singh (ਸ਼ਬੇਗ ਸਿੰਘ)
Shabeg Singh (ਸ਼ਬੇਗ ਸਿੰਘ, born 1925), Indian Army major general, PVSM and AVSM, trained the Mukti Bahini in 1971, was dismissed without court-martial, then advised Bhindranwale's defense of the Golden Temple and died in Operation Blue Star, 6 June 1984.
Shabeh (torture)
Shabeh (shabah, shabach) is a torture method of prolonged binding in painful stress positions, documented in Israeli, Palestinian Authority, Hamas, and Syrian detention. Known variants include the frog-squat and banana; Israel's High Court ruled its systematic use illegal in 1999.
Shabestari
Shabestari was a Persian Sufi poet of the early 14th century, born near Tabriz, best known for the Gulshan-i Raz, a principal text of Sufism.
Shabib ibn Yazid al-Shaybani
Shabib ibn Yazid al-Shaybani (شبيب بن يزيد الشيباني) was a Kharijite rebel leader who fought the Umayyad caliphate in Iraq until his death in 697.
Shabir Ibrahim Kaskar
Shabir Ibrahim Kaskar, elder brother of Dawood Ibrahim and D-Company co-founder, was shot dead on 12 February 1981 at a Prabhadevi petrol pump by Manya Surve and Pathan gang plotters, triggering Mumbai's gang war.
Shabir Madhi
Shabir Madhi, also known as Shabir A. Madhi, is a South African vaccinologist and pediatrician who is Dean of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Shabkhoon
Shabkhoon (شب خون, "night attack") was a monthly Urdu literary journal published from Allahabad, India, from 1966 to 2005, the principal platform of Urdu modernism under Shamsur Rahman Faruqi.
Shablo
Shablo is the stage name of Pablo Miguel Lombroni Capalbo, an Italian-Argentine musician, producer, and DJ based in Milan, a central figure of Italian hip-hop since the late 1990s.
Shablo feat. Guè, Joshua & Tormento
Shablo feat. Guè, Joshua & Tormento was the billing under which Italian producer Shablo competed at Sanremo 2025 with the song "La mia parola", joined by rappers Guè, Tormento, and Joshua.
Shabnam
Shabnam (শবনম), stage name of Jharna Basak, born 1946 in Dhaka, is a Bangladeshi actress who starred in 185 Bengali and Urdu films, won a record 13 Nigar Awards in Pakistan, and received Bangladesh's 2023 National Film Award Lifetime Achievement honor.