Shah (disambiguation)
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- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was the Shah of Iran 1941-1979 and is often referred to as "the Shah" of Iran
- Maqsud ShahMaqsud ShahMaqsud Shah , was the Uyghur Khan or Prince of the Kumul Khanate from 1908 to 1930. He also held the title Hami Wang, King/Prince of Hami.-Reign:He succeeded his father Muhammmad Shah in 1908 as Khan of Kumul...
, Uyghur Khan or Prince of the Kumul KhanateKumul KhanateThe Kumul Khanate was a semi-autonomous feudal khanate within the Qing dynasty and then the Republic of China until it was abolished by Xinjiang governor Jin Shuren in 1930.- History :...
from 1908 to 1930 - DJ ShahDJ ShahRoger Shah is a German electronic music composer and producer.-Biography:Early History: Born in Esslingen in southern Germany to a German mother and a Pakistani father. His brother is Pedro del Mar, also a Trance DJ, hosts a bi-weekly vocal trance show called Mellomania...
, a German electronic music producer - Donald Haviland, a professional wrestler who went by the ring name "The Extreme Shah" Hack MeyersHack MeyersDonald Haviland is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Hack Meyers. A mainstay in Florida independent promotions during the 1990s, he is best known for his time in Extreme Championship Wrestling from 1993 to 1996.-Career:Haviland made his wrestling debut as Bronco...
- Ema Shah, Kuwaiti singer
- Hetul ShahHetul ShahShah Hetul is an Indian chess player.At the age of nine, Hetul Shah became the youngest person to beat a grandmaster in chess at a standard time control when he beat Nurlan Ibrayev of Kazakhstan, on 11 January 2009 at the seventh Parsvnath International Open chess tournament in round one...
, a chess player - Idries ShahIdries ShahIdries Shah , also known as Idris Shah, né Sayed Idries el-Hashimi , was an author and teacher in the Sufi tradition who wrote over three dozen critically acclaimed books on topics ranging from psychology and spirituality to travelogues and culture studies.Born in India, the descendant of a...
, a Sufi writer - Mowahid ShahMowahid ShahMowahid Hussain Shah is an attorney-at-law, writer, and policy analyst. His articles are published regularly in English in both Nation and Nawa-i-Waqt...
, a Pakistani-born U.S.-based attorney, writer, and policy analyst - Owais ShahOwais ShahOwais Alam Shah is an English cricketer. A middle-order batsman, he played for Middlesex between 1996-2010, before joining Essex CCC in the winter of 2010. He has represented England in all forms of the games.Between 2001 and 2009, he played 71 ODIs and 17 Twenty20 Internationals...
, a Pakistani-born English Cricketer - Pooja ShahPooja ShahPooja Shah is a British Asian actress and model of Kenyan-Asian descent. Her grandparents migrated to Kenya from Gujarat in Western India and so her ancestral roots are there....
, a British actress
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- ShahShahShāh is the title of the ruler of certain Southwest Asian and Central Asian countries, especially Persia , and derives from the Persian word shah, meaning "king".-History:...
, the Persian term for a monarch - Monarch from ShahiShahiThe Shahi , Sahi, also called Shahiya dynasties ruled one of the Middle kingdoms of India which included portions of the Kabulistan and the old province of Gandhara , from the decline of the Kushan Empire in the 3rd century to the early 9th century...
dynasty - Shah dynasty of Nepal
- Shahenshah, Emperor or King of KingsKing of KingsKing of Kings is a title that has been used by several monarchies and empires throughout history. The title originates in the Ancient Near East. It is broadly the equivalent of the later title Emperor....
in Persian and Urdu - Ukrainian shahUkrainian shahShah was the name of several currencies used in Ukraine. The name derives from shilling via shelyag . The forms shahy and shahiv are declensional plurals of the noun used in denominations, for example, 2 shahy, 20 shahiv.-17th-19th centuries:The term "shah" was the Ukrainian name of the...
, a historical currency of Ukraine - Shah, Ras al-KhaimahShah, Ras al-KhaimahShah is the name of a settlement in Ras al-Khaimah....
, a settlement in Ras al-Khaimah - Shah (surname)Shah (surname)Shah is a surname found among the people of South Asia and their diaspora. In the Gujarat and Rajasthan regions of India, Shah is common among the Hindu and Jain banias . The surname derives from the Gujarati sah...
, common in India - Shahenshah (film)Shahenshah (film)Shahenshah is a 1988 Bollywood superhero film directed by Tinnu Anand and starring Amitabh Bachchan in the title role. The film was produced and directed by Tinnu Anand. The story of the film was written by Amitabh Bachchan's wife Jaya Bachan and the screenplay was written by veteran screenwriter...
, a 1988 Bollywood film - Dirac combDirac combIn mathematics, a Dirac comb is a periodic Schwartz distribution constructed from Dirac delta functions...
distribution, also called Shah function - Shah of ShahsShah of ShahsShah of Shahs, published in 1982, is Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuściński's analysis of the decline and fall of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran....
, a book of Ryszard KapuścińskiRyszard KapuscinskiRyszard Kapuściński was a Polish journalist and writer whose dispatches in book form brought him a global reputation. Also a photographer and poet, he was born in Pińsknow in Belarusin the Kresy Wschodnie or eastern borderlands of the second Polish Republic, into poverty: he would say later that...