Bahram (name)

Template:Infobox given name2 Bahram or Vahram or Behram (Template:Langx), variant Bahran or Vahran (Template:Langx and Template:Langx) meaning "smiting of resistance" or "victorious", is a Persian male given name.

The older form is Vahrām (Template:Langx, in Template:Langx), also spelled Wahrām, literally meaning "smiting of resistance" or "victorious". It is the name of several prominent figures in pre-Islamic Persia.

In the Pahlavi language (Middle Persian), Bahram is another name of the Zoroastrian divinity Verethragna in Avestan language, that is the hypostasis of victory and represents the planet Mars.

Given name

• Bahram, one of the sons of Goudarz in Iranian mythology
• Sassanid kings:
  • Bahrām I (died 274)
  • Bahrām II (died 293)
  • Bahrām III
  • Bahrām IV (died 399)
  • Bahrām V Gōr (400-438)
  • Bahrām VI Čōbīn (died 591)
  • Bahram VII (died 710)
• Bahram Alivandi (1928–2012) Iranian-born Austrian visual artist
• Bahram Gushnasp, 6th-century Sassanid military commander
• Bahram-i Mah Adhar, 6th-century Sassanid official
• Bahram ibn Ardashir al-Majusi (died 986), 10th-century Buyid official
• Bahram ibn Mafinna, 11th-century Buyid vizier
• Vahram Pahlavouni (965-1046), Armenian army commander
• Vahram Sargsyan (born 1981), Armenian composer
• Bahram ibn Shahriyar (died 1122), Bavandid prince
• Bahram al-Da'i, 12th-century leader of the Order of Assassins in Syria
• Bahram al-Armani (died 1140), Fatimid vizier from 1135 to 1137
• Bahram Khan (died 1337), 14th-century governor based in Bengal
• Bahram Beg (died 1501), Shah of Shirvan from 1500 to 1501
• Bahram Mirza Safavi (1517–1549), Safavid prince and official
• Dawlat Wazir Bahram Khan, 16th-century Bengali poet and Vizier of Chittagong
• Bahram Mirza (died 1882), Qajar prince and official
• Bahram Akasheh (1936–2025), Iranian geophysicist and seismologist
• Bahram Beyzai (born 1938), Iranian film director
• Bahram Radan (born 1979), Iranian film actor
• Bahram Nouraei (born 1988), Iranian musician
• Bakhrom Yakubov (1961–2021), Uzbek film director and screenwriter.

Surname

• Ardashir II or Ardashir Vahram (309/10-383), Sasanian king of Iran
• Muiz ud din Bahram (1212–1242), sixth sultan of Delhi
• Pantea Bahram (born 1970), Iranian actress
• Valon Behrami (born 1985), Swiss footballer

See also

• Bahrami (surname), a surname derived from given name Bahram
• Vahrām
• Varanes (disambiguation)