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Balaban:

• Place name in Afghanistan
• Place name in Iran

• Balaban(Duduk) is a music genre

[edit] Personal last name

Ukrainian, Belorussian, Romanian, and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): from a Russian word meaning ‘hawk’, probably usually applied as a descriptive nickname, although it could also be an occupational name for a falconer. In Ukrainian and Belorussian balaban also means ‘chatterer’. In patronymic form (Balabanov) it is also found as a Russian and Bulgarian surname.

• Bob Balaban
• Boško Balaban, Croatian footballer
• Burt Balaban
• John Balaban
• Liane Balaban, actress
• Lillian Balaban, wife of Robert Merrill

• Balaban & Katz, named after A. J. Balaban, Barney Balaban

[edit] Balabanov, Balabanof(f)

• Angelica Balabanoff

[edit] See also

• Balabanov

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