Balthazar

Balthazar (also spelled Balthasar, Balthassar, or Baltazar), from Phoenician 𐤓𐤅𐤔𐤅-𐤓𐤀𐤔-𐤕𐤀𐤋𐤀𐤁 Balat-shar-usur, meaning "Baal protects the King" is the name commonly attributed to one of the Three Wise Men, at least in the west. Though no names are given in the Gospel of Matthew, this was one of the names the Western church settled on in the 8th century, based on the original meaning, though other names were used by Eastern churches (for more information see Biblical Magi). It is an alternate form of the Babylonian king Belshazzar, mentioned in the Book of Daniel.
People with the name
Balthazar Alvarez (1533–1580) Spanish Catholic mystic
Balthasar Bekker (1634–1698) Dutch philosopher
Baldassare Castiglione (1478–1529) Italian Renaissance author
Baltasar Corrada del Río, Puerto Rican politician
Balthasar Eggenberger (??–1493) Austrian entrepreneur and financier in the Holy Roman Empire
Baltasar Garzón, Spanish judge
Balthasar Gérard, assassin of William I of Orange
Balthazar Getty, American actor and great grandson of J. Paul Getty
Balthasar Glättli (born 1972), Swiss politician
Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601–1658) Spanish Baroque prose writer
Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905–1988), Swiss Roman Catholic theologian and priest
Balthasar Hubmaier, German Anabaptist leader
Balthazar Klossowski de Rola (1908–2001) birth name of twentieth-century artist Balthus
Baltasar Lopes da Silva, Cape Verdean writer
Balthazar P. Melick, founder of Chemical Bank
Baltazar Maria de Morais Júnior, Brazilian footballer
Balthasar Ferdinand Moll (1717–1785) Baroque sculptor
Balthasar de Monconys (1611–1665) French magistrate
Balthasar Moncornet (c. 1600–1668), French graver
Balthasar Neumann (1687–1753) German engineer and architect
Balthasar Oomkens von Esens, 16th century Frisian rebel (two of whose brothers were named Caspar and Melchior)
Balthasar Russow, Estonian chronicler
Balthazar Johannes Vorster, apartheid-era South African Prime Minister and President
McLeod John Baltazar Bethel-Thompson, American Football Quarterback

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Masc. proper name, from French, from Latin, from Greek Baltasar, from Hebrew Belteshatztzar, Biblical king of Babylon (who "saw the writing on the wall"), from Babylonian Balat-shar-usur, literally "save the life of the king." As a type of very large wine bottle by 1935, in allusion to Daniel v.1.

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Variant of Belshazzar: Baal protect the king, God or Lord protect the king.

Baltazar

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Balthazar Getty	1975	Actor, musician
2	Balthazar		One of the Biblical Magi
3	Tom Balthazar	1962	Belgian lawyer and politician
4	Brian Balthazar		American television personality
5	Balthazar Korab	1926	American photographer
6	Nic Balthazar	1964	Broadcast personality, film director
7	Jean-Michel Balthazar	1967	Belgian actor
8	Troy von Balthazar		American singer
9	Balthazar Gerbier	1592	Anglo-Dutch courtier, diplomat
10	Balthazar P. Melick	1770	American banker
11	Balthazar Baro	1596	French writer
12	Balthazar Alvarez	1533	Spanish Catholic mystic
13	Balthasar Alexis Henri Antoine von Schauenburg	1748
14	Balthazar Armas	1941	Venezuelan artist
15	Balthazar Nebot		Painter active in England between 1729 and 1765
16	Balthazar Martinot	1636
17	Louis Balthazar	1931
18	Carlos Augusto Balthazar	1960
19	André Balthazar	1934	Belgian poet
20	Lucie Balthazar	1958	Canadian handball player
21	Balthazar Phélypeaux de Châteauneuf	1638
22	Marco Balthazar	1983	Brazilian footballer
23	Balthazar Lange	1854	Norwegian architect
24	Balthazar Bigirimana		Burundian politician
25	Balthazar Fouquet de Jarente	1703	French politician (1703-1780)
26	Balthazar of Loyola	1631
27	August Balthazar	1893	Belgian politician
28	Balthazar De Beuckelaer	1902	Fencer
29	Balthazar Francolini	1650	Italian Jesuit theologian
30	DJ Balthazar	1977	Bulgarian disc jockey
31	Balthazar Joseph Emond d'Esclevin	1765	French officer
32	Balthazar de Miollis	1749
33	Balthasar Bonnecorse	1631	French poet
34	Balthazar Arnoullet	1517	French printer
35	Balthazar Romand	1749
36	Herman Balthazar	1938	Belgian historian and politician
37	Balthazar Houwaert	1525
38	Balthazar Richard	1600
39	Balthazar Lieutaud
40	Balthazar Georges Sage	1740	French writer and geologist
41	Balthazar de Vias	1587	French poet
42	Balthazar Bourke		Irish soldier
43	Balthazar de Villars	1557
44	Balthazar Jacotin	1813	French politician
45	Balthazar Eymar	1681
46	Balthazar Faure	1746	French politician (1746-1805)
47	Balthazar de Budos	1594	French catholic priest
48	Balthazar Bourgeois	1767	Belgian politician and lawyer
49	Baldassarre Audiberti	1761
50	Balthazar Johannes de Buchwald	1697
51	Baltasar Teles	1596	Portuguese historian and philosopher
52	Balthazar van den Bogaerde	1773	Belgian politician
53	Balthazar Huydecoper	1695	Dutch writer, translator and politician
54	Balthazar Schnitler	1787	Norwegian assessor (1787-1851)
55	Balthazar Vinatier	1832	French politician
56	Balthazar Frederik Mühlenfels
57	Balthazar Christensen	1802	Danish lawyer (1802-1882)