Balthazar
Balthazar (also spelled Balthasar) may refer to:
Traditional and religious uses
- A name commonly attributed to one of the Biblical Magi (Three Wise Men)
- An alternate form of the Babylonian king Belshazzar, mentioned in the Book of Daniel
- Balthazar, a 12 litre champagne or wine bottle
Film, television and literature
People
- Baltazar (given name)
- Balthasar of Werle (c. 1375-1421), Lord of Werle-Güstrow
- Balthasar, Duke of Mecklenburg (1451-1507)
- Baltazar (footballer) (1926–1997), Brazilian footballer
- Francisco Balthazar (1788–1862) birth name of Francisco Balagtas, Filipino poet
- Joseph Balthasar, Comte Siméon (1781–1846), French politician
- Marco Balthazar, Brazilian footballer
- Casey Balthazar, She is Balthazar, actress
- Wilhelm Balthasar (1914–1941), World War II German Luftwaffe ace
- Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905–1988), Swiss Roman Catholic theologian and priest
- Balthasar Bekker (1634 – 1698), Dutch theologian and witchcraft skeptic (key figure in ending the witchcraft persecutions in early modern Europe).
Fictional characters
- Romeo's manservant in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
- Portia's masculine alter-ego in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice
- A singer and a follower of Don Pedro in Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing
- A merchant in the Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors
- A supporting character in Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, and its various adaptations
- Comte Balthazar de Bleuchamp, a pseudonym of the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service and the film of the same name
- A demon in the film Constantine played by Gavin Rossdale
- A supporting character in the film The Scorpion King played by actor Michael Clarke Duncan
- Balthazar Blake, a thousand year old sorcerer, protagonist of the 2010 film The Sorcerer's Apprentice, played by Nicolas Cage
- A demon in the episode "Bad Girls" of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- A character in The Death Gate Cycle books by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
- The godfather of Gargamel in The Smurfs
- The god of war and fire in the online game Guild Wars
- A fictional monk from Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal
- Balthazar More, a character in the Evernight series by Claudia Gray introduced in the novel Evernight
- Balthasar (Old Man Bal), Nikolai Balthasar, and Maria Balthasar, characters from the Square game, Xenogears
- Belthazor, alternate name of the character Cole Turner in the show Charmed, portrayed by Julian McMahon
- Bastian Balthazar Bux, the main character in the book The Neverending Story
- The primary antagonist in the Xbox game Azurik: Rise of Perathia
- Prince Balthazar, son of the Portuguese Viceroy, in Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy (1592)
- The name of a minotaur and a lair in Might and Magic VIII
- Balthazar Claes, the main character of Honore de Balzac's The Quest of the Absolute in the series La Comédie humaine
- An angel in series Supernatural, played by Sebastian Roché
- Jacob Balthazar, the wood sculptor who gets murdered in the story Tintin and the Broken Ear, the sixth in the series titled The Adventures of Tintin
Geography
Other uses
See also
- All pages beginning with "Balthazar"
- All pages beginning with "Balthasar"
- All pages with titles containing "Balthazar"
- All pages with titles containing "Balthasar"