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

• Balthazar (novel), 1958 novel by Lawrence Durrell
• Balthasar, 1889 book by Anatole France
• Professor Balthazar, Croatian cartoon series for children about an old inventor
• Au Hasard Balthazar, a 1966 film by Robert Bresson
• Balthasar, a minor character in Romeo and Juliet

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
• 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).
• Troy Von Balthazar, an American singer and songwriter

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
• Balthazar is a character mentioned in the song "E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)" from the American rock band Blue Öyster Cult on their Agents of Fortune album

Geography

• Balthazar River (Dominica)
• Balthazar River (Grenada)

Other uses

• Balthazar Science Center, Skövde, Sweden

See also

• All pages beginning with "Balthazar"
• All pages beginning with "Balthasar"
• All pages with titles containing "Balthazar"
• All pages with titles containing "Balthasar"