Aslan (disambiguation)

Aslan is the lion in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia.

It is the word for "lion" in the Turkic languages, which has become a loanword in a few other languages.

Arsalan, Aslan, Arslan or similar may also refer to:

People

Title

• • Alp Arslan (1029 – 1072), second sultan of the Seljuk dynasty
  • Kilij Arslan I (1079-1107), Sultan of Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm, first sultan in Konya
  • Ali Pasha (1741 – 1822), pasha of western Rumelia

First Name

• Arsalan Iftikhar American human rights lawyer
• Aslan Abashidze (born 1938), former leader of Adjara
• Aslan Maskhadov (1951 – 2005), Chechen leader

Surname

• Mustafa Arslanović, Bosnian football player
• Ana Aslan (1897 – 1988), Romanian biologist, physician, and inventor
• Ender Arslan (born 1983), Turkish basketballer
• Firat Arslan (born 1970), German professional boxer
• Koray Arslan (born 1983), Turkish footballer
• Raoul Aslan, Austrian actor of Greek-Armenian ancestry
• Reza Aslan (born 1972), Iranian-American author
• Volkan Arslan (born 1978), Turkish footballer

Art and Music

• Aslan (rock band), an Irish rock band, formed in 1982
• Aslan (artist), Alain Gourdon (born 1930), French painter, sculptor and pin-up artist
• Aslan Faction, an aggrotech group

Fiction

• Aslan, a warhorse in the shōjo manga series Red River (manga)
• Aslan, name of a drug in the 2001 novel The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
• Arslan Senki, or The Heroic Legend of Arslan a Japanese fantasy novel and manga series
• Arslan, a 1976 novel by M. J. Engh
• Arslan, the name of Chōsokabe Motochika in the English adaption of the video game Sengoku Basara, Devil Kings

Games

• Aslan (Traveller), an extraterrestrial race from the Traveller roleplaying game
• Aslan (fanzine), a British roleplaying fanzine published in the 1980s

Legends

• Amir Arsalan, protagonist of the Persian epic Amir Arsalan-e Namdar

Places

• Qezel Arsalan, a peak of the Mount Alvand range

See also

• Assad the Arabic word for "lion", used as a given name