Zulu

Zulu may refer to:

Zulu people

• Zulu Kingdom or Zulu Empire, a former monarchy in what is now South Africa.
• Zulu language, a Bantu language spoken in southern Africa
• Zulu people, an ethnic group of southern Africa

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

• Zulu (1964 film), a war film starring Stanley Baker and Michael Caine
• Zulu (2013 film), a French crime film starring Forest Whitaker and Orlando Bloom

Music

• "Zulu" (song), a 1981 dance single by British funk duo The Quick
• "Zulu", a song by Blink-182 from the 1996 EP They Came to Conquer... Uranus
• Zulu Records, a record store in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Zulu (Pillow Pal), a Pillow Pal zebra made by Ty, Inc.
• TV 2 Zulu, a Danish television station
• Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club, a Carnival krewe in New Orleans

People

• Zulu (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name)
• Gilbert Lani Kauhi (1937–2004), stage name Zulu, who played Kono in the original Hawaii Five-O series
• Zulu kaMalandela, founder (c. 1709) and chief of the Zulu clan
• Zulu Sofola (1935–1995), professor and the first published female Nigerian playwright and dramatist
• Shaka Zulu (c. 1787 – 1828), leader of the Zulu Kingdom

Places

• Zulu, Indiana, a town in the United States
• 1922 Zulu, an asteroid

Military

• Battle Force Zulu, U.S. Navy carrier task force designation (including a list of them)
• HMS Zulu, three ships of the British Royal Navy
• Task Force Zulu, a South African Defence Force unit in Operation Savannah
• Zulu-class submarine, a Soviet attack submarine class built in the 1950s

Science and technology

• Zulü, an approximation of pi
• Zulu, a variant of the 1910s Sunbeam Crusader motorcycle engine
• Alaena, a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae commonly called zulus
• Azul Zulu, a binary build of OpenJDK (a Java implementation) developed by Azul Systems
• Torbenia, a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae commonly called zulus
• Zulu sheep, a breed raised primarily by the Zulu people in Southern Africa
• Zulu time, more commonly known as UTC, for the Z in TZ timestamps

Other uses

• Z, pronounced "Zulu" in the NATO phonetic alphabet
• Zulu, a type of boat used in the Scottish east coast fishery
• The Zulus, a former football team in Sheffield, England
• The Birmingham Zulu Warriors, a football hooligan firm associated with Birmingham City FC

See also

• Amazulu (disambiguation)
• Zululand (disambiguation)