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"Babaji" may refer to:

  • Guru Nanak, the universal enlightener and founder of sikhism, often known as "Baba Nanak" or "Babaji" (1469 – 1539)
  • a Muslim, Sufi, Hindu or Sikh ascetic or holy man, including:
    • Jagannatha dasa Babaji, an acharya from the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition (1776–1894)
    • Vamsi dasa Babaji Maharaja, a renunciate who lived in the mood of a servant of Lord Krishna's father (exact date unknown-presumably sometime from the late 1800's to early 1900's.)
    • Gaurakisora dasa Babaji, an influential Vaishnava guru from the Gaudiya tradition (1838–1915)
    • Hariakhan Baba, appeared in many places in northern India near the Himalayas between 1861 and 1924
    • Haidakhan Babaji, a teacher who appeared in northern India and taught publicly from 1970–1984
    • Mahavatar Babaji, referred to by Paramahansa Yogananda in his best-selling Autobiography of a Yogi
    • Shivarudra Balayogi, yogi and self realized master, affectionately known as Babaji (born 1954)
    • Adikavi dasa Babaji, a devotee of Krishna said to have realized his eternal relationship with the Lord (born 1962)
    • Baba Virsa Singh Ji, founder of the Gobind Sadan community
    • Baba Basant Rai of Hazaribagh, subject of the documentary Babaji, an Indian Love Story
  • An honorific in the Sikh faith, given to elderly or wise men, such as:
  • A song by Supertramp, from the album Even in the Quietest Moments...
  • The main character of the book Little Babaji, a reworking of Little Black Sambo
  • Bābājī Faşal, a village northwest of Lashkar Gah in Helmand Province, Afghanistan
  • Babaji (Afghanistan), a district in the Northeastern part of Ghor Province of Afghanistan