Shahin
Shahin (also spelled Chahine, Chahin, Shaaheen, Shaahin, Shaheen, or Şahin, Persian: شاهين, Shāhīn) is a name of Persian origin, referring specifically to Falco pelegrinoides utilized for Falconry. The name has been used in the English language taxonomy to describe the Shaheen Falcon.
Given name
- Shahin Ahmed, Bangladeshi cricketer
- Shaheen Ariefdien, Canadian musician
- Shahin Badar, British Bangladeshi singer
- Shaheen Jafargholi, British singer and actor
- Shaheen Khan, Indian film actress
- Shahin Kheiri, Iranian footballer
- Shahin Najafi, Iranian musician
- Shaheen Sheik, Indian singer-songwriter
- Shahin Vahmanzadegan
- Shahin Sekhavati, Sales Manager at Visions Electronics
- Shahin Ismail,a poet
Surname
- Nadine Chahine, Lebanese type designer
- Alfred Shaheen, American textile industrialist
- Ashraf Shahin, Egyptian politician
- Jeanne Shaheen, American politician
- Jammal Shahin, Jordanian footballer
- Jack Shaheen, American media scholar
- Matt Shaheen, American politician
- Omar Shahin, Jordanian activist
- Robert Joseph Shaheen, Lebanese American Eparch Emeritus of the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles
- Saif Saaeed Shaheen, Kenyan long-distance runner
- Tarek Shahin, Egyptian cartoonist
- Youssef Chahine, Egyptian film Director
Military
- Shahin Vahmanzadegan, a general serving under Persian Sasanian king Chosroes II Parvez/Aparvez. He laid siege to Constantinople during the greatest expansion of the Sasanian Persia.
- Black Shaheen, a variant of the Storm Shadow/SCALP EG air-launched cruise missile, for export to the UAE
- Shaheen, the military symbol of Pakistan Air Force
- Shaheen-I, a short range ballistic missile developed by Pakistan
- Shaheen-II, a medium/intermediate range ballistic missile developed by Pakistan
- Shaheen-III, a medium/intermediate range ballistic missile developed by Pakistan
- Shahin, a supersonic Iranian ground-to-air guided missile
Other uses
- 4103 Chahine, a main-belt asteroid
- Shaheen Falcon, non-migratory subspecies of the Peregrine Falcon
- Shaheen (supercomputer), Cray supercomputer
- Shaheen (novel), a novel by Naseem Hijazi
- Shaheen Air, Pakistani airline
- Shaheen Airport Services, Aircraft ground handling company
- Shahin F.C., Iranian football club
- Shahin, Iran, village in Iran
- Shahin-e Olya, village in Iran
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