Famous People with Name Sabu

Sabu Dastagir            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sabu Dastagir: was a film actor of Indian/South Asian origin—although he later took American citizenship. He was normally credited only by his first name, Sabu, and is primarily known for his work in film during the 1940s.Sabu was discovered by documentary film-maker Robert Flaherty who cast him in the role of an elephant driver in the 1937 British film Elephant Boy, based on Toomai of the Elephants, a story by Rudyard Kipling. Sabu is perhaps best known for his role as Abu in the 1940 British film The Thief of Bagdad. In 1942 he once again played a role based on a Kipling story, namely Mowgli in Jungle Book directed by Zoltán Korda. After World War II, unable to secure the equivalent roles in Hollywood that British films had offered him, his career went into decline with rare gleams of glory, such as his supporting role in the classic British film Black Narcissus (1947).

Sabu            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Sabu: the pseudonym of Japanese actor and director Hiroyuki Tanaka (????, Tanaka Hiroyuki?). He began his career as an actor but quickly moved into directing. His films often feature black comedy, plot twists and the yakuza.Shin'ichi Tsutsumi played the lead in Sabu's first 5 films. Recently, he's made films in which the lead roles were filled either by J-pop band V6, or Susumu Terajima (who's played minor roles in nearly all of Sabu's films).

Robert James Sabuda            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert James Sabuda: is a leading children's pop-up book artist and paper engineer. His recent books, such as those depicting the stories of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland, have received wide popular and critical acclaim.

Serafeddin Sabuncuoglu            Origin/Culture/Country: Turkish

Serafeddin Sabuncuoglu: was a medieval Ottoman surgeon and physician.Sabuncuoglu was the author of the Cerrahiyyetu'l-Haniyye (Imperial Surgery), the first illustrated surgical atlas, and the Mücerrebname (On Attemption).The Cerrahiyyetu'l-Haniyye (Imperial Surgery) was the first surgical atlas and the last major medical encyclopedia from the Islamic world. Though his work was largely based on Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi's Al-Tasrif, Sabuncuoglu introduced many innovations of his own. Female surgeons were also illustrated for the first time in the Cerrahiyyetu'l-Haniyye.[1

Takagi Saburo            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Takagi Saburo: was a Japanese diplomat and businessman of the Meiji period, and the first Japanese Consul General to New York.The son of a samurai from Shonai Domain, Takagi entered naval training school in 1859, and after that studied abroad in the United States. Following his studies, he remained in the United States, and served as diplomatic secretary beginning in 1871. He resigned from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, however, in 1880, and became director of a silk company in Yokohama. His company was famous for its efforts to improve sericulture methods and techniques of the spinning industry.

Peter Alexandrovich Saburov            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Peter Alexandrovich Saburov: was a diplomat, collector of ancient Greek sculpture and antiquities, and a strong amateur chess player and patron of chess tournaments, as an honorary President of the St Petersburg Chess Club.