Babushka or baboushka or babooshka (from , meaning 'grandmother, elderly woman') may refer to:

Arts and media

  • "Babooshka" (song), a 1980 song by Kate Bush
  • Babushka (game show), a British game show presented by Rylan Clark-Neal
  • Babushka (about 1935), a painting by Gladys Goldstein

People

  • Babushka Lady, an unknown woman who might have photographed the events of the President John F. Kennedy assassination
  • Catherine Breshkovsky nicknamed Babushka (1844–1934), Russian revolutionary

Other uses

  • Babushka (headscarf), indicating a headscarf tied below the chin, as commonly worn in rural parts of Europe
  • Babushka doll, an alternate name for Matryoshka doll, a type of wooden dolls placed one inside another
  • Babushka Adoption Foundation, a charitable non-governmental organization based in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

See also

  • Babuška (disambiguation)