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 Records, a record store in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada founded in 1981
  • "Zulu", a song by Blink-182 from the 1996 EP They Came to Conquer... Uranus
  • Zulu (band), an American hardcore punk band formed in 2019

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)
  • Zulu (footballer), full name Carlos Eduardo Alves Albina (born 1983), Brazilian forward
  • 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
  • KwaZulu-Natal, a province in South Africa

Military

  • Battle Force Zulu, U.S. Navy carrier task force designation (including a list of them)
  • , 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 <abbr title="Coordinated Universal Time">UTC</abbr>, 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
  • Zulu Wikipedia, Zulu language edition of Wikipedia
  • 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)
  • Sulu (disambiguation)