Baal (disambiguation)

Baal is a Semitic term for "Lord" or "owner".

Baal may also refer to:

Religion

• Baal (demon), a Christian demon, loosely identified with the Canaanite god
• Baal Peor, a Canaanite deity
• Baal-berith, worshiped in ancient Canaan
• Baal-zebub or Beelzebub, a demon in some Abrahamic religions
• Hadad, a Canaanite deity commonly known as Baal or Ba'lu

Places

• Baal, Germany, a village in the municipality of Hückelhoven
• Baal, Belgium, a village in the municipality of Tremelo
• Baal, Netherlands, a hamlet in the Dutch province Gelderland

People

• Baal I, 7th-century BC king of Tyre
• Baal Shem Tov (1698–1760), Jewish mystical rabbi
• Baal HaTanya (1745–1812), Orthodox Rabbi
• Baal Müller (born 1969), German writer and publisher
• Adam Muraszko (stage name Baal), Czech/Polish heavy metal musician
• Georges Baal (1938–2013), Hungarian writer
• Johann Baal (1657–1701), German composer
• Karin Baal (born 1940), German film actress
• Loïc Baal (born 1992), French footballer
• Ludovic Baal (born 1986), French Guianese footballer

Arts and entertainment

Characters and fictional entities

• Baal (comics), a Marvel Comics character
• Bhaal (Forgotten Realms), a fictional deity in the Dungeons & Dragons: Forgotten Realms novels and games
• Ba'al (Stargate), a fictional character in Stargate SG-1
• Ba'al, a character in Vampireology: The True History of the Fallen
• General Baal, a character of the video game Grandia
• Baal, a character in the Diablo series
• Baal, a character in the Disgaea series of games
• A fictional planet in the Warhammer 40,000 series
• Ba'al, a character in the video game Genshin Impact

Music

• Baal (band), a Danish rock band
• BAAL (Serbian band), a Serbian gothic rock band
• Baal (EP), a 1981 EP by David Bowie, featuring incidental music written for Brecht's play
• Baal: Book of Angels Volume 15, a 2010 album by the Ben Goldberg Quartet composed by John Zorn
• "Baäl", a song by Exuma from his 1970 album Exuma II

Other uses in arts and entertainment

• Baal (film), a 1970 German TV film, directed by Volker Schlöndorff and based on the play
• Baal (play), a 1918 play by Bertolt Brecht
• Baal (video game), a 1988 computer game for the Amiga
• Baal, a 1978 horror novel by Robert McCammon
• "BA'AL" the fifth episode of the first season of the tv series American Horror Stories, aired in 2021

Other uses

• British Association for Applied Linguistics, a UK society for applied linguists
• Baal teshuva movement, worldwide movement among the Jewish people

See also

• All pages with titles containing Baal
• All pages with titles containing Ba'al
• Baalah (disambiguation)
• Bhaal (disambiguation)
• Bael (disambiguation)
• Ball (disambiguation)
• Bail (disambiguation)
• Bale (disambiguation)
• Belus (disambiguation)