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

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