Tupac (name)

Tupac, Túpac or Tupaq (Quechua "a royal thing") is a defunct title used (similarly to Ras in the Ethiopian Empire) by the former Peruvian Inca Empire, and is used as a male name of Inca origin.

Notable people with the name include:

Music

 * Tupac Mantilla (born 1978), Colombian musician and percussionist
 * Tupac Shakur (1971–1996), American rapper also known by the stage names "2Pac" and "Makaveli", named after Túpac Amaru II

Inca chiefs

 * Túpac Inca Yupanqui or Tupaq Inka Yupanki (1471–1493), tenth Sapa Inka of the Incan Empire
 * Túpac Amaru or Tupaq Amaru (died 1572), last indigenous leader of the Inca people in Peru
 * Túpac Amaru II or Tupaq Amaru II (1742–1781), descendant of the Inca chief Tupac Amaru and leader of the 1780s uprising in colonial Cusco, Peru
 * Túpac Huallpa or Tupaq Wallpa (d. 1533), Inca ruler

Bolivia

 * Túpac Katari or Tupaq Katari (c. 1750–1781), leader of a rebellion of indigenous people in Bolivia

United States

 * Tupac A. Hunter, (born 1973), former member of the Michigan Senate from 2007 to 2014