Shapur of Ray

Shapur of Ray was a Sasanian military officer from the Mihran family. The city Ray in his name was the seat of the Mihran family.{{sfn|Pourshariati|2008|pp=80–81}}

According to Abu Hanifa Dinawari (d. 896), Shapur was the governor of the two Mesopotamian districts of Khutarniyah and Babylonia during Kavad I's reign.{{sfn|Pourshariati|2008|pp=80–81}} According to al-Tabari, he held the rank of "Supreme Commander of the Land" (iṣbahbadh al-bilād). Ferdowsi records him being recalled by Kavad I to destroy the powerful Sukhra of Karen family, who was also Shapur Razi's rival. Shapur Razi defeated and captured Sukhra in Shiraz. The Mihran-Karen rivalry became proverbial in the contemporary Sasanian society, as reflected in the expression "Sukhra's wind has died away, and a wind belonging to Mihran has now started to blow".{{sfn|Pourshariati|2008|pp=80–81}}

He briefly served as the governor (marzban) of Persian Armenia from 483 to 484.{{cite book | first = René | last = Grousset | title = Histoire de l'Arménie des origines à 1071 | location = Paris | publisher= Payot | year= 1947 | language = French}}