Tabu may refer to:
Cultural and legal concepts:
- Tapu (Polynesian culture) (also spelled tabu), a Polynesian cultural concept from which the word taboo derives
- Tapu (Ottoman law) (also tabu), a permanent lease of state-owned arable land to a peasant family in the Ottoman Empire
People
- Tabu (actress) (born 1971), Indian actress
- Tabu Ley Rochereau (born 1940), Congolese musician
- Tabu Taid (born 1942), Indian educationist, writer and scholar
Music:
- Tabu Records, an American record label founded in 1975
- Tabu Records (Denmark), founded by the Danish group Suspekt in 1998
- Tabu Recordings, an independent Norwegian record label founded in 2003
- Tabu (band), pop-rock band from Slovenia
Entertainment:
- Tabu (1931 film), a 1931 award winning film directed by F. W. Murnau
- Tabu (2012 film), a 2012 Portuguese film
- Tabu (TV series), a Finnish dark comedic show consisted of long-form sketches, featuring actors such as Pirkka-Pekka Petelius and Aake Kalliala
- Tabu the Jungle Wizard, a superpowered jungle hero comic book character created by Fletcher Hanks
Other uses:
- Tabu search, a mathematical optimization method
- Tabu by Dana, a perfume and cosmetics line from the 1930s manufactured by House of Dana
- Tabu (Romanian magazine), owned by Realitatea-Caţavencu