Jed (given name)
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Word/name | Hebrew |
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Related names | Jedediah, Yedidiah |
Jed is a masculine given name or nickname (usually of Jedediah).
People
Politicians
- Jed Johnson (Oklahoma) (1888–1963), politician from Oklahoma
- Jed Johnson, Jr. (1939–1993), former U.S. Representative from Oklahoma, son of Jed Johnson
In sports
- Jed Adcock (born 1985), Australian rules footballer
- Jed Anderson (born 1994), Australian rules footballer
- Jed Bews (born 1993), Australian rules footballer
- Jed Brown (born 1991), New Zealand rugby union player
- Jedidiah Jed Collins (born 1986), American National Football League player
- Jed Donahue, American competitive eater
- Jed Graef (born 1942), American swimmer and Olympic gold medalist
- Jed Hansen (born 1972), American former Major League Baseball player
- Jed Holloway (born 1992), Australian rugby union footballer
- Jed Hoyer (born 1973), executive vice-president and general manager of the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball team
- Jed Hughes, former American college football and National Football League coach
- Jadwiga Jędrzejowska (1912–1980), Polish tennis player nicknamed "Jed"
- Jed Jones, American tennis player, semifinalist in the 1906 US Open
- Jed Lamb (born 1992), Australian rules footballer
- Jed Lowrie (born 1984), American Major League Baseball player
- Jed Metcher (born 1990), Australian former Grand Prix motorcycle racer
- Jed Ortmeyer (born 1978), American former National Hockey League player
- Jed Prentice, American slalom canoer, world champion in 1989 and 1991
- Jed Roberts (born 1967), retired Canadian Football League player
- Jed Rowlands, New Zealand rugby union coach
- Jed Steer (born 1992), English football goalkeeper
- Jed Wallace (born 1994), English footballer
- Jed Weaver (born 1976), former National Football League player
- John Edward Jed York (born c. 1980), American CEO of the San Francisco 49ers National Football League team
- Jedidiah Jed Zayner (born 1984), American retired soccer player
In arts and entertainment
- Jed Allan (born 1937), American actor, particularly on soap operas
- Jed Brophy (born 1963), New Zealand film actor
- Jed Gillin, American actor
- Jed Harris (1900–1979), Austrian-American theater producer and director and film writer born Jacob Hirsch Horowitz
- Jed Johnson (designer) (1948–1996), American interior designer and lover of Andy Warhol
- Jed Kurzel (born 1976), Australian film composer and musician
- Jed Mercurio (born 1966), British television writer, producer and director and novelist
- Jed Perl (born 1951), American art critic and author
- Jed Prouty (1879–1956), American film actor
- Jed Riffe, American filmmaker
- Jed Simon (born 1964), Canadian musician
- Jed Whedon (born 1974), American screenwriter and musician
Academics
- Jed Buchwald, professor of history at Caltech
- Jed Rubenfeld, Yale Law School professor and author
- Jed Dowler, Canterbury School Scholar and Educator
Other
- Jed S. Rakoff (born 1943), American federal judge
- Jed Smock, also known as Brother Jed (born 1943), confrontational evangelist and campus preacher
Fictional characters
- Josiah Bartlet ("Jed"), on the American television series The West Wing
- Jed Clampett, on the American television series The Beverly Hillbillies
- Jedediah Leland ("Jed"), reporter in the film Citizen Kane
- Jed Stone, on the British soap opera Coronation Street
- Jed Walker, a DC Comics character
- Jed Maxwell, a character in the television series, I'm Alan Partridge
- Jed Wright, the only boss in the Xbox 360 video game demo Dead Rising 2: Case Zero
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