Ted
Appearance
Ted is:
Notable people
People known as “Ted” include:
- Bruce Slesinger (known simply as Ted), second drummer for the Dead Kennedys
- Ted Bundy (1946-1989), serial killer active in the 1970s
- Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer-songwriter
- Sir Edward Heath (known as Ted Heath) (1916-2005), British Prime Minister 1970-1974
- Ted Heath (bandleader) (1902-69), English bandleader
- Ted Jackson (born 1955), prize-winning photographer
- Ted Kaczynski (known as "The Unabomber"), American mathematician and social critic who carried out a campaign of bombings and mail bombings
- Ted Kennedy (1932-2009), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts
- Ted Kennedy (ice hockey) (1925-2009), Canadian ice hockey player
- Ted Knight, American actor
- Ted Koppel, American broadcast journalist
- Ted Nugent, American hard rock guitarist and vocalist
- Ted Strickland, American politician
- Ted Stevens (1923-2010), longest serving Republican in the U.S. Senate
- Ted Turner, American media proprietor and philanthropist
Fictional characters
Notable fictional characters known by the nickname “Ted” include:
- Ted Buckland, character from the U.S. television series Scrubs
- Father Ted Crilly, character from the UK television sitcom Father Ted
- Theodore Logan (known as Ted Logan), one of the main characters from the U.S. comedy Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
- Theodore Schmidt (known as Ted Schmidt), character from the North American TV series Queer as Folk
- Theodore Sprague (known as Ted Sprague), character from the U.S. television series Heroes
- Ted Striker, character from the US Comedy movie Airplane!
- Ted, the Generic Guy, character from the comic strip Dilbert
- Theodore Evelyn Mosby (known as Ted Mosby), character from the U.S. television series How I Met Your Mother
- Ted Bovis, cynical comedian from the UK television sitcom Hi-de-Hi!
- Ted, gamekeeper of Lord Ralph Mayhew in the Ted & Ralph sketches from the UK television comedy series The Fast Show
Other things called Ted
- Ted (word processor), free software word processor for the X Window System environment
- Ted (airline), airline brand United Airlines operated in the US
- Television Electronic Disc, unsuccessful videodisc format developed by Telefunken in 1975, and abbreviated as TeD
- "Ted (Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode)", episode of the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Ted, album by Swedish singer-songwriter Ted Gärdestad
- TED (conference), the TED Conference, that defines its mission as "ideas worth spreading"