Jethro

Jethro

Gender	Male
Origin
Meaning	"more than enough; overflow"
Region of origin	English-speaking world, Jewish given name
Other names
Related names	Hebrew: Yithrô (Yiṯrô, Yisrô, Yisroy) Italian: Ietro; French: Jéthro; Dutch: Jetro, Jeter; Russian: Иофор Iofor (Yofor, Jofor); Arabic: شعيب Shu‘ayb, Sho‘ayb, Shu'aib; Turkish: Şuayb

Jethro is a male given name meaning "overflow". It is derived from the Hebrew word Yithrô.

People named Jethro

• Kenneth C. "Jethro" Burns (1920–1989), mandolin player in satirical country music duo Homer and Jethro
• Jethro Franklin (1965-), American football coach
• Jethro Pugh (1944-), American football player
• Jethro Justinian Harris Teall (1849-1924), British geologist
• Jethro Tull (agriculturist) (1674–1741), British agricultural pioneer
• Jethro Sumner (1733–1785), officers in the American Continental Army
• Jetro Willems (1994-), Dutch footballer

In sacred texts

• Jethro (Bible), the father-in-law of Moses
  • parashath Yithro
  • Jethro in rabbinic literature
  • Shuaib (Jethro in Islam)

Fictional characters

• Jethro, a character in the game GTA:San Andreas
• Jethro (Jerom in the original version), a character in the Belgian comic book series Spike and Suzy.
• Jethro Bodine, a character in the American situation comedy TV series The Beverly Hillbillies
• Albert Jethro 'A.J.' Chegwidden, a character in JAG
• Jethro Creighton, a character in the novel Across Five Aprils
• Jethro Cane, a character in the Doctor Who episode Midnight
• Leroy Jethro Gibbs, a character in NCIS
• Jethro Q. Walrustitty, a character in the Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch "Election Night Special"
• Jethro West, a character in Outrageous Fortune

See also

• Jethro Tull (band), a mainly 20th-century multiple gold-and-platinum record-releasing British rock group named after the agriculturalist