Gedaliah (name)

Gedaliah (גדליה) is a Hebrew given name given to several men in history. It means "made great by God."

People with the name

Biblical figures

• Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam
  • Fast of Gedaliah, an annual Jewish day of fasting, the third day of Tishrei
• Gedaliah, son of Pashhur, one of the nobles who conspired against Jeremiah (Jeremiah 38:1)

Others with the name

• Gedaliah ibn Yahya ben Joseph (c.1515 – c.1587), a 16th-century Italian talmudist
• Gedaliah Alon (1901–1950), an Israeli historian
• Gedaliah Bublick (1875–1948), a Yiddish writer and Zionist leader
• Gedalia Schorr (1910–1979), a Polish-American rabbi who was Rosh Yeshiva (dean) of Torah Vodaath
• Gedali Szapiro (1929-1972), a Polish-Israeli chess master
• Gedalyahu Fuchs (1911-1966), a Romanian footballer
• Gedalia Dov Schwartz (born 1925), head of the Chicago Rabbinical Council
• Geoff Schwartz (born 1986), American football player whose birth name was Gedalia Yitzhak Schwartz
• Gdal Saleski (1888-1966), an American musician