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Jed (given name)

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Jed
Origin
Word/nameHebrew
Other names
Related namesJedediah, Yedidiah

Jed is a masculine given name or nickname, usually of Jedediah.

People

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Politicians

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In sports

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  • 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 Graef (born 1942), American swimmer and Olympic gold medalist
  • Jed Hansen (born 1972), American Major League Baseball player
  • Jed Holloway (born 1992), Australian rugby union footballer
  • Jed Hoyer (born 1973), American executive vice-president and general manager of the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball team
  • Jed Hughes, 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 Grand Prix motorcycle racer
  • Jed Ortmeyer (born 1978), American National Hockey League player
  • Jed Prentice, American slalom canoer, world champion in 1989 and 1991
  • Jed Roberts (born 1967), Canadian Football League player
  • Jed Rowlands, New Zealand rugby union coach
  • Jed Steer (born 1992), English football goalkeeper
  • Jed Stugart (born 1970), American football coach, current head coach for the Lindenwood Lions
  • Jed Wallace (born 1994), English footballer
  • Jed Weaver (born 1976), American 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 soccer player

In arts and entertainment

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  • Jed Allan (1935–2019), American actor, particularly on soap operas
  • Jed Brophy (born 1963), New Zealand film 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
  • Jed Morgans (born 1998), British musician and record label executive

Academics

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  • Jed Buchwald, American historian, professor of history at Caltech
  • Jed Rubenfeld, American Yale Law School professor and author

Other

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  • Jed S. Rakoff (born 1943), American federal judge
  • Jed Smock, also known as Brother Jed (1943–2022), confrontational American evangelist and campus preacher

Fictional characters

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See also

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References

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