Jonah (given name)

Jonah is a prophet described in the scriptures of Abrahamic religions as having been swallowed by a large fish.

The given name Jonah may also refer to:

• Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen), current Primate of the Orthodox Church in America
• The father of Simon Peter in John 1:42 and 21:15-17

People with the given name Jonah

• Jonah Bayliss, American baseball player
• Jonah Bobo, American child actor
• Jonah Bolden, Australian basketball player
• Jonah Edelman, American advocate for public education reform
• Jonah Falcon, American actor/writer
• Jonah Goldberg, conservative commentator in the United States
• Jonah Hill, American actor/writer
• Jonah Jones, American jazz trumpeter
• Jonah Jones (sculptor), Welsh artist
• Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole, Prince of Hawai'i and American politician
• Jonah Lehrer, American science author and journalist
• Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby player
• Jonah Matranga, singer and songwriter
• Jonah Raskin, American writer
• Jonah Ray, American comedian
• Jonah of Moscow, Metropolitan bishop of Moscow
• Yonah Gerondi, Rabbi Jonah of Gerondi

Fictional characters

• Jonah Hex, an American western comic book hero in DC Comics
• Jonah Takalua, one of the three main characters in the Australian comedy series Summer Heights High
• Jonah, a character from Margaret Peterson Haddix's book, Found
• Jonah Baldwin, a character in the movie Sleepless in Seattle
• Jonah Aickman, a character in the movie The Haunting in Connecticut
• J. Jonah Jameson, a character in the Spider-man comics and movies
• Ultra Boy, a DC Comics superhero whose birth name is Jo Nah
• Jonah Kirby, a character from the TV series Waterloo Road
• Jonah Matsuka, a character from the manga, movie and TV series Toward the Terra