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
• Yona Melnik (born 1949), Israeli Olympic judoka
• Jonah Vetter (born 1980) United States Air Force and Lock Smith. Legendary nice guy.

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

Male variants

• Giona (Italian)
• Jonàs (Catalan)
• Jona (Croatian)
• Jonáš (Czech)
• Jonah (English)
• Jonas (German, Swedish, Latin, Lithuanian and Portuguese)
• Jónás (Hungarian)
• Jónas (Icelandic)
• Jonasz (Polish)
• Jonaš (Prekmurje dialect of Slovene)
• Jonáš (Slovak)
• Jona (Slovene)
• Jonás (Spanish)
• Yonah (יונה) (Hebrew)
• Yonah (יונה) (Yiddish)
• Yunus (Turkish)
• Younes (يونس) (Arabic)
• Joonas (Estonian and Finnish)
• Joona (Finnish)
• Yunsi (Berber)
• Ionas (Ίωνας) (Greek)
• Iunus (Bengali: ইউনুস)