Tobias
Tobias (Τοβίας) is a Greek version of the Hebrew biblical name "Toviyah" (טוביה), meaning "The goodness of God". It is a popular male given name in Germany, Scandinavia, the United States and amongst Jewish people. In English-speaking countries it is often shortened to Toby. In German, this name appears as Tobias or Tobi; in French (where it is mostly found among Protestants) as Tobie; and in Swedish as Tobbe. Tobias has also been a surname.
Biblical
Several people are called Tobias in The Bible:
- Tobias, son of Tobit; "Book of Tobias" is an older name for the Book of Tobit.
- Tobias the elder
- Tobias, father of Hircanus
- Tobiah (Ammonite)
- Tobias, brother-in-law of Onias II, father of the Joseph who succeeded in pacifying Ptolemy III Euergetes.
- Tobbe, son-in-law of Onias III, son of Onias II.
- Tobiads, a Jewish or Ammonite faction at the beginning of the Maccabean period.
Fiction, movies, and television
- Tobias Fünke, character on the Fox sitcom, Arrested Development
- Tobias, character on the CBS daytime drama series, The Young and the Restless
- Tobias (Animorphs) (fictional character)
- Tobias Snape, father of Severus Snape from the Harry Potter series
- Tobias Eaton, the protagonist in a series of novels by Veronica Roth known as the Divergent trilogy
- Jeffery Tobias Winger, character on the sitcom Community
- Tobias Wilson, character on The Amazing World of Gumball
- Tobias Zachary Ziegler, character on The West Wing
- Tobias, character on the AMC drama Fear The Walking Dead
- Tobias, character on Pokémon
As a given name
- Tobias (martyr), Christian martyr and saint
- Tobias Abse (professor)
- Tobias Abstreiter (hockey center)
- Tobias Angerer (cross country skier)
- Tobias Arlt (luger)
- Tobias Bamberg (magician)
- Tobias Barreto (critic/poet)
- Tobias Beecher (from the TV series Oz)
- Tobias Beer (actor)
- Tobias Bernstrup (contemporary artist)
- Tobias Billström (politician)
- Tobias Bjarneby (video game journalist)
- Tobias de Boer (scientist)
- Tobias Bogner (ski jumper)
- Tobias Bonhoeffer (neurobiologist)
- Tobias Bridge (Major-General in the First English Civil War)
- Tobias S. Buckell (science fiction author)
- Tobias Carlsson (Kalmar FF footballer)
- Tobías Zúñiga Castro (politician)
- Tobias Cohn (17/18th century physician)
- Tobias Cole (countertenor)
- Tobias Joaquim Dai (politician)
- Tobias Dantzig (mathematician)
- Tobias Delius (musician)
- Tobias Dier (golfer)
- Tobias Druitt (author, pseudonym)
- Tobias Ellwood (politician)
- Tobias Enhus (composer)
- Tobias Enström (hockey defenceman)
- Tobias Exxel (bass player from Edguy)
- Tobias Fornell (character on the TV series "NCIS")
- Tobias Forsberg (hockey winger)
- Tobias Frere-Jones (type designer)
- Tobias Fünke (character in the TV series Arrested Development)
- Tobias Furneaux (Royal Navy officer)
- Tobias Geffen (rabbi)
- Tobias Grahn (Gimnàstic de Tarragona midfielder)
- Tobias Gregson (fictional character in a number of the "Sherlock Holmes" novels)
- Tobias Grünenfelder (Swiss alpine skier)
- Tobias Harris (National Basketball Association player)
- Tobias Hecht (American anthropologist, ethnographer, and translator)
- Tobías Hernández (Major League Baseball player)
- Tobias Hill (poet/novelist)
- Tobias Hecht (American anthropologist, ethnographer, and translator)
- Tobias Hoesl (German television actor)
- Tobias Hogan (1823–1904, politician from Monticello, Minnesota)
- Tobias Holmberg (Swedish Bandy player)
- Tobias Holmqvist (Swedish footballer)
- Tobias Hume (composer & soldier)
- Tobias Hysén (IFK Göteborg footballer)
- Detective Tobias Jones (fictional character)
- Tobias Jones (writer) (author & journalist)
- Tobias Kamke (German tennis player)
- Tobias Karlsson (songwriter) (Swedish record producer)
- Tobias Kassung (German classical guitarist and composer)
- Tobias Krantz (Swedish politician)
- Tobías Lasser (Venezuelan botanist)
- Tobias Lear V (personal secretary)
- Tobias Levels (German-Dutch footballer)
- Tobias Lindemann (German architect, designer and media entrepreneur)
- Tobias Linderoth (Galatasaray midfielder)
- Tobias Lohner (1619 - 1697, Austrian Jesuit theologian)
- Tobias Mabuta Munihango (Namibian amateur boxer)
- Tobias Matthay (teacher & composer)
- Tobias Matthew (archbishop of York)
- Tobias Mayer (astronomer)
- Tobias Mehler (Canadian actor)
- Tobias Menzies (actor)
- Tobias Michael Carel Asser (jurist)
- Tobias Mikaelsson (Swedish football player)
- Tobias Mikkelsen (Danish football player)
- Tobias Moretti (actor)
- Tobias Mullen (1818-1900, Irish-born clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church, Bishop of Erie)
- Tobias Müller (disambiguation)
- Tobias Nath (German television actor)
- Tobias Nickenig (German footballer)
- Tobias Crawford Norris (politician)
- Tobias Picker (composer)
- Tobias Pflüger (politician)
- Tobias A. Plants (1811 – 1887, U.S. Representative from Ohio)
- Tobias Pock (Austrian Baroque painter)
- Tobias Pullen (Irish bishop)
- Tobias Ragg (from musical Sweeney Todd)
- Tobias Rathgeb (German football midfielder)
- Tobias Rau (retired German footballer)
- Tobias Read (member of the Oregon House of Representatives)
- Tobias Regner (musician)
- Tobias Rustat (1606?-1694, benefactor of the University of Cambridge)
- Tobias Sammet (vocalist from Edguy)
- Tobias Schellenberg (competitive diver)
- Tobias Schenke (German actor)
- Tobias Schiegl (Austrian luger)
- Tobias Schneebaum (artist & activist)
- Tobias Schneider (German speedskater)
- Tobias Schönenberg (actor & photomodel)
- Tobias Schweinsteiger (German footballer)
- Tobias Simon (Miami civil rights lawyer)
- Tobias Sippel (German football goalkeeper)
- Tobias Sjokvist (born 1995), Swedish ice hockey player
- Tobias Smollett (Scottish author)
- Tobias Snape (father of Severus Snape in the Harry Potter book series)
- Tobias Steinhauser (former German cyclist)
- Tobias Stephan (hockey goaltender)
- Tobias Stimmer (painter & illustrator)
- Tobias Summerer (German tennis player)
- Tobias Tornkvist (born 1994), Swedish ice hockey player
- Tobias Truvillion (African-American actor)
- Tobias Unger (athlete)
- Tobias Verhaecht (draughtsman)
- Tobias Verwey (Namibian cricketer)
- Tobias Viklund (Swedish ice hockey defenceman)
- Tobias Weis (German footballer)
- Tobias Wendl (German luger)
- Tobias Whale (fictional character in DC comics)
- Tobias Willi (former German football player)
- Tobias Wolff (writer)
- Tobias Zachary Ziegler (fictional character in the TV drama The West Wing)
Derivative name
- Tobey Maguire
- Toby Isaacs (fictional character from the TV series Degrassi: The Next Generation)
- Toby Jessel (British politician)
- Tobiah ben Eliezer
As a surname
Places
- Tobias, Nebraska, A US village
- Tobias Barreto, Sergipe, a municipality in Brazil
- Tobias Fornier, Antique, a municipality in the Philippines
- Tobías Bolaños International Airport in Costa Rica
- Tobias-Thompson Complex, a US National Historic Landmark
Companies
- Tobias (bass guitar company)
- Michael Tobias Design bass guitar company
References
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