Jed (given name)

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Word/name Hebrew		Related names Jedediah, Yedidiah

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

Politicians

Jed Johnson (Oklahoma) (1888–1963), politician from Oklahoma

Jed Johnson, Jr. (1939–1993), former U.S. Representative from Oklahoma, son of Jed Johnson

In sports

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 Donahue, American competitive eater

Jed Graef (born 1942), American swimmer and Olympic gold medalist

Jed Hansen (born 1972), American former Major League Baseball player

Jed Holloway (born 1992), Australian rugby union footballer

Jed Hoyer (born 1973), executive vice-president and general manager of the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball team

Jed Hughes, former 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 former Grand Prix motorcycle racer

Jed Ortmeyer (born 1978), American former National Hockey League player

Jed Prentice, American slalom canoer, world champion in 1989 and 1991

Jed Roberts (born 1967), retired Canadian Football League player

Jed Rowlands, New Zealand rugby union coach

Jed Steer (born 1992), English football goalkeeper

Jed Wallace (born 1994), English footballer

Jed Weaver (born 1976), former 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 retired soccer player

Jed Rivilla (born 2000), Filipino International Shooter

In arts and entertainment

Jed Allan (born 1937), American actor, particularly on soap operas

Jed Brophy (born 1963), New Zealand film actor

Jed Gillin, American 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

Academics

Jed Buchwald, professor of history at Caltech

Jed Rubenfeld, Yale Law School professor and author

Jed Dowler, Canterbury School Scholar and Educator

Other

Jed S. Rakoff (born 1943), American federal judge

Jed Smock, also known as Brother Jed (born 1943), confrontational evangelist and campus preacher

Fictional characters

Josiah Bartlet ("Jed"), on the American television series The West Wing

Jed Clampett, on the American television series The Beverly Hillbillies

Jedediah Leland ("Jed"), reporter in the film Citizen Kane

Jed Stone, on the British soap opera Coronation Street

Jed Walker, a DC Comics character

Jed Maxwell, a character in the television series, I'm Alan Partridge

Jed Wright, the only boss in the Xbox 360 video game demo Dead Rising 2: Case Zero

References

Jed (given name) Wikipedia

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