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Jonah (given name)

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

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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

    • 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, Lithuanian and Portuguese)
  • Jónás (Hungarian)
  • Jónas (Icelandic)
  • Jonasz (Polish)
  • Jonaš (Prekmurje dialect of Slovene)
  • Jonáš (Slovak)
  • Jona (Slovene)
  • Jonás (Spanish)
  • Yona (Hebrew)
  • Yunus (Turkish)
  • Younes (يونس) (Arabic)
  • Joonas (Estonian and Finnish)
  • Joona (Finnish)
  • Yunsi (Berber)
  • Ionas (Ίωνας) (Greek)
  • Iunus (Bengali: ইউনুস)

    • References

    Jonah (given name) Wikipedia
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