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Judah (given name)

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Judah or Yehudah is a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:

  • Judah P. Benjamin, politician and lawyer in the United States and Confederate States of America
  • Judah Bergman ("Jack Kid Berg"), English world champion Hall of Fame junior welterweight boxer
  • Judah Loew ben Bezalel, the Maharal, important Talmudic scholar, Jewish mystic, and philosopher who served as a leading rabbi in Prague (now in the Czech Republic) for most of his life
  • Judah Folkman, American cellular biologist, founder of the field of antiangiogenesis
  • Judah Friedlander, American actor. *30 Rock
  • Judah Leon Magnes, first President of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem
  • Judah Nagler, singer, guitarist, and songwriter for indie-pop band The Velvet Teen
  • Yehuda Alharizi, prominent Medieval Spanish rabbi, translator, poet and traveler
  • Yehuda Amichai, Israeli poet
  • Yehuda Amital, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion and a former member of the Israeli cabinet
  • Yehuda Atedji (born 1961), Israeli Olympic windsurfer
  • Yehuda Gilad (musician), clarinetist
  • Yehuda Gilad (politician), rabbi and politician
  • Yehuda Glick, Israeli activist
  • Yehuda Green, Shlomo Carlebach-inspired Hasidic singer, composer, and hazzan
  • Judah Hertz, American real estate investor.
  • Yehuda Krinsky, Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic rabbi
  • Yehuda Poliker (born 1950), Israeli singer-songwriter
  • Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, Rosh yeshiva of the Volozhin yeshiva and author of several works of rabbinic literature in Lithuania
  • Yehudi Menuhin, world-famous violinist
  • Yehuda Tzadka, Rosh yeshiva of Porat Yosef Yeshiva, Jerusalem
  • Yehuda Zadok (born 1958), Israeli Olympic runner
  • Fictional characters:

  • Judah Ben-Hur, main character of the 1880 Lew Wallace novel, "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ". Also the 1959 film "Ben-Hur", which starred Charlton Heston.
  • References

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