Ned is an English given name and variant of Ed, sometimes short for Edward, Edmund, Edgar or Edwin. "Ned" may have risen from generations of children hearing "mine Ed" as "my Ned" which is an example of a process linguists call rebracketing.
Those bearing it include:
Real people:
Ted Alley (1881-1949), former Australian rules footballer listed in some sources as Ned Alley
Edward Almond (1892–1979), United States Army general best known as the commander of the Army's X Corps during the Korean War
Ned Austin (1925–2007), American character actor and Screen Actors Guild- and AFTRA member
Ned Barkas (1901–1962), English professional footballer
Ned Beatty (born 1937), American actor
Ned Bellamy, American actor
Ned Block, American philosopher
Ned Bouhalassa, film score, television score, and electroacoustic music composer
Ned Boulting (born 1969), British sports journalist and television presenter
Ned Buntline (1821 or 1823-1886), American publisher, journalist, writer, and publicist
Ned Cameron, American producer/singer/songwriter
Ned Catic, Australian former professional rugby league footballer
Ned Chaillet, radio drama producer and director, writer and journalist
Ned Cobb (1885-1973), tenant farmer
Ned Collette (born 1979), Australian musician and singer-songwriter
Ned Crotty, MLL professional lacrosse player
Ned Cuthbert (1845–1905), American professional baseball player
Ned Daly (1891–1916), Dublin's 1st battalion commandant during the 1916 Easter Rising
Ned Dameron, science fiction and fantasy artist
Ned Day (1945–1987), Las Vegas television journalist and newspaper reporter who was known for taking on mobsters who dominated Las Vegas casinos in the 1970s and '80s
Ned Dennehy, Irish actor
Ned Donaghy, American soccer referee active in the 1920s and '30s
Ned Dowd, American film producer and former actor
Ned Eckersley, English cricketer
Ned Eisenberg, American actor known for his recurring role on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Roger Kressler
Ned Endress (1918–2010), American basketball player
Ned Evett, American guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known for playing a fretless glass-necked guitar
Ned Garver, American League pitcher who played from 1948 to 1961
Ned Glass (1906–1984), American character actor
Ned Goldreyer, television writer, television producer and comedian
Ned Gregory (1839-1899), Australian cricketer
Ned Hanlan (1855–1908), Canadian professional sculler, hotelier and alderman
Ned Herrmann (1922-1999), creator of the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument
Ned Irish (1905-1982), basketball promoter and one of the key figures in popularizing professional basketball
Ned Jarrett (born 1932), American race car driver
Ned Kelly (1850s–1880), Australian outlaw and folk hero
Ned Lamont (born 1954), American entrepreneur and politician
Ned Luke (born 1958), American actor
Ned Mandingo (born 1966), a radio personality on the Bubba the Love Sponge talk show
Ned Rorem (born 1923), American composer and diarist
Ned Vizzini (1981-2013), American writer
Ned Yost (born 1955), American baseball player and manager
Fictional characters:
Ned (Pushing Daisies), the main character from the television series
Ned, in the television series The Tribe
Ned Bigby in the television series Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
Ned Dorsey, in the television series Ned & Stacey
Ned Flanders in the television series The Simpsons
Ned Gerblansky, in the television series South Park
Ned Land, major point-of-view character in the novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Ned Nickerson, boyfriend in Nancy Drew novels
Ned Schneebly, in the 2003 film School of Rock
Ned Stark in the novel series A Song of Ice and Fire and the HBO TV adaptation Game of Thrones
Ned Nederlander, one of the Three Amigos in that film
Ned Plimpton, in the film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Ned Ryder, in Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited
Ned Ryerson, in the film Groundhog Day
Ned, short for Nedwin, in the book series "Beyonders:_A_World_Without_Heroes"
