Gedaliah (name)

Gedaliah Gedalia (Hebrew: גדליה) and some other spellings, is a Hebrew given name. It means "made great by God." Notable people with the name include:

## Biblical figures

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* Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam
* Fast of Gedaliah, an annual Jewish day of fasting, the third day of Tishrei
* Gedaliah, son of Pashhur, one of the nobles who conspired against Jeremiah (Jeremiah 38:1)

## Others

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* Gedaliah ibn Yahya ben Joseph (c.1515 – c.1587), a 16th-century Italian talmudist
* Gedaliah Alon (1901–1950), an Israeli historian
* Gedaliah Anemer (1932-2010), an Orthodox rabbi
* Gedaliah Bublick (1875–1948), a Yiddish writer and Zionist leader
* Gedalia Gal (b. 1933), an Israeli politician
* Gedalio Grinberg (1931-2009), a Cuban-born watchmaker
* Gedale B. Horowitz (1932-2020), an American banker
* Gedaliah Aharon Koenig (1921-1980), an Israeli rabbi
* Gedali Kunyavsky [ru] (1916-1981), a Soviet engineer
* Gedaliah Nadel (1923-2004), an Israeli rabbi
* Gedalia Schorr (1910–1979), a Polish-American rabbi who was Rosh Yeshiva (dean) of Torah Vodaath
* Gedaliah Silverstone (1871-1944), an Orthodox rabbi
* Gedali Szapiro (1929-1972), a Polish-Israeli chess master
* Gedalyahu Fuchs (1911-1966), a Romanian footballer
* Gedalia Dov Schwartz (b. 1925), head of the Chicago Rabbinical Council
* Geoff Schwartz (born 1986), American football player whose birth name was Gedalia Yitzhak Schwartz
* Gdalyahu Vilbushevich [ru] (1865-1943), an architect and engineer from the Russian Empire

## Fictional

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* "Gedali", a short story by Isaac Babel from the Red Cavalry

## See also

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* All pages with titles containing Gedaliah
* All pages with titles containing Gedalia
* Gdal, a short form of the name

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