Jed (given name)

JedOrigin

Word/name| Hebrew
Other names
Related names| Jedediah, Yedidiah

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

## People

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### Politicians

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* Jed Johnson (Oklahoma) (1888–1963), politician from Oklahoma
* Jed Johnson, Jr. (1939–1993), U.S. Representative from Oklahoma, son of Jed Johnson
* Jed Lipsky, politician from Vermont

### In sports

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* 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 Graef (born 1942), American swimmer and Olympic gold medalist
* Jed Hansen (born 1972), American Major League Baseball player
* Jed Holloway (born 1992), Australian rugby union footballer
* Jed Hoyer (born 1973), American executive vice-president and general manager of the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball team
* Jed Hughes, 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 Grand Prix motorcycle racer
* Jed Ortmeyer (born 1978), American National Hockey League player
* Jed Prentice, American slalom canoer, world champion in 1989 and 1991
* Jed Roberts (born 1967), Canadian Football League player
* Jed Rowlands, New Zealand rugby union coach
* Jed Steer (born 1992), English football goalkeeper
* Jed Stugart (born 1970), American football coach, current head coach for the Lindenwood Lions
* Jed Wallace (born 1994), English footballer
* Jed Weaver (born 1976), American 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 soccer player

### In arts and entertainment

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* Jed Allan (1935–2019), American actor, particularly on soap operas
* Jed Brophy (born 1963), New Zealand film 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
* Jed Morgans (born 1998), British musician and record label executive

### Academics

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* Jed Buchwald, American historian, professor of history at Caltech
* Jed Rubenfeld, American Yale Law School professor and author

### Other

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* Jed S. Rakoff (born 1943), American federal judge
* Jed Smock, also known as Brother Jed (1943–2022), confrontational American evangelist and campus preacher

## Fictional characters

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* 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
* Jemima Marshall ("Jed") (female), in John le Carrés novel The Night Manager and on the British TV mini-series of the same name
* Jed Olsen, the alias of Danny Johnson, who is The Ghost Face in the multiplatform video game Dead by Daylight
* Jed Stone, on the British soap opera Coronation Street
* Jed Wright, the only boss in the Xbox 360 video game demo Dead Rising 2: Case Zero

## See also

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* Jedd, given name

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## References

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