Jed (given name)

Jed
Origin
Word/name	Hebrew
Other names
Related names	Jedediah, Yedidiah

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

People

Politicians

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

In sports

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 former 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, former 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 former Grand Prix motorcycle racer
Jed Ortmeyer (born 1978), American former National Hockey League player
Jed Prentice, American slalom canoer, world champion in 1989 and 1991
Jed Roberts (born 1967), retired Canadian Football League player
Jed Rowlands, New Zealand rugby union coach
Jed Steer (born 1992), English football goalkeeper
Jed Wallace (born 1994), English footballer
Jed Weaver (born 1976), former 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 retired soccer player

In arts and entertainment

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

Academics

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

Other

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

Fictional characters

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
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
Jed Olsen, the alias of Danny Johnson, who is The Ghost Face in the multi platform video game Dead by Daylight.

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