Caleb (given name)

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Caleb is a Hebrew masculine given name meaning faithful. It can also mean "whole hearted" or "loyalty."[1]

Caleb
Pronunciation
/ˈkʰeɪ̯.ləb/
GenderMale
Origin
Word/nameHebrew
MeaningFaithful or whole hearted

Given name[]

Biblical figures[]

  • Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, an important figure in the Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament
  • Caleb, son of Hezron, one of the three sons of Hezron, mentioned in the Book of Chronicles

Actors[]

Athletes[]

Politicians[]

  • Caleb Rice (1792–1873), American politician and businessman
  • Caleb Walton West (1844-1909), American politician and Governor of Utah Territory
  • Caleb C. Harris (1836-1904), American farmer, physician, and politician
  • Caleb Powell (1793-1881), Irish Repeal Association and Whig politician
  • Caleb J. Anderson (1910–1996), Swedish Social Democrat
  • Caleb J. McNulty (1816-1846), American lawyer, newspaper editor and politician
  • Caleb Jenner (1830-1890), English-born politician in colonial Victoria (Australia), member of the Victorian Legislative Council
  • Caleb P. Bennett (1758-1836), American soldier and politician
  • Caleb Hopkins (Upper Canada), (1786-1880), Canadian farmer and politician
  • Caleb Stetson (1801-1885), American businessman and politician from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
  • Caleb Stark (1759-1838), American state senator
  • Caleb Newbold Taylor (1813-1887) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
  • Caleb Ayer (1813-1883), American politician
  • Caleb Hanna (born 1999), American politician as a Republican member of the West Virginia House of Delegates
  • Caleb Atwater (1778-1867), American politician, historian, and early archaeologist
  • Caleb Powers (1869–1932), United States Representative from Kentucky and Secretary of State of Kentucky
  • Caleb Cushing (1800–1879), American statesman and diplomat, Congressman from Massachusetts and Attorney General
  • Caleb Banks (1659–1696), English politician, member of the House of Commons
  • Caleb Jones (politician) (born 1980), American politician
  • Caleb Wright (1810-1898), English politician
  • Caleb Strong (1745–1819), lawyer and politician, sixth and tenth Governor of Massachusetts
  • Caleb Frostman (born 1984), American politician
  • Caleb R. Layton (1851-1830), American politician
  • Caleb Blood Smith (1808-1864),,United States Representative from Indiana
  • Caleb Rowden, American politician
  • Caleb Rodney (1767-1840), American merchant and politician
  • Caleb Lomax (1695–1730), British landowner and politician
  • Caleb Ellis (1767-1816), American politician and lawyer
  • Caleb Claiborne Herbert (1814-1867), Confederate politician

Other[]

Fictional characters[]

  • Caleb Garth, a character in the George Eliot novel Middlemarch
  • Caleb Trask, a major character in the John Steinbeck novel East of Eden
  • Caleb Lambert, the son of Gary and Caroline Lambert in Jonathan Franzen's novel The Corrections
  • Caleb Bradley, a corporate swindler in Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead
  • Caleb Temple, main character in the 1995 television series American Gothic
  • Caleb (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), a villain in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series
  • Caleb Nichol, in The O.C. television series
  • Caleb (computer game character), protagonist of the computer game Blood and its sequel, Blood II: The Chosen
  • Caleb (W.I.T.C.H.), in the comic book and animated television series W.I.T.C.H.
  • Caleb Morley, vampire in the soap opera Port Charles
  • Caleb Lansing-Gant, part-human part-machine protagonist of the UK game show Mission: 2110
  • Caleb Rivers, character from the TV series Pretty Little Liars
  • Caleb Widogast, one of the main characters from the American Dungeons & Dragons web series Critical Role
  • Caleb Williams, the main character in the William Godwin novel Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams
  • Caleb Prior, the brother of protagonist Tris Prior in the Divergent series and film of the same name
  • Caleb Smith, a computer programmer tasked with evaluating an artificial being, in the film Ex Machina
  • Caleb Dingle, character from the TV series Emmerdale
  • Caleb Dume, real name of Jedi Kanan Jarrus in Star Wars Rebels
  • Caleb, character from the Netflix show Big Mouth
  • Caleb, recurrent character from the Syfy show Helix in Season 2
  • Caleb, character from the HBO show Westworld in Season 3
  • Caleb John Gosche, a cannibal who appears in Seasons 5 and 6 of Brooklyn Nine-Nine
  • Caleb Malphas, a demon from Sherrilyn Kenyon's teen fiction series, The Chronicles Of Nick.
  • Caleb Quinn, also known as "The Deathslinger", who uses a harpoon gun for his "killer ability", in the videogame Dead by Daylight
  • Caleb Covington, a character in Netflix's Julie and the Phantoms.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Behind the Name, "Caleb", accessed 9 August 2021
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