Jonah (given name)

Jonah is a masculine given name derived from the Hebrew: יוֹנָה, Yonā, meaning dove or pigeon. It is the name of the Abrahamic prophet Jonah.

People[]

• Jonah of Moscow (died 1461?), Metropolitan of Kiev and All Rus'
• Jonah Anguka, Kenyan author
• Jonah Ayunga, Kenyan football player
• Jonah Barrington (journalist), English journalist
• Jonah Barrington (judge), Irish judge and politician
• Jonah Barrington (squash player), English squash player
• Jonah Bayliss, American baseball player
• Jonah Berger, American marketing professor
• Jonah Blechman, American actor
• Jonah Blank, American journalist
• Jonah Bobo, American child actor
• Jonah Bokaer, American media artist
• Jonah Bolden, Australian basketball player
• Jonah Burt, Canadian judoka
• Jonah David Jang, Nigerian politician
• Jonah Edelman, American advocate for public education reform
• Jonah Falcon, American actor and writer
• Jonah Feingold, American writer of short films
• Jonah Frankel, Israeli writer
• Yonah Gerondi, Catalan rabbi and moralist
• Jonah Goldberg, American conservative political commentator
• Jonah Hill, American actor and writer
• Jonah Holmes, English rugby player
• Jonah Jackson (born 1997), American football player
• Jonah Jones, American jazz trumpeter
• Jonah Jones (sculptor), Welsh artist
• Jonah Keri, Canadian journalist
• Jonah Kim, South Korean cellist
• Jonah Koslen, American singer-songwriter
• Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole, Prince of Hawai'i and American politician
• Jonah Kumalae, Hawaiian politician and ukulele manufacturer
• Jonah Lehrer, American science author and journalist
• Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby player
• Jonah Lowe, New Zealand rugby player
• Jonah Lotan, Israeli actor
• Jonah Matranga, American singer and songwriter
• Yona Melnik, Israeli judoka
• Jonah Meyerson, American actor
• Metropolitan Jonah Paffhausen, primate of the Orthodox Church in America
• Jonah Parzen-Johnson, American saxophonist
• Jonah Peretti, co-founder of Buzzfeed and The Huffington Post
• Jonah Piikoi, Hawaiian nobleman and politician
• Jonah Raskin, American writer
• Jonah Ray, American comedian
• Jonah Rockoff, American economist
• Jonah Sanford, American politician and Union Army colonel
• Jonah Sharp, American electronic music producer
• Jonah Sithole, Zimbabwean guitarist
• Jonah Williams (disambiguation), multiple people
• Jonah Wise, American rabbi

Fictional characters[]

• Jonah Beck, a main character on the Disney Channel series Andi Mack
• Jonah Hex, an American western comic book hero in DC Comics
• J. Jonah Jameson, in Spiderman comics and movies
• Jonah Takalua, a main character in the Australian comedy series Summer Heights High
• Jonah Wizard, a teenage movie star from the 39 Clues series
• Jonah Byrde,character in Netflix TV Show "Ozark"

Male variants[]

• Giona (Italian)
• Jonàs (Catalan)
• Jona (Croatian)
• Jonáš (Czech)
• Jonah (English)
• Jonas (German, Swedish, Latin, Lithuanian and Portuguese)
• Jónás (Hungarian)
• Jónas (Icelandic)
• Jonasz (Polish)
• Jonaš (Prekmurje dialect of Slovene)
• Jonáš (Slovak)
• Jona (Slovene)
• Jonás (Spanish)
• Yonah or Yona (יונה) (Hebrew and Yiddish)
• Yunus (Turkish)
• Younes (يونس) (Arabic)
• Joonas (Estonian and Finnish)
• Joona (Finnish)
• Yunsi (Berber)
• Ionas (Ίωνας) (Greek)
• Iunus (Bengali: ইউনুস)
• Jona (Yoruba)
• Yunan (Syriac)

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