Judah (given name)

Judah
Pronunciation	"JEW-duh"
Gender	Male
Other names
Related names	Yehudah

Judah and Judas are masculine given names derived from the Hebrew name, Yehuda(h), of the biblical figure Judah (son of Jacob). Notable people with one or the other variant of the name include:

Biblical and ancient historical figures[]

In chronological order:

Judah (son of Jacob), fourth son of the Biblical patriarch Jacob
Judah Maccabee or Judas Maccabeus, Jewish priest who led the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire (167–160 BCE)
Judas Iscariot, Hebrew Yehūḏā ʾĪš-Qǝrīyyōṯ, 'Judah, man of Kerioth' (died c. AD 30), one of the original Twelve Apostles of Jesus
Judah ha-Nasi, also Judah the Prince or Judah I, Jewish sage and leader (2nd century)
Judah II, Jewish sage (3rd century)
Judah III, Jewish sage (3rd and 4th century)
Judah IV, Talmudic sage (4th century)
Judah b. Meremar, Babylonian sage (5th century?)

People with the given name[]

Judah[]

In alphabetical order:

Judah P. Benjamin (1811–1884), politician and lawyer in the United States and Confederate States of America
Judah Bergman aka "Jack Kid Berg" (1909–1991), English world champion Hall of Fame junior welterweight boxer
Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512-1526 – 1609) or Rabbi Loew of Prague, the Maharal, Talmudic scholar, Jewish mystic and philosopher
Judah David Bleich (born 1936), American rabbi and authority on Jewish law and ethics
Judah Folkman (1933–2008), American cellular biologist, founder of the field of antiangiogenesis
Judah Friedlander (born 1969), American actor best known from 30 Rock
Judah Halevi (1075–1141), medieval Spanish Jewish philosopher and poet
Judah Hertz (born 1948/49), American real estate investor
Judah Lewis (born 2000 or 2001), American actor
Judah Leon Magnes (1877–1948), rabbi, first President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Judah Nagler (born 1980), singer, guitarist, and songwriter for indie-pop band The Velvet Teen
"Judah son of Jesus", name on one of the ossuaries in the 1st-century Talpiot Tomb

Yehuda(h), Yehudi[]

In alphabetical order of their surname:

Yehuda Alharizi (mid-12th century – 1225), medieval Spanish rabbi, translator, poet and traveller
Yehuda Amichai (1924–2000), Israeli poet
Yehuda Amital (1924–2010), dean of Yeshivat Har Etzion, former Israeli cabinet member
Yehuda Atedji (born 1961), Israeli Olympic windsurfer
Yehuda Danon (born 1940), Israeli doctor
Yehuda Gilad (musician), contemporary clarinetist and conductor
Yehuda Gilad (politician) (born 1955), Israeli rabbi and politician
Yehudah Glick (born 1965), American-born Israeli Orthodox rabbi, activist, and politician
Yehuda Green (born 1959), Shlomo Carlebach-inspired Hasidic singer, composer, and hazzan
Yehuda Hayuth (born 1946), Israeli professor of geography
Yehudah Jacobs (c. 1940–2020), American rabbi
Yehuda Krinsky (born 1933), Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic rabbi
Yehuda Kurtzer (born 1977), President of The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America
Yehuda Moraly (born 1948), Israeli theater researcher, playwright, director, actor, and professor
Yehuda Poliker (born 1950), Israeli singer-songwriter
Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999), world-famous violinist
Yehuda Tzadka (1910–1991), dean of Porat Yosef Yeshiva, Jerusalem
Yehuda Wiener-Gafni (born 1930), Israeli Olympic basketball player
Yehuda Weisenstein (born 1955), Israeli Olympic fencer
Yehuda Zadok (born 1958), Israeli Olympic runner

Fictional characters[]

Judah Ben-Hur, main character of the 1880 Lew Wallace novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ and film adaptations