Jedediah ( he, יְדִידְיָה) or Jedidiah is a Hebrew male
given name
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, which is derived from the name ''Yedidyah'', meaning "beloved of Jah". In the
Jedediah Bila
Jedediah Louisa Bila (born January 29, 1979) is an American television host and author. She is known for her time as a co-host on the daytime talk show '' The View'' from 2016 to 2017 and an anchor on the weekend edition of the morning news and ...
(born 1979), American writer and commentator
* Jedediah Buxton (1707–1772), English mathematician
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Jedediah Slason Carvell
Jedediah Slason Carvell (16 March 1832 – 14 February 1894) was a Canadian businessman, politician, and office holder.
Accomplishments
From 1877 to 1878, he was the sixth Mayor of Charlottetown. He was also Spain's vice-consul in Prince ...
Jedediah Hotchkiss
Jedediah Hotchkiss (November 30, 1828 – January 17, 1899), known most frequently as Jed, was a teacher and the most famous cartographer and topographer of the American Civil War. His detailed and accurate maps of the Shenandoah Valley are c ...
Jedidiah Morse
Jedidiah Morse (August 23, 1761June 9, 1826) was a geographer whose textbooks became a staple for students in the United States. He was the father of the telegraphy pioneer and painter Samuel Morse, and his textbooks earned him the sobriquet of "f ...
(1761–1826), American geographer
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Jedidiah Norzi Jedidiah Solomon ben Abraham Norzi (1560–1626) () was a Rabbi and exegete, best known for his work ''Minchat Shai''.
Born at Mantua, he studied under Moses Cases, and received his rabbinical ordination in 1585. Toward the beginning of the 17th ...
(1560–1626), Italian rabbi
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Jedediah Peck
Jedediah Peck (January 28, 1748 – August 15, 1821) was an American farmer, surveyor, Revolutionary War soldier, and New York State legislator described as a father of the common school system of the State of New York. He was a man of limi ...
(1748–1821), American politician
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Jedediah Purdy
Jedediah Spenser Purdy (born 29 November 1974 in Chloe, West Virginia) is an American legal scholar and cultural commentator. He is the William S. Beinecke Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where he teaches courses on American Constitutio ...
(born 1974), American law professor and writer
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Jedediah Sanger
Jedediah Sanger (February 28, 1751 – June 6, 1829) was the founder of the town of New Hartford, New York, United States. He was a native of Sherborn, Massachusetts, and the ninth child of Richard and Deborah Sanger, a prominent colonial New ...
(1751-1829), American politician
* Jedediah Smith (1799–1831), American trader and explorer
* Jedediah K. Smith (1770–1828), American politician
* Jedidiah Strutt (1726–1797), English inventor
Fiction
* Jedediah, fictional cowboy diorama piece, played by
Owen Wilson
Owen Cunningham Wilson (born November 18, 1968) is an American actor. He has had a long association with filmmaker Wes Anderson with whom he shared writing and acting credits for '' Bottle Rocket'' (1996), '' Rushmore'' (1998), and '' The Royal ...
in ''
Night at the Museum
''Night at the Museum'' is a 2006 fantasy comedy film directed by Shawn Levy and written by Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon. It is based on the 1993 children's book of the same name by Croatian illustrator Milan Trenc. The film had an ense ...
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* Jedediah Leland, fictional character played by Joseph Cotten in the film '' Citizen Kane''
* Jedediah Cooper, fictional main character in the film ''
Hang 'Em High
''Hang 'Em High'' is a 1968 American DeLuxe Color revisionist Western film directed by Ted Post and written by Leonard Freeman and Mel Goldberg. It stars Clint Eastwood as Jed Cooper, an innocent man who survives a lynching; Inger Stevens ...
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* Jedediah the Pilot in ''
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
''Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome'' is a 1985 Australian post-apocalyptic dystopian action film directed by George Miller and George Ogilvie and written by Miller and Terry Hayes. It stars Mel Gibson and Tina Turner in a story of a lone roving warr ...
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* Jedediah Shine, fictional police officer in UK TV series ''
Ripper Street
''Ripper Street'' is a British mystery drama television series set in Whitechapel in the East End of London starring Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg, and MyAnna Buring. It begins in 1889, six months after the infamous Jack the ...
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* Levi Jedediah Calder, one of the main characters of novel '' Unwind''
* Jedidiah Sawyer, a character known as
Leatherface
Leatherface is a fictional character in ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' film series created by Kim Henkel and Tobe Hooper. He first appears in '' The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'' as a disfigured, cannibalistic and mentally unstable mass murdere ...
in ''
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
''The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'' is a 1974 American horror film produced and directed by Tobe Hooper from a story and screenplay by Hooper and Kim Henkel. It stars Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow and Gunnar Hansen, ...
'' film franchise
See also
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Jed (given name)
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), U.S. Representative from Oklahoma, son of Jed Johnson
In sport ...