Jed (given name) explained

Jed
Origin:	Hebrew
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), U.S. Representative from Oklahoma, son of Jed Johnson
• Jed Lipsky, politician from Vermont

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 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, 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 Grand Prix motorcycle racer
• Jed Ortmeyer (born 1978), American National Hockey League player
• Jed Prentice, American slalom canoer, world champion in 1989 and 1991
• Jed Roberts (born 1967), Canadian Football League player
• Jed Rowlands, New Zealand rugby union coach
• Jed Steer (born 1992), English football goalkeeper
• Jed Stugart (born 1970), American football coach, current head coach for the Lindenwood Lions
• Jed Wallace (born 1994), English footballer
• Jed Weaver (born 1976), American 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 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
• Jed Morgans (born 1998), British musician and record label executive

Academics

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

Other

• Jed S. Rakoff (born 1943), American federal judge
• Jed Smock, also known as Brother Jed (1943–2022), confrontational American 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
• Jemima Marshall ("Jed") (female), in John le Carrés novel The Night Manager and on the British TV mini-series of the same name
• Jed Olsen, the alias of Danny Johnson, who is The Ghost Face in the multiplatform video game Dead by Daylight
• Jed Stone, on the British soap opera Coronation Street
• Jed Wright, the only boss in the Xbox 360 video game demo

See also

• Jedd, given name