Ned (given name) explained

Ned is an English given name and variant of Ed, sometimes short for Edward, Edmund, Edgar, or Edwin. Ned can also be a diminutive for the Slavic name Nedeljko.

People with the given name Ned, or its variants

• Ned Abraham (born 1961), Australian surgeon
• Ted Alley (1881–1949), former Australian rules footballer listed in some sources as Ned Alley
• Edward Almond (1892–1979), United States Army general best known as the commander of the Army's X Corps during the Korean War
• Ned Ambler (born 1968 or 1969), American photographer and talent scout
• Ned Austin (1925–2007), American actor
• Ned Azemia (born 1997), Seychellois hurdler
• Ned Barkas (1901–1962), English professional footballer
• Ned Beatty (1937–2021), American actor
• Ned Bellamy (born 1957), American actor
• Ned Benson (born 1977), American filmmaker
• Ned Bittinger (born 1951), American artist
• Ned Block (born 1942), American philosopher
• Ned Bouhalassa (born 1962), Canadian composer
• Ned Boulting (born 1969), British sports journalist and television presenter
• Ned Buntline (1821 or 1823–1886), American publisher, journalist, writer, and publicist
• Ned Cameron (born 1987), American singer, songwriter, and record producer
• Ned Catic (born 1978), Australian rugby league footballer
• Ned Chaillet (born 1944), American-born British radio drama producer and director, writer and journalist
• Ned Cobb (1885–1973), American tenant farmer
• Ned Collette (born 1979), Australian musician and singer-songwriter
• Ned Crotty (born 1986), American lacrosse player
• Ned Cuthbert (1845–1905), American baseball player
• Ned Daly (1891–1916), Dublin's 1st battalion commandant during the 1916 Easter Rising
• Ned Dameron, American science fiction and fantasy artist
• Ned Davis (1886–1961), Australian politician
• Ned Day (1945–1987), American television journalist
• Ned Dennehy (born 1965), Irish actor
• Ned Donaghy, American soccer referee active in the 1920s and 1930s
• Ned Dowd (born 1950), American film producer and former actor
• Ned Eckersley (born 1989), English cricketer
• Ned Eisenberg (1957-2022), American actor
• Ned Endress (1918–2010), American basketball player
• Ned Evett (born 1967), American guitarist, singer, and songwriter
• Ned Fairchild (1929–2015), American songwriter
• Ned Freed (born 1959), American software developer
• Ned Garver (1925–2017), American baseball pitcher
• Ned Glass (1906–1984), American character actor
• Ned Goldreyer, American television writer, television producer and comedian
• Ned Gregory (1839–1899), Australian cricketer
• Ned Hanlan (1855–1908), Canadian professional sculler, hotelier and alderman
• Ned Harris (1916–1976), American baseball player
• Ned Herrmann (1922–1999), creator of the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument
• Ned Hollister (1876–1924), American biologist
• Ned Irish (1905–1982), American basketball promoter
• Ned Jarrett (born 1932), American race car driver
• Ned Jenkins (1904–1990), Welsh rugby union player
• Ned Kelly (1850s–1880), Australian outlaw and folk hero
• Ned Lamont (born 1954), American businessman and politician, 89th Governor of Connecticut
• Ned Luke (born 1958), American actor
• Ned Maddrell (1877–1974), Manx fisherman
• Ned Markosian, American philosopher
• Ned Martel, American television writer and producer
• Ned Martin (1923–2002), American sportscaster
• Ned McGowan (lawyer) (1813–1893), American lawyer and politician
• Ned McHenry (born 2000), Australian rules footballer
• Ned McWherter (1930–2011), American politician
• Ned Merriam (1884–1956), American track athlete, football player, and coach
• Ned Mettam (1868–1943), English footballer
• Ned Miller (1925–2016), American country music singer-songwriter
• Ned O'Connor (1877–1956), Australian rules footballer
• Ned Officer (1869–1927), Australian rules footballer
• Ned O'Gorman (1929–2014), American poet and educator
• Ned O'Keeffe (born 1942), Irish politician
• Ned O'Sullivan (born 1950), Irish politician
• Ned Palmer, British cheesemonger and author
• Ned Price (born 1982), American Spokesperson for the United States Department of State
• Ned Rorem (1923–2022), American composer and writer
• Ned Scott (1907-1967), American photographer who worked in the Hollywood film industry
• Ned Sherrin (1931–2007), British impresario, writer, game show host and raconteur
• Ned Sparks (1883–1957), Canadian character actor
• Ned Sublette (born 1951), American composer, musician, record producer, musicologist, and author
• Ned Vizzini (1981–2013), American writer
• Ned Yost (born 1955), American baseball player and manager

Fictional characters

• Ned Banks, a character from the Ghost Whisperer
• Ned Bigby, the main protagonist of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
• Ned Dorneget, a Cyber Division Special Agent in the police series NCIS
• Ned Flanders, a character from The Simpsons
• Ned Flemkin, the titular character from the Canadian animated television series Ned's Newt
• Ned Gerblansky, a character from South Park
• Ned Quartermaine, a character from the soap opera General Hospital
• Ned Dorsey, one of the two main characters from the television series Ned & Stacey
• Ned Land, a character from the 1870 adventure novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
• Ned Leeds, a character in Marvel Comics
• Ned Merrill, a character from the 1964 short story "The Swimmer"
• Ned Nederlander, one of the three protagonists in the 1986 western comedy Three Amigos
• Ned Needlemeyer, the titular character from the short-lived 1997 animated series Nightmare Ned
• Ned Nickerson, the boyfriend of Nancy Drew in the novels of the same name
• Ned Plimpton, a character from the 2004 film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
• Ned Racine, a character from the 1981 film Body Heat
• Ned Ryder, a character from the 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited
• Ned Ryerson, a character from the 1993 comedy Groundhog Day
• Ned Schneebly, a character from the 2003 comedy School of Rock
• Ned Stark, a character from the A Song of Ice and Fire series
• Ned, the main character from the television series Pushing Daisies
• Ned, a character from the television series The Tribe
• Ned, the titular host of talk show set in outer space, Earth to Ned
• Ned, the wombat in The Koala Brothers
• Ned, a creature in the music video for "Chlorine", a song by the band Twenty One Pilots
• Ned, short for Nedwin, a character from the 2011 fantasy novel
• Neddie Seagoon, a character in The Goon Show