Judah (given name)

Judah or Yehudah is a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:

• Judah P. Benjamin, politician and lawyer in the United States and Confederate States of America
• Judah Bergman ("Jack Kid Berg"), English world champion Hall of Fame junior welterweight boxer
• Judah Loew ben Bezalel, the Maharal, important Talmudic scholar, Jewish mystic, and philosopher who served as a leading rabbi in Prague (now in the Czech Republic) for most of his life
• Judah Folkman, American cellular biologist, founder of the field of antiangiogenesis
• Judah Friedlander, American actor. *30 Rock
• Judah Leon Magnes, first President of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem
• Judah Lewis, American actor
• Judah Nagler, singer, guitarist, and songwriter for indie-pop band The Velvet Teen
• Yehuda Alharizi, prominent Medieval Spanish rabbi, translator, poet and traveler
• Yehuda Amichai, Israeli poet
• Yehuda Amital, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion and a former member of the Israeli cabinet
• Yehuda Atedji (born 1961), Israeli Olympic windsurfer
• Yehuda Gilad (musician), clarinetist
• Yehuda Gilad (politician), rabbi and politician
• Yehuda Glick, Israeli activist
• Yehuda Green, Shlomo Carlebach-inspired Hasidic singer, composer, and hazzan
• Judah Hertz, American real estate investor.
• Yehuda Krinsky, Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic rabbi
• Yehuda Poliker (born 1950), Israeli singer-songwriter
• Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, Rosh yeshiva of the Volozhin yeshiva and author of several works of rabbinic literature in Lithuania
• Yehudi Menuhin, world-famous violinist
• Yehuda Tzadka, Rosh yeshiva of Porat Yosef Yeshiva, Jerusalem
• Yehuda Weisenstein, 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". Also the 1959 film "Ben-Hur", which starred Charlton Heston.

See also

• Judah (disambiguation), for people known only as "Judah"