Tad (given name)

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Tad is a male given name or shortened version of Tadgh,^[1] Thaddeus,^[2] Thomas or other names. It may refer to:

People

• Tad Boyle (born 1963), University of Colorado men's basketball head coach and former player
• Tad Crawford (born 1984), Canadian Football League player
• Thomas A. Tad Devine (born 1955), American political consultant
• Tad Dorgan (1877–1929), American cartoonist
• Edward T. Foote II (born 1937), fourth president of the University of Miami
• Tad Gormley (1884–1965), Louisiana State University men's basketball head coach and trainer
• Tad Hilgenbrink (born 1981), American actor
• Tad Jones (politician) (born 1972), American politician
• Tad Kornegay (born 1982), collegiate football and Canadian Football League player
• Thomas Tad Lincoln (1853–1871), youngest son of Abraham and Mary Lincoln
• Tad J. Oelstrom (born 1943), retired US Air Force lieutenant general
• Tad Mosel (1922–2008), American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and dramatist
• Tad Richards (born 1940), American writer and visual artist
• Tad Robinson, (born 1956), American soul blues singer
• Tad Schmaltz (born 1960), professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan
• Tad Stones (born c. 1952), American animator, screenwriter, producer and director best known for his work for The Walt Disney Company
• Elton Wieman (1896–1971), American collegiate football player, coach and athletic director

Fictional characters

• Thaddeus "Tad" Martin, on the American soap opera All My Children
• Wayne Terrence "Tad" Reeves, on the Australian soap opera Neighbours
• General Thaddeus Ross, from Marvel Comics, enemy of the Hulk
• Tad Hamilton, in the movie Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
• Tad, a friend of Nemo in the movie Finding Nemo
• Tad Ghostal, the real name of Space Ghost in Space Ghost: Coast to Coast
• Dr. Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture from the American animated television series The Venture Bros.

See also

• Thad

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