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Judah may refer to:
Ethnic, political and geographic names and terms
- The Tribe of Judah, one of the twelve Tribes of Israel whose members regarded Judah as their eponymous ancestor
- The Kingdom of Judah, an Iron Age kingdom of the Southern Levant
- Yehud (Babylonian province), a province of the Neo-Babylonian Empire since the suppression of the Judean rebellion in 585/6 BCE
- Yehud Medinata, an autonomous province of the Persian Achaemenid Empire
- Judea, the ancient Hebrew and Israelite biblical, the exonymic Roman/English, and the modern-day name of the mountainous southern part of Canaan-Israel
- Judea (Roman province) incorporated the regions of Judea, Samaria and Idumea, and extended over parts of the former regions of the Hasmonean and Herodian kingdoms
- Jews, an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites, or Hebrews, of the Ancient Near East derived from Hebrew "Yehudi" יהודי (literally, "Judean")
- Judaean Mountains, a mountain range in Israel and the West Bank where Jerusalem and several other biblical cities are located
- Judea and Samaria, the Israeli government term for the territory generally referred to as the West Bank, but excluding East Jerusalem
- Or Yehuda, a city in the Tel Aviv District of Israel
- State of Judea, a proposed halachic state in the West Bank put forward by Israeli Jewish settlers
- Ben Yehuda Street (Jerusalem), a major street in downtown Jerusalem
Other places
- Judah, Indiana, a small town in the United States
- N Judah, a light trail line running on Judah Street (named after Theodore Judah) in San Francisco
People
- Judah (son of Jacob), fourth son of the Biblical patriarch Jacob
- Judah (given name)
- Judah (surname)
- Judas Maccabeus, leader of the Maccabees Revolt against the Seleucid empire
- Judas Iscariot (died 30s), apostle who betrayed Jesus
- Jude the Apostle and Jude, brother of Jesus, two other early Christians who may or may not be the same person
- Judah the Prince, chief redactor of the Mishnah and second-century Jewish leader
- Judah II, third-century Jewish sage
- Judah III, third- and fourth-century sage
- Judah IV, 4th-century Talmudic sage
- Judah b. Meremar, Babylonian sage
- Yehuda Atedji (born 1961), Israeli Olympic windsurfer
- Yehuda Danon (born 1940), Israeli doctor, Surgeon General of the Israel Defense Forces, Director General of Beilinson Medical Center, and President of Ariel University
- Yehuda Halevi, prominent Medieval Spanish Jewish philosopher and poet
- Yehuda Hayuth, Israeli professor of geography, and President of the University of Haifa
- Yehuda Moraly, Israeli theater researcher, playwright, director, actor, and professor emeritus of theater studies at the Hebrew University
- Yehuda Bar-Yeshua, one of the ossuaries in the Talpiot Tomb
- Yehuda Wiener-Gafni (born 1930), Israeli Olympic basketball player
- Judah Ben-Hur, a fictional character
- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858–1922), founder of modern Hebrew
Organizations
- Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv F.C., Israeli football team (literally, "Sons of Judah" or "Sons of Judea")
- Canadian Young Judaea, Canadian Zionist youth movement
- Gadna Tel Aviv Yehuda F.C., Israeli football team
- Hapoel Mahane Yehuda F.C., Israeli football team
- Yehuda Matzos, an Israeli matza company
- Young Judaea, a peer-led Zionist youth movement of Hadassah
- Mateh Yehuda Regional Council
- Mahane Yehuda Market
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