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 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 Gilad (musician), clarinetist
- Yehuda Gilad (politician), rabbi and politician
- Yehuda Glick, Israeli activist
- Yehuda Green, Shlomo Carlebach-inspired Hasidic singer, composer, and hazzan
- 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
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"
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