Judith (disambiguation)
Judith may refer to:
In names:
- Judith (given name), female given name
In people:
- Queen Judith (disambiguation), a number of women in the medieval period with this name
- Judith (Hebrew Bible), name of one of the wives of Esau in Genesis
- Judith of Bavaria (died 843), a Frankish queen
- Judith of Friuli, daughter of Eberhard
- Judith of Flanders, Princes of the Carolingian Franks, Queen of Wessex, Countess of Flanders
- Judith of Schweinfurt, wife of Bretislaus I of Bohemia
- Gudit, a 10th-century queen who sacked Axum, now in Ethiopia; also known as Judith or Yudit
- Zewditu I, a 20th-century queen of Ethiopia whose name is sometimes erroneously Anglicised as "Judith"
In literature:
- Book of Judith, a deuterocanonical book of the Old Testament
- Judith (homily), an Old English homily by Aelfric of Eynsham
- "Judith" (poem), an Old English poem about the heroine of the Book of Judith
- Judita, a 1501 Croatian epic poem by Marko Marulić
- "Judith", a poem by Patti Smith from her 1972 book Seventh Heaven
- Judith (novel), by Irish author Brian Cleeve
- Judith (Van Herk novel), a 1978 novel by Aritha Van Herk
- Judith (Mosley novel), a 1986 novel by Nicholas Mosley
In theater:
- Judith (Hebbel) an 1841 tragic play by Friedrich Hebbel about the Biblical heroine
- Judith (Giraudoux), a 1931 play by Jean Giraudoux
- Judith, a 1962 adaption of the play above by Christopher Fry
In art:
- Judith (Giorgione), a painting by the Italian painter Giorgione, circa 1504
- Judith I, a painting more completely titled Judith and the Head of Holofernes, by Gustav Klimt, 1901.
In film:
- Judith (1923 film), a 1923 Dutch film
- Judith (1966 film), a 1966 film set in Palestine shortly before the end of the British mandate
- Judith (TV series), a 2000 Swedish TV series
In music:
- Judith (oratorio), the 1761 oratorio by Thomas Arne
- Judith, an 1888 work by Hubert Parry
- Judith (Serov), an 1863 opera by Alexander Serov
- Judith (Matthus), a 1984 opera by Siegfried Matthus
- Judith (ballet), a 1949 ballet by William Schuman
- "Judith" (song), by A Perfect Circle from their 2000 album Mer de Noms
- Judith (album), released by singer Judy Collins
In Fiction
- Judith Myers, a character in the Halloween films
In video games:
- Dr. Judith Mossman from Half-Life 2.
- Judith from Tales of Vesperia.
In astronomy:
- 664 Judith, a minor planet orbiting the Sun
In geography:
- Judith River, a river in Montana
See also
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