Ned (given name)

Ned is an English given name, sometimes short for Edward, Edmund, Edgar, or Edwin. "Ned" may have risen from generations of children hearing "mine Ed" as "my Ned" which is an example of a process linguists call rebracketing.

Those bearing it include:

Real people:

• Ned Alley, former Australian rules footballer
• Ned Almond (1892–1979), United States Army general best known as the commander of the Army's X Corps during the Korean War
• Ned Austin (1925–2007), American character actor and Screen Actors Guild- and AFTRA member
• Ned Barkas (1901–1962), English professional footballer
• Ned Beatty (born 1937), American actor
• Ned Bellamy, American actor
• Ned Block, American philosopher
• Ned Bouhalassa, film score, television score, and electroacoustic music, composer
• Ned Boulting (born 1969), British sports journalist and television presenter
• Ned Buntline (1821 or 1823-1886), American publisher, journalist, writer, and publicist
• Ned Cameron, American producer/singer/songwriter from San Francisco, California
• Ned Catic, Australian former professional rugby league footballer
• Ned Chaillet, radio drama producer and director, writer and journalist
• Ned Cobb (1885-1973), tenant farmer
• Ned Collette (born 1979), Australian musician and singer-songwriter
• Ned Crotty, MLL professional lacrosse player
• Ned Cuthbert (1845–1905), American professional baseball player
• Ned Daly (1891–1916), Dublin's 1st battalion commandant during the 1916 Easter Rising
• Ned Dameron, science fiction and fantasy artist
• Ned Day (1945–1987), Las Vegas television journalist and newspaper reporter who was known for taking on mobsters who dominated Las Vegas casinos in the 1970s and '80s
• Ned Dennehy, Irish actor
• Ned Donaghy, American soccer referee active in the 1920s and '30s
• Ned Dowd, American film producer and former actor
• Ned Eckersley, English cricketer
• Ned Eisenberg, American actor known for his recurring role on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Roger Kressler
• Ned Endress (1918–2010), American basketball player
• Ned Evett, American guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known for playing a fretless glass-necked guitar
• Ned Garver, American League pitcher who played from 1948 to 1961
• Ned Glass (1906–1984), American character actor
• Ned Goldreyer, television writer, television producer, and comedian
• Ned Gregory (1839-1899), Australian cricketer
• Ned Hanlan (1855–1908), professional sculler, hotelier, and alderman from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Ned Herrmann (1922-1999), creator of the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument
• Ned Irish (1905-1982), basketball promoter and one of the key figures in popularizing professional basketball
• Ned Jarrett (born 1932), American race car driver
• Ned Kelly (1850s–1880), Australian outlaw & folk hero
• Ned Lamont (born 1954), American entrepreneur and politician
• Ned Luke (born 1958), American actor
• Ned Mandingo (born 1966), a radio personality at the Bubba the Love Sponge talk show
• Ned Rorem (born 1923), American composer and diarist
• Ned Vizzini (1981-2013), American writer
• Ned Yost (born 1955), American baseball player and manager

Fictional characters:

• Ned (Pushing Daisies), the main character from the television series
• Ned, in television series The Tribe
• Ned Bigby in television series Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
• Ned Dorsey, in television series Ned & Stacey
• Ned Flanders in television series The Simpsons
• Ned Gerblansky in television series South Park
• Ned Land, major point-of-view character in novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
• Ned Nickerson, boyfriend in Nancy Drew novels
• Ned Schneebly, a character from School of Rock
• Eddard "Ned" Stark in novel series A Song of Ice and Fire and the HBO TV adaptation Game of Thrones
• Ned Nederlander, one of the Three Amigos in that film
• Ned Plimpton, in film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
• Ned Ryder, father of Charles Ryder - protagonist and narrator in Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited
• Ned Ryerson, in film Groundhog Day