Thaddaeus
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Thaddaeus or Thaddeus (Greek Θαδδαῖος) is a man's given name. It may derive from Theodorus (Greek for "gift of god") or from the Aramaic word for "heart" [1].
The name has numerous other forms, including Tad, Tadzio, Thad. In Armenian, the name is Թադէոս [tʰɑdɛos] Tadeos, or (short form) Թադէ [tʰɑdɛ] Tadeh.
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[edit] People
- Thaddaeus is mentioned in the Gospels of Matthew and Mark as among the Twelve Apostles.
- Thaddaeus (or Thaddeus) of Edessa was according to Christian tradition one of the Seventy Disciples. He is said to have been sent as a missionary to Edessa in Mesopotamia.
- Taddeo Gaddi (c.1300-1366), an Italian painter, active during the early Renaissance
- Taddeo di Bartolo, a Sienese painter active up to 1422.
- Taddeo Zuccari or Zuccaro (1529-1566), an Italian painter, member of the Roman school of mannerism
- Thaddeus Stevens (1792-1868), leader of the Radical Republicans during the American Civil War and Reconstruction
- Francisco Tadeo Calomarde y Arría (1775-1842), a Spanish statesman
- José Tadeo Monagas (1784-1868), a Venezuelan President and hero of the Venezuelan Wars of Independence
- Thaddeus S. C. Lowe (1831-1913), American Civil War scientist and inventor
- Thad Jones (1923-1986), an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader
- Thad Cochran (1937), United States Senator from Mississippi
- Tadeo Gomez, an American musician
- Edgar Tadeo, a Filipino comic book artist
- Thaddeus Cahill, inventor of the telharmonium
- Joe Taddeo, an American Distinguished Flying Cross recipient.
[edit] Fictional characters
- Tadzio, a young man in Thomas Mann's novel Death in Venice.
- Doctor Thaddeus Venture, a lead character in television show The Venture Bros.
- Thaddeus Bird, a character in Bernard Cornwell's Starbuck Chronicles.
- Thaddeus "Curly" Gammelthorpe, a character in television show Hey Arnold!.
- Thaddeus Roth, principal antagonist of Catherine Jinks' novels Evil Genius and Genius Squad.
- Thadeus, the captain of the hovercraft Osiris in the short animation, Final Flight of the Osiris.
- Thaddeus, Chief of the secret government agency, CONTROL, in the TV sitcom, "Get Smart"
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[edit] See also
- Tadeusz - the common Polish-language version of the name
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