Judah
The name Judah can refer to:
All later individuals, groups and places of this name are directly or indirectly derived from this Judah.
Ethnic, political and geographic names and terms
- The Tribe of Judah, the Hebrew tribe whose members regarded the above as their eponymous ancestor
- The Kingdom of Judah, the Biblical kingdom ruled by the royal line of David
- Yehud Medinata, the Babylonian and Persian province organised from the former kingdom of Judah
- Judea, the former territory of the Kingdom of Judah after its demise (c. 586 BC), being successively a Babylonian, a Persian, a Ptolemaic and a Seleucid province, an independent kingdom under the Hasmoneans regarding itself as successor of the Biblical one, a Roman dependent kingdom and a Roman province
- Iudaea Province, Roman province, with the Latin spelling
- Jew, derived from Hebrew "Yehudi" יהודי (literally, "Judean"); the derivation is more clear in German "Jude" and in Slavic "Zhid"
- Judean Mountains, modern Israeli name for the mountains around Jerusalem, politically divided between Israel and the Occupied West Bank
- Judea and Samaria, official Israeli name for the West Bank
- Other places
People
Given name
People called Judah
Persons that had Judah as their first or middle name
- 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 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.
- 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
- Dr. Judah Folkman, American cellular biologist, founder of the field of antiangiogenesis
- Judah Friedlander, American actor. *30 Rock
- 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 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
Surname
- Henry M. Judah, American soldier
- Theodore Judah, American engineer who dreamed of the first transcontinental railroad
- Gerry Judah, Artist and Designer
- Tim Judah, historian and journalist
- Yoel Judah, American 3x world champion kickboxer and boxer & trainer
- Zab Judah ("Super"), American world champion junior welterweight & world champion welterweight boxer
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