Jonathan

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Jonathan may refer to:

Given name

• Jonathan (name), a given name

Arts and entertainment

Film, stage and television

• Jonathan Demme (born 1944), American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter
• Jonathan Islas (born 1979), Mexican actor
• Jonathan Ke Quan (born 1971), American actor

Jonathan Arias ( superhuman)

• Jonathan Owen (born 1956), film and theatre actor
• Jonathan Pryce (born 1947), Welsh stage and film actor and singer
• Jonathan Frakes (born 1952), American actor, author and director
• Jonathan Ross (born 1960), English television and radio presenter
• Jonathan Winters (1925–2013), American comedian, actor, and artist

Literature and Music

• Jonathan Safran Foer (born 1977), American novelist
• Jonathan Israel (born 1946), British writer on Dutch history, the Age of Enlightenment and European Jewry
• Jonathan Odell (1737–1818), Loyalist poet who lived during the American Revolution]
• Jonathan Swift (1667–1745), Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer
• Jonathan Valin (born 1947), American mystery author
• Jonathan Davis (born 1971), lead vocalist and frontman for the metal band Korn
• Jonathan Edwards (musician) (born 1946), American singer-songwriter and musician
• Jonathan Fagerlund (born 1991), Swedish singer
• Jonathan Jeremiah, British singer-songwriter
• Jonathan Lewis Seward, stage name Johnny Christ, bassist and back up vocalist of American rock band Avenged Sevenfold
• Jonathan Vandenbroeck (born 1981), Belgian singer-songwriter
• Joyce Jonathan (born 1989), French musician and singer
• Jonathan Coulton (born 1970), American singer-songwriter
• Jonathan Richman (born 1951), American singer-songwriter and frontman of American rock band The Modern Lovers

Various

• Jonathan Ollivier (born 1977), British danseur
• Jonathan Olley (born 1967), British photographer
• Jonathan Richardson (painter) (1665–1745), English artist, collector of drawings, writer on art

Business, Nobility and Politics

• Jonathan Backhouse (1849–1918), British banker
• Jonathan-Raphaël Bischoffsheim (1808–1883), Belgian banker, businessman and philanthropist
• Jonathan Guinness, 3rd Baron Moyne (born 1930), British peer and businessman
• Jonathan Duncan Inverarity (1812–1882), civil servant of the Bombay Presidency

• Jonathan, Count of Carinola (died 1094), Italian noble
• Jonathan of Gaeta (died 1121), Norman noble, Duke of Gaeta
• Jonathan of Tusculum (died before 1167), Italian noble, count of Tusculum

• Goodluck Jonathan (born 1957), President of Nigeria
• Jonathan Best (1840–1913), Australian politician
• Jonathan Edwards (British politician) (born 1976), Welsh Plaid Cymru politician
• Jonathan Ingersoll (1747–1823), Connecticut politician
• Jonathan O'Dea MP (born 1966), Australian politician
• Jonathan Russell Bullock (1815–1899), Rhode Island politician, United States federal judge
• Jonathan Trelawny (1568–1604), English politician
• Jonathan T. Updegraff (1822–1882), U.S. Representative from Ohio
• Jonathan Valois (born 1971), politician from Quebec, Canada
• Jonathan I Rashleigh (1591–1675), English merchant and politician

Sports

• Jonathan Davies (born 1962), Welsh rugby player
• Jonathan Good (born 1985), American wrestler
• Jonathan Obika (born 1990), English footballer
• Jonathan Ogden (born 1974), former American college and professional football player
• Jonathan Ohayon (born 1972), Canadian athlete
• Jonathan Magri Overend (born 1970), professional footballer
• Jonathan Moreira (born 1986), professional footballer who plays for F.C. Internazionale
• Jonathan O'Callaghan (born 1978), Irish sportsperson
• Jonathan Orders (born 1957), English born former cricketer, played for Hong Kong
• Jonathan Orr (born 1983), former American football wide receiver
• Jonathan Quick (born 1986), American professional ice hockey goaltender
• Jonathan Quinn (born 1975), former American football quarterback in the NFL
• Jonathan Stark (tennis) (born 1971), American professional tennis player
• Jonathan Toews (born 1988), Canadian professional ice hockey player
• Jonathan Urretaviscaya (born 1990), Uruguayan footballer of Basque descent
• Jonathan Vaughters (born 1973), American former professional racing cyclist
• Jonathan Villanueva (born 1988), American soccer player
• Jonathan Vilma (born 1982), American football linebacker
• Jonathan Vitale (born 1981), American rugby union prop
• Jonathan Vosselman (born 1984), professional football defender
• Jonathan Zebina (born 1978), French footballer
• Jonathan Zenon (born 1984), American football player
• Jonathan Zion (ice hockey) (born 1981), professional ice hockey player
• Jonathan Zipf (born 1986), professional German triathlete
• Jonathan Sundy Zongo (born 1992), Burkinabé footballer

Religion

• Jonathan (1 Samuel), son of King Saul of Israel and friend of David, in the Books of Samuel
• Jonathan (Judges), figure in the Book of Judges
• Jonathan, minor Biblical figure, son of Abiathar the priest
• Rabbi Jonathan, (2nd century)
• Jonathan ben Joseph (17th - 18th century), Lithuanian rabbi and astronomer
• Jonathan of Dunblane (died c. 1210), Scottish churchman and prelate
• Jonathan Edwards (academic) (1629–1712), theologian
• Jonathan Edwards (theologian) (1703–1758), American preacher and theologian
• Jonathan Edwards (the younger) (1745–1801), American theologian and linguist
• Jonathan Smedley (1671–1729), Anglo-Irish churchman, became Dean of Clogher in 1724

Fiction

• Jonathan (30 Rock), character in the American sitcom 30 Rock
• Jonathan (Buffy comic), 2001 comic book based on the American TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Jonathan E, the central character in the 1975 film Rollerball
• Jonathan Kent (comics), the adoptive father of Superman
• Jonathan Levinson, fictional character in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Jonathan J. "Jack" O'Neill, character in the American-Canadian TV series Stargate SG-1
• Jonathan Oldbuck, fictional character in Sir Walter Scott's The Antiquary
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the title character of a novel by Richard Bach
• Jonathan of Conté, member of the ruling family of Tortall in Tamora Pierce's Tortall series
• Brother Jonathan, personification of the United States
• Jonathan Archer, Star Trek character from the TV show Star Trek Enterprise
• Jonathan Storm, Aka Johnny Storm the Human Torch Marval Comic Book super hero from The Fantastic Four

Others

• Jonathan Brewster (1593–1659), early American settler
• Jonathan Browning (1805–1879), American inventor and gunmaker
• Thomas Jonathan Burrill (1839–1916), American botanist, discovered bacterial causes for plant disease
• Jonathan Fairbanks (1594–1668), English colonist who migrated to New England
• Jonathan Idema (1956–2012), former army reserve special operations non-commissioned officer
• Jonathan Ive, KBE (born 1967), English designer, senior vice president of industrial design at Apple Inc
• Jonathan Osborne (1794–1864), Irish physician and surgeon
• Jonathan Ott (born 1949), ethnobotanist, writer, translator, publisher, chemist and botanical researcher
• Jonathan Oxer (born 1970), computer programmer, Debian developer, author, entrepreneur
• Jonathan Tweet, game designer
• Jonathan Unger (born 1946), journalist and an expert on China
• Jonathan Uptin (born 1976), Australian journalist
• Jonathan Veitch (born 1959), 15th president of Occidental College since July 2009
• Jonathan Wild (1683–1725), infamous criminal of London
• Jonathan Zaslow (born 1981), American sports radio show host in South Florida
• Jonathan Carl Zenker (1799–1837), German naturalist
• Jonathan Zenneck (1871–1959), physicist and electrical engineer
• Jonathan Zittrain (born 1969), American professor of Internet law at Harvard Law School

Other uses

• Jonathan, a Welsh language television show hosted by ex-rugby player Jonathan Davies

Variants of Jonathan

• Jonatan Berg (born 1985), Swedish football midfielder
• Jonatan Briel (1942–1988), German director, screenplay author, and actor
• Jonatán Dobroslav Čipka, 19th century Slovakian priest, poet and author
• Jonatan Cerrada (born 1985), Belgian-born singer, the first French Pop Idol
• Jonatan Johansson (footballer) (born 1975), Finnish footballer
• Jonatan Johansson (snowboarder) (1980–2006), Swedish Olympic snowboarder

• Jonatan Romero (born 1987), Colombian boxer
• Jonatan Söderström, Swedish independent video game developer
• Jonatan Tollås (born 1990), Norwegian football striker
• Jonatan Valle Trueba (born 1984), Spanish footballer
• Jonathas de Jesus, Brazilian footballer
• Jonathas Granville, Haitian soldier

Others

• Jonathan (apple), variety of apple
• Jonathan (tortoise), Seychelles Giant tortoise that lives on the island of St Helena
• Jonathan Island, privately owned island off the coast of Narragansett, Rhode Island, USA
• Jonathan, Minnesota, "new town" development in Chaska, Minnesota, US
• Jonathan the Husky, the mascot of the University of Connecticut
• Jonathan Cape, London-based publisher founded in 1919

See also

• Hovnatanian, an Armenian family whose name derives from the equivalent of Jonathan
• All pages beginning with "Jonathan"
• Jonatan
• Jonathas