Judah (given name)

Judah or Yehudah is a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:

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 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
Judah Folkman, American cellular biologist, founder of the field of antiangiogenesis
Judah Friedlander, American actor. *30 Rock
Judah Leon Magnes, first President of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem
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 Glick, Israeli activist
Yehuda Green, Shlomo Carlebach-inspired Hasidic singer, composer, and hazzan
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

Fictional characters:

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.

See also