Judith (disambiguation)

Judith may refer to:

In names:

• Judith (given name), female given name

In people:

• Queen Judith (disambiguation), a number of women in the medieval period with this name
• Judith (Hebrew Bible), name of one of the wives of Esau in Genesis
• Judith of Bavaria (died 843), a Frankish queen
• Judith of Friuli, daughter of Eberhard
• Judith of Flanders, Princes of the Carolingian Franks, Queen of Wessex, Countess of Flanders
• Judith of Schweinfurt, wife of Bretislaus I of Bohemia
• Gudit, a 10th-century queen who sacked Axum, now in Ethiopia; also known as Judith or Yudit
• Zewditu I, a 20th-century queen of Ethiopia whose name is sometimes erroneously Anglicised as "Judith"

In literature:

• Book of Judith, a deuterocanonical book of the Old Testament
• Judith (homily), an Old English homily by Aelfric of Eynsham
• "Judith" (poem), an Old English poem about the heroine of the Book of Judith
• Judita, a 1501 Croatian epic poem by Marko Marulić
• "Judith", a poem by Patti Smith from her 1972 book Seventh Heaven
• Judith (novel), by Irish author Brian Cleeve
• Judith (Van Herk novel), a 1978 novel by Aritha Van Herk
• Judith (Mosley novel), a 1986 novel by Nicholas Mosley

In theater:

• Judith (Hebbel) an 1841 tragic play by Friedrich Hebbel about the Biblical heroine
• Judith (Giraudoux), a 1931 play by Jean Giraudoux
• Judith, a 1962 adaption of the play above by Christopher Fry

In art:

• Judith (Giorgione), a painting by the Italian painter Giorgione, circa 1504
• Judith I, a painting more completely titled Judith and the Head of Holofernes, by Gustav Klimt, 1901.

In film:

• Judith (1923 film), a 1923 Dutch film
• Judith (1966 film), a 1966 film set in Palestine shortly before the end of the British mandate
• Judith (TV series), a 2000 Swedish TV series

In music:

• Judith (oratorio), the 1761 oratorio by Thomas Arne
• Judith, an 1888 work by Hubert Parry
• Judith (Serov), an 1863 opera by Alexander Serov
• Judith (Matthus), a 1984 opera by Siegfried Matthus
• Judith (ballet), a 1949 ballet by William Schuman
• "Judith" (song), by A Perfect Circle from their 2000 album Mer de Noms
• Judith (album), released by singer Judy Collins

In Fiction

• Judith Myers, a character in the Halloween films

In video games:

• Dr. Judith Mossman from Half-Life 2.
• Judith from Tales of Vesperia.

In astronomy:

• 664 Judith, a minor planet orbiting the Sun

In geography:

• Judith River, a river in Montana

See also

• Judy (disambiguation)