The Hebrew name for Judah, Yehuda (יהודה), literally "thanksgiving" or "praise," is the noun form of the root Y-D-H (ידה), "to thank" or "to praise."^[1] His birth is recorded at Gen. 29:35; upon his birth, Leah exclaims, "This time I will praise the LORD/YHWH," with the Hebrew word for "I will praise," odeh (אודה) sharing the same root as Yehuda. Alternatively, Edward Lipiński connected Hebrew yĕhūdā with Arabic whd / wahda "cleft, ravine".^[2]

In chronological order:

• Judah (son of Jacob), fourth son of the Biblical patriarch Jacob
• Judah Maccabee or Judas Maccabeus, Jewish priest who led the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire (167–160 BCE)
• Judas Iscariot, Hebrew Yehūḏā ʾĪš-Qǝrīyyōṯ, 'Judah, man of Kerioth' (died c. AD 30), one of the original Twelve Apostles of Jesus
• Judah ha-Nasi, also Judah the Prince or Judah I, Jewish sage and leader (2nd century)
• Judah II, Jewish sage (3rd century)
• Judah III, Jewish sage (3rd and 4th century)
• Judah IV, Talmudic sage (4th century)
• Judah b. Meremar, Babylonian sage (5th century?)

• Saint Jude (Thaddeus) the Apostle, one of Twelve,^[3]
• Saint Jude, brother of Jesus, one of Seventy-two,^[4]
• Saint Justus (Jude) of Jerusalem, third Bishop of Jerusalem,^[5]
• Saint Jude Barsabbas, prophet, Church leader,^[6]
• Saint Jude, one of Holy Maccabean Martyrs,^[7]
• Saint Jude Cyriacus, bishop of Ancona,^[8]
• Saint Jude Machabeus, priest and leader,^[9]
• Saint Jude, son of Jacob, Old Testmanet patriarch,^[10]
• Saint Jude, host of Saint Paul in Damascus,^[11]

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In alphabetical order:

• Judah P. Benjamin (1811–1884), politician and lawyer in the United States and Confederate States of America
• Judah Bergman aka "Jack Kid Berg" (1909–1991), English world champion Hall of Fame junior welterweight boxer
• Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512-1526 – 1609) or Rabbi Loew of Prague, the Maharal, Talmudic scholar, Jewish mystic and philosopher
• Judah David Bleich (born 1936), American rabbi and authority on Jewish law and ethics
• Judah Folkman (1933–2008), American cellular biologist, founder of the field of antiangiogenesis
• Judah Friedlander (born 1969), American actor best known from 30 Rock
• Judah Grace (born 2022), American person known for being born on twosday at 2:22 AM.
• Judah Halevi (1075–1141), medieval Spanish Jewish philosopher and poet
• Judah Hertz (born 1948/49), American real estate investor
• Judah Lewis (born 2000 or 2001), American actor
• Judah Leon Magnes (1877–1948), rabbi, first President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Judah Nagler (born 1980), singer, guitarist, and songwriter for indie-pop band The Velvet Teen
• "Judah son of Jesus", name on one of the ossuaries in the 1st-century Talpiot Tomb

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In alphabetical order of their surname:

• Yehuda Alharizi (mid-12th century – 1225), medieval Spanish rabbi, translator, poet and traveller
• Yehuda Amichai (1924–2000), Israeli poet
• Yehuda Amital (1924–2010), dean of Yeshivat Har Etzion, former Israeli cabinet member
• Yehuda Atedji (born 1961), Israeli Olympic windsurfer
• Yehuda Danon (born 1940), Israeli doctor
• Yehuda Gilad (musician), contemporary clarinetist and conductor
• Yehuda Gilad (politician) (born 1955), Israeli rabbi and politician
• Yehudah Glick (born 1965), American-born Israeli Orthodox rabbi, activist, and politician
• Yehuda Green (born 1959), Shlomo Carlebach-inspired Hasidic singer, composer, and hazzan
• Yehuda Hayuth (born 1946), Israeli professor of geography
• Yehudah Jacobs (c. 1940–2020), American rabbi
• Yehuda Krinsky (born 1933), Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic rabbi
• Yehuda Kurtzer (born 1977), President of The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America
• Yehuda Moraly (born 1948), Israeli theater researcher, playwright, director, actor, and professor
• Yehuda Poliker (born 1950), Israeli singer-songwriter
• Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999), world-famous violinist
• Yehuda Tzadka (1910–1991), dean of Porat Yosef Yeshiva, Jerusalem
• Yehuda Wiener-Gafni (born 1930), Israeli Olympic basketball player
• Yehuda Weisenstein (born 1955), Israeli Olympic fencer
• Yehuda Zadok (born 1958), Israeli Olympic runner

• Judah Ben-Hur, main character of the 1880 Lew Wallace novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ and film adaptations

• Judah Mannowdog, character in the TV show Bojack Horseman

• Judah Rosenthal, character in the film Crimes and Misdemeanors played by Martin Landau

• Judah, character in Weeds (TV series) played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan

• All pages with titles beginning with Judah
• All pages with titles beginning with Yehuda
• Judah (disambiguation)
• Judas (disambiguation)