Yehuda
Yehuda or Jehuda is a first name and family name .
Origin and meaning
The name Yehuda (יהודה) is of Hebrew origin and the name for a Judean or Jew. For the first time the descendants of Judah and later the inhabitants of the kingdom of Judah were so named.
variants
Well-known namesake
First name
Yehuda
- Yehuda Afek (* 1952), co-founder and chief technologist of Riverhead Networks in the USA; Network security expert
- Yehuda Altmann (* 1964), Israeli photographer
- Yehuda Ashlag (1884-1954), Kabbalist
- Yehuda Avner (1928–2015), Israeli diplomat
- Yehuda Bauer (* 1926), Israeli historian
- Yehuda Adi Devir a comic artist from Tel Aviv
- Yehuda Elkana (1934–2012), science theorist and science historian
- Yehuda Hoch (* 1946), Israeli chess composer
- Yehuda Grünfeld (* 1956), Israeli chess player
- Yehuda Karmon (1912–1995), Israeli geographer
- Yehuda Lancry (* 1947), Israeli politician and diplomat
- Yehuda Lerner (* 1926), actively involved in the Sobibór uprising in the Sobibór extermination camp on October 14, 1943
- Yehuda Levi (* 1979), Israeli actor, musician and model
- Yehuda Nevo (1932–1992), Israeli archaeologist
- Yehuda ben Meir (also Yehuda ha-Kohen or Judah von Mainz), German rabbi, Talmud teacher and traveler
- Yehuda Poliker (* 1950), Israeli singer, songwriter, musician and painter
- Yehuda Shoenfeld (* 1948), Israeli doctor and immunologist
- Yehuda Yannay (* 1937), Israeli composer
Yehuda
- Jehuda ben Isaak Abravanel (* around 1460, † after 1521), Jewish philosopher, doctor and poet
- Jehuda Amichai (1924–2000), German-Israeli poet
- Jehuda Bacon (* 1929), Israeli artist, draftsman and university professor
- Jehuda ha-Levi (* around 1075, † 1141), philosopher and the most important Sephardic poet of the Middle Ages
- Jehuda Leib Maimon (1875–1962), Israeli rabbi, politician and leader of the religious Zionism movement
- Jehuda ha-Nasi (* approx. 165; † 217), Jewish scholar and patriarch
- Jehuda Schenhaw (* 1952), Israeli sociologist
- Jehuda Wallach (1921–2008), Israeli officer and military historian of German origin
Intermediate name
- Aharon Jehuda Leib Shteinman (1913–2017), Israeli rabbi and politician
- Ludwig Yehuda Wolpert (1900–1981), Jewish designer, sculptor and artisan of German origin
family name
- Eliezer Ben-Jehuda (Eliezer Jitzchak Perlman; 1858–1922), journalist and author of the first modern Hebrew dictionary
- Gerschom ben Jehuda (~ 960 – before 1040), Jewish Talmudic scholar and liturgical poet
Others
- Or Jehuda , city in Israel
- Mahane Yehuda Market , a market in Jerusalem