Ned (given name)
Ned is an English given name and variant of Ed, sometimes short for Edward, Edmund, Edgar, or Edwin. Ned can also be a diminutive for the Slavic name Nedeljko.
People with the given name Ned, or its variants
- Ned Abraham, Australian surgeon
- Ted Alley, former Australian rules footballer listed in some sources as Ned Alley
- Edward Almond, United States Army general best known as the commander of the Army's X Corps during the Korean War
- Ned Ambler, American photographer and talent scout
- Ned Austin, American actor
- Ned Azemia, Seychellois hurdler
- Ned Barkas, English professional footballer
- Ned Beatty, American actor
- Ned Bellamy, American actor
- Ned Benson, American filmmaker
- Ned Bittinger, American artist
- Ned Block, American philosopher
- Ned Bouhalassa, Canadian composer
- Ned Boulting, British sports journalist and television presenter
- Ned Buntline, American publisher, journalist, writer, and publicist
- Ned Cameron, American singer, songwriter, and record producer
- Ned Catic, Australian rugby league footballer
- Ned Chaillet, American-born British radio drama producer and director, writer and journalist
- Ned Cobb, American tenant farmer
- Ned Collette, Australian musician and singer-songwriter
- Ned Crotty, American lacrosse player
- Ned Cuthbert, American baseball player
- Ned Daly, Dublin's 1st battalion commandant during the 1916 Easter Rising
- Ned Dameron, American science fiction and fantasy artist
- Ned Davis, Australian politician
- Ned Day, American television journalist
- Ned Dennehy, Irish actor
- Ned Donaghy, American soccer referee active in the 1920s and 1930s
- Ned Dowd, American film producer and former actor
- Ned Eckersley, English cricketer
- Ned Eisenberg, American actor
- Ned Endress, American basketball player
- Ned Evett, American guitarist, singer, and songwriter
- Ned Fairchild, American songwriter
- Ned Freed, American software developer
- Ned Garver, American baseball pitcher
- Ned Glass, American character actor
- Ned Goldreyer, American television writer, television producer and comedian
- Ned Gregory, Australian cricketer
- Ned Hanlan, Canadian professional sculler, hotelier and alderman
- Ned Harris, American baseball player
- Ned Herrmann, creator of the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument
- Ned Hollister, American biologist
- Ned Irish, American basketball promoter
- Ned Jarrett, American race car driver
- Ned Jenkins, Welsh rugby union player
- Ned Kelly, Australian outlaw and folk hero
- Ned Lamont, American businessman and politician, 89th Governor of Connecticut
- Ned Luke, American actor
- Ned Maddrell, Manx fisherman
- Ned Markosian, American philosopher
- Ned Martel, American television writer and producer
- Ned Martin, American sportscaster
- Ned McGowan (lawyer), American lawyer and politician
- Ned McHenry, Australian rules footballer
- Ned McWherter, American politician
- Ned Merriam, American track athlete, football player, and coach
- Ned Mettam, English footballer
- Ned Miller, American country music singer-songwriter
- Ned O'Connor, Australian rules footballer
- Ned Officer, Australian rules footballer
- Ned O'Gorman, American poet and educator
- Ned O'Keeffe, Irish politician
- Ned O'Sullivan, Irish politician
- Ned Palmer, British cheesemonger and author
- Ned Price, American Spokesperson for the United States Department of State
- Ned Rorem, American composer and writer
- Ned Scott, American photographer who worked in the Hollywood film industry
- Ned Sherrin, British impresario, writer, game show host and raconteur
- Ned Sparks, Canadian character actor
- Ned Sublette, American composer, musician, record producer, musicologist, and author
- Ned Vizzini, American writer
- Ned Yost, American baseball player and manager
Fictional characters
- Ned Banks, a character from the Ghost Whisperer
- Ned Bigby, the main protagonist of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
- Ned Devine, deceased character from Waking Ned Devine
- Ned Dorneget, a Cyber Division Special Agent in the police series NCIS
- Ned Flanders, a character from The Simpsons
- Ned Flemkin, the titular character from the Canadian animated television series Ned's Newt
- Ned Gerblansky, a character from South Park
- Ned Quartermaine, a character from the soap opera General Hospital
- Ned Dorsey, one of the two main characters from the television series Ned and Stacey
- Ned Land, a character from the 1870 adventure novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
- Ned Leeds, a character in Marvel Comics
- Ned Merrill, a character from the 1964 short story "The Swimmer"
- Ned Nederlander, one of the three protagonists in the 1986 western comedy Three Amigos
- Ned Needlemeyer, the titular character from the short-lived 1997 animated series Nightmare Ned
- Ned Nickerson, the boyfriend of Nancy Drew in the novels of the same name
- Ned Plimpton, a character from the 2004 film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
- Ned Racine, a character from the 1981 film Body Heat
- Ned Ryder, a character from the 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited
- Ned Ryerson, a character from the 1993 comedy Groundhog Day
- Ned Schneebly, a character from the 2003 comedy School of Rock
- Ned Stark, a character from the A Song of Ice and Fire series
- Ned, the main character from the television series Pushing Daisies
- Ned, a character from the television series The Tribe
- Ned, the titular host of talk show set in outer space, Earth to Ned
- Ned, the wombat in The Koala Brothers
- Ned, a creature in the music video for "Chlorine", a song by the band Twenty One Pilots
- Ned, short for Nedwin, a character from the 2011 fantasy novel Beyonders: A World Without Heroes
- Neddie Seagoon, a character in ''The Goon Show''