Obed (name)
Obed is a given name, following the biblical figure Obed. It may also serve as a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
- Obed Akwa, Ghanaian retired lieutenant-general and former Chief of the Defence Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces
- Obed Ariri, Nigerian gridiron football placekicker
- Obed Asamoah, Ghanaian politician
- Obed Barney, American politician
- Obed Cétoute, Canadian gridiron football player
- Obed Dickinson, American pioneer, abolitionist, minister and business owner
- Obed Dlamini, Prime Minister of Swaziland
- Obed Enamorado, Honduran football goalkeeper
- Obed Estrada, Mexican footballer
- Obed Gómez, Puerto Rican artist
- Obed Hall, American politician and pioneer
- Obed Crosby Haycock, American engineer and educator
- Obed Hussey, American inventor
- Obed Simon Johnson, American academic, chaplain, congregational missionary and student of Chinese culture and history
- Obed Macy, American physician, pioneer and politician
- Obed Martínez, Mexican footballer
- Obed McCoy, Vincentian cricketer
- Obed Mlaba, mayor of the eThekwini, South Africa
- Obed Mutanya, Zambian long-distance and cross-country runner
- Obed Nicholls, Cornish artist
- Obed Owusu, Ghanaian footballer
- Obed Rincón, Mexican footballer
- Obed F. Strickland, justice of the Supreme Court of the Utah Territory
- Obed Sullivan, American boxer
- Obed Taylor, American architect
- Obed Vargas, American soccer player
- Obed Wheeler, American businessman and politician
Surname
- Elisha Obed, Bahamanian boxer
- Rhema Obed, English footballer
- Z. Obed, Indian politician