Thaddeus
Thaddeus is a masculine given name.
As of the 1990 [United States census|1990 Census], Thaddeus was the 611th most popular male name in the United States, while Thad, its diminutive version, was the 846th.
Alternate forms
- Taco – Dutch
- Tadeu – Albanian
- Թադէոս, Թադևոս, Թաթոս – Armenian
- Tadija – Croatian
- Tadeáš – Czech
- Thaddée – French
- თადეოზი Georgian
- Thaddäus – German
- Tádé – Hungarian
- Tadáias, Tadhg – Irish
- Taddeo – Italian
- Taddeus, Taday – Turkish
- Tadejs – Latvian
- Tadas – Lithuanian
- Тадеј - Macedonian
- Thadhewoos – Malayalam
- Tadeusz – Polish
- Tadeu – Portuguese
- Тадэвуш – Belarusian
- Фаддей or Фадей – Russian
- Тадей – Ukrainian
- Тадеј, Тадија – Serbian
- Tadej – Slovenian
- Tadeo – Spanish
- Tadewos – Amharic
- ததேயு - Tamil
Biblical figures
- Thaddaeus, usually identified as Jude the Apostle, one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus
- Thaddeus of Edessa, one of the Seventy Disciples
Orthodox saints
''References:- New Testament|Apostle]
People
Thaddeus
- Thaddeus of Naples, crusade chronicler
- Thaddeus (bishop of Caffa), 14th-century Armenian Catholic friar and bishop
- Thaddeus Bullard, American professional wrestler better known as Titus O'Neil
- Thaddeus Cahill, American inventor of the telharmonium
- Thaddeus P. Dryja, American ophthalmologist and geneticist
- Thaddeus Grauer, Austrian art dealer
- Thaddeus William Harris, American entomologist, botanist and librarian
- Thaddäus Huber, Austrian violinist and composer
- Thaddeus B. Hurd, American architect and amateur historian
- Thaddeus Kirkland, American politician
- Thaddeus Kosciuszko, Polish general in the American Revolution
- Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, American Civil War scientist and inventor
- Thaddeus Matthews, American pastor and broadcaster
- Thaddeus McCotter, American politician
- Thaddeus Moss, American football player
- Thaddeus O'Sullivan, Irish film director, cinematographer, and screenwriter
- Ari Thaddeus Pilichowski, 20th-century French-British linguist and conference interpreter, better known as Teddy Pilley
- Thaddeus Coleman Pound, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin and grandfather of Ezra Pound
- Thaddeus Stevens, leader of the Radical Republicans during the American Civil War and Reconstruction
- Thaddeus Ward, American baseball player
- Thaddäus Weigl, Austrian composer and music publisher
- Thaddeus A. Wood, American politician and Mississippi state senator
- Thaddeus Young, American basketball player for the Toronto Raptors
- Thaddeus Joy, boat captain of "Seneca Chief" on Erie Canal.
Thad
- Thad Jones, American jazz trumpeter and bandleader
- Thad Lewis, American National Football League quarterback
- Thad Luckinbill, American actor on the soap opera The Young and the Restless
- Thad Starner, American computer scientist, professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, technical lead of Google Glass
Fictional characters
- General Thaddeus E. "Thunderbolt" Ross, Marvel Comics character, mainly an antagonist of Hulk
- Agent John Thaddeus Myers, character in Hellboy (2004) by Guillermo Del Toro
- Doctor Thaddeus Bodog Sivana, DC Comics character, an antagonist of Captain Marvel
- Thaddeus Mcann, character in the novel Bog Child by Siobhab Dowd
- Thaddeus Sholto, character in The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Tadzio, character in the film and novella Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
- Thaddeus Beaumont in The Dark Half by Stephen King
- Tadeus, character in "Requiem: a Halucination" by Antonio Tabucchi
- Thaddeus Caractacus Evillard "Pecker" Bird, major character in The Starbuck Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell
- "The Chief" in the CONTROL spy agency in Get Smart
- Thaddeus Thatch, paternal grandfather of Milo James Thatch in Atlantis: The Lost Empire
- Thaddeus Bile, a character in the 2001 Walt [Disney Studios Motion Pictures|Disney]/Pixar animated film Monsters, Inc.
- Thaddeus, character in the film Your Highness
- Dr. Thaddeus Morocco, an antagonist in the animated series Transformers: Rescue Bots
- Thad Castle, on television series Blue Mountain State
- Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture, on the animated series The Venture Bros.
- Thaddeus Bradley, in the movie Now [You See Me (film)|Now You See Me]
- Brother Thaddeus, in the film Heaven Help Us
- Lieutenant/Captain Thaddeus Harris in the film Police Academy
- Captain Thadeus, of the Osiris, in the Final Flight of the Osiris in The Animatrix