Caleb (given name)

Caleb is a Hebrew masculine given name meaning 'faithful as a dog'.

Biblical figures

 * Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, an important figure in the Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament
 * Caleb, son of Hezron, one of the three sons of Hezron, mentioned in the Book of Chronicles

Actors

 * Caleb Foote (born 1993), American actor
 * Caleb Landry Jones (born 1989), American actor
 * Caleb McLaughlin (born 2001), American actor
 * Caleb Ross (born 1981), New Zealander film and television actor
 * Caleb Spivak, American actor

Athletes

 * Caleb Aekins (born 1997), New Zealander rugby league footballer
 * Caleb Agada (born 1994), Nigerian-Canadian basketball player
 * Caleb Baldwin (boxer) (1769–1827), English boxer
 * Caleb Biggers (born 1999), American football player
 * Caleb Binge (born 1993), Australian professional rugby league footballer
 * Caleb Brantley (born 1994), American football player
 * Caleb Clarke (rugby union) (born 1999), New Zealand rugby union player
 * Caleb Clarke (soccer) (born 1993), Canadian former soccer player
 * Caleb Crone (1919–1958), Irish Gaelic footballer
 * Caleb Daniel (born 1996), Australian rules footballer
 * Caleb Ekuban (born 1994), Italian footballer
 * Caleb Ekwegwo (born 1988), Nigerian footballer
 * Caleb Ewan (born 1994), Australian cyclist
 * Caleb Farley (born 1998), American football player
 * Caleb Folan (born 1982), English footballer
 * Caleb Furst (born 2002), American basketball player
 * Caleb Graham (born 2000), Australian rules footballer
 * Caleb Hanie (born 1985), American football player
 * Caleb Houstan (born 2003), Canadian basketball player
 * Caleb Huntley (born 1998), American football player
 * Caleb Johnson (American football) (born 1998), American football player
 * Caleb Jones (American football) (born 1999), American football player
 * Caleb Love (born 2001), American basketball player
 * Caleb Marchbank (born 1996), Australian rules footballer
 * Caleb Martin (1924–1994), American football player
 * Caleb Murphy (born 1999), American football player
 * Caleb Patterson-Sewell (born 1987), American professional footballer
 * Caleb Ralph (born 1977), New Zealand rugby union footballer
 * Caleb Richards (born 1998), English footballer
 * Caleb Shepherd (born 1993), New Zealander rowing cox
 * Caleb Shudak (born 1997), American football player
 * Caleb Stanko (born 1993), American soccer player
 * Caleb Swanigan (1997–2022), American professional basketball player
 * Caleb Thielbar (born 1987), American professional baseball player
 * Caleb Timu (born 1994), New Zealand-born Australian rugby footballer
 * Caleb Williams (born 2002), American football player
 * Caleb Wilson (born 1996), American football player
 * Caleb Zady (born 1999), Ivorian professional footballer

Politicians

 * Caleb J. Anderson (1910–1996), Swedish Social Democrat
 * Caleb Atwater (1778–1867), American politician, historian, and early archaeologist
 * Caleb Ayer (1813–1883), American politician
 * Caleb Banks (1659–1696), English politician, member of the House of Commons
 * Caleb P. Bennett (1758–1836), American soldier and politician
 * Caleb Cushing (1800–1879), American statesman and diplomat, Congressman from Massachusetts and Attorney General
 * Caleb Ellis (1767–1816), American politician and lawyer
 * Caleb Frostman (born 1984), American politician
 * Caleb Hanna (born 1999), American politician as a Republican member of the West Virginia House of Delegates
 * Caleb C. Harris (1836–1904), American farmer, physician, and politician
 * Caleb Claiborne Herbert (1814–1867), Confederate politician
 * Caleb Hopkins (Upper Canada), (1786–1880), Canadian farmer and politician
 * Caleb Jenner (1830–1890), English-born politician in colonial Victoria (Australia), member of the Victorian Legislative Council
 * Caleb Jones (politician) (born 1980), American politician
 * Caleb R. Layton (1851–1830), American politician
 * Caleb Lomax (1695–1730), British landowner and politician
 * Caleb J. McNulty (1816–1846), American lawyer, newspaper editor and politician
 * Caleb Powell (1793–1881), Irish Repeal Association and Whig politician
 * Caleb Powers (1869–1932), United States Representative from Kentucky and Secretary of State of Kentucky
 * Caleb Rice (1792–1873), American politician and businessman
 * Caleb Rodney (1767–1840), American merchant and politician
 * Caleb Rowden, American politician
 * Caleb Blood Smith (1808–1864), United States Representative from Indiana
 * Caleb Stark (1759–1838), American state senator
 * Caleb Stetson (1801–1885), American businessman and politician from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
 * Caleb Strong (1745–1819), lawyer and politician, sixth and tenth Governor of Massachusetts
 * Caleb Newbold Taylor (1813–1887) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
 * Caleb Walton West (1844–1909), American politician and Governor of Utah Territory
 * Caleb Wright (1810–1898), English politician

Other

 * Caleb Angas (1782–1860), English agriculturist
 * Caleb Ashworth (1722–1775), English dissenting tutor
 * Caleb Bonham (born 1986), American businessman and television personality
 * Caleb Bradham (1867–1934), inventor of Pepsi-Cola
 * Caleb Carr (born 1955), American military historian and author
 * Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck (died 1665 or 1666), the first Native American graduate of Harvard University
 * Caleb Crain, American writer
 * Caleb de Casper, American singer and performing artist
 * Caleb Deschanel (born 1944), Franco-American cinematographer
 * Caleb Evans (geologist) (1831–1886), English geologist
 * Caleb Finch, professor studying ageing in human beings
 * Caleb Fleming (1698–1779), English dissenting minister and Polemicist
 * Caleb Followill (born 1982), lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Kings of Leon
 * Caleb Garling, American writer
 * Caleb V. Haynes (1895–1966), American Air Force major general
 * Caleb Jeacocke (1706–1786), English baker and businessman
 * Caleb Lewis (born 1978), Australian playwright
 * Caleb Cain Marcus, American photographer
 * Calev Myers (21st century), American-Israeli lawyer
 * Caleb Hillier Parry (1755–1822), Anglo-Welsh physician
 * Caleb Pusey (c. 1650 – 1727), friend and business partner of William Penn, provincial supreme court justice
 * Caleb Quaye (born 1948), English guitarist
 * Caleb Rotheram (1694–1752), English dissenting minister and tutor
 * Caleb Saleeby (1878–1940), English physician, writer, and journalist
 * Caleb Schaber (1973–2009), American artist and journalist
 * Caleb Silver, American journalist
 * Caleb Simper (1856–1942), English composer and church organist
 * Caleb Stewart (1975–2021), American musician
 * Caleb Andrew Stewart (1888–1959), Scottish mathematician
 * Caleb Whitefoord (1734–1810), Scottish merchant, diplomat, and political satirist
 * Caleb Thomas Winchester (1847–1920), American English scholar

Fictional characters

 * Caleb Garth, a character in the George Eliot novel Middlemarch
 * Caleb Trask, a major character in the John Steinbeck novel East of Eden
 * Caleb Lambert, the son of Gary and Caroline Lambert in Jonathan Franzen's novel The Corrections
 * Caleb Bradley, a corporate swindler in Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead
 * Caleb Temple, main character in the 1995 television series American Gothic
 * Caleb (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), a villain in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series
 * Caleb Nichol, in The O.C. television series
 * Caleb (computer game character), protagonist of the computer game Blood and its sequel, Blood II: The Chosen
 * Caleb (W.I.T.C.H.), in the comic book and animated television series W.I.T.C.H.
 * Caleb Morley, vampire in the soap opera Port Charles
 * Caleb Lansing-Gant, part-human part-machine protagonist of the UK game show Mission: 2110
 * Caleb Rivers, character from the TV series Pretty Little Liars
 * Caleb Widogast, one of the main characters from the American Dungeons & Dragons web series Critical Role
 * Caleb Williams, the main character in the William Godwin novel Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams
 * Caleb Prior, the brother of protagonist Tris Prior in the Divergent series and film of the same name
 * Caleb Smith, a computer programmer tasked with evaluating an artificial being, in the film Ex Machina
 * Caleb Dingle, character from the TV series Emmerdale
 * Caleb Dume, real name of Jedi Kanan Jarrus in Star Wars Rebels
 * Caleb Lindel, character from the Netflix show Big Mouth
 * Caleb, recurrent character from the Syfy show Helix in Season 2
 * Caleb, character from the HBO show Westworld in Season 3
 * Caleb John Gosche, a cannibal who appears in Seasons 5 and 6 of Brooklyn Nine-Nine
 * Caleb Malphas, a demon from Sherrilyn Kenyon's teen fiction series, The Chronicles Of Nick.
 * Caleb Quinn, also known as "The Deathslinger", who uses a harpoon gun for his "killer ability", in the videogame Dead by Daylight
 * Caleb Covington, a character in Netflix's Julie and the Phantoms.