Gedaliah (name)

Gedaliah (גדליה) is a Hebrew given name given to several men in history. It means "made great by God."

Biblical figures

 * Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam
 * Fast of Gedaliah, an annual Jewish day of fasting, the third day of Tishrei
 * Gedaliah, son of Pashhur, one of the nobles who conspired against Jeremiah (Jeremiah 38:1)

Others with the name

 * Gedaliah ibn Yahya ben Joseph (c.1515 – c.1587), a 16th-century Italian talmudist
 * Gedaliah Bublick (1875–1948), a Yiddish writer and Zionist leader
 * Gedalia Schorr (1910–1979), a Polish-American rabbi who was Rosh Yeshiva (dean) of Torah Vodaath
 * Gedalia Dov Schwartz (born 1925), head of the Chicago Rabbinical Council
 * Geoff Schwartz (born 1986), American football player whose birth name was Gedalia Yitzhak Schwartz